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CEA has created the EA Groups Resource Centre, which has a curated collection of resources for anyone interested in setting up an EA group
The LSE, Political Science Foundations of Animal Sentience (ASENT) Project and Rethink Priorities are sponsoring a conference on the problems and prospects for making interspecies welfare comparisons, which will be held at the LSE on 28-29 April 2022. They currently have a call for abstracts, with a January 31st deadline
The Institute for Progress is a new think tank aiming to 'accelerate scientific, technological, and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity’s future'
The Institute for Replication was recently launched and they work to improve the credibility of science by systematically reproducing and replicating research findings in leading academic journals
TL;DR
* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
TL;DR:
The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know:
* What types of evidence that intervention needs
* What types of evidence different sources can give us
In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages:
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