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TagLast edit: 14 Jul 2022 17:51 UTC by Leo

The academia tag is for posts relevant to topics such as how (in)efficient academia is, what influence academia has had and could have, the best ways to leverage or direct academia, and whether people should go into academic or academia-related careers.

Further reading

Whittlestone, Jess (2018) Academic research, 80,000 Hours

Related entries

field-building | metascience | research methods | research training programs | scientific progress

Ve­gans as an In­ter­est Group

Dylan Richardson17 Mar 2024 21:29 UTC
4 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(dylanrichardson.substack.com)

Some (prob­le­matic) aes­thet­ics of what con­sti­tutes good work in academia

Steven Byrnes11 Mar 2024 17:47 UTC
43 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Find­ing EA-rele­vant eco­nomics sem­i­nars: cu­rated lists?

david_reinstein10 Mar 2024 23:23 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Chris­ti­an­ity and Longter­mism Work­shop | DC May 17

JDBauman27 Feb 2024 15:10 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

2024 CFP for APSA, Largest An­nual Meet­ing of Poli­ti­cal Science

nemeryxu3 Jan 2024 19:43 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ca­reer Con­ver­sa­tion Week: Philos­o­phy Grad­u­ate Student

mhendric13 Sep 2023 21:32 UTC
13 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

[Question] Should I patent my cul­ti­vated meat method?

Michelle Hauser31 Aug 2023 11:05 UTC
131 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal: Op­por­tu­ni­ties for re­searchers and re­search-driven prac­ti­tion­ers in eco­nomics, so­cial sci­ence, policy, and im­pact as­sess­ment

david_reinstein22 Aug 2023 15:34 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Linkpost: “Bet­ter vaguely right than pre­cisely wrong in effec­tive al­tru­ism: the prob­lem of marginal­ism”

Joseph Lemien10 Aug 2023 18:47 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.cambridge.org)

The Un­jour­nal: July up­dates and op­por­tu­ni­ties (full up­date [fixed links])

david_reinstein22 Jul 2023 1:21 UTC
12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(globalimpact.gitbook.io)

BERI is seek­ing new trial collaborators

elizabethcooper14 Jul 2023 17:08 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­search as­sis­tance into Effec­tive Giving

Ryan Bateman8 Jul 2023 10:33 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Sugges­tions for EA-re­lated top­ics for a high school Ex­tended Es­say?

will11223 Jun 2023 10:46 UTC
2 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Call for pa­pers: Biosafety and Biose­cu­rity for Syn­thetic Ge­nomics

jtm20 Jun 2023 21:15 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(home.liebertpub.com)

Seek­ing im­por­tant GH or IDEV work­ing pa­pers to evaluate

ryancbriggs7 Jun 2023 19:29 UTC
36 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Stan­ford’s new Hu­mane & Sus­tain­able Food Lab

MMathur30 Apr 2023 1:14 UTC
79 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal Evals: “Ad­vance Mar­ket Com­mit­ments: In­sights from The­ory and Ex­pe­rience”

david_reinstein21 Mar 2023 16:59 UTC
27 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(unjournal.pubpub.org)

Un­jour­nal: Eval­u­a­tions of “Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence and Eco­nomic Growth”, and new host­ing space

david_reinstein17 Mar 2023 20:20 UTC
47 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(unjournal.pubpub.org)

[Question] What pa­per on EA should I pre­sent in class on Philos­o­phy and Eco­nomics?

Ramiro3 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Call for Papers:

Simon Ruiz-Martinez27 Feb 2023 19:11 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(revistas.upb.edu.co)

[Question] How can we over­come the ne­glect­ness of non-EAs on EA re­search?

jackchang11027 Feb 2023 16:39 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Let’s Fund: Bet­ter Science im­pact eval­u­a­tion. Registered Re­ports now available in Nature

Hauke Hillebrandt26 Feb 2023 15:05 UTC
171 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(hauke.substack.com)

Un­jour­nal’s 1st eval is up: Re­silient foods pa­per (Denken­berger et al) & AMA ~48 hours

david_reinstein6 Feb 2023 19:18 UTC
77 points
10 comments3 min readEA link
(sciety.org)

Se­cond call: CFP for Re­bel­lion and Di­sobe­di­ence in AI workshop

Ram Rachum5 Feb 2023 12:19 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

RESILIENCER Work­shop Re­port on So­lar Ra­di­a­tion Mod­ifi­ca­tion Re­search and Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Released

GideonF3 Feb 2023 18:58 UTC
24 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

“How to Es­cape from the Si­mu­la­tion”—Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbacon126 Jan 2023 15:12 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Any Philos­o­phy PhD recom­men­da­tions for stu­dents in­ter­ested in Align­ment Efforts?

rickyhuang.hexuan18 Jan 2023 5:54 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Launch of the NYU Wild An­i­mal Welfare Program

Sofia_Fogel9 Jan 2023 15:33 UTC
99 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

David Krueger on AI Align­ment in Academia and Coordination

Michaël Trazzi7 Jan 2023 21:14 UTC
32 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(theinsideview.ai)

Reflec­tions on Vox’s “How effec­tive al­tru­ism let SBF hap­pen”

Richard Y Chappell12 Dec 2022 16:05 UTC
144 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

How to: Choos­ing the right PhD supervisor

Effective Thesis29 Nov 2022 5:58 UTC
28 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

[Doc­toral sem­i­nar] Chem­i­cal and biolog­i­cal weapons: In­ter­na­tional in­ves­tiga­tive mechanisms

ncmoulios17 Nov 2022 12:26 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.asser.nl)

Poster Ses­sion on AI Safety

Neil Crawford12 Nov 2022 3:50 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

What should MIT an­a­lyt­ics pro­fes­sors know about biose­cu­rity?

wesg9 Oct 2022 15:58 UTC
34 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Smart Move­ments Start Aca­demic Dis­ci­plines

ColdButtonIssues25 Sep 2022 15:58 UTC
121 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Ap­pli­ca­tions Now Open for Johns Hop­kins Cen­ter for Health Se­cu­rity’s PhD Opportunities

tksell21 Sep 2022 14:27 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

In­put Sought For Roundtable with Peter Singer, Toby Ord, and Allan Dafoe

Mahendra Prasad11 Sep 2022 22:13 UTC
23 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

What are the biggest EA Ques­tions in Amer­i­can Poli­tics?

Mahendra Prasad11 Sep 2022 3:59 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How can we se­cure more re­search po­si­tions at our uni­ver­si­ties for x-risk re­searchers?

Neil Crawford6 Sep 2022 14:41 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

We’re search­ing for mean­ing, not hap­piness (et al.)

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
18 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Re­search Communication

Open Philanthropy30 Aug 2022 3:13 UTC
6 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

The His­tory of AI Rights Research

Jamie_Harris27 Aug 2022 8:14 UTC
44 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Hyper­bolic Science: Or, Play­ing Games with Growth

Adam Green26 Aug 2022 2:41 UTC
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(markov.bio)

EJOR spe­cial is­sue on role of op­er­a­tional re­search in fu­ture pandemics

wesg17 Aug 2022 13:34 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

A re­view of the Sch­warz­man Schol­ars pro­gram for EAs

KevinWei15 Aug 2022 12:07 UTC
41 points
15 comments16 min readEA link

NeurIPS ML Safety Work­shop 2022

Dan H26 Jul 2022 15:33 UTC
72 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(neurips2022.mlsafety.org)

Hiring Pro­gram­mers in Academia

Jeff Kaufman24 Jul 2022 20:20 UTC
47 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why EA needs Oper­a­tions Re­search: the sci­ence of de­ci­sion making

wesg21 Jul 2022 0:47 UTC
76 points
21 comments14 min readEA link

Talk­ing EA to my philos­o­phy friends

Eleni_A14 Jul 2022 8:48 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

As­sis­tant pro­fes­sor­ship place­ments at top eco­nomics departments

Luis Mota Freitas8 Jul 2022 12:38 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Re­sults of a sur­vey of in­ter­na­tional de­vel­op­ment pro­fes­sors on EA

ryancbriggs22 Jun 2022 15:49 UTC
181 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Vael Gates: Risks from Ad­vanced AI (June 2022)

Vael Gates14 Jun 2022 0:49 UTC
45 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal: Call for par­ti­ci­pants and re­search

david_reinstein13 Jun 2022 11:11 UTC
42 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(effective-giving-marketing.gitbook.io)

Break­ing Up Elite Colleges

sahajsharda7 Jun 2022 5:21 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)

Read­ing the ethi­cists 2: Hunt­ing for AI al­ign­ment papers

Charlie Steiner6 Jun 2022 15:53 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] What’s the causal effect of a PhD?

Gavin5 Jun 2022 8:37 UTC
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Apollo Aca­demic Surveys

Chris Said20 May 2022 13:38 UTC
65 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

BERI is seek­ing new col­lab­o­ra­tors (2022)

sawyer17 May 2022 17:31 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How to ap­ply for a PhD

Abby Hoskin11 May 2022 19:18 UTC
75 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] What are the coolest top­ics in AI safety, to a hope­lessly pure math­e­mat­i­cian?

Jenny K E7 May 2022 7:18 UTC
89 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

New study on whether an­i­mal welfare re­forms af­fect wider at­ti­tudes to­wards animals

Jamie_Harris2 May 2022 10:00 UTC
52 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: Mo­ral de­mands and the far fu­ture (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:54 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Paper sum­mary: The case for strong longter­mism (Hilary Greaves and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:52 UTC
43 points
27 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

[Question] What “pivotal” and use­ful re­search … would you like to see as­sessed? (Bounty for sug­ges­tions)

david_reinstein28 Apr 2022 15:49 UTC
37 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

Should you do an eco­nomics PhD (or mas­ter’s)?

david_reinstein19 Apr 2022 20:04 UTC
62 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Do we have any *lists* of ‘aca­demics/​re­search groups rele­vant/​ad­ja­cent to EA’ … and open sci­ence?

david_reinstein30 Mar 2022 15:36 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Work­shop for un­der­rep­re­sented groups in GPR—In­tel­lec­tual and cul­tural di­ver­sity in GPR

Global Priorities Institute29 Mar 2022 15:55 UTC
47 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some ex­am­ples of EA <-> Academia col­lab­o­ra­tions?

EdoArad18 Feb 2022 10:18 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

New EA Cause Area: Run Black­well’s Bookstore

Ben Pace5 Feb 2022 5:57 UTC
74 points
33 comments8 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

dominicroser25 Jan 2022 9:22 UTC
74 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Hits-based de­vel­op­ment: fund­ing de­vel­op­ing-coun­try economists

Michael_Wiebe1 Jan 2022 0:28 UTC
75 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Sci-Hub sued in India

cflexman30 Dec 2021 2:48 UTC
113 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

EA megapro­jects continued

mariushobbhahn3 Dec 2021 10:33 UTC
183 points
49 comments7 min readEA link

New Effec­tive Th­e­sis ser­vices and op­por­tu­ni­ties to get involved

DavidJanku15 Nov 2021 18:15 UTC
48 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] How do EAs deal with hav­ing a “weird” ap­pear­ance?

SamiM7 Nov 2021 0:49 UTC
21 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­posal: al­ter­na­tive to tra­di­tional aca­demic jour­nals for EA-rele­vant re­search (multi-link post)

david_reinstein3 Nov 2021 20:16 UTC
28 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Ap­ply to be a Stan­ford HAI Ju­nior Fel­low (As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor- Re­search) by Nov. 15, 2021

Vael Gates31 Oct 2021 2:21 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Job – Academia] As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor (Philos­o­phy/​Ethics) at Ling­nan Univer­sity (Hong Kong)

Andrea Sauchelli26 Oct 2021 9:25 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

New Work­ing Paper Series of the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

Legal Priorities Project18 Oct 2021 10:30 UTC
60 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

How to Ac­cel­er­ate Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress—New Things Un­der the Sun

BrownHairedEevee3 Oct 2021 17:49 UTC
13 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.newthingsunderthesun.com)

On Scal­ing Academia

kirchner.jan20 Sep 2021 14:54 UTC
18 points
3 comments13 min readEA link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Im­prov­ing EAs’ use of non-EA op­tions for re­search train­ing, cre­den­tials, test­ing fit, etc.

MichaelA11 Sep 2021 13:52 UTC
23 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Self-Sus­tain­ing Fields Liter­a­ture Re­view: Tech­nol­ogy Fore­cast­ing, How Aca­demic Fields Emerge, and the Science of Science

Megan Kinniment6 Sep 2021 15:04 UTC
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing how tech­nol­ogy-fo­cused aca­demic fields be­come self-sustaining

Ben Snodin6 Sep 2021 15:04 UTC
43 points
4 comments42 min readEA link

More un­der­grad­u­ate or just-grad­u­ated stu­dents should con­sider get­ting jobs as re­search techs in aca­demic labs

jvb1 Sep 2021 9:02 UTC
41 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

My first PhD year

Jaime Sevilla31 Aug 2021 11:31 UTC
65 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute work­ing pa­pers—and an up­dated ver­sion of “The case for strong longter­mism”

Global Priorities Institute9 Aug 2021 16:57 UTC
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Re­search Fel­low, FHI

rgb29 Jul 2021 13:53 UTC
96 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Eco­nomics Professor

Kevin Kuruc28 Jul 2021 19:41 UTC
88 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: Im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline: Se­quence introduction

D0TheMath27 Jul 2021 0:56 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Mak­ing im­pact researchful

Michael_Wulfsohn19 Jul 2021 4:30 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Eco­nomics PhD ap­pli­ca­tion sup­port—be­come a mentee!

Luzia8 Jul 2021 15:40 UTC
60 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Why sci­en­tific re­search is less effec­tive in pro­duc­ing value than it could be: a mapping

C Tilli14 Jun 2021 8:24 UTC
109 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

My cur­rent im­pres­sions on ca­reer choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC
425 points
37 comments26 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion op­tions for im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline

MichaelA28 May 2021 14:26 UTC
49 points
27 comments12 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

abergal27 May 2021 6:44 UTC
110 points
17 comments58 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline: Se­quence introduction

MichaelA11 May 2021 17:57 UTC
63 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

How to PhD

eca28 Mar 2021 19:56 UTC
113 points
28 comments11 min readEA link

Es­ti­ma­tion of prob­a­bil­ities to get tenure track in academia: baseline and pub­li­ca­tions dur­ing the PhD.

PabloAMC20 Sep 2020 18:32 UTC
42 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

The aca­demic con­tri­bu­tion to AI safety seems large

Gavin30 Jul 2020 10:30 UTC
117 points
28 comments9 min readEA link

In­gre­di­ents for cre­at­ing dis­rup­tive re­search teams

stefan.torges16 May 2019 16:23 UTC
159 points
17 comments54 min readEA link