Hive Slack Threads: December
Useful conversations & resources from our Slack community
Happy New Year!
We hope you had a great holiday and start the new year full of exciting plans and opportunities. In December, there were many exciting projects and news mentioned on Slack — learn about them in less than 10 minutes! ⏰ Huge thanks to Em Stokes, who helped us put together this edition!
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Slack channels covered:
🧡 Introductions
❓ Help requests: open
🙏 Help requests: answered
🤖 AI channels
💼 Jobs
👩💻 Slack feature updates
🐛 Invertebrates
👋 Opportunities and help offered
🎁 Tools & Resources
🧡 Introductions
Our #01-introductions channel is a great way to get to know the community. Haven’t had a chance to introduce yourself? It’s never too late! Here are some recent intros:
I’m Katrina Loewy, based in Colorado, and I would love to connect with other people in the invertebrate and wild animal welfare spaces.
Hi, I’m Josphat Ekuam – Programme Officer at Utunzi Animal Welfare based in Nairobi, Kenya.
I’m Moji, a vegan graphic designer, illustrator, and painter based in Portugal. I’m happy to help out with projects for vegan causes or businesses.
I’m Michelle and I am determined to make my next career step firmly rooted in animal advocacy.
I’m Anya, from the Republic of Sakha. I hope the industry will be able to create offal parts of animals that a lot of indigenous people in the Arctic include in their diet.
❓ Help requests: open
Our #03-help-requests channel is one of our most valuable channels! Can you assist with any of these unanswered requests?
We are looking for someone experienced with Weighted Factor Model based decision-making who could help us with an exercise we are currently working on.
Is there anybody here who has working experience in CSR or supply chain management positions at companies sourcing eggs?
I run a campaign with a focus on the negative effects of animal agriculture on soil, water, air pollution and fenceline communities. I would like to learn from your experiences and practices in such environmental campaigns.
🙏 Help requests: answered
Did you know you can ask farmed animal advocacy questions in the #03-help-requests channel? Check out some of these successfully answered requests!
Abhishek found a UI/UX designer or expert to share their feedback on one of their newly completed websites.
Taty got some input on organizing scheduled posts on social media.
Benjahmin got some input to help overcome procrastination in writing animal rights-related articles.
🤖 AI channels
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Provide your Input: There is a micro-survey about the upcoming AI for Animals Conference in London - vote for the name, time and format of the conference!
Open Paws just published A Five-Year Plan to Ensure AGI Benefits All Animals.
💼 Jobs
Our #06-job-postings channel is one of the most popular ones! We have a feed that scans various job boards and posts a daily list of available positions.
Research Assistant, Animal Welfare Economics Working Group. Remote. Apply by 15 February.
Various Roles, Probably Good. Remote. Apply by 11 January.
Sales Specialist, V-Label International. Remote. Apply by 31 January.
Head of Corporate Engagement, Aquatic Life Institute. Remote. Apply by 12 January.
Social Media Manager, Animal Justice Project. Remote.
Research and Data Coordinator, New Roots Institute. Remote, US.
👩💻 Slack feature updates
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Spotlight 🌟 Invertebrates are the most numerous and neglected group of farmed animals! Join our #c-invertebrates channel to stay up to date on even the smallest of the animals we work to help. 🐛
🐛 Invertebrates
Looking for an invertebrate charity to donate to? Community member @Jeff created a spreadsheet of every organization! Reach out to him to add one!
Jonathan Birch wrote an op-ed in the British food industry magazine, Food Manufacture. Summary here!
An article about the welfare concerns of using insects for pet food appeared in a large pet food industry magazine.
PhD opportunity at the Harper Adams University: Beyond Vertebrates: Developing Validated Welfare Standards and Ethical Guidelines for Invertebrate Management in Captivity, Farming and Research.
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👋 Opportunities and help offered
Keep an eye on the great offers in our #04-help-offered channel 🤩
Fish Welfare Initiative is running an innovation challenge for people to develop models that assess water quality from satellite data.
The Impactful Policy Careers accelerator is a training programme bringing you to Brussels for a fully-funded week of expert training, institutional visits, and strategic networking. Apply by 10 January.
This 1-year science-policy fellowship is focused on creating demand for healthy food and reducing food loss and waste in Africa and South Asia. Apply by 14 February.
Enrollment is now open for the Marketing 101 by User-Friendly course.
If you know someone working on an artistic animal activism project, they can add their project to the MAAP list.
🎁 Tools & Resources
Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is the channel for you! You can also find an extended list in our Hive Resource Library.
Here are a couple of resources discussing how and why factory farming makes antibiotic resistance worse.
Sofia wrote a post on How to enjoy a conference without burning out.
Louise recommended an article for people who want to quit meat but find it hard.
New Market ESG has published a guidebook for farmed animal welfare advocates who want to engage with the financial sector.
Beacon is a series of key messages from works by academics useful for tackling industrial animal agriculture in developing countries.
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