Gianluca Stringhini

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🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!

Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).

"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.

ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

"I am wielded by novelists, bloggers, essayists, and that one friend who types exclusively in lowercase but still demands emotional range."

Please spread the word: Want to work on legal frameworks vs technological realities in S&P with @nikolausf.substack.com, @bprainsack.bsky.social & me? Apply by August 31 for a PhD in our interdisciplinary @wwtf.at funded #Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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Practicing for my plan B career

Our paper "LOKI: Proactively Discovering Online Scam Websites by Mining Toxic Search Queries" has been accepted at NDSS 2026! 🎉 Congrats to my student Pujan Paudel for leading this effort!

Did NSF recently reinstate previously terminated awards? On June 23, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction in Case No. 25-cv-04737, requiring that NSF reinstate certain awards. NSF is required to reinstate awards to all University of California researchers, including faculty, staff, and academic appointees who are named as principal researchers, investigators, or project leaders on grant applications that were terminated by means of a form letter. As a result, 114 awards to 45 institutions are being reinstated as of June 30, 2025.

Per the NSF website, the agency is reinstating 114 awards as a result of a preliminary injunction that was issued last week.

Source: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants After a judge told agency to restore hundreds of killed grants, NIH backs off plans to cancel more existing projects

Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal.
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Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"How to do just about anything on the Internet" book

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Join us for the 8th Annual Cambridge Cybercrime Conference, marking 10 years of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre!

Anyone interested in interdisciplinary cybersecurity and cybercrime research is welcome.

When: June 23
Where: Cambridge & online
More info: www.cambridgecybercrime.uk/conference20...

From what I was reading that’s routine and it only kicks in if a budget isn’t passed, not a lawyer though

"If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America's global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation's future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President's call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President's call. " Sudip S. Parikh CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals

Good reminder from @aaas.org that the proposed cuts to science are in the president's budget REQUEST. Congress can and should* continue their strong bipartisan support for American science.

(*Note, should in the moral sense. I don't know what they'll actually do but I do know we can still fight)

Follow up question then: is it common that Congress sets a higher budget than requested? And do they involve the agency in figuring out what gets raised?

I am curious, in past times would funding agencies request whatever budget the president wanted them to, or did they make their own? If the latter, what are the chances that Congress will come up with a different budget than what was requested?

The submission deadline for @acsacconf.bsky.social is this Friday! We look forward to reviewing your papers 🔍

We hope everyone's papers are well underway to be finished right in time for #ACSAC2025's paper submission deadline this Friday, 30th May (AoE): www.acsac.org/2025/s...

The submission deadline for @acsacconf.bsky.social is this Friday! We look forward to reviewing your papers 🔍

Perhaps relevant as scientists weather a range of attacks, our team (led by UW research scientist Rachel Moran) published a paper describing how a slew of public records requests impacted our work & what that means for collaborative research in adversarial spaces & times: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Self-nomination for the Artifact Evaluation Committee of NDSS 2026 We are looking for members of the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) of NDSS 2026. The Network and Distributed System Security symposium adopts an Artifact Evaluation (AE) process allowing authors t...

All papers should publish their code. Help realize this by becoming an artifact reviewer at NDSS'26, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You'll review artifacts of accepted papers. We especially encourage junior/senior PhD students & PostDocs to help. Distinguished reviews will get awards!

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

Foreign adversaries are pumping disinformation into our social media networks, but we know very little about the consequences let alone how to ameliorate them.

For years, Republicans have harassed us for studying this. Now, NSF has canceled all funding. It’s a profound lapse in national security.

Imagine if instead of stunt recruitment of US names, EU governments committed to increase science and research funding to match the amounts cut from the NIH and NSF...

Huge congrats to @spalab.cs.ucr.edu's Georgi Ganev for receiving the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P for his work "The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against “Truly Anonymous” Synthetic Datasets."

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.051...

A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"

A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk

"Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate. Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk." www.science.org/content/arti...

CUNY's Research on Vaccine Misinformation Halted by Trump Administration Sixty other CUNY projects have also received stop-work orders from the National Institute of Health, according to a letter from the chancellor.

💉🛑NIH halted funding for a CUNY SPH study on vaccine misinformation. #CUNYSPH Professor @denis-nash.bsky.social shares how this decision disrupts vital work—and why public health researchers will keep pushing forward. @thecity.nyc
🔗cunysph.me/VaxMisinformation
#VaccineMisinformation #PublicHealth

Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...