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💊 Welfare-pilled utility maxxer 🔍 Environmental economist building a better world with evidence instead of vibes. 💚 Research Associate at @GivingGreen.earth 🌍 Co-director of @EffectiveEnvironmentalism.org 🎒 Offbeat travel, nature, connections. 🏃♂️ Running
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men will literally pledge 10% of their lifetime income to highly effective charities before going to therapy
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
We’re flying the nest! 🦋 Giving Green is now an independent nonprofit, with a fresh brand & site to match. Huge thanks to
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Our latest consulting project will explore:
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🌳 The latest @effectiveenvironmentalism.org newsletter edition is packed with content!
- A new career guide for building a high-impact career 🧩
- What we’ve been reading and listening to 🗞️
- Some great job openings and opportunities! 🔭
Check it out!👇
Next Tuesday I'll join the 10% Club in Eindhoven (NL) at their event about how your donations can drive key innovations to reach net-zero emissions. With exciting speakers from Doneer Effectief and Future Cleantech Architects! Tickets via the link below.
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👩🏼🔬The scientific ecosystem—especially around cultivated meat—reported major breakthroughs in 2024, and faster than expected.
Download the full report 👉 bit.ly/4jVLSEF
Look below for a few highlights that shaped 2024 ⤵️
"Angry person yells at subway wall."
As GFI's @emmaiggie.bsky.social explains, Avian flu outbreaks like the one we're experiencing now are not a fluke — they're a recurring problem that is unlikely to stop until we diversify our protein supply with new, animal-free methods of production. Learn more: www.fooddive.com/news/eggs-bi...
Abstract Recent projections suggest that large geographical areas will soon experience heat and humidity exceeding limits for human thermoregulation. The survivability limits modeled in that research were based on laboratory studies suggesting that humans cannot effectively thermoregulate in wet bulb temperatures (Twb) above 26 to 31 °C, values considerably lower than the widely publicized theoretical threshold of 35 °C. The newly proposed empirical limits were derived from the Twb corresponding to the core temperature inflection point in participants exposed to stepped increases in air temperature or relative humidity in a climate-controlled chamber. Despite the increasing use of these thermal-step protocols, their validity has not been established. We used a humidity-step protocol to estimate the Twb threshold for core temperature inflection in 12 volunteers. To determine whether this threshold truly demarcates the Twb above which thermoregulation is impossible, each participant was subsequently exposed to Twb above (~33.7 °C, Tabove) and below (~30.9 °C, Tbelow) their respective inflection point (~32.3 °C, Twb) for up to 9 h (in random order). Core temperature rose continuously in Tabove. It was projected that core temperatures associated with heat stroke (40.2 °C) would occur within 10 h. While Tbelow was also uncompensable, the core temperature rate of rise was considerably lower than in Tabove such that it would take >24 h to reach 40.2 °C. Our study supports thermal-step protocols as an effective technique for evaluating survivability limits for heat exposure and provides a direct assessment of the limits of human thermoregulation.
This seems bad. Over time, what people have assumed was the physical limit of human heat tolerance keeps going down. It used to be thought it was a wet-bulb of 35C, now it seems it's more like 32C for resting humans and 27C for people doing minimal physical activity.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
How has the left bar changed since the US has crippled its foreign aid agency?
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Twee jaar geleden had correspondent Simon van Teutem een contract van consultancybureau McKinsey in handen — een heilige graal voor talloze ambitieuze leeftijdsgenoten. Een paar jaar buffelen, vertelde hij zichzelf, om daarna iets echt betekenisvols te doen voor de wereld.
LinkedInfluencers are posting about how AI image generation can lead to false receipts. But no-one is talking about the real problem: how AI can create fake LinkedIn posts about these receipts. Will AI replace LinkedIn influencers? 🤔
Climate economists: Does any economist think that economic model estimates of good enough that they should guide our policy response? e.g., "economic models predict GDP declines of a few percent in 2100 from 3C of warming, so we don't need to work hard to avoid this."
Hoe lang van tevoren hebben jullie deze woordgrap al bedacht?
Volgens mij kan dat zijn omdat nieuwe gebruikers denken dat hun contacten niet op Signal zitten omdat ze geen actieve gesprekken hebben. Iets van een nudge om het "nieuw bericht"-scherm te openen help vast met retentie! (2/2)
Als ik nog een toevoeging mag doen: ik zie vaak een popup van een contact dat een account heeft aangemaakt en dan wordt het dezelfde dag verwijderd. (1/2)
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Boost & tag!
Inderdaad. Ik heb stickerpakketten of individuele stickers die ik op WhatsApp kan gebruiken, maar op Signal heb je ze dan niet. Een simpele manier om die te importeren zou fijn zijn!
Polls!
En een manier om de rare stickerpakketten van mijn vriendengroep te importeren.
it's a bop
The blood that Elon Musk and his DOGE-cronies have on their hands because of the PEPFAR Funding Suspension.
200.000+ people not getting their daily HIV medication.
15.000+ deaths and counting.
Meanwhile, the actual EA community is fuming about the PEPFAR cuts and has set up an emergency fund to continue coverage.
Elon is a just a loser who likes to act quirky. He found EA cool once because of the tech nerds but ultimately found out that nazism is a much better fit for him.
every ea hates musk man cmon what kind of strawman is this?
Hard to be an effective altruist if you're not an altruist to begin with
Similar for the beautifully decorated buses in Guatemala! They're often decorated with something representing the destination(s) they serve.
This has been on my mind a lot, recently: What if climate change will get much worse than we think? Find the @effectiveenvironmentalism.org article here, in our latest newsletter. 🗞️
effectiveenvironmentalism.substack.com/p/what-if-cl...
Veel berichten over de opkomst van populistisch rechts gaan over manieren om kiezers op andere gedachten te brengen: alsof alleen zíj moeten veranderen.
Terwijl je ook de gevolgen van je eigen hoogopgeleide positie eens wat vaker zou kunnen onderzoeken.
Mijn eerste stuk voor @decorrespondent.nl