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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congrats!!!

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jul 8

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!

Zooming out on the audience at Ariel’s talk

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jul 8

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!

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jul 7

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!

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jul 6

You can take the millennials out of the years surrounding the millennium, but you can’t take the 90/00s out of the millennials.

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jul 6

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.

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jun 28

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

Entering “polylog” into NYT spelling bee and it showing that it’s not in word list.

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jun 22

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.)

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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Ryan O'Donnell @booleananalysis.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Jun 6

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

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · May 29

This is a terrible idea. Don't increase verifiable numbers this way.

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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · May 3

📣🧪
$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 · May 3

🧪 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

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · Apr 21

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...

docs.google.com

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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Apr 18

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.

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Apr 17

This is how I felt post Oct 7 in the US, vs talking to friends from the region where I felt I needed to ask permission to talk about anything else. Very bizarre.

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Apr 15

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

James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · Apr 15

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

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

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Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social · Apr 15

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.

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