Good to engage with #1972BWC national contact points in Geneva today. Thanks to BWC ISU for hosting and the European Union for funding 🇪🇺🇺🇳
19.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New publication🚨Need a big-picture intro to how current trends in the life sciences are challenging traditional #biosafety and #biosecurity governance? Gemma Bowsher and I have got you covered:
perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/content/earl...
18.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good to engage with @GPWMDofficial partners and @GPctrDisinfo steering group members to strategise on countering #CBRN #disinformation.
16.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Speaking on global trends in biology and what they mean for our security at the G7 @gpwmd.bsky.social meeting in Paris this week
12.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The one-week #1972BWC working group meeting has just gotten underway this morning. Watch it live here:
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c...
09.02.2026 09:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Failing crops, mystery deaths and no warning: How a bioweapon attack would unfold
British preparedness is strongest where science is concerned and weakest where systems meet politics
Biowarfare does not guarantee decisive military advantage but in hybrid era can exploit ambiguity and weaken societies. Are we prepared? My thoughts, ahead of #1972BWC mtg this week in Geneva. inews.co.uk/opinion/fail...
08.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely to host a commemorative seminar for pioneering activist scientist against chemical and #biologicalweapons, Prof Steven Rose, yesterday. Warm thanks to everyone who came for their inspiring tributes and thoughtful reflections.
05.02.2026 11:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The @thebulletin.org Doomsday Clock this week said #MirrorLife studies, #AI-enabled pathogen design, #bioweapon risks and fragile health systems raise global #biosecurity concern. Read in full here: thebulletin.org/wp-content/u...
31.01.2026 07:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Metreweli: "In an age of uncertainty, one constant remains: [our] choices...still determine the shape of the world. Yes, technology can illuminate possibilities: but information requires judgement; complexity demands clarity; and only people can decide which path to follow."(3/3)
15.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Metreweli: "...the foundations of trust in our societies are eroding. Information, once a unifying force, is increasingly weaponised. ... as trust collapses, so does our shared sense of truth – one of the greatest losses a society can suffer." (2/3)
15.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Speech by Blaise Metreweli, Chief of SIS, 15 December 2025
Blaise Metreweli, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service on how SIS is keeping the UK safe in a world where the rules of conflict are being rewritten.
An inspiring first speech today from new MI6 head, Blaise Metreweli, on human agency and the choices we make about how to deal with our "new, faster, more dangerous and technology-mediated world" (1/3)
www.gov.uk/government/s...
15.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Crucially, what accepted standards can prevent AI in verification from having the opposite effect—eroding confidence and generating mistrust? Where are the limits of AI? 3/3
15.12.2025 15:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
There were several references to standards. Key take-away for me: Investment is needed to develop international #standards for the use of #AI in #1972BWC #verification. How can we ensure efficient, reliable use? 2/3
15.12.2025 15:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
US Under Secretary DiNanno opened a timely discussion today at @ungeneva.bsky.social on #AI applications for #1972BWC. The panel outlined ways AI could support #verification and implementation across the treaty’s Articles. Key question for me: how should these applications be prioritised? 1/3
15.12.2025 15:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The final report of the 2-year joint @vertic.bsky.social--King's
@warstudieskcl.bsky.social project on observable signs of #bioweapons development is out today
#1972BWC #verification #VEREX #transparency #CBMs #EmergingTech
tinyurl.com/bdzerbz6
12.12.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So pleased to support RSIS_NTU and Asia_CHS colleagues with the launch of two #biosecurity #1972BWC #CBM reports @ungeneva.bsky.social today.
10.12.2025 10:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At the launch of the GlobalSynthesisMap.bio platform this morning—enabling you to see where #DNA is synthesized and gets distributed. Bravo @ibbis-bio.bsky.social!
09.12.2025 08:34 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The #1972BWC meeting gets underway this morning, focused on agreeing language of the Working Group final report. You can follow live here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1p...
08.12.2025 09:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Have you got expertise in technology (AI, hypersonic weapons, space-based systems, quantum tech) and its role in war and conflict? Come work with us!
kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131845-...
04.12.2025 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Loved these past two days discussing #UNSGM BW investigations in non-permissive environments. Exceptional group, stunning location (Vienna). Huge thanks @stimsoncenter.bsky.social for convening!
03.12.2025 14:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At @unidir.org #ID25, #neurotechnologies were generally framed as an #AI problem. It is also a #CBW problem. Check out the new book by Dando & Crowley: Preventing Weaponisation of CNS-Acting Chemicals. Pleased to have contributed the foreword.
27.11.2025 09:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mind-blowing (and frightening!) presentation this morning from
@medialab.bsky.social’s Dr Natalia Kosmyna on the state of the art in Brain-Computer Interfaces, at @unidir.org’s Innovations Dialogue on #Neurotechnologies and their implications for peace and security #ID25
24.11.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We also discussed red-lines, where a particularly interesting take-away for me was the many voices agreeing they should be far away from making mirror bacteria. But just how far is tricky. Making a mirror genome? Making a mirror ribosome? (2/2)
19.11.2025 11:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In a briefing on #MirrorLife to the scientific advisory board of the UN Secretary-General yesterday, I emphasised that, at this point, biosafety containment concerns are far greater than security concerns. (1/2)
19.11.2025 11:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Biosecurity Editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Tips? Pitches? Email: mfield@thebulletin.org / Signal: mattfield.34
Science Diplomat. Epidemic Intelligence Analyst. HCoC Fellow, Y4Biosec & ELBI Alumnus. Follow me on this journey toward global peace and security. RT not an endorsement
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Biological and chemical weapons disarmament // governance of dual-use research // biosecurity // emerging tech and CBW
Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
The best thinking on existential threats since 1945. Nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. We set the #DoomsdayClock. thebulletin.org
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Social and political theorist. Hon prof at ANU and UCL. Books include ‘The Politics of Life Itself’, ‘Our Psychiatric Future’, ‘The Urban Brain’ (with D. Fitzgerald). Just out: ‘Questioning Humanity (with T. Osborne). Working on new book on biopolitics… 🇺🇦
An interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences. www.biosocieties.org
Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London. Director, Future Threats Lab https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/future-threats-lab / Dep Director, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. Future war; 🚀 space; rebellion past and present; apocalypse(s)
Political scientist, PhD | Head of Programme, Gender & Disarmament at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Views are my own.
Prof of Sociology | Director, Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice(GSEJ), Uni of Kent | Editor, Current Sociology monographs| Research: STS, engineering biology, gene editing, governance, science diplomacy, bioethics, decolonisation, commoning
EU-supported consortium of independent think tanks to discuss measures against WMD proliferation as well as conventional weapons, including SALW
Official account of the G7-led, 31 member Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons & Materials of Mass Destruction (CBRN Threat Reduction)
Professor of Strategy at SPRU.
Associate Dean of Research, University of Sussex Business School. #1 in UK for research income.
Editor Research Policy.
Acting Director HSP.
Views mine, not my employer. Politics unfashionable since 1654
Science & tech politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation/tech for equity. #STS scholar. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
The Defence Studies Department at King's College London. World-leading research on #war & #conflict | Contact: comms-soss@kcl.ac.uk
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