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What Happens to Science When Model Organisms Become Endangered? – The Scientist (Animal: Dan Robitzski | October 2022)

There are obvious reasons for anguish as the natural world experiences a devastating level of species extinction.  But for researchers who use animals that are considered useful modules for humans when testing agents for safety and efficacy, there is a growing concern.  If a model species go extinct, how do we conduct testing to see whether an agent is safe and effective?  Are we facing a future where humans are exposed to agents that have not been tested before they use in humans?  This piece published in The Scientist examines the issue.  

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(US) Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests – Reuters (Rachael Levy | December 2022)

If this news story is accurate, it is of significant concern.  Animal research must involve time and space for the correct handling of animals and attention to animal welfare.  The drive to conduct commercial research quickly and efficiently must never compromise this.  The goal of the work is admirable and could be of significant benefit to many, but animal ethics principles are non-negotiable.

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Friday afternoon’s funny – Broken in translation

This isn’t an area that we typically discuss, but this humorous Don Mayne cartoon will be excruciatingly familiar for anyone that has tried to provide technology, or process advice over the phone.  It is a good reason to have familiar and dedicated support people available, rather than busy staff who try to fit it around their other work and so end up rushing and making a bad job of their explanations.  

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Opinion: Hold Animal Use Committees Accountable for Their Failures – The Scientist (Lisa Jones-Engel | July 2022)

This discussion about animal welfare, animal ethics committees and the discharge public trust, is very much a rip in the frame of the approach in the United States.  Nonetheless, it raises important questions for other jurisdictions.  Are committees checking applications for bureaucratic compliance or are they genuinely discharging the public trust?  We need a process to test this involves public input and oversight.

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(Australia) Ethics guide details how researchers should work with wildlife – Times Higher Education (John Ross | July 2022)

Superficially, we might think that drones are a way to cheaply and safely reach remote locations, they are a way to collect data about animals safely and without potential harm to anybody, but this Australian work and this Times Higher Education suggest that such assumptions are wrong.  Drones are causing harm and institutions that have ethics guidelines on their correct use.

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(Europe) The Science and Ethics of Turning Octopuses into ‘Lab Rats’ – EuroScientist (Mićo Tatalović | February 2022)

The use of octopi in animal laboratory research raises interesting opportunities, as well as significant ethical questions.  Many national animal ethics standards globally (including Australia) recognise that octopi are sentient, with complex cognitive capacity and require scientific work with them to be submitted for research ethics review by an animal ethics committee.

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