Julia Baines

Mum to two boys, wife and science policy manager for PETA UK, interested in replacing animals used in experiments. Views are my own.

[Julia Baines @juliabaines1]

Are you an EU-based academic/scientist? Then sign this open letter calling on the European Commission and EU Member States to commit to establishing a roadmap and a European Research Area action to accelerate the transition to non-animal science. https://t.co/DKym7sEqoZ

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

MPs have voted to ban protests at animal testing sites.
The plans could make protesting a criminal offence.
Click here to find out how you can help stop the ban https://t.co/dERKUnqZib

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

Terrific news! The University of Bristol @BristolUni has stopped using the cruel and useless forced swim test🥳

[Julia Baines @juliabaines1]

Positive positioning and wise budgeting proposal from the Netherlands with the House of Representatives accepting a motion to redirect government funding from research using animals to research not using animals #EndAnimalTesting #ResearchModernisationDeal

[PETA Nederland - Campagne tegen dierproeven @PETANederland]

Vooruitgang!!! Na overleg met PETA hebben 4 partijen een motie ingediend en aangenomen om overheidsgeld over te hevelen van onderzoek met dierproeven naar onderzoek zonder dierproeven, en heeft de TK die aangenomen. Beter voor dieren en mensen! ❤️❤️❤️ 👍👍👍

[Julia Baines @juliabaines1]

Recent paper by multiple DART experts highlights the urgent need for an open discussion between CROs, registrants, and ECHA - significant scientific and technical challenges with in vivo DART studies that are having a severe impact on animal welfare. https://t.co/gPm9tWfZpB

[Emily Trunnell PhD 🐀 @ERoseEngland]

This new paper has been getting a lot of attention. It's good to see the 95% drug failure rate holds up, but I have some concerns about how animal-to-human "concordance" was calculated. 🧵
https://t.co/hzA1VmJfWr

[Julia Baines @juliabaines1]

@Claire_Col @ukhomeoffice All very mysterious but it's back up now https://t.co/9yB8yNOXlJ

[Emily Trunnell PhD 🐀 @ERoseEngland]

Progress in the UK! 🇬🇧 After @PETAUK raised this issue to the @ukhomeoffice for the first time in 2019 & many times since; shared briefings & updates; presented at scientific conferences; wrote op-eds; engaged with cross-party MPs & the @MHRAgovuk; led a letter signed by 400+ scientists, academics, medical, & veterinary professionals, & more, the UK Home Office claimed this morning that it would take steps to fully ban the #forcedswimtest.

Lord Sharpe issued his statement, accepting the recommendation's made last year by the UK Animals in Science Committee to refuse to grant licenses to projects proposing to use the #FST as a model of #depression or for the study of #anxiety & its treatment. Sharpe stated his intent to go further: "I aim to completely eliminate the use of the forced swim test."

However, in a concerning move, the letter was removed almost as quickly as it was published. Good thing we kept the receipts!
https://t.co/TBdsP7un7P

In reality, there is no need to wait for a “validated alternative” to the test in order to end it completely, as the forced swim test is a poor scientific method which produces unreliable results. That being said, @PETAUK wrote to Sharpe recently to inform him of exciting new technology for screening anti-depressants, providing further reason to ban the test now.

[Richard J. Miller @richardjmille11]

Read my new article -Moving past animal experiments to understand human neurological disease
https://t.co/tNkBmWnMfb
#animalwelfare

[Euronews Next @euronewsnext]

🗣️ "The priority must be to move away from using animals and focus instead on developing and implementing human-relevant methods," Dr @juliabaines1 writes. https://t.co/K4QzByDKq4

[Julia Baines @juliabaines1]

@Marshall_LJ Looks like option 2 😂🤦

[Kimberley Jayne @drkimjayne]

Thank you to everyone who supported the open letter against the horrific forced swim test. Hoping to hear some postive news from the @ukhomeoffice on this test soon. https://t.co/zxMom2vKI1

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

Animals deserve to be free from experimentation. Create the future imagined by @probstomfoolery by shopping cruelty-free! #EndAnimalTesting 💙

[Kimberley Jayne @drkimjayne]

Cross-Party MPs Urge Home Office to Abolish Forced Swim Test On Animals https://t.co/ujcOM3TBz8

[Julia Baines @juliabaines1]

@vicinity_de I ordered some trainers on 22 Nov, they haven't arrived and after emailing customer services 3 times, still no response. I'd like a refund

[Julia Baines @juliabaines1]

Spending the evening at the women in revolt exhibition @Tate reminds me the fight is ours to take. It's not over. The dark side of cosmetics testing on animals has been revealed. Tell @eu_comission to #endcosmeticstestsonanimals and come clean to consumers https://t.co/XypnLsAWw9

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

@EUCourtPress Send a message to @vsinkevicius telling him what you think about the practice of poisoning and killing animals in cruel and unreliable tests:

https://t.co/WyLYvGsE4Q

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

@EUCourtPress This damning verdict has made a mockery of the judicial system by effectively destroying the once groundbreaking EU ban on animal testing for cosmetics.

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

BREAKING: @EUCourtPress has ruled AGAINST cosmetics ingredients manufacturer Symrise AG.

In one fell swoop, the court has sentenced thousands of rats, rabbits, and fish to horrific suffering and certain death in cruel tests 😠

https://t.co/rraoX22Z8n

[euronews @euronews]

VIEW | This #WorldDiabetesDay, it’s high time all experiments on animals used to study the condition were replaced with humane, human-relevant research, Dr @juliabaines1 writes.

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

🥁 Drumroll, please! PETA’s 2023 Christmas advert, with the incredible @janehorrocks_ as the voice of Tessa the turkey, is here. Start a new tradition. Leave turkeys off the table. ❤️🦃