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Physicians Committee and 324 Physicians and Scientists Ask New #NIH Director: Stop Using Animals

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"Mitigating Animal Methods Bias in Grant Review. Tip #5. Engage in and promote open science practices."

"Engage in and promote open science practices like systemic reviews, data sharing, preregistration, and open access publishing. Confidence in NAMs and other nonanimal methods is still being established. Open science practices foster transparency, rigor, and reproducibility. Over time, this can help boost confidence in NAMs and may address the hesitancy of some reviewers to embrace animal-free methods."

💡 This week’s tips for mitigating #AnimalMethodsBias focus on how you can use #OpenScience practices to improve confidence in #NAMs and address the hesitancy of some reviewers to embrace animal-free methods. 🧪

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"Mitigating animal methods bias in grant review. Tip #4. Play an active role in review groups." COLAAB logo

"Volunteer for reviewer positions and make yourself available to review staff. Animal methods bias may lead reviewers to insist on animal-based methods for the validation of in vitro findings, prefer animal-derived data over more clinically relevant patient-based research, or reject the use of NAM-based models outright. It’s important for researchers with nonanimal expertise to participate in review groups so that nonanimal proposals can get fair and appropriate evaluations."

"Identify and address biased comments of fellow reviewers. While participating in review groups, it’s important for researchers to identify and address comments from other reviewers reflecting animal methods bias. If available, they should do so through official bias reporting mechanisms. During review discussions, they should vocally identify biased comments and support and defend nonanimal approaches."

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📣 Have you thought about taking part in the #PeerReview process? This week’s recommendations are all about how researchers can mitigate #AnimalMethodsBias by participating in review groups! 👇

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Manuscript Preparation Because animal methods bias can result in publication delays or even manuscript rejection, authors who use nonanimal modeling systems should take preventive steps to avoid these negative outcomes. The...

See our Author Guide for more details about framing your nonanimal studies: www.animalmethodsbias.org/author-guide...

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Researchers can help combat this hesitancy by raising awareness of animal methods bias and promoting more education and training within the scientific community about the value of #NAMs and other #NonanimalResearch methods. 🧪

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In addition, evaluating expertise & resources as sufficient or not—as opposed to being a scored criterion—is intended to reduce reputational biases, which may intersect with methodological biases.

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