please for the love of god someone find comms people to work at GiveWell and Open Philanthropy it'd be so cool if they had good people, they're both paying over $150k / year.

You might be a lot richer than you realise... youtu.be/ekIRVhbpiQw

📢Cool conference alert‼️

Next THURSDAY, we have one of the leaders in #vector immunity to #arboviruses, with Ronald van Rij from Radboudumc giving a seminar. All welcome! Please help with a RT. Learn more about their research here vanrijlab.org

Super proud Giving What We Can 🔸 moment: Hearing my usually-just-teases-me-about-giving-all-my-hard-earned-money-away Dad explain to a friend, in detail, a bunch of EA stuff I never told him! All about GiveDirectly💸, RCTs and UBI studies, and why that's better than playpumps! 🫶

"People living in poverty know more about their lives than anyone else and care more about their lives than anyone else" Direct cash transfers to some of the world's poorest people, no-strings-attached, was the first idea that made me realise how transformative charity can be.

Couple of great posts from my colleague Jacob Trefethen summarizing 10 policy ideas to accelerate these technologies that won't exist by default in 5 years: blog.jacobtrefethen.com/10-policy-idea… blog.jacobtrefethen.com/policy-ideas-p…

Excited to present my PhD project on ‘Conservation of rationally designed attenuating mutations in Usutu virus’ tomorrow at #ASV2024 One Health PACT

Am curious if there is anyone else at #ASV2024 who is interested in Global Catastrophic Biological Risks or Effective Altruism? Am I the only one?!

Fav quote from #asv2024 “Biology is a beautiful mess” Thanks Erica OllmannSaphire for a great story highlighting how science always keeps you saying ‘huh?’

5 years ago, I was putting the finishing touches on my book: The Precipice — a book about existential risks to humanity. Many people have asked me how this risk landscape has changed since then. Here is my answer: tobyord.com/writing/the-pr…

Applications open! ML4Good Europe 2025 is focused on technical work for AI governance and AI safety. A free 10-day bootcamp, open to EU & Norway residents. Join us in March! Apply by Sept 1! ml4good.org/courses/ml4goo… (Applying typically takes 30-45 minutes.)

I'm a simple man, I see Jacob Trefethen (@jacobtref) talking about global health R&D for 150 minutes and I click: hearthisidea.com/episodes/trefe…