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mari-19.bsky.social
Government Enters Shutdown After Congress Misses Funding Deadline.
#Shutdown #NIH, so that they´ll finally stop their nonsense #AnimalTesting like the #ForcedSwimTest.
www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...
@peta.org @petauk.bsky.social
Government Enters Shutdown After Congress Misses Funding Deadline
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will go home while others, including active-duty troops, will have to work without pay.
www.huffpost.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
mari-19.bsky.social
«Shutdown» in den USA: Das sind die Folgen für die Bevölkerung.
Ein #NIH Shutdown wäre durchaus sinnvoll, dann würden die endlich mit so unsinnigen Tierversuchen wie dem #ForcedSwimTest aufhören.
www.watson.ch/wirtschaft/u...
@petadeutschland.bsky.social
«Shutdown» in den USA: Das sind die Folgen für Ernährungsprogramme, Flughäfen und Zoos
«Shutdown» in den USA: Das sind die Folgen für die Bevölkerung
www.watson.ch
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
ertrunnell.bsky.social
Great news from the UK! 🎉

@lordhanson.bsky.social confirmed to @petauk.bsky.social the ministry’s intention to no longer grant licenses for the #ForcedSwimTest.

The last remaining licenses will expire in 2028 and will not be renewed.

www.peta.org.uk/blog/end-for...
Good News! Minister Signals End for Forced Swim Test in the UK
For the first time in UK history, a specific behavioural test on rats and mice will end – marking a major milestone for animals in laboratories.
www.peta.org.uk
September 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
ertrunnell.bsky.social
New #SystematicReview finds a "remarkable" level of publication bias in experiments using the #ForcedSwimTest for antidepressant screening.

Combined with incomplete reporting, this compromised effect size estimates and raises "concerns about the validity of the FST literature."

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🧪 #sysrev
On the left, a photo of a rat being used in the forced swim test (credit to PETA). On the right, the following text: “New systematic review. Forced swim test papers have “inflated” results. Mirrors previous findings that published animal behavioral experiments are of low quality. ““Incomplete reports have precluded the assessment of internal and external validity of primary studies and accurate estimate of CES [combined effect size] for the FST.”” At the bottom, this citation: “Tamires et al. DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0000000000000844.”
August 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
ertrunnell.bsky.social
For example, depressive disorders are characterized in part by feelings of sadness, hopelessness, & despair. The most common attempt to measure these symptoms in animals is with the misunderstood & misleading #ForcedSwimTest.

For more on FST: 🔗 www.peta.org/wp-content/u...
The Invalidity of the Forced Swim Test
May 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
mari-19.bsky.social
#NIH does stupid animal testings, there´s not a week passing without any petition against that cruelty. I sign and post all of such petitions from Peta and other NGOs, this only to mention.
#StopAnimalTesting. At least the #ForcedSwimTest for mice has been banned by some pharma companies yet...
March 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
andrewspink.bsky.social
Part of the solution to reducing the number of animals used in research could be to switch to using other species, like insects. I've just written a blog about that:
www.noldus.com/blog/flies-fst
#Behavior #Porsolt #Dropsophila #OpenField #ForcedSwimTest #Psilocybin #Psilocybe #zebrafish #Noldus
Drosophila on a leaf
October 27, 2023 at 6:58 AM