Do some grant reviewers have preferences for animal experiments? Does this impact the funding of grants that propose human-based in vitro approaches? What can we do to address this growing concern? 📌SAVE THE DATE 📌 for a virtual workshop discussing these topics on May 16th!

1/3 We are delighted to be growing our research partnership with York City FC Academy and York City FC by offering three MSc by Research Scholarships starting in June 2024. Each project will be looking to provide insight into the physical development of young athletes.

What should the undergraduate immunology curriculum look like? 🤔The BSI Teaching Affinity Group wants to hear from BSI members who teach immunology about your experience of the curriculum - look out for an email from the BSI with more information…. 🍎 Nigel Francis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦

.Coalition to Address Animal Methods Bias are running a free online workshop to explore animal methods bias in biomedical research funding May 16th - we hope to see you there! eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-to-…

COLAAB member and researcher Melanie Ort describes the #animalmethodsbias she faced as a scientist who refused to use animals in her studies. Now she's winning awards and teaching #NAMs techniques to others. By Valerie Raya Demicheva for WhoWhatWhy: whowhatwhy.org/science/techno…

It's been a busy couple weeks for the COLAAB! Check out our latest publication, a commentary from Kavanagh & Krebs about ways that different stakeholders can help mitigate #AnimalMethodsBias & advance the uptake of animal-free research. ⤵️#Tweetorial journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

📢We're excited to announce our inaugural conference: Teaching Immunology to Future Cohorts, 16 & 17 July, Birmingham. Join us to explore key topics in immunoloy education and network with fellow educators. Please share🙏immunology.org/events/teachin… BSI Congress & Events British Society for Immunology Nigel Francis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦

Published on our website today, a blog on the Lush Prize award winning COLAAB (Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias) by Dr. Pandora Pound safermedicines.org/blog_post/lush…

Thinking about education for sustainable development 🌱 - how can we embed this in the immunology curriculum? 🧐

And that’s a wrap! 😎 Thanks to all the incredible immunology educators who joined us for the Teaching Immunology to Future Cohorts conference - fantastic discussions and connections made 😀#BSITeaching24 BSI Congress & Events

Well done Hanna Glandorf

Just published my second PhD study on how burnout and a number of health variables predict each other over time: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/sp… Big thanks also to my team of co-authors Prof Daniel Madigan Owen Dr Sarah Mallinson-Howard Dr Tracy Donachie, CPsychol, SFHEA, SEPiT Dr Luke Olsson James Rumbold APA Journals #burnout

Want to know how anticipatory stress responses may differ between individual and team sports athletes? We collected some salvia samples on a competition and on a baseline comparison day and took a look: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26… Hanna Glandorf Prof Daniel Madigan Biosciences YSJ YSJ BSc Sport & Exercise Science

Why You Look Ugly in Pictures but HOT in the Mirror Have you ever wondered why? Here’s the brutal, science-backed truth you need to know.

There was an exciting development toward mitigating animal methods bias at the recent NIH Previously the NIH Center for Scientific Review Advisory Council meeting! 🧵

Catharine E. Krebs of the COLAAB and Physicians Committee presented a poster on #AnimalMethodsBias at #ASCCT this week! She discussed what we know about this phenomenon, its damaging effects on researchers who use #NAMs, what remains TBD, and our recommendations for overcoming it.

On March 26, COLAAB member Dr. Owen Kavanagh will be providing an update on our award-winning work on #AnimalMethodsBias at the Best Practice in Non-Animal Research Conference in York, UK! More info about the conference here: replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/2025-conference.

#Athlete burnout paves the way for further health problems as per Sport Exercise, and Performance Psychology's 2024 Outstanding Paper of the Year by Hanna Glandorf Prof Daniel Madigan Owen Dr Sarah Mallinson-Howard Dr Tracy Donachie, CPsychol, SFHEA, SEPiT Dr Luke Olsson James Rumbold ➡️ bit.ly/4m1VDmv APA Division 47

Just published my third PhD study on athlete burnout and biomarkers in a longitudinal case study. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.psyc… Prof Daniel Madigan Owen Dr Sarah Mallinson-Howard

🇧🇷 #WC13 attendees: Don't miss this talk by COLAAB member Emily Trunnell PhD 🐀. She'll discuss what #AnimalMethodsBias is, the evidence for it, & how Coalition to Address Animal Methods Bias has been working to reduce barriers for #NAMs scientists. See you in Session 74, Wed at 11:30! animalmethodsbias.org/events/colaab-…