Category: Better Science

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.

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

October 6, 2026

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.

Vivarium Lighting Is a Variable, Not a Fixture

October 1, 2026

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.

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

September 8, 2026

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