Our recently published paper “Anesthetic efficacy of magnesium chloride and ethanol in temperate octopus and cuttlefish species” is featured on this month’s cover of JAALAS magazine. This is the flagship journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences, and their decision to feature an invertebrate - which is currently not a regulated species under US animal welfare law - on their cover demonstrates the growing awareness of welfare and refinement in research using cephalopods as model organisms. Congratulations to our fantastic team of veterinary medicine collaborators who led the study at the MBL!