Academia

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• EA Academia Facebook group

Resources

• 80,000 Hours profile on academic research

  • Career Reviews

    • Philosophy

    • Economics PhD

    • Biomedical Research

    • Computer Science PhD

    • Machine Learning PhD

• Plan change story – from neuroscience academia to cost-effectiveness research

• PhD Career Guide

• Why you should consider applying for grad school right now

• You and Your Research – A famous talk by Richard Hamming

• The Research on Research Institute – an international consortium of funders, academics and technologists working to champion transformative research on research

• Social Science Prediction Platform – allows people to make predictions about social science research results

80,000 Hours Podcast Episodes

• Tackling the ethics of infinity, being clueless about the effects of our actions, and having moral empathy for intellectual adversaries, with philosopher Dr Amanda Askell

• Dr Owen Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & what if AI progresses fast

• Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster

• Prof Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating effective altruism decades ago & how to make amuch happier world

• Dr Hutchinson on global priorities research & shaping the ideas of intellectuals

• Speeding up social science 10-fold, how to do research that’s actually useful, & why plenty of startups cause harm