COST Action CA21124 aims to provide background on the inclusion of positive welfare in farm animal welfare assessment.
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🎉 We're thrilled to announce the official launch of the #LIFTCostAction webpage! 🌐
🚀 Explore the latest updates, connect with experts, and join the community to lift farm animal lives!
Visit us now at liftanimalwelfare.eu/
📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰
This month's highlight: "How STRANGE are your study animals?" by Michael M. Webster & Christian Rutz.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-0…
📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰
This month's highlight: "Animals in flow – towards the scientific study of intrinsic reward in animals" by Sara Hintze & Jason R. Yee.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/brv.12930
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Closing Nov 20! 🚨
PIGWEB is conducting two separate surveys to gather insights from users of research infrastructures - your insights will help us enhance the services provided by these infrastructures.
👉 Take the survey: eu.jotform.com/form/23310435…
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Our Open Call 2025 is live (deadline 21/10/25)! This is a perfect time to start building a community of likeminded researchers & innovators who could form a network of proposers.
🚨 A new Technical Annex template has been introduced for all proposals (inc. resubmissions).
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ALT Join the team at the PEGASE Research Unit in INRAE, France. A 1 year post-doctoral/ research assistant position is available from February/March 2025. The candidate will work on a project assessing the impact of improved social and physical environments on the mental states and welfare of pigs. This project is funded by the EUP AH&W Partnership under SOA13 “Assessment of positive welfare; defining animal-based measures”. Additional Information Application Deadline: 1st December 2024. Contract Type: Fixed-term contract for 1 year, post-doctoral position or research assistant position (depending on experience) For more information: French: https://jobs.inrae.fr/ot-23063 English: https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-23066
📰✨Our Feature Paper of the Month!✨📰
This month's highlight: "Internal consistency and compatibility of the 3Rs and 3Vs principles for project evaluation of animal research" by Matthias Eggel and Hanno Würbel.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/002367722096…
📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰
This month's highlight: "What is animal happiness" by Laura Webb and colleagues.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13983
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The last session of @WAFL2024 of today is kicked off by Margit Bak Jensen from @BSW_anivet talking about 'positive animal welfare' and what this term means. #WAFL2024 @LIFTCostAction
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Listening the great talk from Margit Bak Jensen presenting @LIFTCostAction on Positive Animal Welfare at @wafl2024. The talk includes the definition of PAW, how it should be measured and ways of improvement.
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We're back from the holidays with very exciting news! The programme for our 2nd virtual Summer School is now ready! The event will take place next week, and we look forward to seeing many of you there.
Register online using the following link: forms.gle/RCkuR8U7JnBrd7XC8
On August 16, some LIFT members attended the WG4 meeting in Zurich. They focused on optimizing public dissemination, refining branding, and advancing other key communication tasks. 🚀
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰
This month's highlight: "The agency domain and behavioral interactions: assessing positive animal welfare using the Five Domains Model" by Katherine E. Littlewood (@KatLittlewood) and colleagues.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1…
The WG2 training school on methods for the assessment of positive animal welfare was a success! From June 26-28, participants enjoyed excellent lectures and a farm visit in Montenegro's countryside
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On June 10-11, 13 WG1 members attended last month's meeting in Prague. They discussed sub-WG progress and brainstormed ways to promote interdisciplinarity and activities for future short-term scientific missions (STSMs) and training schools. 🚀
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰
This month's highlight: "Feel-good songs: application of a novel playback paradigm to induce a positive affective state in juvenile male Wistar rats" by Tayla Hammond and colleagues.
📖 Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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The European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare is pleased to announce a call for proposals focused on 'Supporting the Future of Animal Health and Welfare'. Funded projects will start in July 2025. For more details please visit eupahw.eu/call-1.html. #eupahw
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🐷Join our next webinar on techniques to measure #physiological states in #FarmAnimals using salivary hormones and infrared thermography!
🔬 Best practice methods
📈 Prospects and limitations of current techniques
🔍 Future improvement and expansion
➡️ bit.ly/4bPvZf9
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📢There's still time to register to join us in sunny Porto for the UFAW International Animal Welfare Conference!
Click here for more details ➡️ufaw.org.uk/ufaw-events/ufaw…
#UFAW2024 #AnimalWelfareScience
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🎉 Exciting news! Join us for the third scientific meeting of the @RedCiba in Valencia, Spain, this September! 👨🔬👩🔬
🐾🐶🐱🐷🐮🐔🐭🐵🐯🐦🐬🐠🐢🦎
#AnimalWelfare #PAW #PositiveAnimalWelfare
@appliedethology @UEECA_ @LIFTCostAction @EAAPofficial @forwildanimals @adnaturam_asso
Las 3as #JornadaRedCIBA ya están aquí 🥳
📅 Los días 19 y 20 de septiembre nos juntaremos en Valencia. Si tenéis ganas de presentar vuestro trabajo, ya podéis enviar vuestros resúmenes. Encontraréis todos los detalles en nuestra página web 👇redciba.org
The second meeting of WG3 has been a success and has gathered valuable feedback from stakeholders! 🚀
#LIFTCostAction
This week we had the 2nd meeting of the Working Group 3 of @LIFTCostAction at @ULisboa_
We discussed how to approach stakeholders for asking about Positive Welfare, and we even had time for chating, coffees and some beer 🍻
