Excited to share my first piece for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: How to safeguard the #BiologicalWeaponsConvention from disinformation

'False Russian claims hijacked the biological weapons treaty. Here’s how to reclaim it,' by Eva S. (she/her).
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A great Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 'voices of tomorrow' piece Eva S. (she/her): congratulations!
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🚨Our Younger Generation Leaders Network network is accepting applications for membership 🚨
🧵Membership of the YGLN gives successful candidates the opportunity to join an ambitious and dynamic group of rising stars from 32 countries across the Euro-Atlantic region.
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50 years after its creation, the BWC still faces a critical gap in treaty compliance verification. Our new working paper by AlexanderKelle and Eva S. (she/her) analyses great power involvement in several areas of regime implementation. Read the paper here: cbwnet.org/publications/w…

For non-US citizens who want to prepare for Thanksgiving, look no further.

The Congressional Research Service delivers all required background info (e.g., Congress declared Thanksgiving a legal holiday in 1941)

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This morning, Prof. Yoshua Bengio warns in an op-ed for German newspaper Tagesspiegel: exempting foundation models from the AI Act would be both dangerous & economically costly. It would make the AI Act 'outdated from day one'. background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierun…

Thanks, European Leadership Network (ELN), for involving me in this one; it was a pleasure!
The panel ft. Lord Des Browne, Arthur Duforest and I starts at 14:00 of the episode.

Mattew Meselson's talk was definitely one of this weekend's highlights. How often do you get to hear about the #BiologicalWeaponsConvention from the person who made it happen?

🧵5/11 Introducing Arthur Duforest (France), Ekaterina Lapanovich (Russia), Emil Nafis Iftekhar (Germany), Emily ter Steeg (Netherlands), Eva Siegmann (Germany) and Florian Ulrich Jehn (Germany).

Welcome all! 🌍

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#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons
Joining today are Hanna Notte, AlexanderKelle, Jean Pascal Zanders (OPCW); Marie Chevrier, Eva S. (she/her) and Elisande Nexon FRS (BTWC); Dr Alexander Ghionis, James Revill, Una Jakob and Ralf Trapp (Evolution regimes)

To all IR/norms research people: is there a paper on how the strength of a prohibitory norm relates to the probability/frequency of the event materializing?