Franzi Roesner
@franziroesner.bsky.social
Professor (computer security and privacy, broadly construed) in the Allen School of CSE at the University of Washington. Also spend my time on parenting, reading, exercising, and writing poetry. She/her.
https://www.franziroesner.com
https://www.franziroesner.com
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THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
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Not sure about everyone else, but I’m encouraged today (elated?) that we learned last night that we can beat candidates/parties of bullshit, AI slop, corruption, and authoritarianism without emulating them and without tacking towards a false center between us and them.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Not sure about everyone else, but I’m encouraged today (elated?) that we learned last night that we can beat candidates/parties of bullshit, AI slop, corruption, and authoritarianism without emulating them and without tacking towards a false center between us and them.
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Join us at the UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. We are hiring tenure-track faculty positions. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174303
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October 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Join us at the UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. We are hiring tenure-track faculty positions. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174303
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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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Two great bits of academic attack work this week. The new one allows Android apps to see data displayed on the screen by other apps, including Google Authenticator codes. www.pixnapping.com
Pixnapping Attack
www.pixnapping.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Two great bits of academic attack work this week. The new one allows Android apps to see data displayed on the screen by other apps, including Google Authenticator codes. www.pixnapping.com
Check out these beauties
October 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Check out these beauties
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I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩💻
Please join Ada's Technical Books & Cafe in welcoming @katharinareinecke.bsky.social to discuss her book, Digital Culture Shock, tomorrow (September 23rd) at 6:00 pm PDT.
Learn more about this free, in-person event here: adasbooks.com/event/2025-0....
Learn more about this free, in-person event here: adasbooks.com/event/2025-0....
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩💻
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At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner.
We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague!
Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881
We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague!
Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881
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September 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner.
We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague!
Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881
We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague!
Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881
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Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here!
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
September 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here!
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
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This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.
September 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.
Took myself to Cascade Pass / Sahale Arm today and it was the LITERAL BEST.
August 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Took myself to Cascade Pass / Sahale Arm today and it was the LITERAL BEST.
My 7yo just *asked* to go on a hike this weekend. That's it, I'm done, I will never achieve anything greater.
July 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My 7yo just *asked* to go on a hike this weekend. That's it, I'm done, I will never achieve anything greater.
Pleased to have a new poem in the latest issue of @stonecoastreview.bsky.social ☄️ ⛄ www.thestonecoastreview.org/issue-23/ast...
Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth — The Stonecoast Review
this morning’s snowperson is a sad lump already soft like an aging snow cone around the underbelly woodchip eyes and buttons in a heap.
www.thestonecoastreview.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Pleased to have a new poem in the latest issue of @stonecoastreview.bsky.social ☄️ ⛄ www.thestonecoastreview.org/issue-23/ast...
New poem up at swwimmiami.substack.com/p/retrospect..., inspired by a recent visit to the MOMA in NYC :)
Retrospective of a Woman
By Franziska Roesner
swwimmiami.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
New poem up at swwimmiami.substack.com/p/retrospect..., inspired by a recent visit to the MOMA in NYC :)
I have a little poem in here ☕
🤎 Flow Magazine Issue 1 out now! 🤎
flowlitmag.com/issue-1/
Here, I present an issue made up of work that speaks to the gentle intimacy of beverage, and to the things that keep us human. I hope it feels like a warm cup from my hands to yours.
To the love of drink.
flowlitmag.com/issue-1/
Here, I present an issue made up of work that speaks to the gentle intimacy of beverage, and to the things that keep us human. I hope it feels like a warm cup from my hands to yours.
To the love of drink.
June 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I have a little poem in here ☕
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James Baldwin
"Art would not be important if life were not important, life is important."
"Art would not be important if life were not important, life is important."
May 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
James Baldwin
"Art would not be important if life were not important, life is important."
"Art would not be important if life were not important, life is important."
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The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.
May 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.
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An extraordinary story about how scientists in the US are afraid to speak up as the entire science research ecosystem is demolished at the hands of the Republican administration.
Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?
Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?
“The lived experience of a scientist right now is terrifying”
My colleague Warren Cornwall spoke to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, @rebekahtromble.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social
and others about “the fear and self-censorship coursing through the nation’s scientific establishment today”.
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My colleague Warren Cornwall spoke to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, @rebekahtromble.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social
and others about “the fear and self-censorship coursing through the nation’s scientific establishment today”.
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Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate
Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
An extraordinary story about how scientists in the US are afraid to speak up as the entire science research ecosystem is demolished at the hands of the Republican administration.
Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?
Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?
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Having mastered large language models, submarine design, toilet paper supply chain logistics, trade economics, and Russian military history, I would like to explain why I think Catholics chose the wrong Pope....(1/57)
May 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Having mastered large language models, submarine design, toilet paper supply chain logistics, trade economics, and Russian military history, I would like to explain why I think Catholics chose the wrong Pope....(1/57)
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Crushing to hear of more junior colleagues in the computer science & human-computer interaction (HCI) space whose NSF CAREER grants were terminated this week. I'm hopeful that philanthropic funders can find a way to support this generation of scientists studying online manipulation, bias in AI, etc.
May 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Crushing to hear of more junior colleagues in the computer science & human-computer interaction (HCI) space whose NSF CAREER grants were terminated this week. I'm hopeful that philanthropic funders can find a way to support this generation of scientists studying online manipulation, bias in AI, etc.
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UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
April 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
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The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
April 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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This is just to say
I have texted
the war plans
that were in
the Defense Department
and which
you were probably
saving
for people with a security clearance
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have texted
the war plans
that were in
the Defense Department
and which
you were probably
saving
for people with a security clearance
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
March 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is just to say
I have texted
the war plans
that were in
the Defense Department
and which
you were probably
saving
for people with a security clearance
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have texted
the war plans
that were in
the Defense Department
and which
you were probably
saving
for people with a security clearance
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold