Annika Burman 🔸

• Annika Burman 🔸 28 Aug 2026 18:10 UTC

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  on: AIxBio safe­guards pre­sen­ta­tion—feel free to use it

  Thanks for making and sharing this! A friend who is new to EA is curious about AIxBio risk and I think this could be helpful for her.

• Annika Burman 🔸 3 Jun 2026 22:33 UTC

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  on: Les­sons from the Fifth Mid­west Retreat

  One pushback on your comments on the transportation being easy—there were 2-3 students from the University of Michigan who wanted to attend but could not get transportation to the event. The group did not have the budget to cover a vehicle rental, and it would have been about 3.5 hours each way (this is from memory when I attended, so it may be wrong). We are accounting for this in our budget for next year. I wasn’t involved in the planning this year, but from my perspective, you’ve overstated the accessibility of the location.

  Hopefully next year we will able to have UMich represented as well!

• Annika Burman 🔸 22 Jan 2026 22:30 UTC

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  on: An­nika Bur­man’s Quick takes

  I’m worried about factory farming.

  What links here?

  • yes, you can do some­thing about US politics by ethai (26 Jan 2026 0:49 UTC; 37 points)

• Annika Burman 🔸 22 Jan 2026 22:22 UTC

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  on: The Puppy and the Pond: Reflec­tions on my FWI Internship

  I’m so glad my forum post was able to play a role in this experience for you. It sounds like you were also very personally affected by the internship—seeing the uncertainty and suffering up close is far different from reading about it from behind a screen in a developed country; I really hope other EAs can have experiences like ours to better understand the ground-level complexities of making change in a messy world.

  If only the team had adopted puppies while I was there…

An­nika Bur­man’s Quick takes

• Annika Burman 🔸 11 Dec 2025 5:28 UTC

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  on: An­nika Bur­man’s Quick takes

  The mental health EA cause space should explore more experimental, scalable interventions, such as promoting anti-inflammatory diets at school/​college cafeterias to reduce depression in young people, or using lighting design to reduce seasonal depression. What I’ve seen of this cause area so far seems focused on psychotherapy in low-income countries. I feel like we’re missing some more out-of-the-box interventions here. Does anyone know of any relevant work along these lines?

• Annika Burman 🔸 29 Jul 2025 15:37 UTC

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  on: Ca­reer Con­ver­sa­tions: High­lights and Retrospective

  Since you referenced my post, I thought I’d chime in! This was my first ever EA post. I had written a slightly modified version as a guest post for the Fish Welfare Initiative’s blog, and then Haven (ED at FWI) encouraged me to post it on the forum for it to find a more relevant audience. There’s a good chance that without this themed event signaling to me that my internship experience could be relevant and useful for others to read, I would never have posted on the EA Forum. Even after posting, I was surprised by the positive reception my post got, which has made me much more likely to write future forum posts—I’ve already started drafting some ideas. In short, I really liked this event, because it gave me justification to post something that feels more anecdotal/​personal than what I usually see on the forum.

• Annika Burman 🔸 23 Jul 2025 15:13 UTC

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  in reply to: Samuel Chikwe’s comment on: Why You Should Build Your Own EA In­tern­ship Abroad

  Great point, thank you for adding this. I still think the advice is somewhat relevant if people can find impactful non-profits working in their home countries, but I was definitely writing this from the privileged perspective of someone who can easily access university funding.

Why You Should Build Your Own EA In­tern­ship Abroad