"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 #3: Provide robust justifications for your chosen method

Preempt biased reviews by describing your chosen method’s suitability, advantages over animals, and translational potential. Reviewers who prefer or expect to see animal-based methods will need to be convinced by robust justifications for nonanimal methods, including how it’s better to answer the specific research question than animals and its translational potential to improve human health.

✍ This week’s tip for researchers to mitigate #animalmethodsbias is focused on method justification—how can you demonstrate that #nonanimalmethods are the right choice for your research? 🧪

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How ‘animal methods bias’ is affecting research careers Some early-career researchers report feeling pressure to use animal models to meet journal and grant requirements, even in disciplines and projects that don’t require them.

We got some great coverage about #AnimalMethodsBias in @nature.com Careers. Big thanks to Christine Ro's great reporting. Be sure to check it out!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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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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How researchers can help mitigate animal methods bias in grant peer review

Researchers can: Raise awareness of animal methods bias within your institution and scientific community; Educate and train the scientific community in nonanimal research methods and their value in translational success

Researchers can: Seek funding from appropriate sources; Ensure funding opportunities have appropriate method specifications and reviewer expertise

Researchers can: Provide a robust justification for the use and suitability of the chosen methods to answer your specific research question and impact human health in proposals; Volunteer for reviewer positions and make yourself available to review staff

Are you a researcher using #nonanimalmethods? 🧪
Over the next two months, we will share our recommendations for researchers in greater detail to help you understand your role in addressing #animalmethodsbias in grant #peerreview.

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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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Western scientists more likely to get rejected papers published — and do it faster Authors from Western countries navigate the peer-review system more successfully than those from other nations, literature-tracking study suggests. Authors from Western countries navigate the peer-rev...

Western scientists more likely to get rejected papers published — and do it faster
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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flyer with EDICa logo and illustrative image of interlocking shapes and pound sounds. Evidence Review: peer review bias in the funding process. What reduces bias in the peer review process? Link. free open access.

Published today! Our report on peer review bias. You can read a summarising article here: edicaucus.ac.uk/peer-review-... which also contains links to full report. A reminder of 2 upcoming seminars on this topic on 23/4 & 22/5
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