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Effec­tive Thesis

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Effective Thesis is a project to help university students find high-impact thesis topics.

As of July 2022, Effective Thesis has advised or is currently advising over 40 different students writing theses in areas such as global priorities research, animal welfare, biosecurity, and AI safety.

Funding

Effective Thesis has received nearly $250,000 in funding from Effective Altruism Funds,[1][2] and $15,000 from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.[3]

External links

Effective Thesis. Official website.

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    Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (2019) July 2019: EA Meta Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, July.

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    Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (2021) May-August 2021: EA Infrastructure Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, August.

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    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

Effec­tive Th­e­sis: up­dates from 2019 and call for collaborators

DavidJanku18 Jun 2020 12:39 UTC
62 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis—Ac­tivi­ties and Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion [June 2021-June 2022]

DavidJanku22 Aug 2022 17:00 UTC
45 points
2 comments32 min readEA link

Ex­cep­tional Re­search Award by Effec­tive Th­e­sis (ETERA): reflection

Effective Thesis18 Jan 2023 10:59 UTC
39 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis pro­ject review

Jan_Kulveit31 May 2018 18:45 UTC
26 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Lev­er­ag­ing flu for biose­cu­rity R&D

freedomandutility6 May 2023 23:39 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis is hiring pro­ject man­ager and con­tent manager

DavidJanku13 May 2021 12:53 UTC
30 points
3 comments4 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

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May–Au­gust 2021 grant recommendations

Max_Daniel24 Dec 2021 10:42 UTC
85 points
19 comments19 min readEA link
(funds.effectivealtruism.org)

Effec­tive Th­e­sis seeks a pro­ject manager

DavidJanku25 Nov 2020 15:47 UTC
73 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis is hiring for the Head of Coaching

DavidJanku30 Jul 2021 17:03 UTC
30 points
0 comments5 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

Effec­tive Th­e­sis is hiring for Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Manager

DavidJanku4 Feb 2022 12:18 UTC
33 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis pro­ject: sec­ond-year update

DavidJanku9 May 2019 13:57 UTC
54 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

[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

How to: Choos­ing the right PhD supervisor

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

Effec­tive Th­e­sis is hiring!

DavidJanku19 Oct 2022 12:21 UTC
24 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Logo De­sign Con­test—for Effec­tive Th­e­sis (closes 17th June)

DeeKathuria26 May 2022 4:36 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What are some re­search re­sources that you have found par­tic­u­larly helpful?

michel6 Oct 2021 16:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­i­mal-free pro­teins: A bright out­look and a to-do list (BCG re­port)

FGH28 Mar 2021 7:27 UTC
47 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What is the best biomed­i­cal re­search ques­tion for un­der­grad re­search in PDEs?

Isaac Benson31 Dec 2022 20:01 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

My learn­ings from a year of han­dling out­reach at Effec­tive Th­e­sis

Dee Kathuria15 Sep 2023 17:14 UTC
17 points
1 comment35 min readEA link
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