Michelle Mazurek
@mmazurek.bsky.social
security, privacy, people pointy-headed academic, phillies enjoyer still tomorrow's gonna be another working day / just trying to get some rest
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Treating the end of Duration of Status as a technical regulatory change misses its historical significance. Student visas have always been demographic policy. The question isn't how long students can stay. It's what kind of university—and what kind of country—the US is trying to build. 19/
Day 1 of PETS 2026 officially kicks off today at Calgary, Canada. Checkout the conference schedule here: petsymposium.org/2026/program... #pets2026
What I actually want: * I read and cite real sources * AI creates accurate bibtex from sketchy notes ("so-and-so's paper from SOUPS 2 years ago about topic") * AI cleans up the formatting so all references to one conference are formatted the same, titles with acronyms get capitailzed right ...
Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · 3w agoSo I just got probably my fifth email this year from another AI startup focused on citation verification (wanting me to do ads for them). This time as I was looking at their website (tagline: "Write your paper with 100% correct references") I thought... wait, why do we actually want this? 🧵
You’re not an All-Star of any consequence until you’re booed in Philadelphia.
story says they killed him in front of his home, his 3yo daughter saw him bleed to death, they've going to have to be stopped sometime and today's a good day to end this
Deadline to comment is today.
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3w agoRussell Vought is working to advance a key part of his Project 2025 agenda by giving political appointees unprecedented authority over federal science funding decisions. Fight back by leaving your public comment by visiting this link: zurl.co/hdmlB Article: zurl.co/ijSUz
This week we lost the indefatiguable Claire Goldstein z''l. Kind, funny, generous, despite the multiple horrors she survived. She was sharp and energetic well into her 90s. I was lucky to know her. Her memory is, and will be, a blessing. www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/story/opinio...
Gianficaro: Delaware Valley resident recalls horrors of Nazi incarceration
Somehow, after more than 70 years, she recalls his name. Horst, yes, that's it. Horst Strasser. He was 17, and she was 15 or so. They had become good friends under the worst of circumstances. For whe…
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Phillies scored 14 runs (17 allowed) in innings 1-8 against the Nats. Phillies scored 15 runs (1 allowed) in the 9th inning against the Nats.
The Phillies are the first team in MLB history to hit a go-ahead HR in the ninth inning of three consecutive games !!! h/t @EliasSports
Kyle Schwarber has hit two balls a total 913 feet in the third inning. Mercy.
FYI: USENIX is hosting the GREPSEC VII workshop (for Ph.D. students in computer security and privacy, focused on mentorship) on August 10-11, 2026 in Baltimore, MD, co-located with USENIX Security '26. Applications are due June 15! www.usenix.org/conference/g...
GREPSEC VII
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Phillies/Padres is an unbelievable scientific opportunity. To be able to study two black holes here on earth in these offenses? A marvel
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhite House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Today we hold our 43rd annual HCIL symposium to celebrate the amazing research being conducted in the US' oldest HCI lab. Read more and download the program (with abstracts for all the talks) here: hcil.umd.edu/hcil-symposi...
HCIL's 43rd Annual Symposium | May 29, 2026 - Human-Computer Interaction Lab
Join us Friday, May 29 to learn about the cutting-edge research in happening in the HCIL! In this full-day event (held in the Iribe building on UMD’s campus and on Zoom), we’ll hear from faculty and s...
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visited @barnesandnoble.com this morning to buy an ebook. was informed that my existing password was out of date and required to choose a new one. successfully changed to a new, 16-character password. back to site to log in: max 15 chars can be entered in login field. the aristocrats?
Disgusting, shameful, and unfortunately I don't think we're anywhere near the bottom yet ...
Piali Sengupta@senguptalab.bsky.social · 3mo agoI was asked to list any international people I would collaborate with in the next two years. I don’t even know where our science will go next month. Do these people have any fucking clue about how science works??!!
I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.
What Does AI Do?
The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.
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Google had this an hour ago. What did they know???!!
There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.There is no plan or budget model w/o foreign students There is no plan or budget model w/o NSF/NIH/Title VI/FLAS/etc. federal funding There is no plan or budget model with further state budget cuts There is no plan or budget model with further state government caps on tuition There is no plan
Meanwhile the ACM Digital Library is creating AI “podcasts” of papers with no author approval that of course contain inaccuracies (including e.g. misgendering authors) I don’t care about copyright. Legal /= ethical & academic institutions are embarrassing themselves www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...
University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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Authors: @lovelydomingo.com, @mmazurek.bsky.social , @sarahagilbert.bsky.social, @haldaume3.bsky.social Read more: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #ACMTOCHI
Care, wisdom, and civics: Value sensitive design of large language model support for online moderation | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Human-computer interaction (HCI) and natural language processing (NLP) research increasingly explore large language model (LLM) support for online content moderation tasks. This study conducts a value...
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One way companies could try to do this is requiring parents to upload a sensitive legal document like a birth certificate or social security card, along with an ID and a selfie / face scan to do a full identity check proving they are who they say they are. That's a privacy nightmare.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
New research from our lab, appearing at #CHI2026: We studied how mobile app developers create privacy policies, with and without AI. The strategies varied, but plenty do just open an LLM and ask it to write a privacy policy for them.
Tinker, Tailor, Trust: How Developers Create Privacy Policies With and Without AI | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
Share Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.
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WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.