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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 21h

Voterdle 2026-10-01 2/4 🟥🟨🟥🟥🟥🟩🟩🟥🟩🟩🟩🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 officialadithya.github.io/voterdle/ Vibecoded this with Claude Code; guess the voting rule!

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Sophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're searching for PhD opportunities, check out this feed I created using @graze.social! ➡️ bsky.app/profile/sjgr...

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We now have a government chatbot! aifails.substack.com/p/basic-ques...

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Randomized metric distortion feels like it's the matrix multiplication exponent of social choice theory. They both 1. give weird numbers with integral part equal to 2 2. are results of some really cool math 3. have…limited practical applications

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 22/09/2026

Does P=NP? It’s one of the most fundamental problems in computer science. But, what is P? What is NP? We explain in our complexity class primer: www.quantamagazine.org/a-short-guid…

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How Randomly Selected Residents Aim to Build Consensus on Property Taxes

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Chara Podimata @charapod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We’re launching the LLM Election Observatory: llmelectionobservatory.org, a research project with @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Charles Stewart, Nicolas Emmenegger, Young-Kyung Kim, and Alessandro Morosini on how LLMs respond to election-related questions. @nytimes.com wrote a story about it. 1/n 1/n

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Voters Are Asking A.I. About Elections. The Answers Can Vary by User. (Gift Article)

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a go-to stop for voters looking for information about political races. Researchers are studying the effects.

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think speeding tickets issued by traffic cameras, and not officers, should be invalid by default, unless an officer can produce a proof of the mean-value theorem. (Many cameras take two snapshots of a vehicle's location, and then issue a ticket if the *average* speed is over a certain threshold!)

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These are obviously the same story, with just different twists at the end. And both are nonsense. There is "moderate" position between them, but there is space outside of that fantasy world where we can see the actual harms happening in the name of "AI". >>

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just learned that "epigraph" means something other than the stuff above a function

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network

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William Umboh @swumboh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“This result is folklore” is just academic jargon for IYKYK

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Excited to finally see it; thanks for sharing! I will say I still don’t understand why the only way to watch the documentary is via these screenings (of which several geographic regions, don’t really have), if the goal is to spread their message to many people. Am I missing something?

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Very enjoyable! Thanks Clément, Sasha, and Aditya!

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mitpolisci.bsky.social @mitpolisci.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Prof. Bailey Flanigan develops complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive. news.mit.edu/2026/followi...

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

While the Maine primaries have concluded, this is some really cool work!

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William Umboh @swumboh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

HotCRP has this nice feature of counting down the time to the submission deadline. Feature request: play Verdi’s Requiem “Dies Irae” in the last minute before the deadline youtu.be/cHw4GER-MiE?...

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BBC Prom 13 - Verdi Requiem - Dies Irae e Tuba Mirum

YouTube video by Gustavo Coppini

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CU Boulder CS Theory @bouldertheory.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hybrid CS Theory Seminar today (2026-07-13) Excited to have Jack Stade (U. Copenhagen) presenting "The Boundary-Boundary Art-Gallery Problem is in NP" (which won Best Student Paper at STOC this year) www.colorado.edu/cs-theory/th... #MathSky #TCSSky #algorithms #geometry #ComputationalComplexity

A (non-convex) polygonal region (indicative of a strangely-shaped "art gallery"), vaguely triangular-shaped with big bumps at the corners, and smaller, long thin spiky bumps off of those. Three dots are placed, one near each corner of the triangle, colored red, green, and blue respectively. Dashed arrows from the dots to opposite walls indicate extremal lines of sight, and walls are colored corresponding to which dot can see them. Because of the bumps and spikes, which dot can see which wall is a complicated intermesh of the three colors.

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happy birthday to Gustav Mahler, the composer of my favorite symphonies.

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Chara Podimata @charapod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@radniazadeh.bsky.social and I are co-organizing the EC mentoring workshop this year, and we're so excited about the fantastic speakers that are joining us! Please spread the word to your students. The registration form will remain open until tomorrow EOD.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 13/06/2026

Its's pretty simple: if you don't add any random noise, you must either jeopardize the respondents' privacy or release less data. There is, unfortunately, no "secret, more complex third thing." www.npr.org/2026/06/12/n...

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A Trump push to cut 'statistical noise' could mean less data from the Census Bureau

New public data for redistricting and other uses may be reduced as Trump officials limit the ways the Census Bureau can protect people's privacy when it releases statistics.

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’m having a great time visiting @dominik-peters.de at @lamsade.bsky.social this June! I’ll be here until I go to EC, so if anyone is in the area and interested in meeting, please reach out!

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I have long been enthralled by various topics in (constitutional) law, the role and power of the courts, politics, and democracy, and I sometimes like to write about such issues (as an amateur). I’ve decided to share some of this writing on my new blog, "animus curiae." Always open to feedback!

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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

David Shmoys wrote an op-ed in the SF chronicle, based on our paper on how multimember districts with ranked choice voting would several limit gerrymandering www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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The partisan gerrymandering war is out of control. Here’s how we can end it

OPINION: To end partisan gerrymandering, the U.S. should redraw Congressional districts, making them larger and so that each one would have multiple representatives.

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I wrote a blog post on my Ph. D. application experience to both reflect on the process and serve as a resource: officialadithya.github.io/blog/2026/my...! I haven’t provided too much explicit advice, but throughout I have detailed various things that I think helped my application.

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"To be, or not to be" depends on whether you believe in the law of excluded middle…

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 15/05/2026

Computational geometry problem: give an O(n log n)-time algorithm which, given the n-point description of a Bruce Banner, computes its convex hulk

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sisyphus was actually pushing a large boulder the size of a small boulder.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 04/05/2026

(Sisyphus teaches at CU Boulder.)

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A great sunrise hike at NCAR to finish off undergrad! Thank you, @bouldertheory.bsky.social, and see you soon, @csail.mit.edu!

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Takács Quartet is such a hidden gem of Boulder and CU!

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 28/04/2026

Nothing incredible novel, but a short 🧵 thread about MGFs, their use, and why I love Taylor series. Say you want to compute the moments of a r.v. X, which is "sufficiently well-behaved" (in some rigorous sense). That is, 𝔼[Xⁿ], for some integer(s) n≥0 of your choosing. How do you proceed?

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European Association for Theoretical Computer Science @eatcs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The 2026 Presburger Award for Young Scientists goes to Vincent Cohen-Addad and @gautamkamath.com 🥳🎉 You can read the laudatio here:

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Presburger Award 2026 – Laudatio

European Association for Theoretical Computer Science

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Huck Bennett @huckbennett.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is very nice recognition of Hal Gabow! Hal spent his whole career as faculty at CU Boulder, and his legacy looms large for us. (Hal retired in 2008, and I unfortunately have never gotten a chance to meet him.)

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Few things beat listening to Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 on a cold, snowy, and foggy day. Mid-April snow in Colorado is, perhaps surprisingly, something that makes me love Colorado!

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Catch up on SFI’s first Community Lecture for 2026, Crossroads Democracy Panel. The panel featured Jenna Bednar, Samuel Bowles, Hahrie Han, Katrin Schmelz, and David Krakauer as moderator. It explored the history, economics, psychology, and politics of democracy. Watch on SFI’s YouTube channel:

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Crossroads Democracy — A Panel Discussion

YouTube video by Santa Fe Institute

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Ismar Volić @ismarvolic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A recording of my talk at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. From the war in Bosnia to some of the current research in math and democracy and the urgency of our work. youtu.be/hm_nBJ_xpAQ?...

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Ismar Volic "Math goes to Washington: The Mathematics of Democracy, from Theory to Practice"

YouTube video by Joint Mathematics Meetings

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Adithya Bhaskara @adithyacolorado.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my Ph. D. at MIT EECS in the fall. I’m excited to work on problems in computational social choice theory and mathematical democracy. I’d love to meet other researchers in TCS and EconCS in the greater-Boston area; please reach out!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/03/2026

The German mathematician Gerd Faltings is the winner of this year's Abel Prize, an honor that is regarded as mathematics’ version of the Nobel Prize. He proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

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Gerd Faltings of Germany Wins 2026 Abel Prize in Mathematics

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · 18/03/2026

Congratulations to Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard on receiving the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award! They are recognized for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing. awards.acm.org/turing @umontreal

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 17/03/2026

"Dyadic numbers can be represented by binary trees," uh? Sounds more like dryadic numbers to me

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