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Just In
News, Updates, Reflections, & Stories from the justify community
Whether you have spent years working in a laboratory, completed a class involving animal use or dissection, served on an IACUC, attended veterinary or pharmacy school, conducted research as a student, or worked with lab animals in a professional, educational, or oversight role, your insights can help break the silence surrounding animal research and contribute to a more ethical, compassionate future for humans, animals, and science.
If you are interested in contributing with credit or under a pseudonym to This Just In, please email info@justifyglobal.org.
We welcome you to write about any topic related to your experience with or perspective on the animal research industry. Here are some ideas to get started: + Experiences as a student, trainee, technician, veterinarian, researcher, educator, or other professional connected to animal research + Stories of animals you knew in the lab and what they taught you + Moments of ethical conflict, moral distress, or moral injury + What helped you begin questioning animal research or seeing it differently + What you wish more people knew about animal research + How animal research shaped your relationship with science, animals, yourself, or your community + Reflections on identity, guilt, grief, compassion, or responsibility after working with animals in labs + The challenges of speaking honestly about animal research in academic, professional, or advocacy spaces + What support you wish had existed when you were in the field + How you found healing, connection, or support after your experience + Barriers to leaving animal research or transitioning into work that better aligns with your values + Your transition to, or interest in, ethical non-animal research methods or other work that better aligns with your values + Reflections on education and informed consent for students entering courses, degrees, or careers involving animal use + What meaningful change could look like within institutions that use animals + Ideas for resources, policies, programs, or conversations that could better support people impacted by animal research + Responses to common narratives about animal research, scientific progress, or “necessary” harm + Reflections on what science without suffering could or already looks like + Reflections on relevant news, policies, legislation, institutional changes, media coverage, or public conversations related to animal research, worker well-being, transparency, or non-animal methods + Why Justify’s work matters to you
A Justfy-Inspired Substack
One of the things we value most at Justify is seeing people with firsthand experience in animal research find their own ways to reflect, speak, and be heard.
One of our community members recently launched a Substack, @VoicesFrom_InsideTheLab, sharing thoughtful reflections from their years working as a Certified Veterinary Technician and Animal Research Technician.
It means a lot to see another insider voice stepping forward and creating space for these conversations. We hope you’ll subscribe, follow along, and support their writing.
Because of the nature of what I witnessed and my decision to speak openly about it, I write under a pseudonym. These are my firsthand stories: what I’ve seen, what I’ve participated in, what I’ve questioned, and what I carry with me every day in my heart.
@Voicesfrom_thelab