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EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts, posts with 30 karma, and other great writing. If you"d like fewer episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (Curated & Popular)" podcast instead.

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1:41

“Having strict rules on EA Groups WhatsApps helps...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

I'm Co-Chair of EA Bath, and therefore manage the WhatsApp community for it. A common problem people have in university society group chats is that scammers and bots often join, so to prevent this, every time someone requests to join the group chats, I message them and ask if they are a real student. If they are a real student, I then ask them how they heard about EA, and usually follow up with something like 'Oh, that's really cool! Would you be okay to meet so I can explain what EA is about and

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1:36

“Having strict rules on EA Groups’ WhatsApps helps...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

I'm Co-Chair of EA Bath Uni Group, and therefore manage the WhatsApp community for it. A common problem people have in university society group chats is that scammers and bots often join, so to prevent this, every time someone requests to join the group chats, I message them and ask if they are a real student. If they are a real student, I then ask them how they heard about EA, and usually follow up with something like 'Oh, that's really cool! Would you be okay to meet so I can explain what EA is

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10:45

“Untapping the Philanthropic Potential in Estonia:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

Summary EA Estonia runs Anneta Targalt, the Estonian effective giving donation platform that has moved $317,758 to top-rated effective charities since December 2021. Operating entirely on volunteer capacity, we've already attracted two of Estonia's top 10 wealthiest individuals as donors, but lack the resources to scale. We're seeking $24,020 to hire a 0.5 FTE Platform Coordinator for one year to unlock growth through major donor cultivation, paid advertising, and volunteer team coordination. Our

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2:46

“Sentient Futures Summit Bay Area 2026” by Jonah...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

Sentient Futures Summit (SFS) Bay Area 2026 is a three-day conference exploring the impacts of AI on sentient non-humans, both biological (i.e. animals) and potentially artificial. Register here by December 1st for a 30% Early Bird Discount! Taking place in San Francisco the weekend of February 6-8th – a week before EAG Bay Area 2026 – it will build on the success of Sentient Futures’ previous AI, Animals and Digital Minds events in London and NYC, and the AI for Animals Bay Area conference.

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1:39

“The EU consultation - 30 min to help animals...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

The European Union is accepting public input on farm animal welfare until Dec 12, 2025 - accessible here - https://myvoiceforanimals.eu/how-to-participate. Participating in this consultation is one of the most effective actions individuals can take to improve conditions for 149+ million animals. The action takes 15-30 minutes. Non-EU citizens can participate. I'd deeply appreciate your help and, ideally, mobilizing your networks and those closest to you to also participate. This is crucial for

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13:12

“We need to be honest with young people about...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

Getting started (the easy part) When I first encountered the biosecurity space in 2023, after reading former Soviet scientist Ken Alibek's memoir, I was immediately drawn to the idea of fighting infectious disease threats that had tormented human civilization for years. I had barely any experience with biology (I had taken one pandemic-era class and skipped taking AP Bio) and would consider myself more of a policy wonk than a STEM nerd. But compelling arguments about the neglectedness,

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4:16

“What 1Day Sooner would do with your marginal dollar:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

1Day Sooner advocates on behalf of people who join medical studies for altruistic reasons. We focus particularly on “challenge studies,” where participants are exposed to pathogens to develop vaccines and learn about infectious disease. We work at three levels: trials, technologies, and policies. Our best analysis of our knowable causal impact through summer of 2024 can be found here. We believe we have a strong opportunity to generate millions of dollars in funding for hepatitis C vaccine

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2:51

“Evidence-based Broadcasting: FEM Brings Family...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

In low- and middle-income countries, millions of women want to plan their families but face stigma or lack access to reliable information. Over 100 million unintended pregnancies occur yearly, contributing to tens of thousands of maternal deaths. To enable informed family planning, FEM produces evidence-driven, regionally tailored radio campaigns. Our content addresses misinformation and stigma with storytelling, Q&A shows, and programmes with religious and health authorities. Read Rethink

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6:56

“DMI: Scaling Priority Child Survival Campaigns in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

TLDR: DMI is looking for $1,269,000 to scale our child survival projects nationally in Uganda ($765,000) and Mozambique ($504,000), to save over 4,500 under-five lives annually. DMI Overview Hi everyone, I’m Alex. I’m a Project Development Officer writing on behalf of Development Media International (DMI). This marginal funding week, DMI is looking to close the funding gap for our national-scale, cost-effective child survival campaigns in Uganda and Mozambique. DMI runs large-scale mass media

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6:27

“Animal Ethics: Marginal Funding Request for 2026...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

TL;DR Seeking$105k–$180k to sustain and expand three programs: AI & Animals documentary dissemination Wild Animal Suffering documentary Seantience: aquatic animal sentience campaign Marginal funding enables multilingual translations, documentary distribution, campus outreach, technical reports, Asia-focused engagement, and long-term financial stability. Our work targetshigh-impact, neglected areas with limited existing public-facing resources and strong leverage via early outreach. Funding is

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4:41

“Longview’s Emerging Challenges Fund can effectively...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

What is the ECF? Longview operates a public fund: the Emerging Challenges Fund. It is focused on global catastrophic risks from emerging technology such as AI. We recently released our 2025 ECF Annual Report, which provides a top-level overview of the fund and grants made in 2025. Through the ECF, we offer anyone the opportunity to contribute to a pooled fund that will be disbursed by our expert grantmakers. Our grantmakers can track the evolving risk and funding landscapes in real time to fill

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7:42

“Open Phil’s GCR team is growing – and we’re hiring...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

Open Phil's Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) team is growing quickly. This year, we expect to make well over $500M in grants across our AI and biosecurity work (that's more than a 60% increase over 2024) and we’re hoping to expand that significantly over the months and years to come. We’re currently hiring several Chief of Staff roles for different parts of our GCR team, each of which we think could substantially boost some of our top priority projects. Specifically, we’re hiring: A Chief of

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1:25

“Scaling our one-on-one career advising” by Probably...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/19

Earlier this year, we announced that we’re relaunching our one-on-one career advising program. We’re happy to share that we’ve since roughly doubled our advising capacity, and are excited to speak to even more people across cause areas and career stages. We’re also developing our adjacent programs, like our career impact workshops for groups. What this means for you in practice: If you think you might benefit from advising, pleaseapply. If you think that someone you know might benefit from

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17:30

“Support ACE as a meta-fundraiser and evaluator” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

Summary By identifying and promoting high-impact giving opportunities, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) aims to help people help more animals. We believe this approach to be particularly important for effective animal advocacy (EAA) because this cause area is not only deeply underfunded, the problem is growing (yet solvable!). During Marginal Funding Week, we present our thoughts on how filling ACE's need for additional funding will empower us to help the movement reduce avoidable suffering for

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7:14

“Compassion in World Farming’s Case for Marginal...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

TL;DR: Compassion in World Farming U.S. aims to raise $100,000 by the end of December. These funds will support corporate engagement and campaigns focused on retailers that are falling behind on their cage-free commitments, amplify farmer voices to federal lawmakers in the fight against the dangerous EATS Act, and jump-start initiatives to drive systemic improvements for chickens raised for meat. $10,000 could help us build grassroots volunteer initiatives, creating a pipeline for animal welfare

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2:23

“AMF’s immediate funding gaps” by RobM

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

AMF has had a busy 12 months distributing 25.4 million nets to protect 46 million people. In 2026 we will be distributing 69 million nets to protect 124 million people. Our immediate funding gap currently stands at US$462 million and is for distributions in 2027 to 2029. More information here. There are significant opportunities in front of our team of 15 and our partners to change health outcomes in a fundamnetal way for tens of millions of people. One of the reasons for the size of the immediate

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29:53

“Runway till January: Amplify’s funding ask to market...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

Summary Amplifyis an EA-aligned digital marketing agency that has supported 40+ EA and AI Safety fieldbuilding organisationswith subsidised or pro bono marketing. We secured over 3000 counterfactual expressions of interest to join EA Intro & AIS programmes, helped multiple groups recruit highly engaged participants, and delivered other cost-effective resultssuch as ~$570 per GWWC pledgeand ~$1700 perMARS fellow. Marketingremainsheavilyunderinvestedacrossthe EA ecosystem, and many groups lack

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16:01

“Fixing The Bottleneck Behind Every EA Cause: Our...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

Overview Since our founding in 2011, The Center for Election Science (CES) has become the nation's leading organization advancing approval voting through research, education, advocacy, and on-the-ground implementation. To date, we’ve helped cities adopt approval voting, supported legislative champions in multiple states, and built a robust evidence base to improve our elections. In 2025, CES made major progress toward real-world pilots, legislative breakthroughs, community partnerships, and

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2:26

“Raising funds for Marginal Funding Week...with board...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

Cameron Meyer Shorb and Cat Kerr recently posted about funding priorities for Wild Animal Initiative in 2026. I'm the founder of Green Butterfly Games, an educational board game company and I wanted to support their efforts. So, in an effort to encourage folks to consider donating to wild animal welfare research, Green Butterfly Games is giving away free copies of the deluxe edition of "Primates: An Evolutionary Board Game" to folks who donate $500 or more to Wild Animal Initiative in the month

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3:46

“Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

Big news from Open Philanthropy Coefficient Giving today: Today, Open Philanthropy is becoming Coefficient Giving. Our mission remains the same, but our new name marks our next chapter as we double down on our longstanding goal of helping more funders increase their impact. We believe philanthropy can be a far more vital force for progress than it is today; too often, great opportunities to help others go unfunded. As Coefficient Giving, our aim is to make it as easy as possible for donors to find

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