LECTURE NEXT WEEK: 🗣️ Dr. @maddyjalbert.bsky.social will present her research on why we fall for online misinformation and what we can do about it. 😵‍💫 #academicsky 📅 Monday, March 2, 11:15 am - 12:25 pm 📍 210 South Hall & Online Event details

Last week, we had the pleasure of launching our second official alumni group in Los Angeles! 🌴☀️ We are so grateful to have had our amazing I School community join us. Go Bears! 🐻

Check out this Q&A with our Chang-Award winning team Rest Assured “VentiAPI”! Members Karl-Johan Westhoff, Jenny Garcia, Tyler Heslop, and Bleu Strong help organizations find and fix vulnerabilities in their web APIs. Read the full interview:

Check out this Q&A with our Varian-Award winning team AgeVoicE! Members Emma Choate, Vinith Kuruppu, and David Russell created a fine-tuned model that bridged age-related performance gaps in AI. They discussed working as a team and future plans!

Meet MIMS student ✨ Octavia Smith ✨ Octavia shares her favorite classes, what advice she'd give to a new student, and what BHM means to her. "I try to embody their legacies by focusing on inclusion, equity, and accessibility at MIMS," she said. #BHM

The UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic has trained 300+ students to defend nonprofits and social-sector organizations against cyber attacks. In the clinic, students learn how to apply cybersecurity practices to local organizations. @cltcberkeley.bsky.social

"Wait… what's an I School?" — a question more people have than you'd think 😅 Ph.D. student and MIMS grad Sarah Barrington breaks it all down in this episode of our "What is An I School" series. 👇 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVJzXe9CpHp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

🚨 HIRING 🚨 The I School invites applications for up to three new full-time Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholars to start as soon as July 2026! This program will allow researchers to develop their own research while collaborating with leading faculty. Next review date is Feb 28! #academicsky

Happening Today! Jerry Chai will examine two major censorship upgrades in China: new mechanisms for blocking fully encrypted traffic and for filtering QUIC traffic at scale. #academicsky 📅 TODAY, 11:30 am - 12:40 pm 📍 210 South Hall

Join us on Monday for another amazing talk! 🤩 Jerry Chai will examine two major censorship upgrades in China: new mechanisms for blocking fully encrypted traffic and for filtering QUIC traffic at scale. 📅 Feb 23, 11:30 am - 12:40 pm 📍 210 South Hall

@cltcberkeley.bsky.social just released a white paper report analyzing every cybersecurity-related bill enacted in all 50 states during the 2025 legislative sessions. The report identifies nationwide patterns, approaches, and entities and sectors they regulate. cltc.berkeley.edu/2026/02/19/n...

🚨 Lecture TODAY! 🚨 Join us for a lecture w/ @sophiestephenson.me, who will discuss interpersonal security and privacy, as interpersonal digital threats become more pervasive. #academicsky 📅 TODAY, 2:15 pm - 3:25 pm 📍 210 South Hall & Online

Congratulations to I School Ph.D. alum @zephoria.bsky.social for receiving a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship! 👏 👏 boyd is the Geri Gay Professor of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell. She graduated from the I School in 2008.

The Daily Call featured I School lecturer Elliott Adams in an article about the Tea app. "There is a lot of industry momentum to build in security, even if you use tools (such as) Claude Code that are getting more popular for (vibe coding)," said Adams. www.dailycal.org/weekender/co...

Happy Lunar New Year! 🐎 新年快乐 Chúc mừng năm mới 새해 복 많이 받으세요 恭喜发财 明けましておめでとうございます Selamat Tahun Baru Cina. Selamat Tahun Baru Imlek. 🫶 , the School of Information

Join us at Alumni Spring Week, a weekend dedicated to fun, connection, & community for I School alums! 📅 March 12-14 Events: - Virtual Town Hall w/ Dean Meyer - Alumni Night @ Golden State Warriors - Jazz Brunch Get your tickets today: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/alumni/springweek

Congrats to Team AgeVoicE and Team Rest Assured "VentiAPI" for receiving the Fall 2025 Varian Capstone Award and Chang Capstone Award respectively! 🏆 The teams created solutions for age-related AI performance gaps and for identifying API vulnerabilities. www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2026/fa...

Made with paper, glitter, and lots of love ✂️✨ Happy Valentine's Day to our amazing I School community! 💙 💛 More photos can be found here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCJDq7

In the search for Nancy Guthrie, AI is complicating things. On a @NPR.org podcast episode, Prof. Hany Farid spoke about how easy it is to create AI content: "if you have a single LinkedIn profile and somebody listened to your voicemail...That's it."

⏰ TODAY, 2/11, at 12:10pm, South Hall & Online. Join us for a Bellwether Lecture with Prof @michamahlberg.bsky.social: "Making Sense of the World through Language and Stories: A Digital Humanities Perspective." Details: https://bit.ly/4bO6jCv

Join us at Alumni Spring Week, a weekend dedicated to fun, connection, & community for I School alums! 📅 March 12-14 Events: - Virtual Town Hall w/ Dean Meyer - Alumni Night @ Golden State Warriors - Jazz Brunch Get your tickets today: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/alumni/springweek

AI-edited photos depicting Nekima Levy Armstrong leads to Prof Hany Farid on New York Times questioning, “If you are so seamlessly intermixing real and fake, why should I believe anything you do?” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/nekima-levy-armstrong-minnesota-protest.html

Brb, going to sit in a tunnel and monologue about all the things we love about our I School 📱 Come to the college 🥰 #heatedrivalry #smiski

Prof. Josh Blumenstock's research with @cega-uc.bsky.social was featured in a Berkeley News article. Using machine learning, he found that it would only take $318 billion per year (0.3% of the global GDP) to bring millions of people out of extreme poverty.

Eight I School students were awarded fellowships for 2025-26 to study issues such as food waste and biased systems. Congratulations to Ando Shah, Marisa Hall, Yangyang Yang, Yinwei Sun, Stephanie Andrews, Kobby Hanson, Anna Mowat, and Roshni Misra! 👏

We just announced our Los Angeles Alumni Chapter Launch and would love to see you there! 📅 Saturday, February 21 | 2:30–5:00 PM 📍 Tom’s Watch Bar @ LA Live (1011 S Figueroa St b101) Register here: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/los-angeles-i-school-alumni-chapter-launch

When filming ICE, certain procedures such as saving non edited videos are used as safety precautions. Prof Hany Farid advises “always saving the original recordings that can be shared with reporters and forensic analysts like me.” @wired.com https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-film-ice/

Alums! This is your last chance to purchase tickets to join us at the Warriors Game for Spring Week! 🏀 📅 March 13, 4:30 pm - 10:00 pm 📍 Chase Center Get your tickets now: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/i-school-alumni-night-golden-state-warriors

Join us for our first Bellwether Lecture w/ @michamahlberg.bsky.social, Prof. @dhssfau.bsky.social! She will propose a digital humanities approach that aims to widen the perspective on the study of language. 📅 February 11, 12:10 - 2:00 pm 📍 210 South Hall

AI-enhanced images of the shooting of a Minnesota nurse are circulating social media. "The issue with these images is that the AI enhancement tends to hallucinate details," said Prof. Harid to @afp.com. https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.942Z29E

📢 REMINDER: Apply to the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program by 2/2! Held at Oxford this year, PhD students will learn from & engage with leading academics in the field of information and internet studies. Learn more:
https://bit.ly/4p4CK2n #OIISDP #OIIBerkeleySDP

ANNOUNCING: Alumni Spring Week, a weekend dedicated to fun, connection, & community for I School alums! 📅 March 12-14 Events: - Virtual Town Hall w/ Dean Meyer - Alumni Night @ Golden State Warriors - Jazz Brunch Get your tickets today: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/alumni/springweek

Professor Hany Farid discusses the ethics of photo manipulation seen with retouched images of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s wife. “Is it nefarious? No. Is it a problem? Yes... This is about trust," said Prof. Farid to @APnews.com.

While some tech executives are all in on the Trump administration, others like Ph.D. alum Galen Panger have spoken out in protest over recent events in Minneapolis. "...what future are they asking us to imagine now?” he asked in an article with @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/t...

The White Housed posted a photo on social media that was digitally altered to make it look like a protester was sobbing after being arrested in connection to a protest. "This trend is troubling on several levels," stated Prof. Hany Farid. @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/white-h...

🎧LISTEN: On a podcast episode w/ ScienceFriday, Prof. Hany Farid discussed how deepfakes have become commonplace and what we can do to avoid falling victim. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dee...

From Venezuela to Minneapolis, the rapid rollout of deepfakes around major news events is causing confusion about real news. Prof. Hany Farid said that when presented with news that conforms to your worldview, "you’re incentivized to believe it." @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

@cltcberkeley.bsky.social hosted a tabletop exercise titled "Operation Black Ice," where experts explored how organizations make high-stakes decisions when AI-enabled impersonation, third-party vulnerabilities, and ransomware pressure converge. cltc.berkeley.edu/2026/01/20/a...

@cltcberkeley.bsky.social Fellow Shannon Pierson was featured by The Business Journals and discussed public-interest cybersecurity. "My work focuses on protecting the essential public service providers that help support our daily lives," she said. www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/new...

Happy MLK Jr. Day! 🎉 Wishing our community a great day full of love, courage, and unity.

Ph.D. student Lauren Chambers published an op-ed on @thehill.com discussing the administration's creation of a new “Tech Force”. "The Tech Force will keep both top tech minds and government programs in the pockets of Big Tech," she wrote. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

When people share weather images and videos that seem AI-generated, @Forbes.com recommended a few steps to spot fake images. One of them? They recommend consulting experts such as Prof. Hany Farid and using their detection methods to find anomalies. More:

How will AI change things in 2026? @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social asked experts including Profs. Hany Farid and Deirdre Mulligan. Farid will watch how trust continues to erode with deepfakes, whereas Mulligan will monitor the privacy risks created by chatbot. news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/13/w...

After Maduro's removal, AI-generated content on social media platforms increased disinformation. Prof. Hany Farid spoke out about what many people are doing: "Nobody's got an image of the thing that happened? Make an image and then tell the story." @NPR.org

📢 REMINDER: Apply to join us for the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program, an opportunity for Ph.D. students to learn from & engage with leading academics in the field of information and internet studies! #AcademicSky ⏰ DEADLINE: 2/2 https://bit.ly/4p4CK2n

Hours after a fatal shooting in Minneapolis by an immigration agent, AI deepfakes of the victim and the shooter flooded online platforms and caused mass confusion. Prof. Hany Farid stated to @en.afp.com, "I fear that this is our new reality." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Are you an alum based in the SF Bay Area? Join us in SF for a happy hour and networking as we launch the I School’s first official alumni chapter. 📅 January 29; 5:30 - 7:30 pm 📍 Standard Deviant Brewing For more information & tickets:

ICYMI 📰 Mariah Ehmke, MIDS student, published research on work to develop a new measure of nutrition security, titled: Monitoring Nutrition Security: Perspectives from a Workshop on Nutrition Security Measurement. https://jn.nutrition.org/article/S0022-3166%2825%2900411-0/fulltext

Ph.D. student Sarah Barrington was featured in a @7news-wkbw.bsky.social article about AI voice cloning scams after a NY couple was swindled out of thousands of dollars. "These AI technologies effectively supercharge existing cybercrime capabilities," she said. www.wkbw.com/news/local-n...

ICYMI 📰 Andrew Akuaku, MIMS student, launched his first startup, Cultiflow, an AI-powered crowdfarming platform that tracks food demand and enables people to invest in crops facing supply shortages. 👏 👏 https://cultiflow.com/