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Excited to see this :)
I particularly want to highlight that anyone in Sydney who might use the office should apply!
Excited to see this :)
I particularly want to highlight that anyone in Sydney who might use the office should apply!
This is awesome, go Aussies!
+1 for Melbourne office?
EDIT: Since first publishing I've added the Animals and Longtermism network, Animal Ask, High Impact Medicine Australia. Thanks to those groups!
Crikey! There's a lot going on in 'Straya right now!
There are a lot of new and exciting projects happening in Australia— we want to share some of that with the wider community and talk about how you can be involved.
Much of the effective altruist aligned work being done in Australia involves working remotely with the international community, at organisations already known by the international community. Given that, we decided to focus on projects which are being at least partially led by Australians.
If you’re leading an exciting project in Australia, please send me a message with a completed copy of this template and I can add it into the post.
What do we do?
We’re organising a number of community building programs:
About the team
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Reach out to chris [at] aisafetysupport.org.
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What do we do?
Providing support services to early career, independent and transitioning AI alignment researchers. This is done through career coaching, events, training programs and fiscal sponsorship.
About the team
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What do we do?
We are a community of individuals who are interested in the intersection between non-human animals and longtermism. We host an online discussion community, and we are currently working on starting a new organisation with paid staff working on both foundational research and concrete interventions in this space.
About the team
We are a network of communities, though Ren Springlea (based in Adelaide, South Australia) is leading this initiative.
Ren Springlea - I am leading this initiative. I have overseen some background research on this topic, and I am currently securing funding to hire our first full-time staff member. My full-time work is as an animal advocacy researcher at Animal Ask, and I have particular expertise in biology, economics, and quantitative analysis. My PhD covered fisheries, effective philanthropy, and animal sentience, and I have experience working in government policy and conducting research and strategy for the Animal Justice Party.
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What do we do?
Animal Ask conducts research to support animal advocacy organisations and campaigns. We support organisations with in-depth, cross-comparative research to support decision making towards the most promising opportunities for animals. Animal Ask assists organisation either through our prioritisation process, consultation or through our publicly available reports.
About the team (in Australia)
Ren Springlea - I'm a research scientist at Animal Ask. My work involves all aspects of Animal Ask's research, and I have particular expertise in biology, economics, and quantitative analysis. My PhD covered fisheries, effective philanthropy, and animal sentience, and I have experience working in government policy and conducting research and strategy for the Animal Justice Party. I'm based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Call to action
If you're interested in learning about our research to help make animal advocacy as effective as possible, feel free to check out our research database or sign up to our newsletter at animalask.org. If you're an organisation or individual involved with animal advocacy campaigns, we'd love you to get in touch so we can talk about supporting your efforts.
What do we do?
EA Pathfinder is an organisation that wants to create a world in which professionals motivated by Effective Altruism can do high impact work. We are addressing the bottlenecks specific to mid-career professionals by offering career advising, peer support, research mentorship and project management support.
About the team
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What do we do?
Foundations for Tomorrow is a proudly independent, leader-focused non-profit with the mission of protecting Australia’s future generations. Our aspiration over the next 3-5 years is to:
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What do we do?
Giving What We Can is a worldwide community of effective givers whose mission is to create a culture where giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm.
Three of our six permanent staff are based in Australia (including our executive director) and one of our founders Toby Ord is also Australian as are several founding members (e.g. Peter Singer and Peter Eckersley). Luke being hired in Australia set the precedent for hiring an international remote team (core team are in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Utrecht, Davos, New York) and shows that people can effectively work on key international projects from wherever they want to live. Our team is coming together in Australia this November for our team retreat – we hope to see some of you in the Sydney office!
About the team
Our Australian team includes
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Learn more about our plans in our public update about our 2022 strategy.
What do we do?
We’ve set up an office for people in Sydney doing EA or longtermist work. We currently have people from AI Safety Support, High Impact Recruitment, Effective Altruism Australia, Giving What We Can, Good Ancestors Project, the Lead Exposure Elimination Project and the Sentience Institute using the office. We’re taking applications for people who would want to work alongside other EAs to help build the community.
About the team
Call to action
We’re holding an Office Warming on Thursday 10th November at 5:30 PM. If you’re reading this, we’d love you to attend! Find out more here.
Please reach out to bradley [at] goodancestors.org.au if:
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What do we do?
We’re providing fiscal sponsorship and operational support to organisations and grant recipients, especially those based in Australia. We’re also looking to expand into specific projects (particularly movement building-focused).
About the team
Call to action
Please reach out to contact [at] goodancestors.org.au if:
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What do we do?
We’re developing and advocating for Australian-specific policies derived from effective altruist, longtermist and related principles. We think a broad-tent political community supporting our ideas greatly increases our prospects of success - so we’re building relationships across Australia and the region and empowering people to advocate for the values that matter to them in a coordinated and savvy way.
We think policy advocacy efforts are strengthened by a centralised and enduring brand - so we’re working to bring together researchers, policy developers and policy advocates wherever possible.
About the team
Call to action
Please reach out to greg [at] goodancestors.org.au if:
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What do we do? We aim to increase the quantity of impactful work done by physical engineers across the globe.
About the team
Our team is internationally dispersed between Australia, UK and USA.
Call to action
You should contact us or request a 1-1 with us if:
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What do we do?
Hi Med is an international organisation bringing together medical students and doctors who wish to consider their impact. We facilitate discussion and education about the varied ways medics can increase their positive influence on the world. This may be professionally or privately, through donating effectively or career redirection (within or outside medicine).
Currently we run an introductory fellowship every 6 months with our international counterparts, with 8 weeks of novel topics and discussion around how one might get involved. In the future, we are hoping to form interest groups at universities, and develop resources to distribute to interested individuals and course coordinators to incorporate high impact ideas into medical training. We are also starting to produce research about the crossover between Medicine and Effective Altruism.
We believe that Medicine attracts an altruistically minded, evidence-responsive type of person who would both be more likely to align with the ideas in EA, as well as having the potential career capital to have a large impact in a diverse range of fields.
About the team
Founded in 2022 in Newcastle as a branch of Hi Med International (a Centre for Effective Altruism-supported UK initiative).
Ellie Christian and Bal Dhital completed Hi-Med’s first fellowship and went on to collaborate with the founders to form an Australian branch. Ben Prangemeier, another junior doctor and friend based in Newcastle, joined shortly after and has helped manage and run the group.
For the most recent Hi-Med fellowship (running October-December 2022), the facilitators for the Australian cohorts are Bruce Tsai, Ellie Christian and Clare Harris.
We are looking to expand!
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Contact us for
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Check out Hi Med’s website for more info
We are most active on our facebook group
This is our career profile with Probably Good
What do we do?
High Impact Recruitment aims to be a trusted hiring arm for the effective altruism community. We support young projects and growing organisations in their recruiting activities by sourcing, vetting, and matching talent to a variety of roles – with a focus on longtermist projects.
About the team
The hiring agency founders are:
Call to action
If people need help with hiring please reach out to Neil Ferro - [email protected]. We also have a job board of roles.
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What do we do?
Fascinating and valuable research has been streaming out of EA-aligned organisations, but does anyone have time to read the papers? Insights for Impact is a new project funded by FTX, aiming to communicate key research insights in 5-15 min YouTube videos, so that EAs and any layperson can understand and keep up with cool cutting-edge research that might lead to positive impact in the world.
About the team
We are just 2 people at the moment: Christian Pearson and Jenna Ong.
Both co-founders are stoked that they get to combine their science/engineering and arts backgrounds to work on such a fun EA-aligned project!
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What do we do?
LEEP works to prevent childhood lead poisoning - a problem that affects 815M children worldwide. We do this by advocating for regulation of lead paint (a primary route of exposure), and ensuring compliance with enforcement.
About the team
Call to action
You can contact us at contact [at] leadelimination.org
Or, if you’d be interested in starting a high impact project like LEEP, consider reaching out to Charity Entrepreneurship at this link.
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What do we do?
We’ve been quantifying the uncertainty in GiveWell CEAs (Cost Effectiveness Analyses) for the purpose of calculating the value of future research in cost effectiveness by value of information.
We’ve recently submitted an EA Forum post on this as a submission to GiveWell’s Change our Mind Contest.
About the team
Call to action
This is a particularly large project, and any criticism and help would be greatly appreciated. This could include:
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What do we do?
Ready Research (readyresearch.org) conducts behaviour science research to address the world's most pressing problems. We research how to increase charitable donations (accessible summary), reduce animal-product consumption (accessible summary), teach ethics and rationality, and improve institutional decision-making. We’re scoping out a MOOC related to effective altruism or existential risk. We also incubated a government-funded rapid survey of COVID-19 behaviours (SCRUB) that ran for 21 waves throughout 2020-2021, and provided behaviour science insights which shaped COVID-19 policy.
About the team
Call to action
Michael is looking for a research fellow or research assistant to work on some of the above projects and will be advertising soon. Send him a short email if you want to know when that’s listed: [email protected]
Otherwise, we’re often excited to help new researchers learn important skills by collaborating on a project. If you want to learn with us, or have a research question you want answered, you might volunteer as a:
If you would like to discuss research collaboration opportunities, please contact us.
What do we do?
Sentience Institute is a non-profit think tank with the aim of creating a world where all sentient minds flourish, including humans, animals, and digital minds. We aim to support the small but growing field of digital minds research, which we see as an important and neglected part of the longtermist project. In addition to publishing foundational research, we hosted The Summit on AI in Society (Brynjolfsson, Murdick, Russell, etc.), host an intergroup call across research organisations working on this topic (FHI, GCRI, CLR, etc.), and produce a podcast.
About the team (in Australia).
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Thanks to everyone involved in these organisations and projects who took the time to write something for this post! Thanks especially to Michael Townsend for suggesting and reviewing this post.
There is also an active High Impact Medicine community in Aus, with about 15 members and two fellowship cohorts currently running!