EA UK April 2025
Events, jobs and news
EA North is happening in Sheffield on Saturday 26th of April - A summit to bring together the local EA community for a day of 1-1s, talks, cause area meetups and more.
Upcoming Events
If you're interested in hearing about events each week check out our events page.
London
28th March - Future of AI Security - C/AI
29th March - AI Control Hackathon at LISA - Apart Research
1st April - Development Discussions - Evidence & Global Health
5th April - EA Student Summit: London
6th April - EA Quarterly Review Coworking Q2
7th April - Development Discussions - Economic Growth
13th April - Integral Altruism Meetup: Attunement
15th April - Development Discussions - Government & Institutions
28th April - Is wastewater surveillance the next frontier for AMR surveillance - LSHTM
30th April - Development Discussions - Private Sector & Startups
1st June - Effective Giving London June Picnic
6-8th June 2025 - EAG: London 2025
June/July - Metascience 2025
Oxford
1st April - Mulago: Strategy for Scale Session
2nd April - Maximising Impact: Cost-Effectiveness, Scaling, and Smarter Spending (feat Ivy van Regteren Altena)
3rd April - Filling the Aid Gap: Rethinking Funding for Global Development and Humanitarian Response (feat. Habiba Banu)
For more Skoll side events check our Sidebar
UK
29th March - EA MCR joins VARC co-working & networking - Manchester
31st March - One For the World: Effective Giving to Address Extreme Poverty - Manchester
18th April - EA Manchester - Peak District Hike
26th April - EA North - Sheffield
29th April - Monthly EA Sheffield meetup
Virtual
2nd April - The End of Aid? Rethinking Development and Economic Resilience
8th April - Tracking Impact in Development - VoxDev
10th April - Your AI Safety Journey: Identifying Opportunities for Impact - BlueDot Impact & High Impact Professionals
April - June
Conferences
April - EAGxNordics
May - EAGxPrague
October - EAGxBerlin
Community News
If you wanted to get an overview of EA in the UK and ways to get involved or discuss careers you can sign up for a 1-1 chat here
Sofia Balderson - The Toughest Career Decisions I Made - and the Tools That Helped
Tom Gardiner - Could this be an unusually good time to Earn To Give?
After 7 years, Joey Savoie stepping away from being the CEO of Ambitious Impact and is exploring new areas
He has started a blog covering his next 1000 hours of evidence-based career optimising
Lee Crawfurd - Disappointing Update on the UK’s International Development Committee Consultation
Shakeel Hashim with a thread on how he feels two years into taking the GWWC pledge
Taimur Abdaal - Does EA discourse need all that philosophy lingo?
The Happier Lives Institute have a chapter in the World Happiness Report
Latest Jobs
Global Development
Lead Exposure Elimination Project
Head of Finance
Recruitment Manager
Senior Research Manager
The Global Policy Research Group - Project Coordinator (contract role)
Sightsavers - Trusts & Foundations Advisor
Wellcome - Senior Research Manager, Infectious Disease
Malaria Consortium - Monitoring and Results Measurement Manager
Center for Global Development - Research Assistant
Agency Fund - Senior Operations Analyst
Animal Welfare
Alternative Proteins Association - Programme Manager
THL - Digital Fundraising Lead
The Animal Law Foundation - Legal caseworker
Emerging Technology
Podcast Host
Chief of Staff
The Centre for Long-Term Resilience - Policy and Operations Strategist
Apollo
Anthropic
Research Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Autonomy)
Other
Centre for Effective Altruism
Communications Team (expression of interest)
Grants, Courses & Fellowships
Pivotal Research Fellowship - London
Invisible College - Cambridge
CLR 2025 Summer Research Fellowship - London/Remote
Cambridge ERA:AI Fellowship
Latest Research and Updates
80,000 Hours is shifting its strategic approach to focus more on AGI
Open Philanthropy: Our Progress in 2024 and Plans for 2025
Forethought is a new AI macrostrategy research group cofounded by Max Dalton, Will MacAskill, Tom Davidson and Amrit Sidhu-Brar
On deference to funders
From Comfort Zone to Frontiers of Impact: Pursuing A Late-Career Shift to Existential Risk Reduction
You probably won't solve malaria or x-risk, and that's ok
Money, Population, and Insecticide Resistance: Why malaria cases haven’t declined since 2015
Am I Missing Something, or Is EA? Thoughts from a Learner in Uganda
Existential Choices Symposium with Will MacAskill - (Q&A post with 150 comments)
Hannah Ritchie - Most countries spend less than 1% of their national income on foreign aid; even small increases could make a big difference
Five insights from farm animal economics


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