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How The Unjournal engages with animal-welfare research
We help connect animal-welfare research to rigorous, public feedback from strong economists, psychologists, quantitative social scientists, and domain experts, including mainstream academics who may not otherwise engage with AW-facing work.
We do this through public evaluations, research prioritization, Pivotal Questions, forecasts, and focused synthesis. A longer public overview is available at what The Unjournal does for animal-welfare research.
Evaluation-package examples include:
- Cultured-meat production forecasts and cost assumptions.
- Evidence on reducing meat and animal-product consumption.
- Approaches to measuring the welfare cost of meat.
- Moral-psychology work such as Willful Ignorance and Moral Behavior.
Our animal-welfare field specialist team for markets and attitudes includes Josh Tasoff, Kevin Kuruc, Florian Habermacher, Nicolas Treich, Ash Meader, and Brinda Poojary, with others in the broader interested and involved group.
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Why this is relevant to AWE WG
Animal-welfare economics has high-value questions where the evidence is thin, contested, or scattered. It is also hard to get rigorous feedback from methodologically strong researchers who are not already inside the animal-welfare community.
We help identify decision-relevant work, commission external expert evaluations, surface Pivotal Questions, collect beliefs and forecasts, and publish reasoning that funders and researchers can cite, challenge, and update.
Useful next steps: Browse the published evaluation packages, suggest research that may merit evaluation, join the forecasting tournament, or annotate public pages with corrections and missing evidence.
For drafts or slides, please use the submission form and mark what can be read privately, summarized, or shared further.
Where AWE WG fits: AWE researchers can supply the field knowledge: which papers matter, which empirical strategies are credible, where models are fragile, and which questions would change funding or policy choices.
How to help
Share the hub
Link this meta-page, the evaluation archive, the research database, and the AW Pivotal Questions materials from relevant AWE pages or resource lists.
Send research leads
Use the submission form for papers that may merit evaluation, or the research database to suggest missing candidates.
Annotate and correct
Use Hypothes.is on this hub and linked pages to flag errors, missing evidence, and stronger question formulations.
Forecast and discuss
Join the Animal Futures Tournament and help convert live disagreements into calibrated forecasts and model inputs.
This page intentionally uses public-facing materials. It does not quote private correspondence, unpublished drafts, or internal assessments. For drafts and slides, please specify the permitted use before sharing.