Nuno Henrique Franco
@Nuno_H_Franco
Lab Animal Scientist at @i3S_UPorto @ETPLAS Past-President, SPCAL Vice-Pres., @Baseldec Board Member, PT Animal Welfare Body Network Coordinator Views my own.
🐁!!! Save the date !!! 🐁 18-19 March 2025 ETPLAS Conference: "Shaping the future of LAS Education & Training" . Leiden, The Netherlands.🐭
*** PLEASE SHARE *** 7th Course on Experimental Design and Analysis of Data from Animal Experiments. November 5-7th, 2025, @i3S_UPorto, Portugal More information and registration: lnkd.in/dmw2RTAW
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?
Whenever I see students with good grades but lots of college rejections, my first thought is a bad personal essay. As predicted, this guy's essay was kind of a disaster. Since I did get into Harvard, I'll give my two cents on the essay:
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…
This is the programme for the ETPLAS Conference, in Leiden, 18-19th March 2025. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the future of Education and Training in Europe, and listen to key experts and regulators. REGISTER UNTIL MAR 9th More information: lnkd.in/dgsh4FWG
New paper on @AW_TheJournal 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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**Registrations open for the 2025 ETPLAS Conference** Leiden, The Netherlands, on Mar 18-19th 2025. Learn about new E&T advancements in Europe and take part in the discussion of its future! REGISTER HERE: lnkd.in/dQ7XqjpW
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New year, new website! With tons of resources for education and training, including on assessment. And brand new e-learning modules (currently in the testing phase). Check it out! etplas.eu/en
"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.
A few days away from the release of "OUT OF YOUR MIND: The biggest mysteries of the human brain." A mashup of prose and comics, Kirkus Reviews says it's "An entertaining examination of fundamental questions about what makes us human." Order here: amazon.com/Out-Your-Mind-…
Enroll in five sessions of the #felasa2025, they said. It will be fun, they said.
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Our #animalresearch #communication webinar will kick off with the amazing @Nuno_H_Franco from @i3S_UPorto. He’ll dive into the social acceptability of animal research in the past and present. Don’t miss this fascinating talk! @COSTprogramme
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 @COSTprogramme
🚨Eight (8!!) funded PhD opportunities in animal behavior and welfare at Harper Adams University🚨 Deadline: January 2025 Start date: October 2025 Thread (1/5)
I would watch this Pixar film apnews.com/article/monkey…
Since the US election the search query "moving to Portugal" is higher than for any other country.
This was fun
🚨Workshop Alert! Join us Tuesday, Nov 5 at 3:30 PM for @nuno_h_franco’s workshop: "You're (probably) doing it wrong - Risk of Bias in Animal Research and What to Do About It." Learn to improve experiment design, avoid common pitfalls, and boost research quality! #ESCBC2024
The megajournal @SciReports, published by @SpringerNature, has been criticised for publishing fraudulent research in an open letter signed by well-known experts in research fraud: @MicrobiomDigest, @deevybee and @gcabanac. chemistryworld.com/news/open-lett…
On silver linings. After failing to go to Brazil, @DoKarolis 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!
Never flying again. Just kidding, next week I'll be in Paris!
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.