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12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences
Organisms and Us convenor Prof Rachel Ankeny delivers keynote address at 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences.
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Experimental Animals: Science, Form, and Hybridity in Contemporary ‘Lab Lit’
The Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film and the Organisms and Us research cluster will be co-hosting a seminar with Dr Shannon Lambert (Ghent University) on experimental animals in fiction.
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2021 New Fellows
Organisms and Us convenor Prof Rachel Ankeny has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
ANZCCART survey on Australian attitudes to animal research
A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide have conducted a survey on the Australian public's awareness of, and attitudes towards, the use of animals in scientific research.
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Evolving Models for Co-Production of Marine Science Knowledge in South Australia
Organisms and Us convenor Prof Rachel Ankeny and Audrey Henry (University of Adelaide) will be presenting at an upcoming event jointly hosted by the Central European University, the Institute Vienna Circle and the University of Vienna.
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Model Organisms
On 24 November 2020, Organisms and Us hosted a virtual book launch for Prof Rachel A. Ankeny (The University of Adelaide) and Prof Sabina Leonelli's (University of Exeter) new book Model Organisms.
Model Organisms book launch
Join us to launch the new addition to the Elements in the Philosophy of Biology series by Cambridge University Press.
Latest publication: How to choose your research organism
The Organisms and Us research group are pleased to announce our latest publication: How to choose your research organism. This paper takes a critical look at August Krogh's famous principle that for every research problem there exists a "convenient" organism with which to study it. Using empirical data and philosophical analysis we show that biologists employ a wide range of interacting criteria to make highly contextualised judgements about organism choice. Have a read!
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Workshop summary: Ethics, Naming, and Communication with Organisms
Thank you to everyone who came along to today's Organisms and Us Ethics, Naming, and Communication with Organisms workshop and contributed to such reflective and constructive discussions around the presentation topics.
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