Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

My daily audience while writing grant proposals

The fun thing about watching the movie 2001 in 2025 is you realize HAL is just an LLM and so *obviously* it’s going to murder its crewmembers every few flights due to malformed JSON.

2025 was a tough year, but we are still here. To all academics out there, may 2026 be a great year! 🎉

PhD students in AI: Bell Labs Cambridge is hiring Summer 2026 interns in Social & #ResponsibleAI. Paid, 3 months, visa support, publication-focused. Work on AI ethics, risk, governance, and human values. Deadline: Jan 11, 2026.

The 2025 @acsacconf.bsky.social is ready to start! Looking forward to three days of papers and discussions. Come say hi if you are around!

Our paper "The Cost of Convenience: Identifying, Analyzing, and Mitigating Predatory Loan Applications on Android" was accepted at ASIACCS 2026! Work led by my student Olawale Akanji. Stay tuned for the PDF!

When people falsely claim that we are doing censorship work, I think, in many cases, what they are trying to do is stop us from trying to understand the harms they are trying to push...using bad information. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kFoO...

Just accepted at #AAAI26 in Singapore: Our paper on estimating the *correctness* of LLM-generated code in the absence of oracles (e.g., a ground-truth implementation). 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2507.00057 with Thomas Valentin (ENS Paris-Saclay), Ardi Madadi, and Gaetano Sapia (#MPI_SP).

Great visiting KIT yesterday. Thanks for hosting me!

This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.

Looking forward to visiting Karlsruhe next week!

Exciting position @northeasternu.bsky.social ! Managing Policy Director at the new Institute for Information, & Democracy, please share with interested parties. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion." My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

5. For example, research produced and funded by tech companies often either frames problems as user-driven, or explores solutions as the obligation of users (e.g. community notes). Seldom does it explore consequences of design, UX, or algorithmic implementation, let alone the business model.

🌟 Want to help shape #MADWeb 2026? Nominate yourself for the Program Committee! Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 ⏰ Consider applying even if you don't have extensive reviewing experience! forms.gle/UovLWS78aa3t...

Here is a story about a AAAI paper that got 5 human reviews and 1 AI review. The AI generated review contained a page-long counterexample to a proof in the paper. The AI’s counter example contained hallucinated errors. How does one rebut an AI reviewer? www.linkedin.com/posts/omerbp...

We turned our pain into a research paper… documenting how our collaborative research team (which included researchers at a public university) navigated a slew of public records requests (by some of the same folks who have since turned their attention towards attacking academia more broadly).

AI predicts rain. We predict trouble! Today, Erik presents a novel attack on Google's latest AI weather model at #CCS2025. By changing only 0.1% of the observations, the attack can fabricate or suppress the prediction of extreme events, from hurricanes 🌀 to heat waves 🔥 1/4 @bifold.berlin

Join us 10/29 for a Focused Research Program symposium that will bring together experts in AI, medical imaging, clinical medicine, and public health to share advances in AI-driven early detection and equitable care. spr.ly/63323AtxxB

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact “And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Researchers develop AI system to detect scam websites in search results 📖 Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/09/l... #cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #cybercrime #machinelearning #scams @bostonu.bsky.social @gianlucastringhini.com

Nice article covering our upcoming NDSS paper www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/09/l...

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work. Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Several scientists have received letters from the NIH director disinviting them from their positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding, I'm told. In July, I reported that NIH staff were told to select members aligned with Trump administration priorities.

"a disproportionate share of the social-media chatter that fed the news cycle about Cracker Barrel's logo was driven by bots on X" www.wsj.com/articles/bot...

Always be submitting grant proposals is the mantra

E-commerce fraudulent websites are a big problem, yet the community lacks open and comprehensive approaches to proactively discover them. In our upcoming NDSS paper we present Loki, a system that mines search engine queries to surface new scam websites. Read our paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12181

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

"A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

Looking for #Postdoc or Asst. Professor Positions for 2025-2026 in Computer/Social/Information/Management Sciences and related fields? Here's a google Sheet with about 40 active positions (so far) from Bluesky, LinkedIn, and Twitter. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #AcademicCareer #Academia #Jobs

Another academic year, another multiple deadlines day

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Turns out most Americans (70%) believe US universities should be receiving previous levels of funding - or even more! - to advance scientific research.

Spot the differences

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost! Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%). "Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov. ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

"I am wielded by novelists, bloggers, essayists, and that one friend who types exclusively in lowercase but still demands emotional range."

Please spread the word: Want to work on legal frameworks vs technological realities in S&P with @nikolausf.substack.com, @bprainsack.bsky.social & me? Apply by August 31 for a PhD in our interdisciplinary @wwtf.at funded #Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Practicing for my plan B career

Our paper "LOKI: Proactively Discovering Online Scam Websites by Mining Toxic Search Queries" has been accepted at NDSS 2026! 🎉 Congrats to my student Pujan Paudel for leading this effort!

Per the NSF website, the agency is reinstating 114 awards as a result of a preliminary injunction that was issued last week. Source: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal. scim.ag/4l9MO8Y

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Join us for the 8th Annual Cambridge Cybercrime Conference, marking 10 years of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre! Anyone interested in interdisciplinary cybersecurity and cybercrime research is welcome. When: June 23 Where: Cambridge & online More info: www.cambridgecybercrime.uk/conference20...

Good reminder from @aaas.org that the proposed cuts to science are in the president's budget REQUEST. Congress can and should* continue their strong bipartisan support for American science. (*Note, should in the moral sense. I don't know what they'll actually do but I do know we can still fight)

The submission deadline for @acsacconf.bsky.social is this Friday! We look forward to reviewing your papers 🔍

We hope everyone's papers are well underway to be finished right in time for #ACSAC2025's paper submission deadline this Friday, 30th May (AoE): www.acsac.org/2025/s...

The submission deadline for @acsacconf.bsky.social is this Friday! We look forward to reviewing your papers 🔍

Perhaps relevant as scientists weather a range of attacks, our team (led by UW research scientist Rachel Moran) published a paper describing how a slew of public records requests impacted our work & what that means for collaborative research in adversarial spaces & times: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...