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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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7:25

“If You Care About Nematodes...” by Nematode Lover

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

TL;DR Recently, an argument has circulated claiming that factory farming is net positive because of the effects on soil animals. While I do not personally agree with this argument, I believe nematodes and other soil animals are worth caring about and respect the spirit with which it has been presented. However, I argue that if you truly believe that soil animal welfare is our top priority, arguing in favor of factory farming is not the most efficient way to pursue soil animal welfare, and there are

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12:56

“Support ALLFED at a critical juncture for global...

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2025/11/18

Summary As part of Marginal Funding Week, I want to share how Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) would use additional resources beyond the support we expect to receive from major funders. We are deeply grateful for the support of everyone who has contributed to the substantial progress we’ve achieved over the years, going from a bold project idea to the creation of a new subfield of research and its implementation. We now have scoped out the technology to produce enough food for

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13:56

“Marginal funding for strategic priority research for...

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2025/11/18

As part of Marginal funding week, we are releasing our 2025 Evaluation: A retrospective after 5 years and sharing other ongoing projects and those we are currently scoping for the first half of 2026. There is a great deal of overlap between this post and our review, engagement on our evaluation would be most useful on the other post. 1. Overview Animal Ask is a research organisation that offers consultation and dedicated research to stakeholders in the animal advocacy movement to help those

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18:54

“Funding priorities for Wild Animal Initiative in...

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2025/11/18

As part of the EA Forum's 2025 Marginal Funding Week, we’d like to share with you Wild Animal Initiative's needs for additional funding, what we would do with it, and how you can help us build a scientific field dedicated to understanding wild animal welfare. Summary Wild Animal Initiative's mission is to accelerate science that helps wild animals — a vast and neglected moral priority. Our strategy focuses on field-building: generating new welfare-relevant knowledge, growing the global community of

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20:40

“A High-Leverage Bet: $10k to Remove the Biggest...

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2025/11/18

TL;DR Fortify Health is seeking $10,000 USD in marginal funding to deploy a solution that has the ability to eliminate the most significant bottleneck for wheat flour fortification, namely: ensuring the right level of micronutrients are being added in close to real time. We would also happily accept pro-bono or in-kind support from individuals or organisations that may have the skill set to deliver this project. The full project budget is $60,000 USD. The problem: Anaemia is one of India's (and

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3:06

“Lafiya’s current funding gap” by celinekamsteeg,...

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2025/11/18

Lafiya provides modern contraceptives to women who need it and want it, no matter where they live. Lafiya currently operates in four states in northern Nigeria, bringing high-quality family planning counselling and products to women in rural communities. We recruit existing community health workers, on government payroll, and give them specialised training in family planning and a small additional stipend. We launched in 2021 and were incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship in 2023. To date, we have

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11:06

“High-Leverage Systemic Change for Aquatic Animals:...

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2025/11/18

As part of the EA community's Marginal Funding Week, we want to share where Aquatic Life Institute stands at the end of 2025: our impact this year, the $291K remaining funding gap, and how $100K in individual donations this Giving Season could directly reinforce global aquatic welfare reform. This post also links to The Invisible Majority, our year-end campaign highlighting why aquatic animals, who make up the overwhelming majority of animals in global food systems, remain underrepresented in both

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9:07

“Accelerating the End of Cages: THL’s Room for More...

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2025/11/18

THL exists to end the abuse of animals raised for food. Through strategic corporate negotiations, policy change, and movement building, we meaningfully reduce the suffering of millions of animals on factory farms around the world each year. THL currently has a funding gap of $3.6M for 2025. Beyond that, we have developed detailed plans to absorb over $4M in additional funding to high-impact interventions to reduce the suffering of chickens, the most widely abused land animals. With these funds, we

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70:42

“Rethink Priorities: 2025 Results, 2026 Plans and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

When Peter Wildeford and I founded Rethink Priorities (RP) in 2018, we saw a gap in the charity landscape: too few organizations were providing the rigorous comparative analysis needed to allocate resources optimally. Seven years later, thanks to the trust and support of this community, RP has become one of the few research organizations pioneering work in areas that didn't exist as distinct fields when we began. Since our early days, RP has grown into a think-and-do tank that combines careful

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9:10

“A list of resources on Cluelessness” by Jim Buhler

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

From summer 2024 up to summer 2025, I had been keeping track of these resources in a private Google Doc shared only with a couple of people. I realized others might benefit too, so here is the latest version, last-updated on August 7th, 2025. You'll find a few references that are missing from the list below in my post Discussions of Longtermism should focus on the problem of Unawareness (October 20th, 2025). See also DiGiovanni's Resource guide: Unawareness, indeterminacy, and cluelessness (July

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23:26

“Sentinel: Early Detection and Response for Global...

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2025/11/18

tl;dr: Sentinel is an open-source intelligence organization that rapidly identifies and reacts to global risks, particularly ones difficult to anticipate over longer time-horizons. We have filled $700K of our ~$1.6M budget and are looking to fill the rest to expand and sustain our large-scale open source monitoring for GCR.About Sentinel Sentinel is an open-source intelligence organization that focuses on rapidly identifying and reacting to global risks. During times of relative calm we build

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10:10

“Two years of doing advocacy on antimicrobial...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/17

It's been just over two years since we launched ARMoR through the CE/AIM incubation program. Last year for marginal funding week, we wrote this post to explain the importance of antimicrobial resistance and the need for policies that incentivise the development of novel antibiotics; share some of the progress we made and lessons learned; and make the case that our work was worth supporting. This year, we will provide a short update to that post. In particular, we'll outline some important

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3:16

“The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab would spend...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/17

Background on HSFL The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab (HSFL) is a research lab at Stanford University dedicated to accelerating the end of factory farming. We are interdisciplinary behavior scientists, e.g., we evaluate how adding plant-based options to menus, changes to choice architecture, or documentaries affect dietary choices and attitudes towards factory-farmed products. We also do more meta-level work, such as meta-analyses and re-analyses of existing research, as well as evaluations of

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14:53

“ACTRA: A Promising Crime-Prevention Intervention at...

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2025/11/17

ACTRA (Acción Transformadora), incubated through the AIM Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, has just completed a strong first year — showing both traction and potential for impact. Said potential has led to the Happier Lives Institute awarding ACTRA an Honorable Mention for promising cost-effectiveness at scale. In this post, we will briefly outline our first year's traction, future plans, and the current opportunity to fund ACTRA. For a more thorough introduction into Cognitive

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9:31

“Faunalytics’ Funding Gap of $370,000” by JLRiedi

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/17

TL;DR: Faunalytics has an organizational funding gap of $370,000 for our 2025 budget. This funding is critical for ourorganizational stability, covering all remaining 2025 activities (including approximately $60k in final research projects) and addressing a shortfall in high-impact research already delivered this year. Securing this "Stability Gap" is the prerequisite for launching our 2026-2030 Strategic Plan. Funding beyond this gap will be directed to our “Growth Gap”: conducting new original

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10:37

“Ending Hunger for Millions of African Smallholder...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/17

Every dollar donated to One Acre Fund will be matched 1:1 by The Life You Can Save.[1] To learn more about this ongoing campaign, visit https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/one-acre-fund-match/. What is One Acre Fund? Why Support Smallholder Farmers?According to the World Bank, half of the global extreme poor live in rural sub-Saharan Africa.[2] In these areas, where farming is the main livelihood, smallholders experience low yields and are exceptionally vulnerable to food insecurity. In fact,

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13:19

“We need to hold corporates accountable - here’s how...

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2025/11/17

In the spirit of “Marginal Funding Week” for the 2025 Giving Season on the EA Forum, we’d like to share with you The Humane League UK's (THL UK's) need for additional funding, what we would do with it, and how you can have a real impact on reducing the suffering of animals raised for food. We’re currently seeking funding for our 2025 match giving appeal. We’re hoping to raise a total of £100,000 to help us achieve our goals and continue fighting for animals long into the future. Structure of the

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12:19

“Piloting a digital treatment for COPD, the second...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/17

TL;DR Respira Health are seeking $84k to pilot and begin scaling a virtual treatment program for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease*, the second leading cause of death in India and fourth globally (3.5 million annual deaths). Our treatment isn’t new, but our delivery model is.Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) can cut mortality riskby 9% in just 3 sessions and is a well-evidenced treatment programme for COPD; it combines specialised physiotherapy exercises, education on health habits, and

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11:50

“Marginal funding to expand an innovative domestic...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/17

TL;DR Who we are: NOVAH (No Violence At Home) launched in 2024 via Ambitious Impact/ Charity Entrepreneurship. We pioneer large-scale prevention of domestic violence through mass media. What we do: We produce radio drama edutainment—stories that emotionally engage listeners and change beliefs and behaviours more effectively than traditional education. Our programmes help listeners (mainly men) share decisions more equally, reduce harmful alcohol use, and better communicate at home. These changes

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9:47

“The Law Is on the Animals’ Side: Legal Impact for...

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2025/11/17

TL;DR: Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) is a nonprofit law firm fighting factory-farm cruelty. In our four years in existence, LIC has: proven in court that animal protection organizations like LIC have the power to enforce California's animal cruelty law against ag companies, promptedCalifornia's largest poultry producer to announce it has made animal-welfare reforms, and stopped a DC butcher shop from selling foie gras. We’re now fundraising $690,000 to fill our gap for our 2026 planned budget

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