In the wake of these counterexamples to math conjectures, Taylor Lundy (UBC, Auctionomics), told me he spent about two seconds playing with the following EconCS lower bounds and GPT 5.6 Sol claims to have found improvements, providing the examples as well as code to verify them.

Two summers ago, I was very lucky to be a member of a working group of 4 junior faculty that has a 100% success rate on our NSF CAREER Award proposals. I wrote a blog post about our process and the advice I received. www.kiragoldner.com/blog/career....

Reminder that the Easy Peasy deadline is this coming Monday AoE! Please submit your simple, elegant results!

Kira Goldner@kiragoldner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Submission deadline is May 4, 2026. Full Call for Papers available on our website. Submit your "right way to do it" results! Co-organized with @divyarthi.bsky.social and Taylor Lundy.

📣 Introducing Easy Peasy, an EC workshop focused on simple, elegant, teachable results! Do you have a result (even old, or a special case of a longer paper) that is so self-contained and easy to communicate that you could explain all the details in under 15 minutes? Then this is the venue for you!

Had a wonderful BEACH Day today @bostoncollege.bsky.social! Thanks so much to @jessiefin.bsky.social, Maneesha Papireddygari, Francisco Marmolejo-Cossio, and Gili Rusak for organizing!

Woman or gender minority curious about the mathematics of waves? 🌊👋 Keen to spend a life-changing week at Princeton IAS this May, for a lecture series on "Waves, Wave Packets, and Their Interactions"? Good news! Apply by ⏰ Feb 6 for the Women and Mathematics program! www.ias.edu/math/wam/wam...

Csrankings.org does not count papers that are under six pages, so most ACM EC papers are not counted (most authors choose the extended abstract format). But @acmsigecom.bsky.social's policy is that full and extended abstracts are the same! See discussion: github.com/emeryberger/...

Including Extended Abstracts from ACM EC · Issue #9506 · emeryberger/CSrankings

Currently, only full papers at EC (the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation) are indexed by CSRankings. This issue is to request that EC extended abstracts be counted and indexed as publicat...

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A truly incredible BEACH Day today on Predictions for Decision Making, full of amazing talks. Hope everyone enjoyed the view from @bucds.bsky.social! Photos of Yiling Cheng and @yifanwu.bsky.social

And oh by the way, this is the view from the room where the event is on just one side -- views on three sides! Come to learn, stay for the great company and views! (Should be our slogan, @bucds.bsky.social) Registration: forms.gle/k71pqBosDhiAUFJG8

Divyarthi Mohan@divyarthi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Come join us for a BEACH Day at BU CDS next week! ⛱️

Today is the last day to register! forms.gle/k71pqBosDhiA... If you're seeing this late and still want to attend, send us an email and we'll try to accommodate you if there's still space.

BEACH Day Fall 25 Registration

Please use this form to register (free but required) for the Nov 18, 2025 workshop on Predictions for Decision Making: Scoring Rules, Calibration, and Information Elicitation. The workshop will take ...

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Kira Goldner@kiragoldner.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us for this semester's BEACH Day! Topic: Predictions for Decision Making: Scoring Rules, Calibration, and Information Elicitation When: Tues, Nov 18, 2025 Where: BU CDS @bucds.bsky.social Registration: Free-but-required (forms.gle/k71pqBosDhiA...) by Nov 11. Schedule: On the website below!

Come join us for a BEACH Day at BU CDS next week! ⛱️

Kira Goldner@kiragoldner.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us for this semester's BEACH Day! Topic: Predictions for Decision Making: Scoring Rules, Calibration, and Information Elicitation When: Tues, Nov 18, 2025 Where: BU CDS @bucds.bsky.social Registration: Free-but-required (forms.gle/k71pqBosDhiA...) by Nov 11. Schedule: On the website below!

If your institution wants to advertise Theory jobs to the FOCS 2025 attendees, a form has been set up on our website: focs.computer.org/2025/activit... The spreadsheet collating job openings in TCS will be made available to attendees (and online), to help graduating students and junior researchers.

FOCS 2025: Job openings for postdocs and researchers

Please provide details about any theory job openings in your group (e.g., postdoc openings, research-related jobs or academic positions). This information will be made available as a Google Spreadshee...

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Check out a great intuition-packed 5 minute talk on our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight, "Multidimensional Bayesian Utility Maximization: Tight Approximations to Welfare" by my fantastic co-author Taylor Lundy! recorder-v3.slideslive.com#/share?share...

Join us for this semester's BEACH Day! Topic: Predictions for Decision Making: Scoring Rules, Calibration, and Information Elicitation When: Tues, Nov 18, 2025 Where: BU CDS @bucds.bsky.social Registration: Free-but-required (forms.gle/k71pqBosDhiA...) by Nov 11. Schedule: On the website below!

Boston Economics and Computing Hub

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Raise your hand if you've ever been personally victimized by [the end of] daylight savings.

a group of women are sitting on stairs with the word meangirls on the bottom right

Alt: The Mean Girls gif of everyone raising their hands in response to the question "raise your hand if you've been personally victimized Regina George"

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Well this seems prime for the CSLaw community to attack:

Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket

The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.

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A packed house at Ariel Shaulker’s fantastic #ACMEC25 talk on our paper on Bilateral Trade with Interdependent Values joint with @aloneden.bsky.social, Thodoris Tsilivis, and Shahar Dobzinski!

Learning about a mechanism design approach to allocating positional goods from @peiranxiao.bsky.social (BU to USC Econ)’s great EC talk on his single-author #ACMEC25 paper!

Great talk at #ACMEC25 by @divyarthi.bsky.social on Online Combinatorial Allocation with Interdependent Values, joint work with @michal-feldman.bsky.social, Simon Mauras, and Rebecca Reiffenhäuser! Matching guarantees with interdependence to without!

Millennial weddings: every single person on the dance floor scream-singing every word and jumping to “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit and “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne.

Aw cmon spelling bee, that’s a common word!

I’m so sad for all of the many many people suffering because a few people in power want war. (This has always been the case, but I’m especially sad now.)

Crowdsourcing carry-on suitcase recs — looking for an indestructible bag (at least for 10+ years of frequent travel), please & thank you!

Spread the word: there is a new prize in Theoretical Computer Science in honor of Luca Trevisan-- cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat... (Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)

New blog post! How I make mathy lectures interactive by designing "worksheets" with definitions, exercises, and places to take notes, plus participation cards are the best idea ever, and some other policy ideas.

📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized

500 Women Scientists@500womensci.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Dear US-based misinfo/disinfo research community: I am looking to write about the impact of Friday night's NSF decision. I understand that this is a stressful moment, but also believe it is worth giving the public an understanding of what's at stake. docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQP...

NSF misinfo/disinfo grant survey

This survey is run by Alexios Mantzarlis (mantzarlis.com) for his newsletter Faked Up (fakedup.org). The purpose is to understand the scale of the recent NSF decision (nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities) t...

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This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

BU and Tufts are organized! What about Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Boston College, the rest of our area? Stand up!

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · last yr.

This Thursday the 17th is the National Day of Action for Higher Education. Find an event near you to stand up for our colleges and universities and the immense good they do in the world. www.dayofactionforhighered.org

Selling old designer things, and Facebook marketplace marked my listing as selling counterfeit goods (they're not). I "requested a review" which was then completed in 2 seconds (not human) and there's no way to give feedback that it made an error. Yay facts, yay AI, yay Meta.