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It led to cancelling my trip to São Paulo (Madrid connection). I had the most frightening flight ever. Two failed landing attempts (then diverted to Alicante), shaking and dips mid-air all the way. Blue lightning sparks hitting the wings. Yet those down below had it much worse.

Never flying again. Just kidding, next week I'll be in Paris!

The megajournal Scientific Reports, published by Springer Nature, has been criticised for publishing fraudulent research in an open letter signed by well-known experts in research fraud: Elisabeth Bik, Dorothy Bishop and Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩. chemistryworld.com/news/open-lett…

On silver linings. After failing to go to Brazil, Spooky Sprinkles managed to move my talk to the next day in online format. And though it was 8.00 AM after a congress party the previous evening, we got a full house. And doubled the registrations for my (now online) workshop tomorrow!

This was fun

Since the US election the search query "moving to Portugal" is higher than for any other country.

I would watch this Pixar film apnews.com/article/monkey…

COST TEATIME is heading toward its final year! We will soon open the calls for new grants, so stay tuned ... #grants #networking #behavior #InMice #research #animalresearch COST

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Our #animalresearch #communication webinar will kick off with the amazing Nuno Henrique Franco from i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde. He’ll dive into the social acceptability of animal research in the past and present. Don’t miss this fascinating talk! COST

This is actually quite good! 😅 Here's my 2024 Twitter Wrapped! twitterwrapped.exa.ai/nuno_h_franco?… x.com/ExaAILabs/stat…

Enroll in five sessions of the #felasa2025, they said. It will be fun, they said.

🐁!!! Save the date !!! 🐁 18-19 March 2025 ETPLAS Conference: "Shaping the future of LAS Education & Training" . Leiden, The Netherlands.🐭

"Do dogs love us?" is an interesting scientific question, but only to be answered after we know for sure what "love" is (to the point of not needing scare quotes) as well as after establishing whether animals love (e.g. their pups?) at all, whatever that means.

Ta-daaaaa

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New paper on Animal Welfare_The Journal We explored contactless body temperature assessment as a refinement for signalling humane endpoints in a mouse model of sepsis. TL:DR: Subcutaneous temperature a better predictor than weight loss. Full open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1017/awf.20…

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Animal research Tomorrow is deeply concerned about recent legislative efforts of the US Congress to ban animal research in all institutions receiving federal funding. These developments raise significant anxieties in the scientific community. Read more animalresearchtomorrow.org/en/projects/so…

Never understood having to write an essay to apply to uni. Or doing extra-curricular stuff. Or getting in because you're good at sports. All of it really weird (not to mention having to pay). Why not just be sorted on your grades, and then apply to wherever you want to go?