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!

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

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...

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!

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.

People be crazy about egg prices man #pesach

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

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.

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.

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!

So let me say this very clearly: If you claim to care about the Jews, you’ll support the universities, cultural institutions, artistic centers, and more that we care about, from attack by these vandals. If you’re a vandal … well, we’ll know where you stand.

The claim that the destruction of essential civilizational institutions is being done in the name of the Jews is itself a form of antisemitism—cultural vandalism carried out in our name. That, my friends, is rank bullshit.

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

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

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?

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

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

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!

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!”

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!

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

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 🚩🚩🚩

Whoa, was half-listening to a @thedailyshow.com segment with @linamkhan.bsky.social and suddenly heard talk of Algorithmic Collusion! (11 min in) Way to go, people researching this! @jasonhartline.bsky.social @aaroth.bsky.social @jubaz.bsky.social @ncollina.bsky.social @yannaigonch.bsky.social

It's a metaphor but it's also real :(

when my family asks me about the impact of my research

Would you submit to an EC Workshop on *teachable results*? Your iid or n=m case is fine, as long as it's a cute accessible self-contained 10 minute proof! 1️⃣ Yes I have something I'd submit! 2️⃣ Nope 📊 Show results

Sometimes coordinating with all the people and things really feels like in silo when each individual is like "but MY job keeps the silo alive" and you're like "bro good for you, I'm just tryna get through today."

In the last 24h since going to my first open house for a condo, I’ve muttered to myself: “I hate the secretary problem” “Why are two-sided markets so hard” “Stupid endowment effect”

Jokes by Claude. Allocated for free. The SIGEcom Winter Meeting is in ONE WEEK and is also free, on the topic of Gen AI x Market Design, but registration is required! Sign up now! See you March 6!

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Saw a single hyphen surrounded by spaces being used in lieu of an em dash and literally gagged. I'm a caricature of myself.

This is terrible news, and part of the ongoing assault on science in the U.S. by the new administration. To honor Tracy Kimbrel and his service to the NSF's AF division, here's a short thread about a beautiful algorithm of his, joint with Rakesh Sinha (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). 1/

I mean it’s not like natural disasters are extremely frequent as climate change gets worse and worse and that there’s a backlog of dealing with them or anything.

Do we think it’s subversive that NYT spelling bee spells “Canada” on Presidents’ Day?

Is this bullshit over yet? It’s so tired.

We listen and we don't judge. I still double-space.

FYI for those who are unfamiliar: despite the ungodly tuition costs in the US, the entire university depends on research grants and their overhead. Not just those paid directly. There is no way for US universities to manage funding pauses and overhead reductions for more than a few months at most.

You’ve heard of drinking games, but have you heard of PC bidding games?