🤓 New OA publication in EJPS
*Reproducibility, questionable research practices and ethico-epistemic trade-offs in animal-based biomedicine*
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci #animalexperimentation #metascience
Screenshot of title and abstract for "Harm-Benefit Analysis for Animal Experiments Is Not Utilitarian". The abstract reads: The claim is commonplace that harm-benefit analysis (HBA), a weighing procedure widely used in ethics reviews of animal experiments, is utilitarian. We argue this is false and misleading for three reasons: (1) HBA does not compare, let alone maximize, utility across different options, but merely assesses whether the consequences of one option are net-positive, thereby ignoring opportunity costs; (2) HBA does not aggregate utility coherently, as it allows for varying degrees of speculation in the assessment of harms and benefits; (3) HBA is not concerned with moral evaluation or moral goodness. From our discussion, we derive positive suggestions for how to improve animal experimentation policy and public communications about it. Most straightforwardly, scholars and institutions should stop claiming that HBA is “utilitarian.”
🚨 New paper by myself and @tristankatz.bsky.social 🚨
"Harm-Benefit Analysis for Animal Experiments Is Not Utilitarian"
It's commonly claimed that HBA – used in the licensing of animal studies – is utilitarian. We say this vastly oversells the framework.
#animalexperimentation #animalresearch #3Rs
🤓 Mandatory reading on #animalexperimentation #reproducibility #3Rs by @simonlohse.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Workshop poster with an image of a hand holding an organ-on-a-chip. (Title) Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond Animal Experimentation in Research and Safety Testing: What‘s New? What‘s Next? Animal use in science and safety testing persists at high levels – despite decades of advocacy and innovation in alternatives. Apart from technical challenges, this also raises urgent philosophical, ethical, legal, and social-scientific issues. This two-day online workshop focuses on new perspectives that can help to understand the intersection of scientific and human obstacles that slow down transition. Join the discussions to broaden your perspective on the animal experimentation transition and help to explore pathways to a future of innovative, responsible science. Organised by Love Hansell, Radboud U; Simon Lohse, Radboud U; Nico D. Müller, U of Basel Online, 19–20 March 2026 13:30–17:00 CET each day Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop
📣 Upcoming Online Workshop, 19–20 March 2026
*Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond #AnimalExperimentation in Research and Safety Testing: What‘s New? What‘s Next?*
Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop
#NAM #animalethics #philsci #animalstudies #STS
Please donate: newlifeanimalsanctuary.org/donate/
Life After Labs®
An animal’s life does not have to end when the laboratory study does. They've taken in thousands of survivors.
Saving #animals used in laboratory experiments.
#AnimalExperimentation
ARTivist: Andrew Tilsley from 'Animal Wrongs' series: 'Cures for Diseases'
#art #animals #AnimalExperimentation #artist #activist #ARTivist #AnimalRights #NoAnimalUse
#petition #animalexperimentation
If eligible (Canadian resident), please sign
Joint research project on the translatability of animal studies
@isis-radboud.bsky.social & @radboudumc.bsky.social
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
#animalexperimentation #biomedicine #metascience #philsci
As the symposium on November 27 approaches, Herwig Grimm talks about current developments in animal experimentation — and how science can contribute to a more informed public dialogue.
📚 Read more here: www.nfp79.ch/en/hqtu5T0SG...
#NRP79 #3Rs #research #animalexperimentation
I am not a something, I am a somebody!
#animalrights #animalcruelty #animalexperimentation #environment #globalwarming #climatechange #vegan #carnivore #friendsnotfood
Surprising no one, the 🇨🇭 Federal Council today recommended rejecting yet another popular initiative aiming to ban #AnimalExperimentation. 🐭🧪❌
In my view, these initiatives foster the wrong kind of discussion – a crude Pro vs Con. What we need is a debate about the How of moving forward.
Computer models outperform barbaric animal testing.
We must push our government away from #AnimalExperimentation
#LabAnimals #animals #torture #AnimalTesting
From the producers of 'Cowspiracy' & 'What the Health'
▶️ vimeo.com/ondemand/htmd
About modernizing medicine to non-animal methods in drug development.
#AnimalResearch #NIH #science #AnimalExperimentation #veganism #beagles #documentary #drugs #AnimalTesting #AnimalRights #AnimalCruelty #FDA
A chart showing the numbers of animals used in experiments in Switzerland from 2015 to 2024. The numbers wax and wane between about 650'000 and 500'000. Last year's number is the lowest ever on record with 522'636 animals used.
📉🐭 New numbers out today: 🇨🇭 reports the lowest annual use of animals in #AnimalExperimentation since records began in 1983.
A fortunate development for sure, but there's no guarantee it'll continue. Thoughts in 🧵
Winter Soldier ahhhh doggie
#GingaDensetsuWeed #YoshihiroTakahashi #kite #greyhound #anime #humanssuck #animalexperimentation #robotlimbs
Read the article: www.thehastingscenter.org/involuntary-... and join the conversation! 💬
#AnimalEthics#Xenotransplantation #AnimalRights #Bioethics #AnimalRights #AnimalConsent #AnimalRightsLaw #AnimalWelfare #AnimalExploitation #AnimalExperimentation #CrueltyFreeMedicine #CrueltyFreeScience
youtube.com/watch?v=DCva... @uriebay.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @beyerstein.bsky.social @tomlevenson.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @doloresquintana.bsky.social @merlinofcanada.bsky.social @maej43.bsky.social Murder over the #Pancreas TW: #AnimalExperimentation #Diabetes #Insulin
Do you believe science should better communicate about #AnimalExperimentation? We do too! 👉 Support the next National Information Day of the Experimental Animal on May 9, 2026 – join us and make a difference!
#NIDEA2026 #3Rs
@unibe.ch @tvvde.bsky.social @eara.eu @bmauschen.bsky.social
DAILY TRIFECTA: Trump's Puppy Rescue
newsvandal.substack.com/p/daily-trif...
#PETA #beagles #vivisection #animalexperimentation #USNavy
#veganism #AnimalRights #NoAnimalUse #RespectAnimals #AnimalExploitation #animals #PlantBased #vegan
Animals are not commodities, things, objects. They're feeling, aware, sentient beings, like us. We're animals.
No to #AnimalExperimentation, #rodeos, #captivity, #meat, #dairy, #eggs, #hunting...
“Around 90% of novel drugs that work in animal models fail in
human clinical trials…”
Why not follow the golden rule for *all* sentient beings?
Let’s respect all animals, not just human animals.
#EndVivisection #ethics #research #AnimalCruelty #Science #AnimalExperimentation #evolve #medicine
We provide transparent information about animal research.
Only one month to go until #NIDEA2025 on June 14, 2025! Preparations are underway in Basel, Bern, Zurich, and Fribourg #AnimalExperimentation, #NIDEA2025 #3Rs
#vegan #animals #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberation #NoAnimalUse #AnimalExperimentation #meat #dairy #cheese #eggs #AnimalAbuse #veganism
Unnecessary violence to other sentient beings. #GoVegan
#AnimalTesting #AnimalExperimentation #SadismOrScience
Computer models outperform barbaric animal tests.
#AnimalAbuse #NoAnimalUse #AnimalExploitation #animals #AnimalFarming #AnimalHarming #AnimalExperimentation #violence #CrueltyFree #BuyVegan #veganism #vegan #AnimalRights
It’s the 21st century.
About time to end all animal experimentation.
#NonViolence #vivisection #EndVivisection #ethics #AnimalExperimentation #AnimalCruelty #research #ethics #BasicResearch #science #medicine #PrimumNonNocere #evolve #SomeoneNotSomething #EndOppression #animals
Find out which companies test on animals before you buy their products.
Android:
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Apple:
apps.apple.com/us/app/cruel...
#animalcruelty #animalexperimentation
I need this on a flag... Stat!
Conspicuously on my wall behind me every time I do video calls...
#VeganMemes #animalcruelty #animalexperimentation
