[Updated September 28] The October Virtual Metaculus Meetup will be held at 1 PM US central time (6 PM UTC) on Sunday October 2.

We'll use Jitsi for the meetup, here's a link to join: https://meet.jit.si/moderated/42a1e70bfdf267c80589f95a6a7ca37a5cff0fd69f3198a2f2c15fde4e6c4367

[Here's a link to an ics calendar invite](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18IqxoT_dEFglYgY95zmyMX6rtEOy7Yu8/view?usp=sharing) you can download if you wish to add it to your calendar.

See you there!

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We’re holding another virtual meetup (last held in [August of 2021](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/7580/metaculus-virtual-meetup-august-2021/)). This is an opportunity to chat with your fellow Metaculites and a few Metaculus Admins about anything on your mind related to forecasting. Interesting questions on the site, rationales for your forecasts, questions for Admins, questions you want to see on the site, or anything else.

Fill out this when2meet to indicate your availability: https://www.when2meet.com/?16836406-a4HGR

We’ll select a time and announce it a few days prior to the meetup. If there are no objections the meetup will be held on Google Meet, which is free to use, and we’ll post a link to the meeting when the time is announced.

We’ve also launched a forecasting question asking what the peak number of attendees will be for the October forecasting meetup, [see if you can predict the attendance here](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/12559/metaculus-meetup-peak-attendees/).

We hope to see you there!

##In Case You Missed It

We've had a few exciting things going on recently, so here's a short roundup in case you missed them.

In a [recent Tweet](https://twitter.com/metaculus/status/1573135969393741825) we announced our partnership with the [Institute for Security and Technology](https://securityandtechnology.org/) (IST). We recently concluded the first round of a project using forecasts from the Metaculus Pro Forecasters to quantify the risks and opportunities involved with the integration of artificial intelligence into nuclear command, control, and communications systems. You can check out the resulting report here: [Forecasting the AI and Nuclear Landscape](https://securityandtechnology.org/virtual-library/reports/forecasting-the-ai-and-nuclear-landscape/).

The community has elected a new moderator, @avpx! See the [Fall 2022 moderator election discussion post](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/12466/fall-2022-moderator-election/) for more info about that.

The hidden period for the [Biosecurity Tournament](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/11277/biosecurity-tournament-hidden-period-over/) has ended, join in for a chance to win a share of the $25,000 prize pool!

Metaculus has [recently become](https://twitter.com/fianxu/status/1569537636917825536) a Public Benefit Corporation, and we also hit 1 million forecasts! Read all about that in [this blog post](https://metaculus.medium.com/becoming-a-public-benefit-corporation-hitting-1-million-predictions-and-three-new-ai-forecasting-7ae4996fee3).

At the end of July [we announced](https://metaculus.medium.com/metaculus-awarded-5-5m-grant-to-advance-forecasting-as-a-public-good-7fc20a161723) that Metaculus has been awarded with a $5.5 million grant from Open Philanthropy to advance forecasting as a public good.