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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 19/08/2026

📣 For folks entering the computing faculty job market cs-pui.github.io is a job board for faculty positions at undergrad institutions that highly value teaching, but also secure time + financial resources to remain engaged with research. It also provides resources & data about the process.

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CS Jobs at Undergrad Institutions (PUIs)

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Legal documents released today show federal law enforcement officials extensively surveilled public meetings and activists during the ICE surge, and created dossiers on political enemies. I've been busy, but will post some takeaways on this thread soon: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Attorney: Homeland Security spied on Minnesotans who spoke out against ICE

Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is the weirdest request for input that I've seen in a while. It's almost like the ACM is sitting at the table with the "change my mind" sign. So, let's do it. Short thread with the input I gave them:

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Can we please stop building surveillance tech?

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Gerrymandering can be used as a sophisticated form of discrimination, allowing politicians to hide behind supposedly race neutral partisan restricting. Therefore gerrymandering is unconstitutional and must go.

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 23/04/2026

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

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Free Yousof Azizi

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Borja Sotomayor @borjasotomayor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you're interested in pursing a teaching-focused academic career in computing, make sure to check out the (online) workshop series that @peck.phd and I will be running in May!

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 02/04/2026

I wrote about what's *actually* gone on in Brazil the past few years. What angers Jordan, Musk et al isn't Brazil's laws, it's a system they can’t control—one that actively defends the democracy it was set up to protect. www.thewayfinder.net/p/brazil-bar...

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Brazil Bars Trump’s Coup Tourist

Ahead of Brazilian elections, institutions hold the line against MAGA meddling

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Maybe you should plan a workshop for SOUPS?

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This is really fascinating and a wonderful explanation of research in moral psychology

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Jared Moore @jaredlcm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Based on reading submissions lately, AI is not your friend for academic writing. Using AI to edit or revise is going to leave you with a mess of jargon and disconnected fragments. At best you need to supervise and direct it, which means already being good at your craft.

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

When are we going to make location data private and take it off the market as a commodity?

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 16/02/2026

I know everyone has a lot bigger problems on their minds, but four years after I took a government job in my area of expertise, I continue to face astronomical legal bills because people lied about me. If you can help at all, I'd appreciate it. Thanks 💙 www.gofundme.com/f/nina-janko...

Friends,

Safeguarding our shared reality continues to be a bleak financial proposition. While I’m working harder than ever to document this administration’s assault on free expression, it’s not bringing in much income, thanks to the chilling effect Trump 2.0 has had on the institutions that once invested in my field. The relentless enemies of truth, however, are profiting from their lies, and challenges to my family’s privacy and safety persist.

My stalker continues to make frivolous legal filings; now, he is retaliating against me for obtaining a protective order against him in 2023. This has led to yet another large legal bill, bringing the total of my legal expenses since 2022 above $100,000.

I know times are tough right now—believe me, I feel it too. This community is the reason I was able to pay my bills after I was villainized for choosing to serve my country. If you can spare a few dollars to help me pay this latest bill, I would be really grateful. Your support means so much.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/nina-jankowicz-legal-fund

With sincere thanks,

Nina

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

SOUPS is a wonderful, welcoming community for human-centered security and privacy work. Please submit and please join us in Hannover, Germany this summer.

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This clearly warrants being fired for cause. I have zero tolerance for this.

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

That doesn’t look like qualitative analysis. Two of those are measurements of time spent using manual annotation. The other two are questionable.

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Those in California can now go here to request that data brokers delete their data: privacy.ca.gov/drop/ This is a good thing, however, it’s far from a complete solution. 🧵 1/

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Delete request and opt-out platform (DROP)

Protect your personal information. Data brokers collect, share, and sell your personal information. You can stop that from happening.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

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Qiaosi (Chelsea) Wang @qiaosiwang.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

🚀💫 I’m on the job market for academic (tenure-track) and industry research positions! 👋I am a Postdoc Fellow at @hcii.cmu.edu working at the intersection of human-AI interaction, cognitive science, responsible AI, design, and social computing. I earned my PhD from @gtresearch.bsky.social in 2024.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options! So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Love to see this. I set up a recurring monthly donation to my food bank.

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Coded with an LLM (this works for both systems and qualitative researchers)

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Eran Toch @eranto.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

It will be my second year co-chairing the Privacy and Security subcommittee at #CHI2026, with the awesome Florian Schaub and Emilee Rader. Abstract submission is today, and we are very excited to review the list of papers that you'll send our way...

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 11/08/2025

I have thoughts. Firstly, Bunch is absolutely right about this. I say this as someone who has worked for corporate media and small media. This is spot on:

That's made street-level journalists like Stern, Buer, and the others who've been assaulted or arrested - freelancers or reporters for small independent sites — more important than ever. They are arguably the truth's last line of defense, keeping tabs on community activism right at the moment when legacy newsrooms are increasingly walking away from that function. They can't be bought, so they are bloodied.

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HD Moore @hdm.io · 10/08/2025

Thank you to everyone who made it out for my DEF CON 33 presentation, "Shaking Out Shells With SSHamble", you can find the materials online at hdm.io/decks/MOORE%... This deck includes some lightly-censored zero-day (more decks @ hdm.io)

A top-level overview of the presentation presented as a grid of thumbnails, showing 42 slides.

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

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Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing

Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Why is it a useful learning activity for a student to correct an AI system? Isn’t this more valuable for those training the AI than for the student? This seems to complicate learning more than to improve it.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 01/08/2025

I'm in a phenomenal talk on gender inequality in cybersecurity this morrning and this is such a great cheat sheet for intersectional fair employment.

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Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃‍♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Wise words from Steven Peck, a rare scholar who bridges disciplinary worlds like few others—a BYU biology professor who also writes award-winning literary fiction.

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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · 22/07/2025

Are you going to be at the best conference, SOUPS (@soupsconference.bsky.social)? If so, consider signing up to be a mentor or mentee for the mentoring program! It's a great way to meet other folks at the conference :) www.usenix.org/conference/s...

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SOUPS 2025 Mentoring Program

The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025), August 10–12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.

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Tanusree Sharma @tanusrees.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

@sauvik.me and I are co-chairing the SOUPS mentoring! If you are attending SOUPS, consider signing up to be a mentor or a mentee. It's a wonderful way to connect with others. www.usenix.org/conference/s...

usenix.org

SOUPS 2025 Mentoring Program

The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025), August 10–12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

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Science Funding Process

=====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

It should not be this hard for a newspaper to admit its errors. Refusing to accept even the smallest amount of accountability is what we have in the authoritarian regime leading this country. We don’t need it in newspapers too.

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is a really good scam attempt. The only clue is a weird sender, and then the phone number is not the real one for Apple Support. But very convincing!

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is going to be fantastic. Join us in Seattle.

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 25/06/2025

Excited to announce the Enigma Track program is now live for USENIX Security '25! Taking place August 13-14, this track delves into technology's societal impacts & future challenges: www.usenix.org/conference/u... 1/8

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The greatest job alert! My team at EFF is hiring and you could be on it: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

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Policy and Research Staff Technologist

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Bookmark this. Great resource.

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Daniel Zappala @zappala.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Fantastic thread from Casey. Researchers, you need to think through these issues carefully before starting a project!

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

"computer science is value neutral" is and always has been ridiculous generally, but it's especially and painfully ridiculous (to me) when the topic is cryptography. Philip Rogaway, as just one example, nailed this a decade ago:

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Researchers who have had grants terminated--tell your story! The #DefendResearch team is collecting testimonials about this impact of #censorship on research that we will use as part of a toolkit for contacting elected officials. #NSF, #NEH, #NIH www.defendresearch.org/testimonials

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Testimonials

In support of protecting free and open scientific inquiry and publication, we are collecting short testimonials from researchers on the impact of censorship on their work and the broader community. T...

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