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November 10, 2026

Rodent Identification Is Nobody’s Job

We spent four days in Houston asking facilities how they identify their mice. The honest answer, over and over, was…

In a brightly lit exhibit hall, a visitor in a navy blazer holding a notebook talks with an exhibitor at an inline booth with a green and blue backwall and a demo table of small hand tools, the kind of animal identification conversation these seven questions are written for.
October 20, 2026

Animal Identification: 7 Questions for Any Vendor at AALAS

Every identification booth in Houston will call its method reliable, humane and easy. These seven questions work at all of…

October 14, 2026

Home-Cage Monitoring: The Night Shift We Never See

Mice do most of their living after the lights go off and the last technician goes home. Continuous monitoring is…

A technician's blue-gloved hands hold a red handling tunnel with a calm white mouse peeking out, above a cage of fresh shredded-paper bedding in a quiet vivarium.
October 6, 2026

The 3Rs in Practice: What Refinement Looks Like on a Tuesday

The 3Rs get taught as three words on a slide. On the floor, Refinement is a run of small choices…

A technician crouches at the bottom shelf of a vivarium cage rack holding a light meter to a dim cage where a white mouse sits, while the top shelves glow bright, showing how vivarium lighting falls off down a rack.
October 1, 2026

Vivarium Lighting Is a Variable, Not a Fixture

Everyone remembers to set the light timer. Almost nobody checks what the cage on the bottom shelf is actually getting….

A technician's gloved hands at a vivarium bench, cage cards fanned beside a laptop open to a LIMS screen, a mouse cage softly out of focus behind them, warm documentary lighting.
September 8, 2026

Cage Card to LIMS: Where Rodent ID Data Actually Breaks Down

We’ve covered why a wrong ID quietly wrecks a study. This time the question is narrower: where, exactly, does the…

A close-up photo of blue-gloved hands pouring fresh wood-shaving bedding from a scoop into a clean polycarbonate cage, a mound of white nesting material already pressed into the far corner.
August 5, 2026

Cage Bedding Is a Variable, Not a Given

Bedding gets bought like a shop supply: whatever’s in stock, whatever’s cheapest, swapped when a vendor backorders. It doesn’t behave…