Posted on May 29, 2008 by speakingofresearch
A diverse audience of approximately fifty researchers, animal care technicians and medical students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, attended the Speaking of Research presentation at Pittsburgh University. From “Science for the Non-scientist, a lesson in getting your message across” (summarized in our YouTube video), to “Pro-Test: the UK experience of the animal rights issue”, and finally [...]
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Posted on May 23, 2008 by speakingofresearch
On Tuesday, May 27th 2008, Speaking of Research founder, Tom Holder, will be speaking at Pittsburgh University (Note to self: Pittsburgh does not rhyme with Edinburgh). The presentation will take place at: S100a, Biomedical Science Tower (map).
The order of the day is:
4:00 – 4:30 pm Introductions
4:30 – 5:30 pm Seminar
5:30 – 6:00 pm Questions
There’s even [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2008 by speakingofresearch
After a successful day on the Duke University campus (see previous post), I headed over to the Smithies & Maeda’s Laboratories in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Here I gave a presentation to Nobel Prize Laureate (For his work in introducing gene modifications [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 by speakingofresearch
I’ve been in North Carolina since Monday night, having already given a couple of talks at Duke University earlier today, and popped my head into an AALAS meeting. The reception has been warm at all events, with Duke going as far as to offer AALAS credits for any animal researchers, technicians and veterinarians who went [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by speakingofresearch
For a long time, animal rights groups have taken advantage of new social media tools that exist on the web. Their presence dominates and clouds the issue of animal research, meaning that individuals looking for information on animal research, find themselves faced “Vivisection kills”, “Stop Torture”. Pro-Test broke the mold by being the first group [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by speakingofresearch
I have now finished a five day speaking tour of research institutions on the West Coast. Here’s what happened.
Monday April 20th - I headed out to the University of Washington. My first engagement was a speaking slot on the Dave Ross radio show about the importance of research (Listen to the interview here). At midday [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by speakingofresearch
Earlier today, I spoke on the Dave Ross show at 9:35am. Mp3s will be available on his website soon (and we’ll try to host a copy here). We covered animal activism in the UK and USA, as well as the importance of animals in the development of modern medicine, and why scientists and students need [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008 by speakingofresearch
During World Week for Animal In Labs (19th - 27th April), I will be travelling to Washington, Oregon and California to give talks to university students about the importance of animal research, and why students must stand up to defend it.
I still have one or two days free (and I am prepared to give multiple [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by speakingofresearch
I’d like to give a warm welcome to Speaking of Research’s two newest Facebook Group members - Justin Goodman (Winner of PETA’s prized “Nanci Alexander Award” for best activist, and now permanent staff at PETA), and Ryan Huling (College Campaign Coordinator for PETA). However, one must wonder why PETA staff are joining a group which [...]
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