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How much welfare can pigs, chickens, and shrimp experience relative to humans? Read the latest post in the Moral Weight Project sequence to see our estimates! forum.effectivealtruism.org/…

Rethink Priorities’ Welfare Range Estimates

For updates, please see this book. • Key Takeaways …

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People say that @RethinkPriors has great operations - let's keep this way! We're doing more hiring! forum.effectivealtruism.org/…

Rethink Priorities is hiring: help support and communicate our work

TL;DR • * The Operations Department is hiring a Chief of Staff, Development Professional, and Communications Strategy Professional (applications clo…

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Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight — Effective Altruism Forum forum.effectivealtruism.org/…

Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight

Key Takeaways • * Several influential EAs have suggested using neuron counts as rough proxies for animals’ relative moral weights. We challenge this…

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I’ve been working with some fantastic collaborators for the last 18 months. Here’s one of the main things we’ve been doing: forum.effectivealtruism.org/…

The Welfare Range Table

Key Takeaways • * Our objective: estimate the welfare ranges of 11 farmed species. * Given hedonism, an individual’s welfare range is the differenc…

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An Introduction to the Moral Weight Project

Key Takeaways • * Our objective: provide “moral weights” for 11 farmed species. * To make this tractable, we made four assumptions: utilitarianism,…

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New work with Johannes Mahr! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…

Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare...

Do any nonhuman animals have hedonically valenced experiences not directly caused by stimuli in their current environment? Do they, like us humans, experience a...

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Join us on Thursday, 10/13 @ 1 Eastern, for Leonard Dung's SSEA talk! The title is, "Why the epistemic objection to sentience as a criterion for moral status is flawed." If you haven't already signed up for one of our previous talks, you can sign up here: ethicsandanimals.org/stay-in…

SSEA - Stay in Touch

And please join our facebook group or follow us on bluesky!

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Excited to announce the SSEA's 2022-2023 Online Colloquium Series! Everyone's welcome! ethicsandanimals.org/upcomin…
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Gary O’Brien (University of Oxford), December 15 @ 1 Eastern Catia Faria (Complutense University of Madrid), January 12 @ 1 Eastern Yiran Hua (Brown University), February 16 @ 1 Eastern
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Josh Mund (Tulane University), March 16 @ 1 Eastern François Jaquet (Université de Strasbourg), April 13 @ 1 Eastern Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert (University of Oxford), May 18 @ 1 Eastern
The Meatpacking Industry Drafted Trump’s 2020 Order to Keep Plants Open At the Expense of Worker Safety modernfarmer.com/2022/05/mea…

The Meatpacking Industry Drafted Trump's 2020 Order to Keep Plants Open At the Expense of Worker...

A new report includes emails showing that Tyson Foods authored a version of President Trump’s executive order to keep meatpacking plants open during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Registration is open for the Interspecies Comparisons of Welfare Conference in London, April 28 and 29! Includes keynotes from @anilkseth @zoophilosophy @MarcBracke Georgia Mason (@CCSAW_UofG) and Liz Paul (@BristolUni). Join us! rethinkpriorities.org/confer… #animalwelfare #sentience
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If you happen to be in London at the end of April, this will be a great way to spend two days: rethinkpriorities.org/confer…
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Zoom talk: Irina Mikhalevich, "Welfare, Affect, and Moral Standing," 3/17 @ 1 Eastern mailchi.mp/f3107b8ecfe5/mikh…
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