Sofia Celi
@claucece.bsky.social
Proud LatinAmerican. "Legendary quantum lady/cryptographer". Researcher @brave she/they hrpc co-chair @inretafo anti-fraud @w3c @otr_im @LondonU
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Our lawsuit is fighting to ensure that critical research, including on Alzheimer’s disease, HIV prevention, LGBTQ+ health, and sexual violence can continue.
Research must be guided by science, not politics.
Research must be guided by science, not politics.
Trump tried to gut science research funding. Courts and Congress have rebuffed him.
Scientists' worst fears about Trump's cuts to research funding haven't come to pass, thanks to several legal challenges and Congress’ recent rejection of his proposed budget cuts.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Our lawsuit is fighting to ensure that critical research, including on Alzheimer’s disease, HIV prevention, LGBTQ+ health, and sexual violence can continue.
Research must be guided by science, not politics.
Research must be guided by science, not politics.
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Amnesty International: Iran “carried out massacres of protesters, primarily on 8 and 9 January, when the death toll rose into thousands. January 2026 marks the deadliest period of repression by the Iranian authorities in decades of Amnesty’s research.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
February 1, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Amnesty International: Iran “carried out massacres of protesters, primarily on 8 and 9 January, when the death toll rose into thousands. January 2026 marks the deadliest period of repression by the Iranian authorities in decades of Amnesty’s research.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
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Apropos of nothing, here's a piece on Reform's plans for a British ICE: shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
Here's the policy document: web.archive.org/web/20260127...
Here's a piece on the Labour Government's practice of emulating the US' celebration of brutality: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Here's the policy document: web.archive.org/web/20260127...
Here's a piece on the Labour Government's practice of emulating the US' celebration of brutality: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover
In today's article shado editor Elia Ayoub discusses Reform’s “Operation Restore Justice”, the risks of a British ICE and how we can resist.
shado-mag.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Apropos of nothing, here's a piece on Reform's plans for a British ICE: shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
Here's the policy document: web.archive.org/web/20260127...
Here's a piece on the Labour Government's practice of emulating the US' celebration of brutality: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Here's the policy document: web.archive.org/web/20260127...
Here's a piece on the Labour Government's practice of emulating the US' celebration of brutality: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/01/20/open_web
January 20, 2026 at 6:35 AM
The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/01/20/open_web
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Getting a new phone for the holidays doesn’t mean giving up Signal message history. Restore old messages on a new phone using Signal Secure Backups or device-to-device transfer.
support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...
support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...
Backups and Device Transfers on Signal
Signal offers several secure options for backing up or transferring your messages, depending on your device and situation. Signal Secure Backups are an optional, secure backup solution that store y...
support.signal.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Getting a new phone for the holidays doesn’t mean giving up Signal message history. Restore old messages on a new phone using Signal Secure Backups or device-to-device transfer.
support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...
support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...
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One of the biggest assumptions I've seen with digital ID is that TEEs can't be compromised to the point of leaking sensitive credentials. Which feels like a naive approach and I don't see any back up plans if that happens.
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
One of the biggest assumptions I've seen with digital ID is that TEEs can't be compromised to the point of leaking sensitive credentials. Which feels like a naive approach and I don't see any back up plans if that happens.
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Over the years I've been asked many times for advice on pedagogy, what to read to learn more, etc. I've finally put together a bunch of materials into one blog post: Key Advice • Readings • Neuromyths • For Computer Scientists • Classroom Tips. Enjoy!
parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...
parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...
Pedagogy Recommendations
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
parentheticallyspeaking.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Over the years I've been asked many times for advice on pedagogy, what to read to learn more, etc. I've finally put together a bunch of materials into one blog post: Key Advice • Readings • Neuromyths • For Computer Scientists • Classroom Tips. Enjoy!
parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...
parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...
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The accepted talks for Real World Crypto 2026 are now online: rwc.iacr.org/2026/accepte...
Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we look forward to the discussions at the symposium.
Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we look forward to the discussions at the symposium.
RWC 2026 accepted papers
Real World Crypto Symposium
rwc.iacr.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The accepted talks for Real World Crypto 2026 are now online: rwc.iacr.org/2026/accepte...
Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we look forward to the discussions at the symposium.
Thanks to everyone who submitted, and we look forward to the discussions at the symposium.
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New data shows that 64 non-citizens were arrested by ICE while taking domestic flights at airports from January-October 2025 — nearly twice the number arrested during a similar period in 2024.
Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.
Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.
Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU
At the border, you are likely to encounter Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, and you may encounter Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Know your rights in these scenarios.
www.aclu.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
New data shows that 64 non-citizens were arrested by ICE while taking domestic flights at airports from January-October 2025 — nearly twice the number arrested during a similar period in 2024.
Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.
Know your rights while you travel this holiday season.
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This week we’re hosting digital & in-person actions calling on platforms like YouTube & Reddit to resist age verification mechanisms that will censor vital information off the internet!
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
Online ID checks censor abortion information, Fight for the Future calls on platforms to resist
Digital rights nonprofit, Fight for the Future, is following up on a week of grassroots actions against online ID verification with a week of digital and in-person actions calling on platforms to resi...
www.fightforthefuture.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This week we’re hosting digital & in-person actions calling on platforms like YouTube & Reddit to resist age verification mechanisms that will censor vital information off the internet!
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
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Catch up on last weeks Isogeny Club talk! We welcomed Eli Orvis who taught us about abstract isogeny graphs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzcc...
The Isogeny Club #7.4 Ihara zeta functions of abstract isogeny graphs and modular curves
YouTube video by The Isogeny Club
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Catch up on last weeks Isogeny Club talk! We welcomed Eli Orvis who taught us about abstract isogeny graphs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzcc...
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The call for talks for CAW 2026 (a workshop affiliated with Eurocrypt) is out!
This year's motto is "cryptography under real-world constraints and threat models", but other applied cryptography is also very welcome.
All info is on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
This year's motto is "cryptography under real-world constraints and threat models", but other applied cryptography is also very welcome.
All info is on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The call for talks for CAW 2026 (a workshop affiliated with Eurocrypt) is out!
This year's motto is "cryptography under real-world constraints and threat models", but other applied cryptography is also very welcome.
All info is on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
This year's motto is "cryptography under real-world constraints and threat models", but other applied cryptography is also very welcome.
All info is on: caw.cryptanalysis.fun.
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My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s <em>Little Eyes</em>
In recent years, a range of commercial home surveillance products have emerged that foreground ‘cuteness’ as a selling point. From small cat-shaped cameras with detachable ears to ‘pocket robots’ equi...
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
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Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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I've signed this too. AI reaching parity with humans next year!? Maybe Altman et al aren't impartial predictors ...
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I've signed this too. AI reaching parity with humans next year!? Maybe Altman et al aren't impartial predictors ...
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So excited to be speaking at #MozFest about feminist cyberlaw futures! We’ll be reacting and redacting (!) our way to unlearning cyberlaw narratives. Download our redaction tool here: tepski.tech/feminist!
FEMINIST — Tepski x Tech
Tepski.tech
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
So excited to be speaking at #MozFest about feminist cyberlaw futures! We’ll be reacting and redacting (!) our way to unlearning cyberlaw narratives. Download our redaction tool here: tepski.tech/feminist!
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EFF and AV Comparatives team up to see how well anti-virus apps detect Android stalkerware. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
EFF Teams Up With AV Comparatives to Test Android Stalkerware
EFF has, for many years, raised the alarm about the proliferation of stalkerware—commercially-available apps designed to be installed covertly on another person’s device to exfiltrate data from that
www.eff.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
EFF and AV Comparatives team up to see how well anti-virus apps detect Android stalkerware. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Happy to have written this new blogpost from Brave Research, based on work at Internet Architecture Board, with Hamed Haddadi and Kyle Den Hartog.
brave.com/blog/zkp-age...
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brave.com/blog/zkp-age...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Happy to have written this new blogpost from Brave Research, based on work at Internet Architecture Board, with Hamed Haddadi and Kyle Den Hartog.
brave.com/blog/zkp-age...
1/3
brave.com/blog/zkp-age...
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Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/808514/grokipedia-wikipedia-comparison
Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk
xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/808514/grokipedia-wikipedia-comparison
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Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
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The Isogeny Club Season 7 starts today! At 5pm CEST, Bruno Sterner will talk about finding large smooth twins from short lattice vectors. More details at isogeny.club
September 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The Isogeny Club Season 7 starts today! At 5pm CEST, Bruno Sterner will talk about finding large smooth twins from short lattice vectors. More details at isogeny.club
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Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.