Kira Goldner
@kiragoldner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at BU CDS
EconCS | Theory of CS | MD+AI+DS4SG | MD4SG co-founder
Previously Columbia, UW, Oberlin. Views are mine alone.
www.kiragoldner.com
EconCS | Theory of CS | MD+AI+DS4SG | MD4SG co-founder
Previously Columbia, UW, Oberlin. Views are mine alone.
www.kiragoldner.com
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
Registration: forms.gle/k71pqBosDhiAUFJG8
Come join us for a BEACH Day at BU CDS next week! ⛱️
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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
Registration: forms.gle/k71pqBosDhiAUFJG8
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.
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.
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Kira Goldner
Come join us for a BEACH Day at BU CDS next week! ⛱️
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Come join us for a BEACH Day at BU CDS next week! ⛱️
Reposted by Kira Goldner
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.
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...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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.
The spreadsheet collating job openings in TCS will be made available to attendees (and online), to help graduating students and junior researchers.
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!
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SlidesLive Recorder
recorder-v3.slideslive.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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...
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!
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
www.boston-ec-hub.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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!
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!
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"
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Raise your hand if you've ever been personally victimized by [the end of] daylight savings.
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.
fortune.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Well this seems prime for the CSLaw community to attack:
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!
July 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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!
July 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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!
July 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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.
July 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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!
June 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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.)
June 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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!
June 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Crowdsourcing carry-on suitcase recs — looking for an indestructible bag (at least for 10+ years of frequent travel), please & thank you!
Reposted by Kira Goldner
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.)
cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...
(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)
cs.unibocconi.eu
June 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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.)
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.
Encouraging an Interactive Classroom
www.kiragoldner.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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.
Reposted by Kira Goldner
📣🧪
$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
$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
🧪 funding alert! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
📣🧪
$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
$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
Reposted by Kira Goldner
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...
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...
docs.google.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Kira Goldner
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.
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.
April 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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.
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!
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
www.dayofactionforhighered.org
A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
www.dayofactionforhighered.org
April 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BU and Tufts are organized! What about Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Boston College, the rest of our area? Stand up!
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.
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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.
Chag sameach l’culam. Next year in freedom and peace. Let’s get there.
April 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Chag sameach l’culam. Next year in freedom and peace. Let’s get there.