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Some of the opportunities and job listings we feature in this update have (very) pressing deadlines: Sentient Future’s Prioritizing Neglected Learners’ program (September 15th), Mental Health Funding Circle’s grants (15th September), the Fauna Connections conference (September 18th), Content Associate for 80,000 Hours (15th September) and three roles at the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (September 21st).
Opportunities and jobs
Opportunities
Consider also checking out opportunities listed on the EA Opportunities Board and the Opportunities to Take Action tag.
- High Impact Professionals is accepting applications for its free 6-week online Impact Accelerator Program, helping mid-career and senior professionals not yet in high-impact roles build action plans and networks for impactful careers. The program runs October 27th–December 7th, and applications close September 21st.
- The AI Safety Law-a-thon, hosted by AI-Plans, is a hybrid hackathon on October 25th–26th pairing lawyers with AI safety researchers to tackle real legal bottlenecks in frontier AI. It’s open to technical participants, with in-person sessions in London and online access.
- Sentient Futures is offering two free remote fellowships: an 8-week AI×Animals program (learner deadline October 8th) and a 7-week Prioritising Neglected Animals program (learner deadline September 15th). Both include expert-led discussions on animal welfare and future-focused interventions.
- In 2026, Ambitious Impact is running three rounds of its Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. Two rounds will continue to focus on farmed animals and global health. The third will be a special edition focused on opportunities to improve the effectiveness of the philanthropic sector. The Impactful Philanthropy Round will take place in June–July 2026. Applications will go through the standard application form. Apply before October 5th. Learn more here.
- The Humane League UK is hosting an evening gathering in London to meet staff, supporters and trustees, and to share updates on their farmed animal welfare work over vegan canapés and drinks. Free, in-person near Farringdon, October 24th, 7–10 pm; RSVP required (limited spots).
- The Global Health Funding Circle is inviting applications from cost-effective nonprofits in global health at a critical growth stage. Grants of $50k–$300k are available to eligible LMIC-based organisations; applications close September 23rd.
- Metaculus is hosting its first animal-focused forecasting tournament, organised by Aditi Basu, and is crowdsourcing questions on issues like alternative proteins, welfare policy, AI and wild animal welfare. This unpaid, online project aims to support funders, researchers and advocates with more decision-relevant forecasts.
- The Mental Health Funding Circle is awarding $500k–$800k in grants to nonprofits and charities running cost-effective programs that improve mental health and wellbeing. Applications are open worldwide and close September 15th.
- A coalition of UK animal groups invites residents and voters to Westminster on October 21st for a mass lobby day to ban cages for farmed animals. If you’d like to join, fill in this 2–3 minute form to generate a draft email to your MP, then forward their reply to [email protected]. Please also share this post and form with friends and family.
- The EA Forum is hosting an essay competition on the open-access book Essays on Longtermism, with prizes of $1000, $750 and $250. Open to all (except judges/CEA staff), entries must be posted online by October 20th.
- Join Faunalytics on September 18th for Fauna Connections, a free online research symposium for animal advocates. Experts in the social and behavioural sciences will share research with practical takeaways for advocacy. Explore the full schedule and register.
Upcoming EA conferences
Job listings
Consider also exploring jobs listed on the Job listing (open) tag. For even more roles, see the 80,000 Hours Job Board.
80,000 Hours
- Content Associate (Hybrid in London, England / Remote, GBP £41K–65K, apply by September 15th)
Effective Thesis
Evidence Action
Givewell
Lead Exposure Elimination Project
SecureBio
- Head of Partnerships (Cambridge, MA / Washington, DC, USD $150K–$175K)
- Head of Laboratory Science (Boston, MA, USD $150K–$180K)
- Genomic Biosecurity Scientist (Cambridge, MA, USD $110K–140K)
- Head of Biosecurity Response (Cambridge, MA or Washington, DC, USD $130K–170K)
UC Berkeley
Zurich AI Safety
Organization updates
The organization updates are in alphabetical order (0-A-Z).
80,000 Hours
80,000 Hours announced the launch of their new Substack newsletter, where they’ll be posting some of their best all-time articles over the coming weeks.
They also published an article on early warning signs that AI systems might seek power.
On The 80,000 Hours Podcast, Luisa interviewed Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments.
Animal Charity Evaluators
ACE awarded $1.84M to their 2024 Recommended Charities back in February — their second-largest disbursement ever. Read what ACE’s Recommended Charities have been up to.
Ambitious Impact
Joey Savoie, co-founder and CEO of Ambitious Impact, is hosting a personal AMA on the EA Forum — ask him anything here. From the new Impactful Philanthropy round of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, to his learnings from co-founding, building and leading AIM, to impactful careers, and cause-plurality vs cause prioritisation — and more.
Faunalytics
A new meta-analysis on the small body problem from Faunalytics and Bryant Research finds no overall evidence that meat reduction campaigns push people toward eating more chickens or fish, but results vary by intervention. The report highlights choice architecture as a promising approach and calls for more targeted research.
Faunalytics has updated its Research Library with articles on a variety of topics, including Common Assumptions Undermine Insect Farming Research, as well as a guest blog AI Model Selection: An Animal Advocacy Case Study. There’s also a new addition to their Tactics in Practice series: The Impact Of Vegan Documentary And Video.
Fish Welfare Initiative
Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) recently published a post outlining changes in their ammonia measurement protocol in their farm programme. Ammonia is one of the water quality values they measure at the ~180 farms in their programme in India, and a critical parameter for fish welfare.
Givewell
In GiveWell’s latest podcast episode, CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Dr Neil Buddy Shah, CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). They talk about how these cuts are affecting vital programmes, what it takes to build a strategic response, and how this pivotal moment could shape the future of global health. Subscribe here for the latest updates.
A key source of global health data, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), recently had its primary funding from USAID discontinued. In a recent podcast episode, Elie Hassenfeld and Senior Researcher Adam Salisbury discuss how the DHS program works, why it’s essential for informed decision making, and how GiveWell is responding to the growing limitations of public health data.
GiveWell has published its 2024 Metrics Report. In 2024, it directed $397 million through 55 grants, which it estimates will reach around 34 million people and save 74,000 lives. Read the summary on the GiveWell blog.
The Good Food Institute
GFI Europe is cited more than 80 times in a report by the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Agriculture and Food that calls for increased research and scaling funding for alternative proteins, with eight GFI Europe resources included in the official reference list (English summary).
GFI Brazil released a report based on its work with Brazilian scientists, industry and government to lay the groundwork for targeted R&D that positions Brazil as a leader in soy research and production for plant-based meat.
GFI launched a refreshed design of its alternative protein ecosystem map, which features three new data types: courses, networks and research centres. Combined with existing data on companies, researchers and university student groups, the updated map makes it easy to visualize and interact with geographical “hot spots” of alternative protein activity across the globe.
GFI Europe published a new web page (in English and German) on the state of the alternative protein research ecosystem in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, mirroring a similar page recently published covering the Nordics.
GFI APAC published a new global patent data analysis, showing that of the top 20 cultivated meat patent applicants, eight are from China, four are from Israel, and three each from Europe, South Korea and the United States. China’s applicants include multiple universities and public institutions, underscoring a broader national effort to build a comprehensive innovation ecosystem around cellular agriculture.
Happier Lives Institute
The Happier Lives Institute asks how to best buy happiness, and looks at topics that are often left out of the discussion.
The Life You Can Save
The Life You Can Save recommends a new nonprofit: Food4Education (F4E) is transforming the landscape of school feeding in Kenya through innovation, local ownership and a sustainable co-investment model. F4E partners with local governments and communities to provide nutritious, low-cost meals to children in public schools, ensuring that no child has to learn on an empty stomach.
Open Philanthropy
Open Philanthropy and its staff have published several articles recently, covering a case study on corporate campaigns for farm animal welfare, how grantee the Institute for Replication is making social science more robust and reliable, the AI talent development space, central bank independence and China's underconsumption.
Lewis Bollard, who leads Open Philanthropy’s farm animal welfare program, gave a TED Talk about factory farming (read the associated blog post here).
Jacob Trefethen, program director in Global Health & Wellbeing, released the second episode of his new podcast, Hard Drugs.
Oliver Kim wrote about measuring GDP in the ancient world for Asterisk Magazine and Inside Philanthropy covered Open Philanthropy’s work on abundance.
Wild Animal Initiative
Wild Animal Initiative has selected 15 research projects to receive a total of $711,309 in grants this year, including its first projects in Costa Rica, Italy, Serbia and Tanzania. Its Grants Program funds academic research on high-priority questions in wild animal welfare science. Learn about each of the projects and why they were selected on WAI’s blog.
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