Academic publications

• Meaningfully reducing consumption of meat and animal products is an unsolved problem: A meta-analysis | Replication Package with Benny Smith and Maya Mathur (2025). Appetite 216.

• Effects of adding plant-based menu options on meat selection frequency: A randomized controlled experiment | Replication Package with Jessica Hope, Jacob Peacock, and Maya Mathur. Accepted at Food Quality and Preference.

• Preventing sexual violence: A behavioral problem without a behaviorally informed solution | Replication Package with Roni Porat, Ana Gantman, John-Henry Pezzuto, and Elizabeth Levy Paluck (2024). Psychological Science in the Public Interest 25(1): 4–29.

• Five Observations on Five Years of Contact Hypothesis Research (2024). SocArXiv preprint.

• Analysis of open data and computational reproducibility in registered reports in psychology | Replication Package with Pepijn Obels, Daniël Lakens, Nicholas A. Coles, and Jaroslav Gottfried (2020). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 3(2): 229–237.

• Computational reproducibility via containers in psychology with April Clyburne-Sherin and Xu Fei (2019). Meta-Psychology 3.

• The contact hypothesis re-evaluated | Replication Package with Elizabeth Levy Paluck and Donald P. Green (2018). Behavioural Public Policy 3(2): 129–158.

Podcasts and media

• A Rigorous Look at Behavioral Nudges in Plant-Based Food Systems Change: What Works, What’s Next. Better Food Foundation webinar, hosted by Jennifer Channin, March 13, 2026.

• Seth Green on why reducing meat consumption is hard and what actually works. How I Learned to Love Shrimp, hosted by James Özden, February 26, 2026.

• 2025 Highlights: AI, MAHA, Vegan Nudges, Cultivated Meat: Science of Activism. The Vegan Report, with Rayane Laddi and Jacob Peacock, January 21, 2026.

• The Vegan Persuasion Problem: What Actually Works to End Animal Consumption? Our Hen House, Ep. 873, with Benny Smith, November 21, 2025.

• Nothing Seems to Work: Science of Activism. The Vegan Report, with Rayane Laddi and Jacob Peacock, October 29, 2025.

Presentations and talks

I have presented my work at my lab’s seminar series at Stanford (June 2024), RECAP’s monthly calls (September 2024, December 2025), the Reducetarian Summit in Atlanta (October 2025), the NEST online seminar (March 2026), and the Food 4 Thought Innovations Festival at Stanford (April 2026).

EA Forum posts

Favorite posts: adding a plant-based option (or two) doesn’t change behavior, meaningfully reducing meat consumption is an unsolved problem, sexual violence prevention programs change ideas, not behaviors, and my circuitous, undirected path to an EA job (full list on my EA Forum profile).

Content marketing, documentation, & market research

Animal welfare and food systems

• Regression to the Meat is my newsletter about research to reduce meat consumption. My personal favorites: Scaled up, I expect defaults to reduce meat consumption by ~1-2 pp, Burdens of proof for dynamic norms interventions, and Eating vegetarian is not like voting.

Everything else

• For Glo Foundation, I published thought leadership, product explanations, quarterly updates, information for job applicants, general purpose marketing, social media threads and stand alone posts, and content for external forums. I also recorded some podcasts.
• For Code Ocean, I co-authored the white paper, wrote for the company blog, guest wrote for a partner’s blog, occasionally social media content, and about half of Code Ocean’s help pages. I also presented Code Ocean at conferences, e.g. JupyterDay in the Triangle at UNC in 2018. (One person said I was good!)
• I’ve contributed to the Ethereum Foundation’s developer docs: 6619, 6651, 7759, 10741, 10756, 12390, and 12938.

Software

• An R package on the Paluck Lab’s approach to meta-analysis.

Media mentions

My work has been covered in Vox, Green Queen Media, Psychology Today, and Faunalytics. (The contact meta has been cited many times.)

Politics, cultural, and personal

• Traveling North, Appalachian Trail Journeys, spring/summer 2022.

• The stuff on my regular blog, + a few things for Grand Blog Tarkin on political and strategic thinking in fantasy and sci-fi.

• I prepared research briefs for Evidence in Governance and Politics (6, 12, 15, 20, 23, 34, 36, 37, 38, and 39).

• I also researched effective anti-corruption NGOs for Founders Pledge.