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They run the AI×Animals online course, host a Project Incubator and a San Francisco Residency program,program, put on conferences, run a Slack community, and release a monthly newsletter with updates and opportunities.
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Sentient Futures is focused on field building to steer the future for the welfare of all sentient beings.
They run the AI×Animals online course, host a Project Incubator and a San Francisco Residency program, put on conferences, run a Slack community, and release a monthly newsletter with updates and opportunities.
Sentient Futures is focused on field building to steer the future for the welfare of all sentient beings.
They run the AI×Animals online course, host a Project Incubator and a San Francisco Residency program, put on conferences, run a Slack community, and release a monthly newsletter with updates and opportunities.
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Shulman administers a $5 million discretionary fund held by the Centre for Effective Altruism, funded by an Open Philanthropy grant.[1]
Menopause refers to the menopause transition (or climacteric), including perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause. This topic covers posts on the psychological, social, economic, and health impacts of menopause, as well as interventions, research, policy, and workplace implications related to this life stage.
Recent discussion on the EA Forum has framed menopause as a potentially neglected area within global health and wellbeing, especially in low- and middle-income countries where access to evidence-based support is limited. Posts under this topic discuss questions such as:
- the scale and neglectedness of menopause-related suffering,
- impacts on mental health, cognition, sleep, and workforce participation,
- spillover effects on families and caregiving systems,
- workplace and productivity effects,
- and the cost-effectiveness of scalable interventions such as digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Several posts focus on Lunava, a Spanish-language guided internet-based CBT intervention for depression and anxiety during the menopause transition in Latin America. These posts explore the potential for low-cost, scalable mental health support targeted at women experiencing climacteric symptoms, as well as broader questions about caregiver burden and indirect household effects.
The topic may also include discussion of:
- menopause-related public health policy,
- workplace accommodations and advocacy,
- research gaps in women’s health,
- menopause and aging-related disease risk,
- caregiver mental health,
- and the economic consequences of untreated symptoms.
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Women’s health and welfare | Mental health (cause area) | Subjective wellbeing | Psychotherapy | Workplace advocacy | Global health and wellbeing | StrongMinds | Low- and middle-income countries | Cost-effectiveness analysis | Neglectedness
Menopause refers to the menopause transition (or climacteric), including perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause. This topic covers posts on the psychological, social, economic, and health impacts of menopause, as well as interventions, research, policy, and workplace implications related to this life stage.
Recent discussion on the EA Forum has framed menopause as a potentially neglected area within global health and wellbeing, especially in low- and middle-income countries where access to evidence-based support is limited. Posts under this topic discuss questions such as:
- the scale and neglectedness of menopause-related suffering,
- impacts on mental health, cognition, sleep, and workforce participation,
- spillover effects on families and caregiving systems,
- workplace and productivity effects,
- and the cost-effectiveness of scalable interventions such as digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Several posts focus on Lunava, a Spanish-language guided internet-based CBT intervention for depression and anxiety during the menopause transition in Latin America. These posts explore the potential for low-cost, scalable mental health support targeted at women experiencing climacteric symptoms, as well as broader questions about caregiver burden and indirect household effects....
To make the future go better, we can either work to avoid near-term catastrophes like human extinction or improve the futures where we survive. This series from Forethought explores that second option. The essays are designed to be read in order, beginning with "Introducing Better Futures".
This week, Fin Moorhouse, one of the authors of these essays, will be available to answer your questions in the discussion thread.
You can see all the posts here.
To make the future go better, we can either work to avoid near-term catastrophes like human extinction or improve the futures where we survive. This series from Forethought explores that second option. The essays are designed to be read in order, beginning with "Introducing Better Futures".
This week, Fin Moorhouse, one of the authors of these essays, will be available to answer your questions in the discussion thread.
You can see all the posts here.
Macroscopic Ventures is a nonprofit focused on reducing s-existential risks (suffering)from conflict (e.g., including by reducingvia cooperative AI), catastrophic AI misuse by malevolent or fanatical actors (e.g., via compute governance or information security), avoiding conflict (e.g., via cooperative AI) and improving AI welfare. It gave around $10$30 million in grants in 2024.2025.
Past grants include to the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program, the Center on Long-Term Risk, the Cooperative AI Foundation, and the Institute for Law and AI. Past investments include Anthropic's Series A and Series B.
Macroscopic Ventures was founded in 2019 under the name Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR) and adopted its current name in February 2025.
Althaus, David, & Baumann, Tobias (2020). Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors, Effective Altruism Forum, April 2929, 2020.
S-risks | AI governance| Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors | Cooperative AI | Artificial sentience | Cause prioritization | Longtermism
Soil animalsinvertebrates are terrestrial invertebrates that spend most of their life in soil or litter. They influence nutrient cycling, plant growth, and carbon dynamics. Examples of soil animalsinvertebrates include soil ants, termites, springtails, mites, and nematodes. Each of these groups is much more numerous, and has many more neurons in total than wild vertebrates and farmed animals. Vasco Grilo hasargued that overall changes in welfare may be determined by effects on soil animals, invertebrates, even accounting for soil ants and termites only, instead of effects on the beneficiaries targeted by interventions. However, there is large uncertainty about the expected intensity of the subjective experiences of soil animals,invertebrates, whether they have positive or negative welfare, and what increases or decreases their population. So Vasco advocated for more research on informing how to increase the welfare of soil animalsinvertebrates over pursuing whatever land use change interventions naively seem to achieve that the most cost-effectively.
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Original ResearchResearch:: Faunalytics conducts several original research studies each year that are likely to have a high impact on animals. They identify research projects through a 4-stage prioritization process, which includes gathering input from advocates and topic experts to find knowledge gaps and conducting assessments to verify the potential for impact.
Research LibraryLibrary:: They host the world’s largest open-access collection of animal advocacy research. By curating 6,000+ research summaries, blogs, report translations for impactful regions, and visualizations such as infographics and videos, they ensure that advocates can access the research needed to make their efforts more effective. They have developed research synthesis pages to ensure advocates are improving their advocacy tactics. Their library receives hundreds of thousands of pageviews each year.
Research SupportSupport:: Beyond providing research, Faunalytics ensures advocates have the support they need to apply research to their work. Faunalytics has directly advised hundreds of advocates through their Office HoursHours and Research Ambassador project. They also host an annual online research symposium, Fauna Connections, to connect advocates with the latest research from the academic community.
Faunalytics' research and data empower animal protection organizations to make effective decisions and spend their limited resources wisely. Historically, there has been little capacity for research within the advocacy movement, and it is still a neglected issue due to the limited funding for farmed animals. Faunalytics addresses this gap by conducting and curating shared research resources and providing support to build capacity within organizations.
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Since 2015, Faunalytics has been named a “Recommended Charity” by Animal Charity Evaluators. ACE considers Faunalytics "an excellent giving opportunity because of their strong programs aimed at strengthening the animal advocacy movement."
You can visit Faunalytics’ Impact Center (linked below) to read more about their successes.
Animal Charity Evaluators (2023)Faunalytics’ 2025 Year In Review & 2026 Plans
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Anti-natalism is athe philosophical position that view procreation as unethical, often based on the belief that bringing new life into the world results in more harm than good.
Anti-natalism is a philosophical position that argues against human reproduction,view procreation as unethical, often based on the belief that bringing new life into the world results in more harm than good.
Soil animals are terrestrial invertebrates that spend most of their life in soil or litter. They influence nutrient cycling, plant growth, and carbon dynamics. Examples of soil animals include soil ants, termites, springtails, mites, and nematodes. Each of these groups is much more numerous, and has many more neurons in total than wild vertebrates and farmed animals. Vasco Grilo argued overall changes in welfare may be determined by effects on soil animals, even accounting for soil ants and termites only, instead of effects on the beneficiaries targeted by interventions. However, there is large uncertainty about the expected intensity of the subjective experiences of soil animals, whether they have positive or negative experiences,welfare, and what increases or decreases their population. So Vasco advocated for more research on informing how to increase the welfare of soil animals over pursuing whatever land use change interventions naively seem to achieve that the most cost-effectively.
The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (
CWAW)CWAW - www.wildanimalwelfare.org) is a new policy advocacy organization, working to improve the lives of wild animals today and build support for wild animal welfare policy. Its work emphasizes near-term policy change while aiming to build longer-term recognition of wild animal welfare as a legitimate area of public policy.