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Please advertise applications at least4 weeks before closing! (more for fellowships!)
I've seen a lot of cool job postings, fellowships, or other opportunities that post that applications are open the forum or on 80k ~10 days before closing.
Because many EA roles or opportunities often get cross-posted to other platforms or newsletters, and there's a built in lag-time between the original post and the secondary platform, this is especially relevant to EA. For fellowships or similar training programs, where so much work has gone into planning and designing the program ahead of time, I would really encourage to open applications ~2 months before closing. Keep in mind that most forum posts don't stay on the frontpage very long, so "posting something on the forum" does not equal "the EA community has seen this".
As someone who runs a local group and a newsletter, opportunities with short application times are almost always missed by my community, since there's not enough turnaround time between when we see the original post, the next newsletter, and time for community members to apply.
Can someone who runs an EA podcast please convert recorded EAG talks to podcast form, so that more people can listen to them? @80000_Hours@hearthisidea@Kat Woods@EA Global (please tag other podcasters in the comments)
The CEA events team seem open to this, but don't have the podcasting expertise or the bandwidth to start a new podcast
(Full disclosure - this is a bit of a selfish ask, I'm attending EAG and want to listen to quite a few talks that I don't have time for, and streaming them on YouTube seems clunky and not great for driving)
This exists here but I haven't updated it in about a year. If someone wants to take it over or automate it that could be good: EA Talks (formerly EARadio)
Please advertise applications at least 4 weeks before closing! (more for fellowships!)
I've seen a lot of cool job postings, fellowships, or other opportunities that post that applications are open the forum or on 80k ~10 days before closing.
Because many EA roles or opportunities often get cross-posted to other platforms or newsletters, and there's a built in lag-time between the original post and the secondary platform, this is especially relevant to EA. For fellowships or similar training programs, where so much work has gone into planning and designing the program ahead of time, I would really encourage to open applications ~2 months before closing. Keep in mind that most forum posts don't stay on the frontpage very long, so "posting something on the forum" does not equal "the EA community has seen this".
As someone who runs a local group and a newsletter, opportunities with short application times are almost always missed by my community, since there's not enough turnaround time between when we see the original post, the next newsletter, and time for community members to apply.
As someone guilty of this—sorry! This is a good reminder.
+1 as the person who writes the EA Australia newsletter
Edit: it seems like this already exists! @Aaron Bergman can you confirm?
Can someone who runs an EA podcast please convert recorded EAG talks to podcast form, so that more people can listen to them? @80000_Hours @hearthisidea @Kat Woods @EA Global (please tag other podcasters in the comments)
The CEA events team seem open to this, but don't have the podcasting expertise or the bandwidth to start a new podcast
(Full disclosure - this is a bit of a selfish ask, I'm attending EAG and want to listen to quite a few talks that I don't have time for, and streaming them on YouTube seems clunky and not great for driving)
This is a great idea. It's such a good idea that someone else (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/aaronb50) has had it before and has already solved this problem for us:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eag-talks/id1689845820
Huh had no idea this existed
Yes!
This exists here but I haven't updated it in about a year. If someone wants to take it over or automate it that could be good: EA Talks (formerly EARadio)