The COLAAB website is live!.👉It provides info about #AnimalMethodsBias and houses the resource we created for researchers who use animal-free approaches to help avoid its negative consequences. Check it out and share with your colleagues!

Congratulations to the authors, including @_KarishmaK and @mittalharshita1!.

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We are interested in replicating the survey in other populations, so if you or your team want to help, please reach out at info@animalmethodsbias.org.

Check out the full paper for more details & please share with your networks! . Big thanks to @cphms_aic, @humaneworldorg, @IndiaBioscience, & @PCRM for making this study possible!.

We also included a Q about grant review, something we’ve previously only explored anecdotally (. ~Half of respondents said they felt the lack of animal experiments in their grant proposal negatively influenced its evaluation (57%; 47 of 83 respondents).

Respondents reported complying with just one in four of these requests on average (24%)! . About a quarter of respondents even said they’ve used animal-based methods solely because they expected editor or reviewer requests for them (22%; 16 of 72 respondents).

In line with previous findings in a global population (, about half of respondents said they’ve been asked by manuscript reviewers to add animal experiments to their otherwise nonanimal studies (56%; 39 of 70 respondents).

🚨 New findings of animal methods bias!. Just published in NAM Journal, our study surveyed India-based researchers about their experiences with animal methods bias in the peer review of manuscripts and grant applications: .

Also be sure to pick up a copy of our newest resource! These guidelines and recommendations were generated through interviews with publishing professionals and can help editors and peer reviewers fairly evaluate nonanimal studies and reduce animal methods bias.

🇧🇷 #WC13 attendees: Don't miss this talk by COLAAB member @ERoseEngland. She'll discuss what #AnimalMethodsBias is, the evidence for it, & how @TheCOLAAB has been working to reduce barriers for #NAMs scientists. See you in Session 74, Wed at 11:30!.

Another COLAAB recommendation takes flight! 🕊️. On July 7, @NKleinstreuer announced @NIH will no longer exclude NAMs from NOFOs or seek animal-only proposals. These are key steps to curb #AnimalMethodsBias, as suggested in our 2024 workshop report:

This new policy is a strong step toward transparency, opening "the 'black box' of science" and enabling research on academic publishing and methodological biases. We hope more journals follow suit!. Read @Nature's editorial here:

In our recent Editor Outreach project, we explored the possibility of opening peer review reports as a way for meta-researchers to measure occurrences of animal methods bias in various research fields and demographics. More about this project:

The COLAAB has suggested open peer review as a way to improve research quality, transparency, and reproducibility—and to prevent biases, including animal methods bias. See section 3.1 of our Author Guide:

In June, @Nature announced it will make transparent peer review the norm for research articles. Reviewer comments and author responses will be published alongside articles, something @TheCOLAAB has long advocated for as a way to track #AnimalMethodsBias.

Don't miss @CellStemCell's interview with Dan Tagle, Director of the Office for Special Initiatives at @ncats_nih_gov. Dr. Tagle gives a nod to the @COLAAB-recommended actions @NIH will take to mitigate Animal Methods Bias.

You can also access the toolkit on our website!.🔗

Missed us on #WD4AIL? Catch the recording of our webinar on advocating for fair funding of nonanimal research. Learn to use the new Animal Methods Bias Advocacy Toolkit to engage funders & encourage impartial review of nonanimal research. 📽️

As we covered earlier, @NIH's new initiative aims to “address any possible bias towards animal studies” in grant reviews. This growing recognition—from media to policymakers—is a crucial step toward the ensuring fair consideration of nonanimal science.

As the article notes, "Scientists are often incentivized to use animals in their research" and "academic journals prefer to publish studies using animals." . This #AnimalMethodsBias slows adoption of cutting-edge technologies like organ-chips & computational modeling.

💡 #AnimalMethodsBias is in the news again in @rfobar's important piece on federal efforts to reduce animal experimentation. This systemic bias favors animal-based studies over translatable, human-based methods—and it's long overdue for scrutiny. 🔗