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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"A big step back for browser security": #UWAllen professors David Kohlbrenner and @franziroesner.bsky.social found that #AI browser agents may be tricked into violating the same-origin policy, which has protected users for 30 years. 🚨 www.washington.edu/news/2026/06... #Cybersecurity #AgenticAI

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PRISM Research @prismuf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Many assumptions about older adults online are wrong. Join PRISM with @eszter.com to learn what the data shows. Apr 23 | 12:30 PM ET bit.ly/4kSEz1O #DigitalLiteracy #Cybersecurity #Aging

Promotional graphic for the PRISM Speaker Series featuring Eszter Hargittai. Title reads “Wired Wisdom: How to Age Better Online.” Event is April 23 at 12:30 PM ET, virtual, hosted by Elissa Redmiles. Includes links to register for the talk and a student meeting after the talk, and an NSF acknowledgment with grant numbers.

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Franzi Roesner @franziroesner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Me, quietly, to spouse: At what age do kids just start eating whatever meal you make? 5yo, loudly, from across the room: Well maybe if you made it YUMMY

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Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

No joke, I've reread or thought about this poem almost weekly since the start of the year. A poem for our times if ever there was one. Thank you @jacquiz.bsky.social @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social #WorldPoetryDay

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Saw this metaphor by Terence Tao floating around about one of the drawbacks of using AI to solve hard math problems, and kind of have the same feeling for “vibe science” or “fully automated science” line of research in #AI4Science. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #ScAISci

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Today, #AI has a healthy social life (www.moltbook.com), dating AI (moltmatch.xyz) and humans, are scientists (www.clawxiv.org/list), creators (www.onlymolts.app), have funding (yclawbinator.ai), are hiring humans (rentahuman.ai), and their welfare is taken seriously (arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986).

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RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks

The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

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Karina Lutz @karinalutz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

goal: to see both; to not shut down one because of the other

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Who would cut / her home to pieces and row away for that? Maggie Smith, from Good Bones (2017)

YOU COULD NEVER TAKE A CAR TO
GREENLAND,

my daughter says. Unless the car could float.
Unless by car you mean boat. Unless the ocean
turned to ice and promised not to crack.
Unless Greenland floated over here,
having lifted its anchor. Unless we could row
our country there. Our whole continent
would have to come along, wouldn't it? Unless
we cut ourselves free. What kind of saw
could we use for that? What kind of oars
could deliver one country to another?
She asks, Why is Greenland called Greenland
if it's not green? Why is Iceland called
Iceland if it's greener than Greenland?
Unless it's a trick, a lie: the name Greenland
is an ad for Greenland. Who would go
promised nothing but ice? Who would cut
her home to pieces and row away for that?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Seeing Walz withdraw from the MN gov race while the Epstein files continue to emit fumes w/o consequences and RFKjr marshals more children to die, I am reflecting on the burden of shame & contrition. It seems the only people who can succeed in our current info & political environment feel no shame.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Not sure about everyone else, but I’m encouraged today (elated?) that we learned last night that we can beat candidates/parties of bullshit, AI slop, corruption, and authoritarianism without emulating them and without tacking towards a false center between us and them.

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Today in ONE ART, we feature poems by Franziska (Franzi) Roesner & Gloria Heffernan oneartpoetry.com

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry

(Write it!)

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Join us at the UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. We are hiring tenure-track faculty positions. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174303

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Two great bits of academic attack work this week. The new one allows Android apps to see data displayed on the screen by other apps, including Google Authenticator codes. www.pixnapping.com

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Pixnapping Attack

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Katharina Reinecke @katharinareinecke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩‍💻

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner. We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague! Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here! Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline). Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

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Franzi Roesner @franziroesner.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Took myself to Cascade Pass / Sahale Arm today and it was the LITERAL BEST.

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Franzi Roesner @franziroesner.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

My 7yo just *asked* to go on a hike this weekend. That's it, I'm done, I will never achieve anything greater.

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Franzi Roesner @franziroesner.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

New poem up at swwimmiami.substack.com/p/retrospect..., inspired by a recent visit to the MOMA in NYC :)

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Retrospective of a Woman

By Franziska Roesner

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

James Baldwin "Art would not be important if life were not important, life is important."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/05/2025

An extraordinary story about how scientists in the US are afraid to speak up as the entire science research ecosystem is demolished at the hands of the Republican administration. Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Having mastered large language models, submarine design, toilet paper supply chain logistics, trade economics, and Russian military history, I would like to explain why I think Catholics chose the wrong Pope....(1/57)

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Crushing to hear of more junior colleagues in the computer science & human-computer interaction (HCI) space whose NSF CAREER grants were terminated this week. I'm hopeful that philanthropic funders can find a way to support this generation of scientists studying online manipulation, bias in AI, etc.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/04/2025

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars.

CSV of table:
Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value
Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075"
Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113"
Engineering,94,"$33,472,485"
Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740"
Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312"
Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738"
STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063"
"Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904"
"Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20/04/2025

The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false. The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is just to say I have texted the war plans that were in the Defense Department and which you were probably saving for people with a security clearance Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

being a white male conservative in the US is genuinely one of the easiest lives it is possible to live, and you can tell that's the case bc these morons think having someone tell you your opinions suck ass is the worst thing that could ever happen to you

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Franzi Roesner @franziroesner.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"what's going on? Did you find something else to do that's not getting ready for bed?" "I just wanna make a toothpaste soup" cool cool

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump was going to do all the things that he's now doing. But she wasn't likable enough when she did it.

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Franzi Roesner @franziroesner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

May someone find value in my angry feminist post-election poem, appearing today in @themarbledsigh.bsky.social 's political poetry anthology.

Exit Poll

Where should I put
my feminist rage?
Chew it up,
swallow it,
let it sit
heavy in my gut,
undigested
for seven years?
Wrap it
in a body bag,
tie it at the knees,
dump it
in the Boston Harbor?
Deposit it into
a savings account
under my husband's name?
Crush it
with my bare feet,
ferment it in oak barrels,
drink it alone?
Paint
my nails with it,
shiny, black, expensive,
sharpened
to points?
Or bestow it,
carefully
(a fragile
inheritance
cradled
against my chest)
upon my daughters?

— Franzi Roesner

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/03/2025

The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law. He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will. I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.

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Franzi Roesner @franziroesner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

May someone find value in my angry feminist post-election poem, appearing today in @themarbledsigh.bsky.social 's political poetry anthology.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 01/02/2025

In a nutshell, microtargeting “works” and can be automated through Generative AI. People do not like it but warning them does not eliminate the persuasive advantage of targeting. 17/n

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Yoshi Kohno @yoshikohno.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This is @kaimingcheng.bsky.social at his great talk on "User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality" at USEC earlier this week. Nice work!! 🎉 Check out the paper at www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u....

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A reminder that scholars who are facing harassment can find resources at researchersupport.org and should feel free to reach out via the email address listed on the “About Us” page.

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Researcher Support Consortium

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Umar Iqbal @umariqbal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We are excited to announce that IsolateGPT will appear at NDSS 25. To foster follow-up research, we release our code (github.com/llm-platform...). Also as @llamaindex.bsky.social Pack (llamahub.ai/l/llama-pack...). Lead by Yuhao Wu w/ @franziroesner.bsky.social @yoshikohno.bsky.social & Ning Zhang

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GitHub - llm-platform-security/SecGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Agentic Systems

An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Agentic Systems - llm-platform-security/SecGPT

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