Andrew Dwyer
@andrewdwyer.bsky.social
Lecturer @isg-rhul.bsky.social | Geopolitics and Cyber Security | Writing a book on computation and geopolitics | Lead @ Offensive Cyber Working Group
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Andrew Dwyer
@andrewdwyer.bsky.social
· Dec 17
I now have my physical copies of 'Digital Ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds' from @digicologies.bsky.social. Honestly, such lovely, caring engagement from the editors and three afterwords.
This has really made my day 🥲
This has really made my day 🥲
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New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On 12 November, we are delighted to welcome Siân John MBE to deliver the second Fred Piper Annual Information Security Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social.
Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
AI in practice: skills, security, and shifting realities
This lecture explores the real-world implications of AI—beyond the hype and into the grounded realities of how it's reshaping our work, education, and societal expectations.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
On 12 November, we are delighted to welcome Siân John MBE to deliver the second Fred Piper Annual Information Security Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social.
Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
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📰 Check out this new report funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 'Securing Converged Technologies: Insights from Subject Matter Experts'
Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Securing converged technologies: insights from subject matter experts
www.gov.uk
August 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
📰 Check out this new report funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 'Securing Converged Technologies: Insights from Subject Matter Experts'
Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
📢 New blog piece from me - Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities - for the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security!
riscs.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...
riscs.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...
Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities – Andrew Dwyer – Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security
riscs.org.uk
August 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
📢 New blog piece from me - Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities - for the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security!
riscs.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...
riscs.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...
Funding bid submitted exploring some of the political economy of cyber power... fingers crossed as it's a potentially fantastic collaboration :D
July 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Funding bid submitted exploring some of the political economy of cyber power... fingers crossed as it's a potentially fantastic collaboration :D
Is anyone I know planning on attending the #AAG next year in San Fran? I'm mulling over what to do as I've been out of the geography conference circuit for a few years...
July 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Is anyone I know planning on attending the #AAG next year in San Fran? I'm mulling over what to do as I've been out of the geography conference circuit for a few years...
I'm delighted that with colleagues - Co-Is Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Danilo Francati - that we have been successful in the first SALIENT funding call with our project, "Fake in the Community"
Fake in the Community - @royalholloway.bsky.social
📱 ‘Cheap fakes’ are eroding trust in local digital spaces. This community-led project co-designs tools to counter misinformation and support digital resilience.
@andrewdwyer.bsky.social
@royalholloway.bsky.social
@isg-rhul.bsky.social
📱 ‘Cheap fakes’ are eroding trust in local digital spaces. This community-led project co-designs tools to counter misinformation and support digital resilience.
@andrewdwyer.bsky.social
@royalholloway.bsky.social
@isg-rhul.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I'm delighted that with colleagues - Co-Is Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Danilo Francati - that we have been successful in the first SALIENT funding call with our project, "Fake in the Community"
A quote from me in @thetimes.com yesterday
I was perhaps being somewhat provocative, but can a self-proclaimed technical authority (the UK NCSC) be also driving market and political change?
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
I was perhaps being somewhat provocative, but can a self-proclaimed technical authority (the UK NCSC) be also driving market and political change?
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
May 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A quote from me in @thetimes.com yesterday
I was perhaps being somewhat provocative, but can a self-proclaimed technical authority (the UK NCSC) be also driving market and political change?
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
I was perhaps being somewhat provocative, but can a self-proclaimed technical authority (the UK NCSC) be also driving market and political change?
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
In the increasing discussion of 'agentic' AI, I thought about this back a few years ago with relation to computation, war and conflict...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
The unknowable conflict | 3 | Tracing AI, recognition, and the death o
In our contemporary moment, computation has unsettled international conflict through an inherent, and growing, incommensurability expedited by ‘artificial
www.taylorfrancis.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
In the increasing discussion of 'agentic' AI, I thought about this back a few years ago with relation to computation, war and conflict...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
After a very eventful and reflective #CHI2025, just found out that we have been successful in more funding to continue this work!
What a great sweetener to end on!
What a great sweetener to end on!
In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025.
This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
May 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
After a very eventful and reflective #CHI2025, just found out that we have been successful in more funding to continue this work!
What a great sweetener to end on!
What a great sweetener to end on!
In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025.
This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
April 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025.
This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Planning a conference as a lecturer is so different to a PhD...
Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!
Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!
April 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Planning a conference as a lecturer is so different to a PhD...
Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!
Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!
A little door refresh with some recent work!
April 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A little door refresh with some recent work!
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Putting this back here because yes the deep border is everywhere, it certainly doesn’t respect “compartmentalized data” (are people really surprised that DOGE links data sources arbitrarily & violently?)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The deep border
Deep neural network algorithms are becoming intimately involved in the politics of the border, and are themselves bordering devices in that they class…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Putting this back here because yes the deep border is everywhere, it certainly doesn’t respect “compartmentalized data” (are people really surprised that DOGE links data sources arbitrarily & violently?)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sometimes academia can be a wild one - just been on @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social's LBC show to discuss the extraordinary leak of information on Signal on the Yemen strikes.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Sometimes academia can be a wild one - just been on @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social's LBC show to discuss the extraordinary leak of information on Signal on the Yemen strikes.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Our #CHI2025 paper is now on arXiv!
For those of you who wish to consider HCI and security from community-based perspective, where all actors in the 'digital by default' economy can be 'snipers' and ways of moving beyond threat models, this is for you!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992
For those of you who wish to consider HCI and security from community-based perspective, where all actors in the 'digital by default' economy can be 'snipers' and ways of moving beyond threat models, this is for you!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992
March 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Our #CHI2025 paper is now on arXiv!
For those of you who wish to consider HCI and security from community-based perspective, where all actors in the 'digital by default' economy can be 'snipers' and ways of moving beyond threat models, this is for you!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992
For those of you who wish to consider HCI and security from community-based perspective, where all actors in the 'digital by default' economy can be 'snipers' and ways of moving beyond threat models, this is for you!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992
The Heathrow incident shows how important information - over cyber - security is for operational resilience. It’s about the whole ‘stack.’ I also think we need to reevaluate the UK flavour of ‘risk based’ governance that is consistently used to do the minimum investment possible.
on.ft.com/4bMPRAl
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Heathrow’s shutdown fuels questions about UK’s infrastructure resilience
Within hours of a fire at a power substation, one of the world’s busiest airports was closed to all flights
on.ft.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Heathrow incident shows how important information - over cyber - security is for operational resilience. It’s about the whole ‘stack.’ I also think we need to reevaluate the UK flavour of ‘risk based’ governance that is consistently used to do the minimum investment possible.
on.ft.com/4bMPRAl
on.ft.com/4bMPRAl
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📢 Our own @andrewdwyer.bsky.social gave evidence to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) on offensive cyber - demonstrating the ISG's key work in providing expertise to policy in information and cyber security
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
ISG Academic provides expertise on ‘offensive cyber’ to UK Parliamentary committee
Dr Andrew Dwyer, Lecturer in Information Security, gave expert evidence to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy during a session on ‘offensive cyber’.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
March 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
📢 Our own @andrewdwyer.bsky.social gave evidence to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) on offensive cyber - demonstrating the ISG's key work in providing expertise to policy in information and cyber security
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
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we are recruiting a physical geography full professor - do contact @geodiverse.bsky.social if you need a bit of background to Oxford-University-ness (the role of the colleges here is, err, unique...). #geosky @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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March 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
we are recruiting a physical geography full professor - do contact @geodiverse.bsky.social if you need a bit of background to Oxford-University-ness (the role of the colleges here is, err, unique...). #geosky @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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So pleased to announce the launch event for the new @blavatnikschool.bsky.social at Oxford Tech and Cyber Policy Programme.
The brilliant Richard Horne, head of the National Cyber Security Centre, will be speaking next Weds at 5pm.
Sign up in person or online! 1/2
bit.ly/3D66x98
The brilliant Richard Horne, head of the National Cyber Security Centre, will be speaking next Weds at 5pm.
Sign up in person or online! 1/2
bit.ly/3D66x98
Launch of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy
Join us for the launch of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy (OxCTP). Professor Ciaran Martin and Richard Horne, CEO of the NCSC, will discuss the evolving cyber threat landscape and...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
So pleased to announce the launch event for the new @blavatnikschool.bsky.social at Oxford Tech and Cyber Policy Programme.
The brilliant Richard Horne, head of the National Cyber Security Centre, will be speaking next Weds at 5pm.
Sign up in person or online! 1/2
bit.ly/3D66x98
The brilliant Richard Horne, head of the National Cyber Security Centre, will be speaking next Weds at 5pm.
Sign up in person or online! 1/2
bit.ly/3D66x98
A good piece here on Salt and Volt Typhoon - and the limited utility of offensive cyber operations to deter.
warontherocks.com/2025/02/a-ta...
warontherocks.com/2025/02/a-ta...
A Tale of Two Typhoons: Properly Diagnosing Chinese Cyber Threats - War on the Rocks
How should the United States address the multiple cyber “typhoons” emanating from China? Over the past year, Chinese cyber threat actors have gained
warontherocks.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A good piece here on Salt and Volt Typhoon - and the limited utility of offensive cyber operations to deter.
warontherocks.com/2025/02/a-ta...
warontherocks.com/2025/02/a-ta...
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Curious reporting in the NYT’s follow to @martinmatishak.bsky.social’s scoop about Hegseth’s stand-down order on Russian cyber operation planning (www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...) stating that US CYBERCOM’s covert operations against Russia are being run out of the United Kingdom.
March 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Curious reporting in the NYT’s follow to @martinmatishak.bsky.social’s scoop about Hegseth’s stand-down order on Russian cyber operation planning (www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...) stating that US CYBERCOM’s covert operations against Russia are being run out of the United Kingdom.
Important piece from @alexmartin.bsky.social about the impact of the suspected Technical Capability Notice (TCN) from the UK against Apple's Advanced Data Protection system on the UK's responsible cyber power.
I'm quoted about the potential for this position... 1/2
therecord.media/apple-uk-bac...
I'm quoted about the potential for this position... 1/2
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UK silence over Apple ‘back door’ is unsustainable and unjustifiable, say experts
Britain's government risks its domestic and international standing as it refuses to either confirm or deny any details about a legal notice targeting Apple’s cryptographic protections for iCloud accou...
therecord.media
February 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Important piece from @alexmartin.bsky.social about the impact of the suspected Technical Capability Notice (TCN) from the UK against Apple's Advanced Data Protection system on the UK's responsible cyber power.
I'm quoted about the potential for this position... 1/2
therecord.media/apple-uk-bac...
I'm quoted about the potential for this position... 1/2
therecord.media/apple-uk-bac...