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Recent Updates
* We published our annual review, which highlights our progress in 2023 and plans for the coming year ([link removed]).
* We announced new additions to our leadership team ([link removed]).
* We announced a new cause area in our Global Catastrophic Risks portfolio: Forecasting. Led by Benjamin Tereick, the Forecasting team's mission is to help realize the promise of forecasting as a way to improve decision-making ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Researchers from teams within our Global Health and Wellbeing portfolio published a list of social science topics related to global health and wellbeing ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Lewis Bollard, our Program Director for Farm Animal Welfare, published a post about how the farm lobby blocks legislative progress. He also wrote about Ruth Harrison and Henry Spira, two pioneering advocates for farmed animals. You can subscribe to Lewis’s Substack here ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Senior Program Officer Jacob Trefethen started a blog about scientific research and science funding. You can subscribe to Jacob’s blog here ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Research Fellow Matt Clancy published a series of posts about patents. You can subscribe to Matt’s Substack here ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In the News
* Lewis Bollard was interviewed in Current Affairs about why factory farming is a “moral atrocity”, and quoted in the Financial Times for a story on the politics around incentivizing low-meat diets. He also recently appeared on the 80,000 Hours podcast to discuss the most promising ways to end factory farming and how AI will impact animals ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Senior Research Analyst Tom Davidson appeared on the InFi podcast to discuss the likely progression of AI ([link removed]).
* Ajeya Cotra, a Senior Program Officer for our work on technical AI safety, was quoted in Vox on the debate over open-source AI ([link removed]).
* Dustin Moskovitz — who, together with his wife Cari Tuna, is Open Philanthropy’s chief funder — published an essay about his philanthropic journey and views on the effective altruism community ([link removed]).

Grantmaking
Photo courtesy of Osaka University
We announced a number of grants, including:

In Farm Animal Welfare:
* The Plant Based Foods Association to support its advocacy and corporate engagement work ([link removed]).
* The International Society for Applied Ethology to support farm animal welfare science in developing countries ([link removed]).
* FishEthoGroup to support a project led by Dr. João Saraiva to test and validate environmental enrichments for industrially farmed sea bass and sea bream ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In Scientific Research:
* Osaka University to support research led by Professor Katsuhiko Hayashi on mammalian gametogenesis ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Washington University in St. Louis to support research by Dr. Jeffrey Gordon and Dr. Michael Barratt on the repair of microbiome function in undernourished children ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In Global Aid Policy:
* The Development Learning Lab to support the production of knowledge reviews and policy reports, as well as provide knowledge services aimed at improving development outcomes ([link removed]).
* Korean Advocates for Global Health to support its work on global health aid policy advocacy in South Korea ([link removed]).
* The Center for Global Development for general support ([link removed]).

In Potential Risks from Advanced AI:
* Harvard University to support research led by Professor Martin Wattenberg and Professor Fernanda Viégas on AI interpretability, controllability, and safety ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* FAR AI to support research expenses for several AI alignment research projects ([link removed]).

In Innovation Policy:
* UK Day One to support the development of crowdsourced ideas on science and technology policy ([link removed]).

In Global Health R&D:
* The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative to support additional sputum sample collection as part of a Phase IIb trial of MTBVAC, a novel tuberculosis vaccine ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The University of Oxford to support work led by Professor Simon Draper on the clinical development of a blood-stage malaria RH5 monoclonal antibody ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

For a complete list of the grants we've awarded, visit our grants page ([link removed]).
Jobs and other opportunities
* A Senior Policy Advisor/Senior Program Associate to help our Global Aid Policy team pursue a wider range of strategies and grant opportunities. Apply by May 12th to be considered ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* A People Operations Associate to help our Immigration and Global Workforce team advance and support our globally distributed workforce ([link removed]).
* A variety of funding opportunities, including fellowships, scholarships, support for community organizing, and funding for career development and transition ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy ([link removed]).
* And as always, please consider referring candidates to these roles — if we hire someone you referred, we’ll give you $5000 ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

Best,
Jeremy Klemin
Content Editor

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