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Training opportunity: Reimagining complex data-intensive reports. A 5-day course for @icesmarine.bsky.social. June 22 - 26, 2026.

Led by @juliesquid.bsky.social (Openscapes), Eli Holmes (NOAA Fisheries), Gavin Fay (UMass Dartmouth)

openscapes.org/events/2026-...

#OpenScience #KinderScience

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Openscapes update from @juliesquid.bsky.social, Spring 2026.

On being values-driven and strategic in open science work and in business architecture.
openscapes.org/blog/2026-03...

#HowWeWork #KinderScience #OpenScience

7 women and men smiling, wearing conference lanyards, standing in front of a large screen projecting a headshot of Julie Lowndes and her talk title Forking as a worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science. In center of line of people, a woman is presenting award certificate to Julie.

📅 March 19 @juliesquid.bsky.social will reprise her AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture: Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science.

Everyone welcome. Details: openscapes.org/events/2026-...

#openscience #kinderscience

Proud to share our Antibodies Database has been shortlisted for the #LushPrize2026 🎉

Our free tool helps researchers choose ethical, reliable antibodies - for better science and better patient outcomes.

Thank you to our amazing community for making this work possible ✨

#AnimalFree #KinderScience

“Funding from Animal Free Research UK has made this project possible.”

Meet Josh, who’s building an animal-free 3D lymph node model to study how mouth cancer spreads - using human cells, not mice. 🔬

A step toward better, kinder cancer research. 💙

#AnimalFree #KinderScience

UK Gov’t plans to phase out animal testing — a first step.

But we need action ✊

Our 4 priorities push for real progress for animals & science. 🐾

Read more: animalfreeresearchuk.org/animal-free-research-uks-four-priorities-for-ending-animal-experiments

#HerbiesLaw #AnimalFree #KinderScience

🔎 Easy wins won’t end animal testing.

Animals and patients deserve real change.

Push for Herbie’s Law. Email your MP: secure.animalfreeresearchuk.org/page/181459/action/1

#HerbiesLaw #KinderScience #AnimalFree

The Govt’s new strategy to phase out animal experiments is a step forward - but it's not bold enough. It targets low-impact areas and avoids real reform. 🐾

💥 Email your MP and demand stronger action: secure.animalfreeresearchuk.org/page/181459/...

#AnimalFree #HerbiesLaw #KinderScience

Only 1 animal testing licence rejected in 7 years.

3.8 million animals approved in 2025 so far.

When ethical, human-specific methods exist, this is a system failing both animals and patients.

It's time for #KinderScience. It's time for #HerbiesLaw.

#AnimalFree

🚀 Human-based, animal-free cancer research!

Dr Ethan Perkins @uniofbradford.bsky.social is creating an “organ-on-a-chip” model of prostate cancer to test new drugs ethically.

Read more 👉 bradford.ac.uk/news/archive/2025/animal-free-drug-tests-with-organ-on-a-chip.php

#Movember #KinderScience

A huge thank you to Dame Caroline Dinenage MP for championing #HerbiesLaw and highlighting the vital need for a future of animal-free science 🐾

Read now on @politics.co.uk!

#KinderScience #AnimalFree

✅ In 2023, the UK confirmed: no law mandates animal testing. Yet millions of animals are used in labs - over half for curiosity-driven research.

📅 This Thursday: 2024 stats drop. Sign up for updates: www.animalfreeresearchuk.org/subscribe

#KinderScience #AnimalFree #HerbiesLaw

🚨 New in @nature.com @springernature.com: a powerful call to embrace #AnimalFree, human-specific research!

Co-authored by leading experts including Prof Geoff Pilkington (our Chair of Trustees) & Prof Val Spiers (from our Scientific Advisory Panel)

Read now: rdcu.be/eLRmm

#KinderScience #NAMs

Home Office report exposes reality of UK labs:

⚠️ Animals trapped in equipment
💧 Drowned from faulty watering systems
📦 Forgotten in transport
🧪 Severe suffering in experiments

These aren’t rare accidents. They’re systemic failures.

#KinderScience #AnimalFree #HerbiesLaw

⚠️ Melanoma causes ~60% of skin cancer deaths despite making up just 1% of cases.

@drabiddle.bsky.social and his team at QMUL found rare “cancer stem cells” at tumour edges - highly adaptable, drug-resistant & key to spread. Targeting them could save lives. 🎯

#KinderScience #SkinCancer

📣 Yesterday in Parliament, @chrishinchliff.bsky.social urged the Govt to include #HerbiesLaw in their non-animal methods strategy.

👏129 cross-party Parliamentarians back it – is your MP one? Check & write to them here 👉 www.animalfreeresearchuk.org/supporting-h...

#KinderScience #BrighterFuture

Say goodbye to animal gelatin & hello ThermoPIGs 🐷

Every year, ~65M animals are used to make gelatin for research + medicine. Dr Sam Aspinall’s synthetic “ThermoPIGs” mimic gelatin – but without animals.

We talk to Sam on tomorrow's #AnimalFreeLabcast #podcast!

#KinderScience

🚗🐾 At 87, Rosie is retracing her journey across Ireland – this time by car with husband Irvine – while walking 1–2 miles every day to support a future without animal testing.

She’s already walked 85+ miles! 👏

Support: www.justgiving.com/page/rosies-journey

#HerbiesHeroes #KinderScience

Upfront investment aside, new animal-free methods are often more cost-effective in the long run.

⚡ Faster results
📊 More reliable data
💸 Lower maintenance costs
♻️ Less waste

Going #AnimalFree isn’t just ethical – it’s smarter science. 🌱

#MythBusterMonday #KinderScience

Help us build support for #HerbiesLaw at the Lib Dem Conference!

We’ll be at Stand 37 with giant Herbie + our buzz wire game.

Got a Lib Dem MP?
✅ Tag them!
✅ Email them with our simple tool: secure.animalfreeresearchuk.org/page/176823/...

#LDConf #KinderScience #AnimalFree

A Future of Possibility 🌱

Prof. Julian Ma’s plant-based antibodies for rabies are advancing toward human trials in South Africa. Next, he aims to explore treatments for COVID-19, flu, TB, cancer, and more – shaping a greener, #AnimalFree future.

#KinderScience

🌱 Professor Julian Ma is pioneering planti-bodies: producing monoclonal antibodies in plants instead of animals. His vision? A kinder, safer & more affordable future for medicine 💚

Read the interview: animalfreeresearchuk.org/get-to-know/professor-julian-ma

#AnimalFree #KinderScience #PlantiBodies

In Ep41 of the #AnimalFreeLabcast, Dr Gemma Davies tackles your top Qs:

❌ Why do we still test on animals, despite the risks
🧬 Which diseases use the most animals
👩‍🔬 Why Gemma walked away from research

Listen: animalfreeresearchuk.org/our-podcast

#Podcast #KinderScience

From replacing horses in rabies treatment back in 2012-2015 to developing affordable, animal-free therapies for cancer, dementia & more in 2025 🌱 #KinderScience

Prof. Ma’s planti-bodies could transform global health, but he needs your support.

💚Donate: animalfreeresearchuk.org/plants

Millions are priced out of lifesaving treatments for cancer, malaria & rabies.

🌱 Prof Julian Ma is developing plant-based antibodies – safer, cheaper & animal-free.

💚 Help bring planti-bodies from plants to patients: www.animalfreeresearchuk.org/plants

#AnimalFree #KinderScience

At ‪@citystgeorges.bsky.social‬, leaves are being transformed into something extraordinary 🍃 #KinderScience

Instead of using animals, Professor Julian Ma and his team are turning plants into living factories to produce life-saving medicines.

animalfreeresearchuk.org/project/from-plants-to-patients

⚠️ It’s a failure rate we can’t afford to ignore. Outdated animal testing methods are slowing progress and putting lives at risk.

Please share to support #HerbiesLaw, for smarter, safer, and kinder science.

www.animalfreeresearchuk.org/herbies-law

#KinderScience #BrighterFuture #AnimalFree

Your voice is making change happen 💚

🧬 MPs visited our ARC during #BritishScienceWeek
🐶 Debate on banning dog experiments
🐾 MPs had a pic with Giant Herbie
📢 Debate on phasing out animals in research
📃 60+ MPs & celebs signed a letter for #HerbiesLaw

#KinderScience

MPs are in their constituencies this summer - the perfect time to meet them & speak out against animal testing. We'll provide notes so that you're confident & informed.

💚 Be the voice animals in labs need: animalfreeresearchuk.org/summerrecess

#HerbiesLaw #AnimalFree #KinderScience

Dr Nick Peake is changing #BowelCancerResearch with models that use donated human surgical tissue, delivering results that truly reflect the human body.

Hear more on ep31 of the #AnimalFreeLabcast: animalfreeresearchuk.org/our-podcast

#KinderScience