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Lush Prize
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Nominations are open for the £250,000 global prize fund supporting scientists & campaigners to end animal use in research & testing - www.lushprize.org
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · 5d
Are you a campaigner or organisation working to end animal use in research & testing? Nominate your project for the Lush Prize for Public Awareness. You may win £50,000 and vital support for your work: lushprize.org/awards/publi...
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · 12d
Are you a #YoungResearcher focussed on replacing animal use in research? #LushPrize funds 5 young scientists £10k each as well as awards for other scientists & campaigners in our £250k prize fund - www.lushprize.org
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · 14d
Lush Prize has many different award categories - for campaigners, scientists, charities, politicians and more. If you work to replace animal use in research & testing, don't miss out on submitting your work to share our £250,000 fund - www.lushprize.org
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Sep 3
Are you a young scientist focussed on non-animal research? Lush Prize 2026 will award £10,000 to each of 5 Young Researcher winners lushprize.org/awards/young...
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Sep 2
Lush Prize 2026 is now open for nominations. In this new blog, previous winner Te Protejo explain what winning an award means for their work lushprize.org/te-protejo-r...
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Sep 1
Lush Prize 2026 is now open for nominations! We provide £250,000 to support science, campaign & political initiatives to end the use of animals in research & testing lushprize.org/nominate-ent...
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Emulate, Inc. @emulatebio.bsky.social · Aug 15
Nominations for the 2026 #LushPrize open Sept 1!

In 2024, we won for our landmark Liver-Chip study, proving it can outperform animal tests for predicting DILI & advancing human-relevant science.

Who will lead the next leap forward? 🔗 lushprize.org

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#OrganOnChip
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Aug 4
Nominations for Lush Prize 2026 will open in less than 1 month! Full list of prize categories at www.lushprize.org
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Lucía Arana @luciaarana.bsky.social · Jul 30
🎬 Hay muchos motivos por los que ver "Infiltrada en el Búnker". Uno de ellos es que presenta el mundo del activismo y las personas que lo componen con el respeto y la dignidad que merecen. Escribo en @caballodenietzsche.bsky.social @primevideoes.bsky.social @eldiario.es
Carlota Saorsa lo ha vuelto a hacer
La crueldad intrínseca a la experimentación con animales, una vez más en el punto de mira gracias a la activista Carlota Saorsa, cuya infiltración durante 18 meses en el laboratorio Vivotecnia se ha c...
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Jul 28
The 9th Africa Animal Welfare Conference begins today in Cameroon. Tomorrow we'll be presenting the findings of our study on animal use in research in Africa & promoting complete replacement of animal use www.aawconference.org
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Safer Medicines @safermedicines.org · Jul 18
Will the UK government's forthcoming strategy to reduce the use of animals in science reflect the bold developments in the US?

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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing - Safer Medicines
A cultural shift Much has been written about Nicole Kleinstreuer’s announcement in the joint workshop between the FDA and the National Institutes for Health (NIH), namely that all new NIH funding oppo...
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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · Jul 9
There's been some confusion & misinformation about Monday's announcement that NIH will no longer seek proposals exclusively for animal models. In this new blog, I break down what it means, what it doesn't, & how it will impact animals in laboratories. 🧪

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What Happens When NIH Stops Asking for Animal Experiments? - Science Advancement and Outreach Division
In a July 7 joint webinar by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Acting NIH Deputy Director for Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiative...
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Jul 3
Now trending on Prime Video - Infiltrada en el Búnker (Undercover Inside the Bunker), the gripping documentary that tells the personal story of Carlota Saorsa’s 18-month undercover investigation at the Spanish animal testing laboratory Vivotecnia lushprize.org/undercover-i...
Undercover Inside the Bunker - Lush Prize
Undercover Inside the Bunker (Infiltrada en el Búnker) is a new documentary about Carlota Saorsa’s groundbreaking undercover investigation of Spanish animal testing lab Vivotecnia
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Jul 1
We attended the recent 3rd Commission workshop on the roadmap to phase out animal testing in Helsinki - read our blog on this crucial step to adopting an EU roadmap next year lushprize.org/report-on-eu...
Report on European Commission workshop on the roadmap to phase out animal testing  - Lush Prize
Lush Prize report on the third European Commission workshop on the roadmap to phase out animal testing for chemical safety assessments.
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Jun 27
Today is the worldwide launch of a new documentary about Carlota Saorsa's 18 month undercover investigation of Spanish animal testing lab Vivotecnia, for which she also won the Lush Prize for Public Awareness in 2022. Available to watch on Amazon Prime
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El Caballo de Nietzsche @caballodenietzsche.bsky.social · Jun 11
"Sólo te pido que cuentes la verdad". Ya disponible el trailer oficial de 'Infiltrada en el búnker'
Infiltrada en el búnker | Tráiler Oficial | Prime Video España
YouTube video by Amazon Prime Video España
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Jun 11
Don't miss the new documentary about Lush Prize winner Carlota Saorsa's shocking undercover investigation of Spanish animal testing lab Vivotecnia - on Amazon Prime from 27 June
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El Caballo de Nietzsche @caballodenietzsche.bsky.social · Jun 11
🎬 En los próximos días se estrena 'Infiltrada en el Búnker'. La activista Carlota Saorsa pasó 18 meses documentando la crueldad contra los animales en los laboratorios de Vivotecnia. "Lo que pasó en este 'búnker' no es un caso aislado" @pablodelachica.bsky.social @eldiario.es
Infiltrada en el laboratorio animal: la activista que destapó el caso Vivotecnia vive aislada y ha perdido su identidad
La historia de Carlota, que pasó 18 meses grabando la experimentación con animales, llega a las pantallas con ‘Infiltrada en el Búnker’; su director, Pablo De la Chica, explica cómo ha sido enfrentars...
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · May 23
Carlota Saorsa won a Lush Prize for her undercover investigation at Vivotecnia laboratory in Spain. Now a new documentary will look at the incredible work Carlota did to expose the reality of animal experimentation
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Abolición Vivisección @anti-viviseccion.bsky.social · May 22
El próximo 27 de junio se estrenará “Infiltrada en el búnker”, un documental sobre la atroz realidad de la experimentación animal y la infiltración de Carlota Saorsa en el laboratorio madrileño de Vivotecnia.
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El Caballo de Nietzsche @caballodenietzsche.bsky.social · Apr 25
🔴 Estas imágenes no son un caso aislado, son otra prueba más de cómo funciona el mayor centro de experimentación con primates de Europa y de la crueldad y el sufrimiento detrás de la experimentación animal @anti-viviseccion.bsky.social @eldiario.es
Nuevas imágenes muestran la realidad de Camarney y la experimentación animal
Trabajadores haciéndose selfis y macacos en deplorables condiciones, enfermos, heridos, mutilados... Es la realidad oculta de Camarney, en Camarles (Tarragona)
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Apr 24
A new report highlights widespread monkey laundering in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Laos has significantly increased its estimate of wild macaques to justify legalizing their capture, raising concerns of official complicity in laundering monkeys for the biomedical industry.
Data discrepancies suggest Laos monkey smuggling persists, despite trade ban
BANGKOK — A new report published on Feb. 18 detailed widespread discrepancies in data provided from Southeast Asia’s long-tailed macaque breeding farms, highlighting how monkey trafficking is able to…
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Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social · Apr 21
Latest for @mongabay.bsky.social digs into the dubious data #Cambodia and #Vietnam are providing to global wildlife trade regulator CITES regarding the trade of endangered long-tailed macaques. The demand from US biomedical research firms is driving prolific monkey smuggling syndicates across SEA.
Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade
BANGKOK — Many long-tailed macaques imported into the United States from Southeast Asia were likely poached from the wild and then sold as captive-bred to medical research institutions, a recent repor...
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Apr 22
Check out the new Resources section of our website for a detailed FAQ on animal research & testing as well as all of our published reports & papers lushprize.org/resources/
Resources - Lush Prize
Reports and papers and an FAQ section to answer the most common questions around the use of animals in research and testing.
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Apr 15
As we remember the irreplaceable Benjamin Zephaniah on what would have been his 67th birthday, here's a poem he recorded for the Lush Prize 2022 ceremony setting out the case for ending animal testing vimeo.com/814568860
Benjamin Zephaniah Poem: Makes No Sense
Benjamin Zephaniah performs a special poem for the Lush Prize 2022 Awards Ceremony.
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Apr 15
Useful thread from @ertrunnell.bsky.social about the recent FDA announcement:
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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · Apr 15
It's the great news that everyone's been talking about: The FDA is taking steps to phase out animal use in drug testing. 🎉

How might this announcement affect non-regulatory research, where the majority of animals are used? 🧪

Let's take a look... 👀

#skytorial
Let's discuss what FDA's new roadmap means for basic & translational research. Scroll to learn more.
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Lush Prize @lushprize.bsky.social · Apr 14
A petition by @thecampbeagle.bsky.social to the UK government to ban the use of dogs in research & testing has an impressive 233,000 signatures - if you're a UK resident you can add your support to it: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures
As a first step to end animal testing, we want an immediate ban for dogs. They are commercially bred in what we see as bleak and inhumane factory-like conditions. We believe there is evidence suggesti...
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