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Pain and suffering
Invertebrate welfare
Moral weight
Animal sentience
Fish welfare
Moral patienthood
Fish Welfare Initiative
Animal cognition
Cluster headache
Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering
Aquatic Life Institute
Equal consideration of interests
108 posts
Wild animal welfare
Welfare biology
Animal Ethics
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Jim Davies on when to quantify uncertainty (spoiler: always quantify)
Will Aldred
1h
0
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Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
Adam Shriver
22d
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Neuron Count-Based Measures May Currently Underweight Suffering in Farmed Fish
MHR
7d
5
70
Octopuses (Probably) Don't Have Nine Minds
Bob Fischer
8d
19
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Short Research Summary: Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence by Gibbons et al. 2022
Meghan Barrett
28d
21
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Banding Together to Ban Octopus Farming
Tessa @ ALI
20d
10
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An Introduction to the Moral Weight Project
Bob Fischer
1mo
6
48
EA needs more humor
SWK
19d
14
49
The Determinants of Adopting International Voluntary Certification Schemes for Farmed Fish and Shrimp in China and Thailand
jojo_lee
1mo
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The Relative Importance of the Severity and Duration of Pain
William McAuliffe
2mo
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Announcing the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program
Sofia_Fogel
3mo
4
169
Reducing nightmares as a cause area
Drew Housman
5mo
45
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Is improving the welfare of arthropods and nematodes underrated?
Vasco Grilo
1mo
10
14
Evolution, Pain, Suffering, and Ed Yong
MattBall
26d
4
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Announcing WildAnimalSuffering.org, a new resource launched for the cause
David van Beveren
8d
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On the Differences Between Ecomodernism and Effective Altruism
PeterSlattery
14d
3
71
What’s alive right now?
rosehadshar
4mo
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Where to draw the line of ethicality in the case of animal forced labor?
vmasarik
1mo
1
55
Lobbying governments to improve wild animal welfare
saulius
4mo
3
91
The Rodent Birth Control Landscape
Holly_Elmore
7mo
2
31
Editing wild animals is underexplored in What We Owe the Future
Michael Huang
3mo
5
64
Crucial considerations in the field of Wild Animal Welfare (WAW)
Holly_Elmore
8mo
10
56
Direct effects of marine plastic pollution on some wild animals seem small
Vasco Grilo
8mo
9
67
Monitoring Wild Animal Welfare via Vocalizations
HannahMc
1y
1
29
A chat with Kyle Johannsen, author of Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering
Michael Huang
6mo
3
60
Promising ways to improve the lives of urban rats in South Africa
ajmfisher
1y
6
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A direct way to reduce the catch of wild fish
Ren Springlea
6mo
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Cause exploration: improving wild fish slaughter [half-baked, post-deadline]
Aaron Bergman
4mo
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