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These monthly posts originated as the "Updates" section of the EA Newsletter. Organizations submit their own updates, which we edit for clarity.
We’re testing out whether it’s more useful to feature opportunities more heavily. Opportunities and job listings that these organizations highlighted (as well as a couple of other impactful jobs and announcements) are at the top of this post.
You can see previous updates on the "EA Organization Updates (monthly series)" topic page, or in our repository of past newsletters. Notice that there’s also an “org update” tag, where you can find more news and updates that are not part of this consolidated series.
The organization updates are in alphabetical order, from F to Z, 0-A to E.
Consider also checking opportunities listed on the EA Opportunities Board.
Consider also exploring jobs listed on “Job listing (open).”
Fish Welfare Initiative
Founders Pledge
GiveWell
Anthropic
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
The organization updates are in alphabetical order, from F to Z, 0-A to E.
Faunalytics’ latest study looks at the level of public support for farmed animal welfare legislation in ten U.S. states. The states were chosen based on stakeholder discussions regarding where legal advocacy is underway or under consideration. The report also outlines overall voter priorities in these states, and provides recommendations for how advocates can incorporate animal welfare messaging to align with these priorities.
Faunalytics has updated their Research Library with articles on topics including using AI to reduce human-animal conflicts and transitioning animal farms to offset carbon emissions. Additionally, Faunalytics Content Director, Karol Orzechowski, wrote a guest blog for Stray Dog Institute on data literacy in the animal protection movement.
FWI is hiring for a new role: Fish Welfare Standard Lead. This role will be tasked with leading FWI’s Welfare Standard department, and with it supervising the research and trials needed to continually improve their welfare standards for helping fish in India. They are also accepting less senior applicants under the designation Fish Welfare Standard Manager. Apply by 16 April.
FWI also recently published the results from their internal culture surveys.
Founders Pledge Climate Lead Johannes Ackva appeared on The 80,000 Hours Podcast to talk about FP’s climate research, grantmaking, and broader perspective on climate. Johannes also gave a talk on how EA can meaningfully engage in climate at EAG Bay Area.
FP published a report by Senior Researcher Christian Ruhl on Philanthropy to the Right of Boom, on neglected interventions to avert nuclear war, and is working on new investigations on violence against women and girls, as well as projects looking at the philanthropic landscape in AI and biosecurity and a reconsideration of their estimates of the effects of educational interventions.
Giving What We Can have recently released their internal impact evaluation that covers 2020–2022. This evaluation estimates that their giving multiplier over the period was 30x and that they counterfactually generated $62 million of value for highly effective charities.
Happier Lives Institute published a shallow investigation on immigration reform as a potential strategy for increasing subjective wellbeing (SWB). This work was commissioned by Founders Pledge. The most promising cost-effective intervention is policy advocacy to increase migration, but they would like to understand the risk and costs of potential backlash.
GiveWell published an assessment of their cost-effective analysis of different interventions in terms of their impact on people’s happiness on the EA Forum. HLI Director, Michael Plant and Research Analyst, Joel Mcguire have written responses on HLI’s website and on the EA Forum. HLI are truly grateful to GiveWell for engaging with their research and for using the WELLBY approach to conduct cost-effectiveness analysis.
Since publishing the Global Manufacturers Report, seven companies have started reporting on their progress to eliminate battery cages for egg-laying hens. This includes a massive victory from Cerealto Siro (ranked last for accountability in the report!). The company has now published a public commitment to sourcing 100% cage-free eggs by 2025.
The Legal Priorities Project published a post titled “Highlights from LPP’s field-building efforts” with notable takeaways from their summer programs and other events.
The paper “Existential advocacy” by Prof. John Bliss was accepted for publication at the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. The paper reports findings from a qualitative study of the legal advocates working to mitigate existential risk.
Research Affiliate Cecil Abungu was one of 3 respondents invited to speak to UN member states about the Secretary General's Policy Brief “To Think and Act for Future Generations”, which proposes strategies to increase the protection of future generations.
Open Philanthropy launched its AI Worldviews Contest, with prizes of up to $50,000 for essays that change the minds or inform the thinking of a panel of judges regarding existential risk from AI or AGI timelines. The contest deadline is 31 May.
Open Philanthropy was featured in Inside Philanthropy, with a focus on its farm animal welfare and biosecurity & pandemic preparedness programs.
This month, 80,000 Hours released articles on organisation-building and longtermism: a call to protect future generations.
On The 80,000 Hours Podcast, Rob Wiblin interviewed:
Luisa Rodriguez joined the podcast team as a host, and released her first two interviews:
Anima International is organizing another Conference on Animal Rights in Europe (CARE). The international event provides the opportunity to reconnect and network with fellow activists, learn about effective activism, funding opportunities and build a stronger movement for animals. It is once again a hybrid event, taking place 17–20 August in-person in Warsaw and also online via our partner Eventory.
Early bird tickets are now on sale.
In November 2022, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) held a live Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) event where its research team answered questions about its new charity recommendations and the processes behind ACE's selections. In this post, ACE has rounded up some highlights from the AMA. ACE hopes these questions and answers provide deeper insight into its 2022 charity evaluation and decision-making processes. You can view the full AMA thread here.
On 9 March 2023, the Cellular Agriculture Society (CAS) released Modern Meat, the world’s first textbook on cultivated meat. Modern Meat represents the largest collaboration in the history of cultivated meat, with 100+ authors, 25+ universities & cultivated meat companies, and contributors from 18 countries.
You can learn more at CellAg.org/ModernMeat.
Ben West has been appointed CEA’s Interim Managing Director, following Max Dalton’s decision to transition to an advisory role.
