diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/CollectionModel.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/CollectionModel.java
index 5761cc77e..b01952d18 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/CollectionModel.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/CollectionModel.java
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ private static ResolvableType deriveElementType(Collection<?> elements, @Nullabl
 		}
 
 		return elements.stream()
-				.filter(it -> it != null)
+				.filter(Objects::nonNull)
 				.<Class<?>> map(Object::getClass)
 				.reduce(ClassUtils::determineCommonAncestor)
 				.map(ResolvableType::forClass)
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/UriTemplate.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/UriTemplate.java
index 4f7680c7c..3c3589d1e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/UriTemplate.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/UriTemplate.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.Objects;
 
 import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;
 import org.springframework.hateoas.TemplateVariable.VariableType;
@@ -462,7 +463,7 @@ public String expand(Map<String, ?> parameters) {
 
 			return type.join(variables.stream()
 					.map(it -> it.expand(parameters))
-					.filter(it -> it != null)
+					.filter(Objects::nonNull)
 					.collect(Collectors.toList()));
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/mediatype/PropertyUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/mediatype/PropertyUtils.java
index d47cee192..096f5b64b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/mediatype/PropertyUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/mediatype/PropertyUtils.java
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ public AnnotatedProperty(Property property) {
 					.orElseThrow(() -> new IllegalStateException("Could not resolve value!"));
 
 			this.annotations = Stream.of(property.getReadMethod(), property.getWriteMethod(), field) //
-					.filter(it -> it != null) //
+					.filter(Objects::nonNull) //
 					.map(MergedAnnotations::from) //
 					.collect(Collectors.toList());