SOUPS @soupsconference.bsky.social The 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026) will take place on August 23-26, 2026 in Germany. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.
Elijah Bouma-Sims @elijahboumasims.bsky.social Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University in Societal Computing, NCSU C/O 2021. I do research on usable security and privacy with a focus on scams.
https://elijahboumasims.com- Y Yoshi Kohno @yoshikohno.bsky.social Computer security & privacy research, Georgetown University, he/him
Karola Marky @yon-juni.bsky.social Professor CS@RUB, Digital Sovereignty
Jaron Mink @jaronmink.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @ ASU | PI @ the http://HappyResearchLab.com | PhD from
UIUC
Secure Human-AI Interaction, Human Factors in Sec
Jonas Ricker @jonasricker.com PhD student @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, working on generative AI security and deepfake detection
📍 Bochum, Germany
Smirity Kaushik @smirity.bsky.social PhD @UIUC| ex-Visiting Researcher #MPI_SP| Trust & safety research for at-risk x HCI x user privacy x tech policy| ex-Privacy Consultant @EY
Danny Y. Huang @danny-huang.bsky.social NYU professor in usable security & privacy - https://hdanny.org/
Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social Software Engineering Professor, and Director of the Online Master of Digital Transformation and Innovation, University of Ottawa. Loves his family, Requirements Engineering / Modelling, Process Mining, soccer, teaching, and good craft beer.
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice. Posting is mostly rage at fascists, their journalist enablers, and feckless Dems who need to retire. Sometimes I even post about things people call me an expert in. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Eugene Cox @heyemc2.bsky.social PhD student @ Illinois informatics
Alex Michels @alexmichels.bsky.social PhD @ UIUC Informatics
GIScience | CyberGIS | Spatial Data Science
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
Future of Privacy Forum @futureofprivacy.bsky.social A catalyst for privacy leadership & scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging tech. Get updates: fpf.org/subscribe
Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social Professor of Law & Senior Fellow at the University of Miami • Working on digital speech, sexuality, privacy & abuse • Legislative & Policy Director at the Clinic to End Tech Abuse at Cornell
John Verdi @johnverdi.bsky.social SVP of Policy, Future of Privacy Forum
Also https://mastodon.social/@johnverdi and https://twitter.com/johnverdi
Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social (he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
@ivir-uva.bsky.social
Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezra.bsky.social Law professor at UC Irvine, studying law, technology, society, and queer civil rights. 🏳️🌈
Dad to Peabody.
Matthew Tokson @mtokson.bsky.social Law professor at U. Utah, teaching criminal law and procedure, privacy, AI, cyberlaw. Views are my own. My writing is here: tinyurl.com/ycw29snm
Bio here: https://faculty.utah.edu/u6012359-Matthew_Tokson/hm/index.hml
Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Rory Van Loo @vanloo.bsky.social Law professor at Boston University focused on digital technologies, consumers, markets, and regulation. Previously consulted at McKinsey after law school, made sandwiches in Paris during college, and sold newspaper subscriptions door-to-door in 5th grade.
Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Kristen Eichensehr @keichensehr.bsky.social Law professor. Editor @justsecurity.org. Working on foreign relations, cybersecurity, and national security.
Jeff Kosseff @jkosseff.bsky.social Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law and Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota, jeffkosseff.com
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Jules Polonetsky @julespolonetsky.bsky.social CEO, Future of Privacy Forum
FPF.org
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream. Speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.
🐦: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli
🧵: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li
🐘: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli
TiffanyLi.com if you insist
Jess Frye @jessfrye.bsky.social Info Science PhD student at UIUC
Becca Cohen @beccacohen.bsky.social IS PhD Student at UIUC studying digital humanities, language, cultural analytics and ethical AI
Fobazi M. Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social Academic. Librarian. Creator of the concept “vocational awe.” PhD student at UIUC’s iSchool. Game designer of Killing Me Softly.
Ujun Jeong @ujeong1.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate@ASU | 🔍 Social Media Mining & Sociolinguistics | Modeling User Communication & Migration in the Social Media Landscape.
Website: ujeong1.github.io
Sadjad Arzash @sadjadarzash.bsky.social Postdoc @GeorgiaTech. Previously @SyracuseU and @Penn. PhD @RiceUniversity. Soft matter and biophysics theory
Sven Bugiel @svebug.bsky.social Tenured Faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security | https://svenbugiel.de/
Marshini @ineffablicious.bsky.social Prof at UChicago computer science dept working in HCI and usable privacy and security 
Jasmine Lu @xjasminelu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago. she/her. ~Exploring alternative visions of the future with e-waste and computing~ https://jasminelu.site
Xinyi Zhou @xinyizhouxz.bsky.social PostDoc @uwcse.bsky.social; ✨ Trustworthy, multimodal, human-centered AI; 🌐 https://xinyizhou.xyz/
Urs Hengartner @uhengart.bsky.social CS prof at University of Waterloo. Interested in security and privacy. 
Su-In Lee @suinlee.bsky.social Boeing Endowed Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Interested in AI/ML, computational biology, and AI in medicine. https://suinlee.cs.washington.edu/
Diana Freed @dianafreed.bsky.social Computer & Data Science, Faculty @Brown University | Visiting Scholar, Petrie-Flom (Harvard Law)| Faculty Associate, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | HCI, HAI, Security, Privacy, Tech Policy
Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023)
Web: https://cbaquero.github.io/web/
Puneet Thapliyal @puneetx.bsky.social Chief Information Security Officer | Health Care | Startup Advisor | Venture Partner. Advocate for online data privacy rights.
Dong Whi Yoo @dwyoo.bsky.social Assis. Prof. @ Kent State University | PhD from Georgia Tech | Research Intern @ Mayo Clinic
Human-AI Interaction, Digital Mental Health. AI-enhanced UX
https://www.dongwhiyoo.com
@bradamyers.bsky.social @bradamyers.bsky.social 
Alexander Serebrenik @aserebrenik.bsky.social Professor of Social Software Engineering. Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Diversity, inclusion and source code.
🇧🇪🇮🇱🏳️🌈 🐕 He/him
Ningjing Tang @ningjingtang.bsky.social PhD @cmu hcii
Diego Gomez-Zara @dgomezara.bsky.social Assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame. Researcher at FCOM UC. PhD from Northwestern U. 
Joseph Seering @josephseering.bsky.social Assistant Prof at KAIST School of Computing. HCI, AI, T&S.
Julia Krämer @juliakraemer.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Erasmus University Rotterdam | Empirical Legal Studies, Data Protection Law & App Store Governance ⚖️📊⚡️
Martina Lindorfer @lindorfer.in Associate Professor Security & Privacy @ TU Wien. Key Researcher @ SBA Research (she/her). Avid Snacker. Professional Traveller. Mainly Lurker.
🖤 🦖🦙🐈🐶🦝📸🧩✈️🧟♀️
Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad @finnmyrstad.bsky.social Digital policy at Forbrukerradet. Co-chair of TACD Digital Committee.
Topics: Privacy, Data Protection, InfoSec, AI, Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, Protection of Children's rights online, Competition, Broadband.
Alumni: TEDtalks, LSE, Mozilla Rise25
Rónán Riordan (He/Him) @ronanriordan.bsky.social Assistant Prof European Law, Maastricht University |
Fellow, Jacques Delors Centre (Berlin) |
Alumnus Hertie School / Sutherland Law / UCD Social Sciences |
(Comparative) European (Union) Law, Governance, & Politics |
Kerryman, wannabe Berliner, EuroSimp
Zubair Shafiq @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social prof @ucdavis; privacy + measurement researcher; outdoor enthusiast; anda-shami lover
@sarahtas.bsky.social @sarahtas.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Maastricht University; Co-head of the Digital State section in Digi-Con; Editor at EJLR.
Maria @mariazamorano.bsky.social Canadian/Colombian in London. MSc in Media and Comm’s from LSE. Interested in tech/digital policy and research 🤖
Katie Nolan @katieanolan.bsky.social Assistant lecturer in law, Technological University Dublin. Privacy/tech law enthusiast.
Jordi Calvet-Bademunt @jordicalbad.bsky.social Sr. Fellow, The Future of Free Speech @ Vanderbilt University | Fmr. OECD Official & Internet Society Fellow | Harvard MPA & College of Europe LLM
Reposts are not endorsements
Nick Botton @nickbotton.bsky.social Public policy at @awoagency.bsky.social working on adtech, privacy, platform regulation, open source, AI and child safety
Opinions my own. Like = interesting.
Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University
Mariëlle Wijermars @mariellew.bsky.social Associate Professor in Internet Governance at Maastricht University | Digital interdependence and autonomy | Platform governance | Internet censorship
Member of The Young Academy (KNAW)
Academic editor @policyr.bsky.social
Aída Ponce Del Castillo @aidaponcedelcastillo.com Senior researcher @etui.bsky.social 🇧🇪 Law, science & technology || Emerging tech || Data
www.aidaponcedelcastillo.com
Recently
published: https://www.etui.org/publications/artificial-intelligence-labour-and-society
Joey Walnuts @jolwalton.bsky.social AI slop Ian Hislop. Writing a book, After Capitalism: The End of the End of the World | https://linktr.ee/jolwalton
Bernardo De Luna @jbd33.bsky.social Public Policy (Cambridge), Economics (UNAM). Interests: Digital and Technology Governance , Regulatory Policy & Space Policy
Muhammad Haroon @mharoon23.bsky.social CS PhD at UC Davis.
Mary Borgo Ton @maryton.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, magic lantern enthusiast, and maker. Opinions my own.
Kristina Intinarelli @kristinaintin.bsky.social Partner at Evening Land Books www.eveninglandbooks.com
MSLIS Advisor and Coordinator at UIUC School of Information Sciences
Rare book hunter|thrift shop fashionista|library advocate|anti-fascist|
Ryan Dubnicek @rdubnicek.bsky.social he/him * Doing Digital Humanities/Cultural Analytics things, sometimes for the HathiTrust * @University of Illinois
Lucian Li @lucianli123.bsky.social PhD student at UIUC ischool. Interested in studying textual evidence of influence, originality, and idea transmission.
Robbie Sieczkowski @robbiesiecz.bsky.social UIUC Informatics PhD student researching and producing Serious Games across disciplines (archaeology, civil engineering, dance history, neuroanatomy, rocket science, and more)
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Producer at the student-run Game Studies & Design stu/dio - games.illinois.edu
Melissa Wong @melissawong.bsky.social Adjunct instructor in LIS. Grateful, not grumpy. she/hers.
Co-author: Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction (Windsor-Downs, 2020).
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Web, Python (PSF Fellow), AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Retro Computing, Space, FRSA
PhD candidate @dhssfau.bsky.social
Casey Foubert @caseyblu.bsky.social MLIS student at UW-Madison. Musician, engineer, producer, songwriter.
caseyfoubert.com
caseyfoubert.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/caseyfoubert
Elissa Redmiles @eredmil1.bsky.social Faculty @Georgetown, Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard
Digital security, "AI", safety, privacy, S*x W*rk
Prev @MSFTresearch @Meta @umdcs @nsfgrfp @datascifellows
Debra J Farber @privacyguru.bsky.social Post about Privacy, Security, Ethical Tech, AI & Safety
Vancouver, WA
https://shiftingprivacyleft.buzzsprout.com/
#PrivacySky
Interests: democracy; sci-fi; trivia; puzzles; & my beaglier
Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own
Nikita Borisov @nikitabear.bsky.social 
Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com 
Rishav Chourasia @rishav84ia.bsky.social 
Haewoon Kwak @haewoon.bsky.social Associate Professor at informatics, IU Bloomington / Lifetime Citations 20k+ / http://soda-labo.github.io / computational social science + game analytics. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dcjrz5MAAAAJ&hl=ko
Yuchen Zhao @yuchenzhao.bsky.social Lecturer in Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of York.
https://yuchenzhao.github.io/
Pratik Sarkar @pratikscrypto.bsky.social Cryptography, ZK, and MPC Researcher | Currently a Research Scientist at Supra | ex-Cryptography Research Intern at Meta and Visa
Cloris Shan @cloirssmw.bsky.social PhD Student in Informatics at IUB
HCI/Usable Security/LLM/AI
Judith Uchidiuno @juchidiuno.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @ ICatGT | Postdoc @ CMU Robotics Academy | Alum @ cmuhcii HeinzCollege LincolnUofPA | HCI, CS Ed & Learning Science Researcher
Matthew Kay @mjskay.com Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/
Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu
Co-founder https://journalovi.org
Kaarina Nikunen @kaarinan.bsky.social Professor of Media and Communication Research
Tampere University
I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right.
Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
Adinawa @adinawa.bsky.social PhD @ cmu hcii doing VR and Responsible AI things | Harvard Economics and CS | Designer reimagining how tech can empower communities through joy & agency
Robin Welsch @robinwelsch.bsky.social Assistant Professor for Engineering Psychology at Aalto University. I use experimental methods to understand mind and machine.
Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social Online Communities, Social Tech, Folk Theories, Epistemic Justice, Queer/Trans HCI. Assistant Prof of Comp Sci & Comm Studies @ Northeastern University. @nusealab.bsky.social director. Neurodivergent, trans woman, wife girl, femme lesbian, dork. (she/her)
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
Mina Lee @mnlee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS/DSI (NLP & HCI) | Writing with AI ✍️
https://minalee-research.github.io/
Harry Brundage @airhorns.bsky.social Developer developer. CTO at https://gadget.dev working on bringing some speed back to makin' software. Previously at Shopify
Sabine Weber (they/them) @multilingual-s.bsky.social postdoc at @bamnlp.de by day, organizer with @queerinai.com by night
interested in domain adaptation, perspectivism, queer NLP
maintainer of the queer NLP paper repository https://github.com/webersab/queer_NLP_bib
Wayne Martino @waynejm.bsky.social Professor Equity and Social Justice Education, Western University Canada. queer and trans studies: https://www.edu.uwo.ca/about/faculty-profiles/wayne-martino/index.html
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me