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Marcel Böhme @mboehme.bsky.social · 4d

Just accepted at #AAAI26 in Singapore: Our paper on estimating the *correctness* of LLM-generated code in the absence of oracles (e.g., a ground-truth implementation).

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2507.00057

with Thomas Valentin (ENS Paris-Saclay), Ardi Madadi, and Gaetano Sapia (#MPI_SP).

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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 5d

Great visiting KIT yesterday. Thanks for hosting me!

strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 6d

We are lucky to be visited by @gianlucastringhini.com who gave an insightful talk about research on online safety as part of our @kastel-labs.bsky.social distinguished lecture series: dls.kastel.kit.edu today -
Thanks a lot!

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 9d

This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

www.bbc.com

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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · 13d

Looking forward to visiting Karlsruhe next week!

KIT Graduate School Cyber Security @kitcybersec.bsky.social · 13d

On Wednesday, November 5th, as part of our KASTEL Distinguished Lecture Series Prof. Gianluca Stringhini, PhD from Boston University will talk about ‘Improving the Moderation of False Information and Influence Campaigns on Social Media’.
Everybody is welcome and stay around for the Q&A afterwards.

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 14d

Exciting position @northeasternu.bsky.social ! Managing Policy Director at the new Institute for Information, & Democracy, please share with interested parties. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Managing Policy Director - Institute for Information, Internet, and Democracy

About the Opportunity JOB SUMMARY The Institute for Information, Internet, and Democracy seeks to support rigorous research on the problems of the contemporary information ecosystem, and to evaluate t...

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18d

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion."

My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.

www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough | Opinion

With the deadline looming for colleges to sign Trump's "compact," Vanderbilt must resist, says one university professor.

www.tennessean.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19d

5. For example, research produced and funded by tech companies often either frames problems as user-driven, or explores solutions as the obligation of users (e.g. community notes). Seldom does it explore consequences of design, UX, or algorithmic implementation, let alone the business model.

Selective causal focus diagram:

interacting gears "foreign influence, user interface, platform design, business model, user choices" all contribute to outcome "spread of misinformation."

But "user choices" alone is highlighted.

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MADWeb Workshop @madwebwork.bsky.social · Oct 7

🌟 Want to help shape #MADWeb 2026? Nominate yourself for the Program Committee! Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 ⏰ Consider applying even if you don't have extensive reviewing experience!

forms.gle/UovLWS78aa3t...

MADWeb 2026 PC Nomination Form

The web connects billions of devices, running a plethora of clients, and serves billions of users every day. To cope with such a widespread adoption, the web constantly changes. This is evident by som...

forms.gle

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 27d

Here is a story about a AAAI paper that got 5 human reviews and 1 AI review. The AI generated review contained a page-long counterexample to a proof in the paper. The AI’s counter example contained hallucinated errors. How does one rebut an AI reviewer? www.linkedin.com/posts/omerbp...

#aaai26 | Omer Ben-Porat | 13 comments

#AAAI26 This year, in addition to five human reviewers, we also received an AI review. The humans sort of liked the paper, so there's hope. The AI, however, took a bolder approach: it confidently d...

www.linkedin.com

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25d

We turned our pain into a research paper… documenting how our collaborative research team (which included researchers at a public university) navigated a slew of public records requests (by some of the same folks who have since turned their attention towards attacking academia more broadly).

Sukrit Venkatagiri @sukritv.bsky.social · 25d

I'll be at #CSCW2025 presenting a paper on the impact of public records (FOIA) requests on multi-stakeholder collaborations — co-authored with Rachel Moran, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and @katestarbird.bsky.social: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Privacy versus Transparency: Navigating Public Records Requests and Adversarial Dynamics in a Distributed Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Public records laws are standard for state and federal governments across the U.S. Such laws rest on the core notion that transparency, enacted through access to governmental documentation, will ensur...

dl.acm.org

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Konrad Rieck 🌈 @rieck.mlsec.org · 27d

AI predicts rain. We predict trouble!

Today, Erik presents a novel attack on Google's latest AI weather model at #CCS2025. By changing only 0.1% of the observations, the attack can fabricate or suppress the prediction of extreme events, from hurricanes 🌀 to heat waves 🔥

1/4 @bifold.berlin

Predicted temperature at the peak of the European Heat Wave 2006

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Oct 10

Join us 10/29 for a Focused Research Program symposium that will bring together experts in AI, medical imaging, clinical medicine, and public health to share advances in AI-driven early detection and equitable care.

spr.ly/63323AtxxB

Enhancing Models for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Through Clinician-AI Collaboration

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Oct 10

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
CC
Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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Help Net Security @helpnetsecurity.com · Oct 9

Researchers develop AI system to detect scam websites in search results

📖 Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/09/l...

#cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #cybercrime #machinelearning #scams @bostonu.bsky.social @gianlucastringhini.com

Researchers develop AI system to detect scam websites in search results - Help Net Security

Boston University researchers built LOKI, a machine learning system that finds scam websites by ranking search queries for fraud risk.

www.helpnetsecurity.com

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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · Oct 9

Nice article covering our upcoming NDSS paper

www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/09/l...

Researchers develop AI system to detect scam websites in search results - Help Net Security

Boston University researchers built LOKI, a machine learning system that finds scam websites by ranking search queries for fraud risk.

www.helpnetsecurity.com

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Oct 1

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.

Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky

Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

bsky.social

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Sep 29

Several scientists have received letters from the NIH director disinviting them from their positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding, I'm told.

In July, I reported that NIH staff were told to select members aligned with Trump administration priorities.

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · Sep 26

"a disproportionate share of the social-media chatter that fed the news cycle about Cracker Barrel's logo was driven by bots on X"

www.wsj.com/articles/bot...

Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars

AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

www.wsj.com

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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · Sep 25

Always be submitting grant proposals is the mantra

a man in a suit and tie is pointing at a blackboard and saying `` always be closing . ''

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is pointing at a blackboard and saying `` always be closing . ''

media.tenor.com

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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · Sep 16

E-commerce fraudulent websites are a big problem, yet the community lacks open and comprehensive approaches to proactively discover them. In our upcoming NDSS paper we present Loki, a system that mines search engine queries to surface new scam websites. Read our paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12181

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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · Sep 10

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Sep 3

"A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 3

BREAKING: A federal judge reverses the Trump administration's cut of billions of dollars to Harvard University.

Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the reversal of the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in funding research grants for Harvard University. U.S.

bit.ly

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looking for #Postdoc or Asst. Professor Positions for 2025-2026 in Computer/Social/Information/Management Sciences and related fields? Here's a google Sheet with about 40 active positions (so far) from Bluesky, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#AcademicCareer #Academia #Jobs

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Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com · Aug 25

Another academic year, another multiple deadlines day

a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer

Alt: a cat wearing a blue shirt is sitting on a laptop computer

media.tenor.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 21

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

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