My paper "Price-, taste-, and convenience-competitive plant-based meat analogues would not currently replace the majority of meat consumption: A narrative review" is now published in the peer-reviewed journal Appetite! Available here: shorturl.at/nMk2R

Going live here shortly: www.twitch.tv/enstucky

A bit last minute, but if you're free 4-6p tonight, come watch me judge submissions for Summer of Math Exposition, a sorta-annual competition held by famed math youtuber @3blue1brown.com, at twitch.tv/enstucky More info on the competition here: www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1

Does adding plant-based meat to the @chipotle menu cause less meat purchasing? Our preregistered RCT (N=4,431) using a simulated food order suggests not. Neither adding sofritas PBM nor an additional hypothetical chicken-like PBM meaningfully reduced meat consumption:

Full study: osf.io/z6rn2_v1

High-impact opportunity at Greener By Default for someone with great Python and data analysis skills www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Fresh out of college, I designed binary classifiers and sentiment analysis tools for a marketing start-up. ~10 years later, off-the-shelf LLMs would easily replace and exceed what I did. Wild to read how much LLMs disrupted natural language processing www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

Check out these two brand-new animal advocacy Substacks by Rethink Priorities and Seth Green:

rpstrategicanimalinsights.substack.com
regressiontothemeat.substack.com

Catching up on some new plant-based meat literature with "Substitution patterns and price response for plant-based meat alternatives." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... In two studies, participants hypothetically chose from 4 burger patties: beef, plant-based meat, veggie or falafel.

Great opportunity to join the Data & Analytics team at @mercyforanimals.org www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f...

Exciting to see an opportunity to join Rethink Priorities' Animal Welfare dept: bit.ly/rpawsrr

If you just can't get enough of me talking about this work, here's a recording of our CARE conference panel with @chrisbryantphd.bsky.social and Ignacia Uribe m.youtube.com/watch?v=1FSK...

Highly recommend www.sky-follower-bridge.dev/get-started.... for automatically transferring your twitter follows to BlueSky

Now with video recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPFk...

Thank you to all the organizers of EAGxVirtual for a great conference! I gave a talk on my paper "Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat"

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
Paper: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/iukeBP...