Speaking of Research

Speaking of Research is going up in the world, having now made its way into the (joint) biggest Science Journal of them all (alongside Nature) - Science Magazine. You can download that SR article here. The article, in the Newsmakers section, puts Holder as this month’s “mover” - reporting on his efforts to bring the [...]

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It seems Peta is running out of news lately - so its front page has decided to bring back the story of mistreatment of animals at Oregon National Primate Research Center - a story which turned out to be completely false when the USDA investigated. Want proof? Here’s the USDA report giving ONPRC a clean [...]

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I recently gave a speech at the International Conference for Animal Research Policy, in it I laid out three challenges for the upcoming months. We’ve all heard of the 3R’s, so this is the 3ES’s:
Enabling Scientists
Encouraging Students
Educating Schoolchildren
We must enable scientists by providing them with an outlet to talk about their work. In Britain animals [...]

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A couple of months ago Pro-Test blogged about some interesting research that may lead to new drugs that to prevent the lethal “cytokine storm” that was responsible for most deaths in the SARS outbreak.
However SARS is not the only virus that kills by inducing an excessive immune response; the threat posed by the  H5N1 strain [...]

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Try out the new Media / Downloads page (subsection of “links”).
On this page you will find:
- A Basic Powerpoint Presentation that you can use to teach others the contribution of animals in research
- The YouTube video explaining the role of animals in research
- Graphs that help put animal research in perspective
- Promotional Pictures of Speakingof [...]

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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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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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The website has been undergoing some minor updates over the last few days.
We now have not one, but two web addresses. Both www.speakingofresearch.org and www.speakingofresearch.com will take you to this website. Equally all e-mail addresses should work in either the .org or .com form.
Check the (new) Calendar tab to see past and future presentations by [...]

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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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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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