Sam Weiss Evans

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  • Book Review: Vulnerability in Technological Cultures

    March 18, 2015

    This edited volume explores the concept of vulnerability as a useful analytic lens for studying big issues in technological cultures, providing a more compassionate and encompassing framing of issues…

  • What’s the Matter with Biosecurity?

    March 18, 2015

    In this brief Perspective in the Journal of Responsible Innovation, I discuss the different conceptions of security that are being debated over within the biology, and specifically the synthetic…

  • Presentation to the BWC Meeting of Experts Side Event

    August 6, 2014

    Every year, the United Nations Biological Weapons Convention has a Meeting of Experts to share updates on developments relevant to the Convention. This year, several colleagues and I presented on…

  • Letter to the Editor of Nature on Synthetic Biology

    June 12, 2014

    In a recent issue of Nature, there was a special section on moving ‘Beyond Divisions’ in building the future of synthetic biology. While I and many of my colleagues support many ways of moving beyond…

  • Report on Multilateral Export Control List Modification Processes Published

    March 26, 2014

    My report with the Flemish Peace Institute on Multilateral Export Control List Modification Processes is now published. The first part of the introduction is below.

  • Dual Use Research of Concern – Comments on the US Government’s Proposed Policy

    April 24, 2013

    source: NSABB

  • New Paper: Export Controls and the Tensions Between Academic Freedom and National Security

    May 15, 2012

    Now available in the latest issue of Mineva:

  • Taking up a new position at Berkeley

    October 27, 2011

    I have begun a new position at the University of California, Berkeley, within the new Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society (CSTMS). The Center is a vibrant hub of activity and research…

  • Thesis published on the Oxford Research Archive

    July 8, 2010

    It is my pleasure to finally announce that my thesis has been published on the Oxford Research Archive

  • Button factories and international negotiations

    May 6, 2010

    I have long heard that Khrushchev once commented how ridiculous export controls were, saying that anything could be a militarily significant technology, even trouser buttons. “How do you expect a…

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