Michelle L. Mazurek

Michelle Mazurek

@mmazurek.bsky.social

310 followers 150 following 76 posts

security, privacy, people
pointy-headed academic, phillies enjoyer
still tomorrow's gonna be another working day / just trying to get some rest

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Sociology 13%

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 3d

UMD CS is hiring in systems and data science, broadly construed (security definitely counts). Come work with us! www.cs.umd.edu/job/2025/jr1...

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA is recruiting to fill multiple tenure-track faculty positions, with starting dates on or after July 1, 2026. The...

www.cs.umd.edu

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 4d

This is the story of a CS major who first accessed the thing for homework help. 18 months later it cheered him on as he died by suicide. All anyone at the university seems to want to talk about is how to better integrate these things into our curriculum. What the actual fuck are we doing here?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN

A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

www.cnn.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN

A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

www.cnn.com

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Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social · 4d

With the #chi2026 reviews coming out, I am posting my regular reminder to folks who do qualitative research. I have been curating a document with common critiques of qual research and how to respond. Check it out and add your own examples!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them

Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them Author: Jessica Vitak (+ anyone who adds to the document) About This Document (and a disclaimer) Reviewing is a highly subjective pr...

docs.google.com

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one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 9d

How can you not be romantic about baseball? [DEROGATORY] [COMPLIMENTARY]

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Franzke & LA @franzkela.bsky.social · 10d

Even the Phillies think that was terrible execution with runners in scoring position

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studie @wgss-umd.bsky.social · 13d

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 15d

Kiddo has been getting it for several years now and same. Honestly better coverage on some topics than certain prestige newspapers I could mention ...

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 15d

if you have kids between like 6 - 12 you should get them a subscription to The Week Junior. yes pricey but it's actually so impressive and informative, my son's obsessed with it. (this is not sponsored [obviously] i've never interacted w/ them i just think its a great magazine!) theweekjunior.com

The Week Junior

theweekjunior.com

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 15d

The Week Junior

theweekjunior.com

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 15d

Donated in memory of my immigrant grandmothers and their foundational belief that food == love

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15d

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Elizabeth Saunders, Erich Fromm , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Elizabeth Saunders, Erich Fromm, Michelle L. Mazurek, Anne Hilborn

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15d

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 17d

Generate data using an LLM. Feed that data back into (the same) LLM for "analysis." Science!

(This post brought to you by attempting not to rage-quit the paper review I am working on.)

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 17d

If you are asking me to do stuff and you immediately qualify it with "Claude can probably do most of this for you" I guess I know how seriously to take your requests.

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Lisa W. Fazio, Carl Henrik Knutsen , and 5 more Shannon Vallor, Lisa W. Fazio, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Caroline Krafft, David K. Evans, Kelly Smith, Daniel W. Drezner, Michelle L. Mazurek

Reposted by Ilya Somin, Eric Goldman, Cathy N. Davidson , and 6 more Ilya Somin, Eric Goldman, Cathy N. Davidson, Luke Moffett, Michelle L. Mazurek, David Murakami Wood, Mark Rice, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Southern Africa

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 19d

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 21d

existing in all other parts of life: we need to be thoughtful about how we integrate technology into human affairs

watching an umpire in the postseason: BRING FORTH THE ROBOT GODS

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Michelle L. Mazurek, Michael D. McDonald , and 2 more Timothy Snyder, Michelle L. Mazurek, Michael D. McDonald, Greg Linden, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 21d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 22d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 22d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 27d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 23d

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus

The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.

www.heraldtimesonline.com

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 23d

mood.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 23d

Philly

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 23d

Philly

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23d

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

International student arrivals to the US fall by 19%

The US recorded a 20% drop in student visa arrivals this August, though the full picture remains unclear amid contradictory datasets.

thepienews.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24d

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 24d

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 25d

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Take Back the Court REP. JOHN LEWIS: In 1965, Jurist Roberts was only 10-years-old. He may be a brilliant lawyer, but I wonder whether he can really understand the depth of what it took to get the Voting Rights Act passed. The right to vote is precious, almost
sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. As many of you know, I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but some
of my friends and colleagues gave all they had, their very lives for the right to vote. I feel that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be the Chief Justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people's cries for justice. I feel that the leadership of the Court will promote politics over the protection of individual rights and liberties. If the Federal Courts had abandoned us in the civil rights movement in the name of judicial restraint, we might still be struggling with the
burden of legal segregation in America today. Jurist Roberts's memos reveal him to be hostile towards civil rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. He has even said that Voting Rights Act
violations, and I quote, "should not be made too easy to prove.'

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · Oct 9

Oops, link got deleted: satc-aspiring-2025.github.io

SaTC Aspiring PI Workshop 2025

satc-aspiring-2025.github.io

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · Oct 9

Calling junior faculty, postdocs, and PhD students on the job market (from the security research community) for the 2025 SaTC Aspiring PI workshop.

Workshop Dec. 15-16, applications due Oct. 17, travel will be reimbursed for participants.

SaTC Aspiring PI Workshop 2025

satc-aspiring-2025.github.io

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · Oct 3

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

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