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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Postdoctoral Research Economist positions at Microsoft Research New England or New York City 🚨

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Open to PhDs in econ-related fields (e.g. quant marketing, econ-CS). Seeking those with high collaboration potential with the team: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026

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Tom Gur @tomgur.bsky.social · 1d

Cambridge is recruiting Assistant/Associate Professors in Theoretical Computer Science. #TCS #AcademicJobs

Application deadline: 15 December 2025. Contact me for informal inquiries. See more details and apply here:
www.cst.cam.ac.uk/assistantass...

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 1d

The FORC 2026 call for papers is out! responsiblecomputing.org/forc-2026-ca... Two reviewing cycles with two deadlines: Nov 11 and Feb 17. If you haven't been, FORC is a great venue for theoretical work in "responsible AI" --- fairness, privacy, social choice, CS&Law, explainability, etc.

FORC 2026: Call for Papers

The 7th annual Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC) will be held on June 3-5, 2026 at Harvard University. Brief summary for those who are familiar with past editions (prior to 2…

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Roger Myerson @rbmyerson.bsky.social · 2d

Defending democracy is fundamentally different from winning elections when rules of democracy can be taken for granted.
In a must-read article, @jvl.bsky.social observes that "Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power."
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Here’s How Trump Loses the Shutdown

God help us but Gavin Newsom is the only Democrat who understands power.

www.thebulwark.com

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · 2d

The Brady rule says that if the government possesses exculpatory or impeachment evidenced, it is required to provide it to the defence. (Without the defense even having to ask for it.) Seems probably relevant here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Judge Finds ‘Likelihood’ That Charges Against Abrego Garcia Are Vindictive

www.nytimes.com

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 4d

This is how a university that understands its mission and values behaves.

Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 4d

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 4d

That One Simple Trick They Want You to Know: Pay USD 19 to become an ACM Student Member, save USD 80 on the #FOCS2025 registration! (All the while supporting the ACM)
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Association for Computing Machinery membership: www.acm.org/membership/m...

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 4d

This op-ed is excellent and I encourage everyone to read it.

Universities must reject the Trump compact.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Huck Bennett @huckbennett.bsky.social · 6d

CU computer science is doing a search for a tenure-track position in quantum computing this year: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The scope of the search in particular includes quantum CS theory!

AMA about how awesome Boulder and Colorado are!

Tenure-Track Faculty in Quantum Computing

jobs.colorado.edu

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · 6d

Whooah, it's a good time to be at a state school with a democrat governor.

Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 6d

Not great to be caught in a tug of war between the 2:
"Newsom on Thursday threatened to cut “billions” in state funding from any CA campus that signs a Trump administration compact and agrees to sweeping and largely conservative campus policies in exchange" for fed $ www.latimes.com/california/s...

Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact

The White House is asking nine major universities, including USC, to commit to President Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

www.latimes.com

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Vasilis Gkatzelis @gkatzelis.bsky.social · 8d

It is that time of year again to gather all the profiles of SIGecom job market candidates!

Share this with any job market candidate at the intersection of Econ, CS, and OR that you may know.

Candidates should complete the submission form (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...) by October 7th, 2025.

SIGecom Job Candidates 2025-2026

Just like in the last 10 years, this year there will be an article in SIGecom Exchanges profiling the current junior job market candidates from the SIGecom community. These profiles will include a res...

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Jon Ullman @thejonullman.bsky.social · 23d

📢Adam Smith, @gautamkamath.com, and I are putting together a list of job market candidates in Foundations of Responsible Computing! Last year's list was a great success so we're keeping it going!

If you want to be included, or nominate someone, see link in the replies!

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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · Aug 8

The CFP for ACM CSLaw '26 is up! Deadline for main-track papers (archival and non-archival) is September 30!

computersciencelaw.org/2026

2026 - ACM Symposium on Computer Science & Law

CS&Law 2026 5th ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law March 3–5, 2026 Berkeley, California Computing, software, and the Internet…

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Daniele Paserman @danielepaserman.bsky.social · Sep 3

BU Econ is hosting the second edition of WERISE (Women in Economics: Research, Ideas, Solutions, Executions). See below for details, feel free to RT/quote and spread the word!

x.com/bu_economics...

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · Sep 3

Universities need to fight the administration in court, rather than settling. Thank you, Harvard!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Canceled Harvard Funding

www.nytimes.com

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am teaching a PhD seminar this fall which attempts to put a decision-theoretic lens (or lenses) on research design.

So e.g., statistical decision theory, eliciting beliefs & preferences, and rational benchmarks.

Here's a draft syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What's missing?

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · Aug 19

My Mac laptop now won't let me open text files in a text editor if they are from unknown sources?

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · Aug 15

How do we establish that we've elicited an LLM's beliefs? Can we apply what we know from eliciting human beliefs, or is it irrelevant given that we can directly access LLM's internal representations? Why do these questions matter?

Some thoughts here
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/15/w...

When does it make sense to talk about LLMs having beliefs? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Aug 15

When does it make sense to talk about LLMs having beliefs?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/15/w...

When does it make sense to talk about LLMs having beliefs? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks to Kangning Wang for working with me on this

"A Geometric Analysis of Gains from Trade".

There is a very simple geometric proof that the "random proposer" mechanism gives a 4-approximation to first-best gains from trade. And some calculus gives the state-of-the-art 3.15-approximation.

Three diagrams illustrating the first-best gains from trade, and lower bounds on the seller's and buyer's utilities.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · Aug 14

Does anyone have a good reference for paradoxes in set theory? I'm looking for something self-contained.

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · Aug 14

Is there any relation to @rbmyerson.bsky.social's "Dual Reduction and Elementary Games"?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dual Reduction and Elementary Games

Consider the incentive constraints that define the correlated equilibria of a game. The duals of these linear constraints generate Markov chains on th…

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Anupam Gupta @anupamg.bsky.social · Aug 13

Dave Patterson (UC Berkeley) points out why public investment in basic research and education is vital, and defunding it is incredibly short-sighted.

thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made

Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the National Science Foundation that …

thehill.com

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ACM SIGecom @acmsigecom.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢Excited to announce: EC'26

📅 When: July 6–10, 2026
🍝 Where: Rome, Italy

General Chair: Stefano Leonardi
PC Chairs: Alex Teytelboym (@t8el.bsky.social) & Matt Weinberg

Hope to see as many of you there! #ACMEC26

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Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · Aug 4

Springer publishes a P ≠ NP "proof" and Eric Allender has words to say.

blog.computationalco...

Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem

A guest post by Eric Allender prompted by an (incorrect) P ≠ NP proof recently published in Springer Nature's Frontiers of Computer Scie...

blog.computationalcomplexity.org

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