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

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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.)

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

📣🧪 $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

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 63 days ago • 99 comments

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

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

People be crazy about egg prices man #pesach

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Chag sameach l’culam. Next year in freedom and peace. Let’s get there.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Total federal spending is up +8% in 2025 year-to-date on April 9 over 2024. The illusion that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

submitted 71 days ago • 26 comments

Thank you to all that attended today's inaugural BEACH Day on Behavioral Models in EconCS! More photos to come, but just wanted to share a few from today's truly excellent talks.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you for the very nice article! Extremely honored to have received a CAREER award, huge thanks to those at NSF who work hard to fund research. Check out my paper with Taylor Lundy that initiates this agenda and simple and approximately optimal multidimensional utility maximization!

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

One other thing I've been wondering. You're solving some slightly complex equation that you don't want to solve by hand. Which do you use these days? 1️⃣ Wolfram alpha 2️⃣ An LLM 📊 Show results

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Are there people who actually drink decaf coffee in the morning? Like is that a thing you actually need to provide when hosting an event? Aside from my father, I mean. 1️⃣ No, there's no point 2️⃣ Yes, yay decaf! 📊 Show results

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

Genuinely asking: what do you do with a paper that gets rejected due to stronger FOLLOW-UP work to yours that gets posted before yours gets published?

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Congrats to @nsaphra.bsky.social and to us! So excited to have you join!

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Then they came for the local international students. Time to speak up?

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Register by THIS FRIDAY if you plan to attend our BEACH Day on Behavioral Models in EconCS! Come for great learning, great research, and mediocre food—it's the Boston way!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Have had that song from the Lego movie stuck in my head for a few weeks now except with the modified lyrics “everything is awful!”

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Please join us for our inaugural BEACH Day: a workshop from the Boston Economics and Computing Hub. On What: Behavioral Models in EconCS When: Friday April 4, 2025 Where: BU CDS @bucds.bsky.social Registration: Free-but-required (forms.gle/ZkB3qVMqQYjA...) by March 28. Schedule: In-progress below!

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Econ folks: how would you advise an economist to give a talk to computer scientists in EconCS? How would you describe what we do and don’t know? #Econsky #ECsky

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Universities are in trouble. I've heard of: - Staff layoffs - Staff and/or faculty hiring freezes - PhD admissions freezes - Cancelling of summer research programs (REUs) - Diversity initiatives quietly disappearing - A university student and peaceful protester disappearing 🚩🚩🚩

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments