The best of IAA Slack: October

Useful conversations & resources from our Slack community

Hi!

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Slack channels covered:

💡 Discussions
🙏 Help requests answered
🤖 AI channels
❤️️️ Introductions
💼 Jobs
👩‍💻 Slack feature updates
🔥 Funding
🎁 Resources

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💡 Discussions:

Want to start a discussion or find out other advocates’ opinions? Ask away in the #02-discussions channel!

• Infiltrators at AVA: what are your thoughts on their write-up?

• Feel-good sharing: What are you grateful for this week?

• What are your personal views on the value of truth-seeking?

• New billionaire EA(?) foundation, Navigation Fund, "funded by billionaire Jed McCaleb, led by David Coman-Hidy, Andrea Gunn, Seemay Chou, Randy O’Reilly" (EA Forum post / Navigation Fund website)

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🙏Help requests: answered

Did you know you can ask *any* farmed animal advocacy question in this #03-help-requests channel? Whatever you’re struggling with, or are curious about. There is no such thing as a stupid question!

• Crossed elasticity modelling of meat and PB products: can it tell us what we actually want to know?

• Lists of industrial animal farms where you are located or work?

• Can anyone recommend a researcher that has data or insights on why some companies are making their cage-free commitments and why some are not?

• How to organize a lot of sources for information gathering.

• Does anyone know if the EAG event in San Francisco in February will be only Global Catastrophic risk focused?

• I work with an animal rights group in Ireland, and we currently have a politician who is willing to propose a bill to ban the testing of Botox in mice

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🤖AI channels

Did you know that we have 3 AI channels to complement our AI and Animals Wiki: #c-ai-discussion, #s-ai-tools and #s-ai-images?

• We're launching a nonprofit dedicated to using AI to liberate every nonhuman animal from the industry that exploits them

• Short video on the unexpected impact of AI on animals by Peter Singer

• I'm very new to AI and have recently gotten started with Midjourney.

• Slides from the Princeton Animals/AI meeting

• Notes from the AI, Conscious Machines, and Animals conference

• Just published an EA Forum post - What AI could mean for animals

• 100 days of AI for non-profits on LinkedIn: #aix30daypromptingchallenge

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❤️️️ 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! Introducing yourself improves the chances of connecting with more advocates.

• My name is Yuxi Xia. I’m a master’s student studying Environment and Society based in Munich, Germany. I’m reaching out on behalf of Vegan Thesis.

• Hi all, I am Alfred Sihwa in Zimbabwe, Director Sibanye Animal Welfare and Conservation Trust.

• My name is Alan Darer, I help run an organization Food Solutions Action that is lobbying for alternative proteins.

• I am Cynthia Schuck, I am the research director of the Welfare Footprint Project.

• My name is Austeja, I work at a Vilnius-based NGO called GYVI GALI.

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💼 Jobs:

Our #06-job-postings channel is one of the most popular ones! We are collaborating with Animal Advocacy Careers to repost their jobs on the channel also.

• My new stealth blended meat company is seeking an ambitious, bright intern to join our growing startup on a mission to build a sustainable food system

• Principal Change Designer - Food system transition

• WWF is launching the 2024 Fellowship Food is Local

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👩‍💻 Slack feature updates

• ⭐️ Our Slack has over 1,500 members!

• New anonymous form to submit your Slack posts, questions and feedback

• New form to join Slack to improve onboarding experience. You are welcome to send it to your colleagues and friends in the movement.

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😍 We have fiscal sponsorship! We are thankful to Humane America Animal Foundation for helping us accept donations that are tax-deductible in the U.S.

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🔥 Funding

Have a question about fundraising? Ask in our #s-fundraising channel!

• List of Funds/Organizations where you can apply for a grant towards your Vegan/Animal Rights Projects/Organization.

• ProVeg is launching the 4th edition of the Food Innovation Challenge - APAC

• AI tool for animal sanctuaries: a fundraising email generator

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🎁 Resources

Have a resource to share? #05-tools-resources is a channel for you!

• Results of Facebook Vegan Speech Promotion Project

• Good Growth's work into innovative research methods in Asian animal advocacy

• Post on University of North Carolina’s involvement in supporting ag-gag laws

• New resource from the Tiny Beam Fund - key takeaways from important academic articles. Here's Issue 1.

• Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit talks are now available on YouTube

• New book published, Vegan Minded: Becoming a Steward for Animals, People, and the Planet. @Eddie Jean edited the manuscript. We found each other on this workspace.

• Budgeting tips on overlooked/important budget line items, and budget template

• “Ugh fields” and some suggestions for solutions

• For those who travel a lot for work and if your roaming doesn’t stretch to a new country, Airlo worked well for a recent trip

• I just discovered Expertise for Animals. They are a metacharity that helps other organizations/individuals with writing papers, research, science-based advice.

• Veganuary workplace challenge for non-vegan organizations

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