Golareh Khalilpour
@golareh.bsky.social
I work for Uni Mannheim. Posts about Academia, Econ, PoliSci, SocSci, Star Wars, books, my dog, and music. Violin-wielding public nuisance. All views my mom’s.
📸: Annette Mück
📸: Annette Mück
Frantically going through Eurovision posts to figure out why people are talking about it in November?!?!
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Frantically going through Eurovision posts to figure out why people are talking about it in November?!?!
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🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“foreign states or other grps can easily use [these models]…[to] influence policy decisions, warp electoral strategies, & erode public trust in the democratic institutions that rely on accurate polling.
This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪
This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“foreign states or other grps can easily use [these models]…[to] influence policy decisions, warp electoral strategies, & erode public trust in the democratic institutions that rely on accurate polling.
This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪
This potentially turns a tool for scientific discovery into a vector for information warfare.”🧪
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📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer”
I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies
➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election)
tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies
➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election)
tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
Demokratie: Wenn die Rechte mitregiert, wird sie nicht geschwächt – im Gegenteil
Eine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt: Wenn die Rechte in Verantwortung kommt, gewinnt sie dazu. Daraus lässt sich für Deutschland lernen.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer”
I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies
➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election)
tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies
➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election)
tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
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Do we need religion for morality to make sense?
Thinking that religion is required for morality is getting things backwards. Our moral sense preceded religions and shaped their ideas about right and wrong.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/no-religio...
Thinking that religion is required for morality is getting things backwards. Our moral sense preceded religions and shaped their ideas about right and wrong.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/no-religio...
No, religion isn't required for morality
Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines
www.optimallyirrational.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Do we need religion for morality to make sense?
Thinking that religion is required for morality is getting things backwards. Our moral sense preceded religions and shaped their ideas about right and wrong.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/no-religio...
Thinking that religion is required for morality is getting things backwards. Our moral sense preceded religions and shaped their ideas about right and wrong.
www.optimallyirrational.com/p/no-religio...
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in one of my experiments with Claude code it produced a plausibly looking but suspicious figure claiming to represent some requested data analysis. When asked to explain how it got there the reply was along the lines of "sorry this is actually all made up, I couldn't run the real analysis"
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
in one of my experiments with Claude code it produced a plausibly looking but suspicious figure claiming to represent some requested data analysis. When asked to explain how it got there the reply was along the lines of "sorry this is actually all made up, I couldn't run the real analysis"
🔉 Decluttering my camera roll and cleansing your timeline at the same time.
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🔉 Decluttering my camera roll and cleansing your timeline at the same time.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have another pomegranate.
I guess I HAVE to do this:
If we meet in person and you notice that my fingers and nails have changed color: That is my winter look!
I will look like this for the rest of pomegranate season. If you could kindly pretend you don’t notice, I’d really appreciate it.
If we meet in person and you notice that my fingers and nails have changed color: That is my winter look!
I will look like this for the rest of pomegranate season. If you could kindly pretend you don’t notice, I’d really appreciate it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have another pomegranate.
I guess I HAVE to do this:
If we meet in person and you notice that my fingers and nails have changed color: That is my winter look!
I will look like this for the rest of pomegranate season. If you could kindly pretend you don’t notice, I’d really appreciate it.
If we meet in person and you notice that my fingers and nails have changed color: That is my winter look!
I will look like this for the rest of pomegranate season. If you could kindly pretend you don’t notice, I’d really appreciate it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I guess I HAVE to do this:
If we meet in person and you notice that my fingers and nails have changed color: That is my winter look!
I will look like this for the rest of pomegranate season. If you could kindly pretend you don’t notice, I’d really appreciate it.
If we meet in person and you notice that my fingers and nails have changed color: That is my winter look!
I will look like this for the rest of pomegranate season. If you could kindly pretend you don’t notice, I’d really appreciate it.
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In the latest #aBitOfCCS episode, we dig into research showing that LLMs often deliver only marginal gains at major environmental cost. 🌱🌍
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
#aBitOfCCS – What is it about CCS
aboutccs.net
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In the latest #aBitOfCCS episode, we dig into research showing that LLMs often deliver only marginal gains at major environmental cost. 🌱🌍
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
aboutccs.net/abitofccs/
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It’s Friday night, baby! Time to sip one herbal tea and politely obey the law
January 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It’s Friday night, baby! Time to sip one herbal tea and politely obey the law
I realize that this is not the most important message of the post, but what I enjoyed most about it is that it avoids the stereotypical image of the “entitled, lazy younger generation”, instead acknowledging the systemic and economic challenges students face, when discussing very real problems.
AI Killed the Take-Home Essay. COVID Killed Attendance. Now What?
Reclaiming Learning in an Age of Distraction and Artificial Intelligence
stevenmintz.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I realize that this is not the most important message of the post, but what I enjoyed most about it is that it avoids the stereotypical image of the “entitled, lazy younger generation”, instead acknowledging the systemic and economic challenges students face, when discussing very real problems.
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www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.
Bought one of these French notepads. Now what?
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Bought one of these French notepads. Now what?
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‼️ #Mitglieder aufgepasst: Heute startet der Vorstand seine Mitgliederbefragung zu Erfahrungen mit #Anfeindungen und #Bedrohungen in der #Politikwissenschaft, die Zugangsdaten kommen per Mail. Bitte nehmt Euch 10 Minuten für die #Umfrage!
👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione...
👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione...
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
‼️ #Mitglieder aufgepasst: Heute startet der Vorstand seine Mitgliederbefragung zu Erfahrungen mit #Anfeindungen und #Bedrohungen in der #Politikwissenschaft, die Zugangsdaten kommen per Mail. Bitte nehmt Euch 10 Minuten für die #Umfrage!
👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione...
👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione...
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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This seems like a great opportunity.
No one better to help think big and rigorous than @ccavaille.bsky.social
No one better to help think big and rigorous than @ccavaille.bsky.social
Are you an ABD needing help with your project? Interested in immigration, autocratization, & religion? Want to spend 2 weeks thinking deeply about interdisciplinary work? This summer school is for you. I'll be one of the instructors helping your think big and rigorously :-) More info below! (1/2)
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This seems like a great opportunity.
No one better to help think big and rigorous than @ccavaille.bsky.social
No one better to help think big and rigorous than @ccavaille.bsky.social
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We are waiting for your submissions! The call for the International CSR Communication Conference in Finland closes on March 31, 2026 📢
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
csr-com.org/call-for-pap...
#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
csr-com.org/call-for-pap...
#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We are waiting for your submissions! The call for the International CSR Communication Conference in Finland closes on March 31, 2026 📢
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
csr-com.org/call-for-pap...
#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
csr-com.org/call-for-pap...
#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi
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Causal inference issues aside, I am confused by a lot of things here. Maybe here are machine learning/aging experts that can help me understand how this makes sense: As I understand the paper, they trained a model to predict age based on health factors and "protective" factors (1/3)
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title.
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Causal inference issues aside, I am confused by a lot of things here. Maybe here are machine learning/aging experts that can help me understand how this makes sense: As I understand the paper, they trained a model to predict age based on health factors and "protective" factors (1/3)
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Got a passion for research and the patience to explain your work at every family gathering? 🧐
📮 #ApplyNow! See you in Mannheim!
#UniMannheim #UniversityOfMannheim #GESS #GraduateSchool #DoctoralStudies #Research #ResearchInGermany #PhD #PhDOpportunity #PhDPositions #Scholarships
📮 #ApplyNow! See you in Mannheim!
#UniMannheim #UniversityOfMannheim #GESS #GraduateSchool #DoctoralStudies #Research #ResearchInGermany #PhD #PhDOpportunity #PhDPositions #Scholarships
Ich meide Talkshows ja hartnäckig (und das vermutlich zu Recht), aber diese Sendung habe ich gerne zu Ende geschaut und kann sie wirklich empfehlen. Wissenschaftlich fundierte Einschätzungen, die ehrlich und dennoch mit größerer Sorgfalt abgegeben wurden, als man es in diesem Format gewohnt ist.
Ihr wollt heute #Lanz schauen. Glaubt mir’s. Es war ein Wirtschaftsgipfel. Ganz ohne Politiker. Ökonomen sind sich auch gar nicht so uneins. Und dabei dennoch nicht langweilig. Mit @julialoehr.bsky.social @apeichl.bsky.social @schularick.bsky.social Harald Jänner und meiner Wenigkeit.
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Ich meide Talkshows ja hartnäckig (und das vermutlich zu Recht), aber diese Sendung habe ich gerne zu Ende geschaut und kann sie wirklich empfehlen. Wissenschaftlich fundierte Einschätzungen, die ehrlich und dennoch mit größerer Sorgfalt abgegeben wurden, als man es in diesem Format gewohnt ist.
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Thanks so much for this thread!
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Thanks so much for this thread!
Every now and then, a sweetheart of a person googles my very ancient, very foreign name and kindly reports back what they think it means. I find this very thoughtful, but the internet is unfortunately an unreliable place for ancient history facts.
Years ago I’d made a post on X, so here’s the rerun:
Years ago I’d made a post on X, so here’s the rerun:
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Every now and then, a sweetheart of a person googles my very ancient, very foreign name and kindly reports back what they think it means. I find this very thoughtful, but the internet is unfortunately an unreliable place for ancient history facts.
Years ago I’d made a post on X, so here’s the rerun:
Years ago I’d made a post on X, so here’s the rerun:
Y’all have no idea how lucky you are
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Y’all have no idea how lucky you are
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🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...