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Mauro Gilli
@maurogilli.bsky.social
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Professor of Military Strategy and Technology at the Hertie School in Berlin. Great powers rivalry, future of war, tech competition. Born 🇮🇹, 9y 🇺🇸, 9y🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 https://sites.google.com/site/maurogilli2/
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 22d
Very happy to see our article ""Europe needs also minds, not just guns" out, which I have written with @aagilli.bsky.social, Antonio Missiroli & Niccolò Petrelli.

www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...
Europe needs also minds - not just guns | ISPI
Europe is rapidly rearming but risks wasting resources without a robust strategic thinking ecosystem, requiring investments
www.ispionline.it
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 2d
Hey students from Sweden 🇸🇪: here you can find information for three full scholarships to come to study international security at the Hertie School (@hertieschool.bsky.social, @hertiesecurity.bsky.social) in Berlin.

www.hertie-school.org/en/study/fun...
Ax:son Johnson Scholarship
This scholarship is for applicants from Sweden with a demonstrated interest in international security and German-Swedish relations.
www.hertie-school.org
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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 11d
Ouverture de la journée Marc Bloch, vie, combats, héritages, par @jalazard.bsky.social à la Sorbonne
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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 14d
Today's #openScience mini kerfuffle is @urisohn.bsky.social 's Data Colada post responding to the JASA paper by @richarddmorey.bsky.social & @clintin.bsky.social critiquing the p-curve.
datacolada.org/129

The whole thing is a bit sad w open-science related debates degenerating into team sports. 1/n
[129] P-curve works in practice, but would it work if you dropped a piano on it? - Data Colada
P-curve is a statistical tool we developed about 15 years ago to help rule out selective reporting, be it p-hacking or file-drawering, as the sole explanation for a set of significant results. This po...
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 15d
🔱 “Citing the 🇨🇳 Chinese navy, Xinhua News Agency reported that the J-15T and J-35 fighter jets, along with the KJ-600 early warning and command aircraft, recently completed electromagnetic catapult-assisted 🛫 takeoffs and arrested 🛬landings aboard the #Fujian.”

#EMALS
China achieves major aircraft carrier breakthrough
Chinese military aircraft conducted electromagnetic catapult-assisted takeoffs and arrested landings aboard the aircraft carrier CNS Fujian.
www.newsweek.com
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Alexander Lanoszka @lanoszka.bsky.social · 19d
"Although reports suggest that an initial architecture has been selected, unless expectations are recalibrated, Golden Dome risks (lol) being built to promises rather than requirements, eroding the transparency and confidence needed to make the program sustainable." warontherocks.com/2025/09/gold...
Golden Dome is a Trillion Dollar Gambit
U.S. President Donald Trump set high expectations for “Golden Dome.” His executive order directing development of this homeland air and missile defense
warontherocks.com
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 22d
Thanks Imdad.
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 22d
Thanks Maaike. Very glad to hear you found it timely and useful!
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 22d
If you find it interesting, it summarizes a longer report we have written for IEP@BU - Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University (which you can find here: tinyurl.com/3nty39cw).
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 22d
Whether you agree or disagree with our suggestions, I do hope you will take time to read it, as it is our contribution - and, in my case, my most important contribution - to European Security.
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 22d
Very happy to see our article ""Europe needs also minds, not just guns" out, which I have written with @aagilli.bsky.social, Antonio Missiroli & Niccolò Petrelli.

www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...
Europe needs also minds - not just guns | ISPI
Europe is rapidly rearming but risks wasting resources without a robust strategic thinking ecosystem, requiring investments
www.ispionline.it
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 22d
www.ft.com/content/60a9...
Switzerland’s US tech ‘whale’
Conservative central bank has more than $42bn invested in Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia and Meta
www.ft.com
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 23d
Unfortunately at the exact same time @mmitchell.bsky.social and I are talking, so those physically in Berlin have to choose, but the rest of you sign up for the AI here invtdu.to/_ovppw

PS the Pizza events Mauro is a part of are aimed at prospective Hertie School students, so the pizza is great!
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 23d
If they meant acoustic waves, as you note, this is in line with sonobuoys. For the South China Sea it could be a good performance but it’s not 10 times (1db) better than normal…
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 23d
Yes but in contrast to what the article states, a rotating propeller doesn’t generate electromagnetic waves, it generate electric & magnetic interferences. And there is no way that they can be detectedat 20km and distinguished from those of commercial shipping and drilling…
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 23d
I started a thread about this, but I quickly got to 2k words: I will make it into an article. For those in Berlin, I will talk about these very points on Wednesday. See you there.

Details here: www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 24d
2 questions:

Is this quantum sensing real? I usually think anything quantum is hype, but this sounds plausible?

Are transparent oceans really a triumph of defense over offence, if submarines are mostly used for 2nd strike deterrence?

cc @maurogilli.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Billion-dollar coffins? New technology could make oceans transparent and Aukus submarines vulnerable
Quantum sensing, satellite tracking and AI are part of an accelerating arms race in detection that should prompt a re-evaluation of Australia’s defence strategy
www.theguardian.com
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Mauro Gilli @maurogilli.bsky.social · 24d
Thanks for flagging it, Joanna. I will try to write a thread about this later.
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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 25d
We ran 9 billion regressions: Eliminating false positive through computational model robustness John Muñoz and Christobal Young I just ran four million regressions Xavier X. Sala-i-Martin I just ran two trillion regressions Christoph Hanck y tho?
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Alexander Lanoszka @lanoszka.bsky.social · 26d
In an intense news cycle, it is easy to miss that Washington is normalizing ties with Minsk, with a US envoy having met with Lukashenka and agreeing to lift sanctions on Belavia Airlines in exchange for the release of political prisoners. pism.pl/publikacje/u...
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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 26d
ETH Zurich climate scientist @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation.

Congratulations for receiving this award for outstanding research!

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Great honour for ETH climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne
ETH Professor Sonia Seneviratne is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation. The climate researcher shares ...
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 28d
Map showing reported Russian drone incursions into Poland. Does not look random (14 drones): It looks like a deliberate attempt by fascist Russia to test NATO air defenses over a part of Polish territory used as a transit point for Western aid to democratic Ukraine.
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Mario Seminerio @phastidio.net · 29d
Il nodo non si scioglie: il Dipartimento del commercio USA ha comunicato al governo italiano che il golden power su Sinochem nell'azionariato Pirelli non è sufficiente. Mo' son cavoli amari
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 29d
One drone carrier in Germany, one drone into Poland, one airspace violation in Estonia and (possibly related) a ship temporarily taking out a part of an Estonian port.

36 or so hours.
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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Sep 8
"More Americans think his mass deportation programme has gone “too far” (49%) than “not far enough” (21%) or “about right” (24%), an Economist/YouGov poll finds. More oppose his sending troops to cities than support it: 46% to 40%" www.economist.com/united-state...
The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
How the president presents himself as America’s protector
www.economist.com
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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · Sep 7
"Ukraine's main government building in Kyiv has been hit for the first time in the war during Russian attacks, the Ukrainian prime minister says."
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ukraine's main government building in Kyiv hit for first time, PM says
Several residential buildings were reported partially destroyed and two people, including a one-year-old, killed in attacks on the city.
www.bbc.com
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Jonas Franken @jonasfranken.bsky.social · Sep 7
Two cable faults near Jeddah 🇸🇦. Affected systems: SEA-ME-WE 4, I-ME-WE
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OGAWA, Tadashi @ogawa-tadashi.bsky.social · Sep 7
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