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Animal welfare, advocacy and alternative protein

Farmed animal advocacy and welfare

• Farmed animal welfare
• Behavioural and attitudinal change in animal products consumption
• Black soldier fly sentience and welfare
• Improving aquatic animal welfare

Alternative proteins

• Alternative proteins research and development
• Consumer research related to alternative proteins

Wild animal welfare

• Improving the measurement of animal welfare
• Cause specific mortality in wild animals
• Moral weight research
• Wildlife fertility control research

Existential and Global Catastrophic Risks

AI Safety and Policy

• Human-aligned artificial intelligence
• Governance of artificial intelligence

Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness

• Preventing release of dangerous pathogens
• Improving pandemic governance
• Detection and identification of dangerous pathogens
• Non-pharmaceutical pandemic interventions
• Medical interventions against dangerous pathogens
• Antimicrobial resistance

Other X-risks and GCRs

• Preventing great power conflict
• Great power coordination
• Specific nuclear winter scenarios
• Risks from volcanic eruptions
• Civilisation collapses
• Developing solutions to climate change
• Resilient foods research
• Attitudes to existential risk and longtermism
• Reducing risks from malevolent actors
• Space governance

Human health and wellbeing

Mental health and wellbeing

• Improving health and wellbeing metrics
• Applied mental health research

Global health and development

• Global health and wellbeing
• Reducing physical pain

Physical health

• Anti-ageing research
• Reducing physical pain
• Improving health and wellbeing metrics

Improving institutional decision-making

• Improving institutional decision-making
• Improving voting methods

Prioritisation Research

Altruistic decision making

• Charitable donations decision-making research
• Attitudes to existential risk and longtermism

Foundational research

• Global priorities research
• Moral weight research
• Longtermism

Understanding progress and change

• Forecasting the long-term future
• Moral circle expansion
• Understanding the impact of social movements
• Historical persistence and contingency
• Progress studies
• Most important historical trends

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