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.

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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

  • Introductory EA Program

  • In-Depth EA Program

Conferences

• April - EAGxNordics

• May - EAGxPrague

• October - EAGxBerlin

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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

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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

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Animal Welfare

• Alternative Proteins Association - Programme Manager

• THL - Digital Fundraising Lead

• The Animal Law Foundation - Legal caseworker

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Emerging Technology

• 80,000 Hours

  • Podcast Host

  • Chief of Staff

• The Centre for Long-Term Resilience - Policy and Operations Strategist

• Apollo

  • Evals Software Engineer

  • Evals Platform Engineer

• Anthropic

  • Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

  • Senior Software Security Engineer

  • Research Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Autonomy)

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Other

• Centre for Effective Altruism

  • EAGx Program Lead / Head of EAGx

  • Communications Team (expression of interest)

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Grants, Courses & Fellowships

• Pivotal Research Fellowship - London

• Invisible College - Cambridge

• CLR 2025 Summer Research Fellowship - London/Remote

• Cambridge ERA:AI Fellowship

• Civic Future Talent Programmes

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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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