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Michelle Mazurek

@mmazurek.bsky.social

300 followers 140 following 69 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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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 13h

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

SaTC Aspiring PI Workshop 2025

satc-aspiring-2025.github.io

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 6d

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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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9d

Anyway, again, it would take like 20 or 30 Republicans in Congress who decide they don't actually hate the country to stop a whole lot of this

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 11d

Meanwhile, today in official university-mandated "research security" training:

Slide from research security training. The header is "Impartiality and Objectivity." The text is "Scientists conduct their work without bias or preconceived notions, allowing the to approach their research objectively."

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 11d

I teach computer science students. Many of them come in believing that quant analysis is "real" and qual is "made up." I consider it a big win if I can convince them, by the end, that it's all equally made up. (And that's OK!)

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 11d

I spend all semester in my research methods class trying to teach the grad students that there are no "right" answers, that all data is inherently subjective, that what we choose to measure and how we choose to measure it are just as (if not more) important than what the measurements say.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 11d

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

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Paul @phillies-therapy.com · 14d

Phils have won 94+ in consecutive seasons for the 3rd time in their history

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14d

The people “enforcing” immigration law under this administration understand what their real job is but we’re all supposed to pretend it’s something else

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16d

However, ultimately, all of the technical/digital solutions outlined in the article are but band-aids. The only real, lasting, and just solution is a return to the rule of law.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18d

it's Blocked Field Goal week

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21d

this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.

jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 26d

its so strange to be a public figure. people build such elaborate mythologies around you. and im not even like, famous famous

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21d

I don’t think any country in the history of the world has ever done anything as stupidly self destructive as what Trump and RFK jr are doing with vaccines.

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 28d

(It was a good joke, though.)

Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · 28d

TFW when you are listening to @ifbookspod.bsky.social and there's a great segment on replication problems and cherry-picking data ("I'm going to add this to the resource list for my methods class!") immediately followed by a joke about anal sex ("Or maybe not").

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Sep 4

The U.S.’s largest estuary is showing signs of revival. Once written off as a dead zone, water clarity in Chesapeake Bay has improved, underwater grasses are expanding, and crab populations are steadier thanks to decades of pollution controls. Nature buff.ly/morNFth
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Reviving the Old Bay

To undo centuries of damage in the Chesapeake Bay, six states are fixing forests, farms, city runoff, wetlands, rivers and oyster reefs across this massive watershed.

buff.ly

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 2

Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 1

California and Florida are on opposite ends of the school-closure spectrum and the differences in test scores are a wash.

Some individual schools and districts definitely stayed closed too long but it just isn’t the case that this is some huge, obvious, foreseeable blunder.

Neither Florida nor California saw a statistically significant change in 4th-grade reading performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress between 2019 and 2022.
Meanwhile, Florida's 8th graders performed worse on the reading exam in 2022 than in 2019, while California's 8th graders' performance was unchanged. Both states performed worse on the 4th- and 8th-grade math assessments in 2022 than in 2019
Despite their states' similar performance on
NAEP, which places both states above the majority of the rest of the country, the two governors accused each other of overseeing some of the worst learning loss in the country.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here’s the link to comment on the rule. Please do comment. They can make a difference in litigation. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students

Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

www.forbes.com

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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · Aug 29

SCHWARBOMB #4

"And everybody looking for history from Kyle Schwarber, the 1-2 on the way... SWUNG ON, HIT DEEP RIGHT FIELD! AND THERE'S HISTORY FOR SCHWARBER!"

#RingTheBell

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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you are interested in what is happening in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant these days ‪@maustermuhle.bsky.social‬ ‬ at @51st.news has written the best article I've seen.

With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE

How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.

51st.news

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Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

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Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social · Aug 26

Feels like a good day to call attention to a very good (also, scary) paper from SOUPS the other week: www.usenix.org/conference/s...

Youth-Centered GAI Risks (YAIR): A Taxonomy of Generative AI Risks from Empirical Data | USENIX

www.usenix.org

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rachelweiner.bsky.social @rachelweiner.bsky.social · Aug 19

Unidentified federal officers were doing fare enforcement at 7th and H Street NW last night, per my colleague Jonathan Edwards:

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Wentao Guo @wentaoguo.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm presenting my USENIX paper "How Researchers De-Identify Data in Practice" at 9am this Thursday. Kudos to my co-authors Paige Pepitone, @adamaviv.bsky.social, and @mmazurek.bsky.social. Come say hi—I am on the academic job market!

Here's the paper: www.usenix.org/conference/u...
#usesec25

Poster for our paper "How Researchers De-Identify Data in Practice"

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 12

Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. www.wired.com/story/data-b...

Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search

Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found.

www.wired.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Aug 11

As L.A. was a couple of months ago, D.C. is merely an excuse for Trump to continue normalizing the use of federal law enforcement and the U.S. military to police Democratic cities. The implications for local self-government, civil liberties, and the 2026 and 2028 elections are obvious and ominous.

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