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• 80,000 Hours profile on academic research
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• 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 PODCASTS

• 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