EA Organisation Updates thread: May 2026
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Wild Animal Initiative has published its 2025 annual report.
Building a scientific field for wild animal welfare science isn’t just about publishing papers or funding research (though we did plenty of both last year). It’s about the connections that form when scientists meet, collaborate, and champion a shared vision. In 2025, we watched those connections multiply in exciting ways.
Here’s a glimpse of what supporters in the EA community helped make possible:
15 research grants awarded across 26 countries — including our first projects in Costa Rica, Italy, Serbia, and Tanzania
12 scientific conferences attended, sparking new collaborations and introducing more researchers to wild animal welfare science
Completion of fieldwork on our house sparrow project and first associated paper published
Events spotlighting wild animal welfare organized independently by our collaborators — a sign that the field is taking on a life of its own
Inside the report, you’ll find data, narratives, and visualizations that provide further insight on our field-building strategy and success so far.
Applications Open for HIP’s Impact Accelerator Program
High Impact Professionals (HIP) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the next round of our Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The IAP is a free 6-week program designed to equip experienced (mid-career/senior) EA-aligned professionals (not currently working at a high-impact organization) with the knowledge and tools necessary to make a meaningful impact and empower them to start taking actionable steps right away.
To date, the program’s high action focus has proven to be successful:
79 participants out of 359 from our first seven program rounds have already transitioned into high-impact careers, through various paths, including founding new charities, starting founding-to-give companies, and joining high-impact organizations such as GiveWell, Charity Entrepreneurship, ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS), Malaria Consortium, and more.
160 additional participants are taking concrete actions towards a high-impact career, including skilled volunteering roles at high-impact organizations.
Many participants are donating a meaningful percentage of their annual salary to effective charities, with 78 having taken the 🔶 10% Pledge (21) or 🔷 Trial Pledge (57) during a IAP round.
We’re pleased to open up this new program round, which will start the week of July 13.
More information is available below and here.
Please apply by Sunday, June 7.
Apply nowNew for 2026: IAP Entrepreneurship Track
If you’ve been thinking of starting your own high-impact organization, the IAP Entrepreneurship Track offers you the guidance, network, opportunities, and tailored support to help you succeed.
It includes everything in the standard IAP, plus:
A community of fellow aspiring founders, with a facilitator experienced in the high-impact entrepreneurial space
Tailored support and guidance to explore the different types of high-impact entrepreneurship, determine your path, and create your action plan
A curated network of incubators, advisors, communities, and more to help your organization succeed
Coefficient Giving is hiring for several roles:
Grantmakers and Senior Generalists, GCR (mostly remote; some location preferences vary, apply by May 17)
Learn more about the 10+ open roles in our forum post.
Research Fellow and Strategy Fellow, Cause Prioritization Team (remote, apply by May 17)
IT Associate/Senior IT Associate (remote, apply by May 28)
Operations Coordinator/Associate (San Francisco or Washington D.C., rolling)
As always, if your referral results in a hire, you’ll receive $5k as a thank you.
New writing:
We published three “Day in the Life” posts: one with Caroline Daniell on Legal, another with Olivia Larsen on Partnerships, and one more profiling three GCR grantmakers: Abbey Chaver, Trevor Levin, and Chris Bakerlee.
Opportunities:
Our RFP for Humane Fish Slaughter Research/Prototypes is open through July 1, 2026. Funding is available for projects that materially improve the welfare of fish at capture and slaughter.
We also have a variety of other funding opportunities available, including fellowships, scholarships, support for group organizers, and funding for career development and transition.
Fish Welfare Initiative Updates
We are hiring for a Welfare Assessment Manager! (Note Indian applicants only.) This role will be tasked with conducting welfare assessments for farmed fishes in various contexts.
Apply NowHere are also some recent project updates:
Feed fortification studies: We aim to develop an intervention based around our custom-formulated feed, which we hypothesize will improve water quality and nutrition. We are currently conducting two studies to assess this: a lab-based efficacy study (120 fishes) and a farm-based effectiveness study (12 farms). Both are progressing on track. See previous posts.
Remote Sensing of Water Quality: We aimed to develop an intervention to remotely sense (via satellites) or predict water quality. Unfortunately, our in-house modeling did not yield any viable models. We are doing some final wrap-up work, but don’t expect any breakthroughs. We expect to publish a full writeup of our results by the end of June. See previous posts.
Improved Slaughter (Chill Kill): We aim to develop an intervention that replaces air asphyxiation with immersion in an ice bath at slaughter (still causes significant suffering, but less than the alternative). Our main bottlenecks remain a) logistical feasibility, and b) trader and consumer demand. To test the former, we are planning a trial of 1,000 fishes in the coming weeks—our largest yet. See previous posts.
China Work: As part of our efforts to continue understanding and engaging the industry, we recently visited a rainbow trout farm and observed our first harvest event. We are also continuing to research interventions on various priority species, focusing on pond loach, sturgeon, and mandarin fishes.
Our staff Roshan and Gokul sampling fishes recently in the feed fortification pond-based study, in order to assess health and growth—proxies for welfare. Handling fishes in this way does cause them significant stress, but we believe the information is worth the costs (though these are tricky ethical tradeoffs that we sometimes struggle with).
From Faunalytics:
We Want Your Feedback!
Faunalytics needs your help! We want your feedback to learn how we can improve our work to support the animal advocacy community. We’d be grateful if you could take 5 to 7 minutes to complete our Community Survey this week. As thanks for your time, you could win a $50 gift card or donation to the animal charity of your choice! We greatly value your input as we work to make a bigger difference for animals and advocates.
NEW RESEARCH: The Aspirational Plate
We have released the most comprehensive look at global vegetarianism and veganism to date: a synthesis of 837 nationally representative sources across 58 countries from 2015 to 2025. The findings reveal a telling gap between identity and behavior. In North America, for instance, more than four times as many people claim to be vegetarian as actually follow a vegetarian diet. And 87% of the veganism data we found came from Europe and North America, regions that represent only about 16% of the global population, leaving huge knowledge gaps for advocates working in the Global South.
Updated Global Slaughter Stats
The 2026 Global Animal Slaughter Statistics & Charts are here. This interactive resource, powered by the latest UN FAO data, tracks the slaughter of land and aquatic animals across every global region, with historical records going back to 1961. This year’s edition adds more granular fish slaughter data, including wild capture versus aquaculture breakdowns, and new country-level maps showing total and per capita land animal slaughter. One finding stands out: animal slaughter continues to grow at more than double the rate of the human population.
Estimating Resource Savings & Counterfactual Impact
We are seeking a contractor to help us estimate how much time and money our work saves the animal protection movement — and what would happen in our absence. This project will develop a rigorous, transparent approach to quantifying our indirect impact, including counterfactual analysis and cost-effectiveness framing for Effective Altruism-aligned audiences. We’re looking for someone with strong quantitative and evaluation skills who is comfortable working with uncertainty and translating complex impact into clear, credible estimates.
Fauna Connections 2026
Reminder: Abstract submissions are open for Fauna Connections! We’re looking for academics and researchers from the social and behavioral sciences — or related disciplines — to submit presentation abstracts focused on research synthesis. We’re especially interested in comprehensive analyses like meta-analyses or expert overviews that support animal and vegan advocates in the U.S., China, India, and Brazil. Ready to join us? Register now, and if your organization wants to deepen its involvement, sponsorship opportunities are open too!