Golareh Khalilpour

Update on the Skarsgård family census: Not done yet, but can confirm that they outnumber the Hemsworths and Olsens, however, not Wahlbergs.

Academic article: How People Make Meaning in a Fragmented Democracy: Implications for Incorporating Public Opinion into Public Policy

1/4. The U.S. continues to be a place where people’s life experiences and outcomes differ dramatically by social positioning. How does that affect the way people make meaning of what is happening around them? Those questions guided this new paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK I never cease to be amazed at how bad Labour politicians are at politics. It may seem arrogant for an economist to say that, but it’s not ...

New post: Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/labo...
Labour's 'tougher' stance on immigration/asylum and right wing populists' response has shifted the Overton window.

Editors at Springer’s Journal of Philosophical Logic Resign, Launch New Open Access Journal - Daily Nous All of the editors-in-chief and associate editors of Springer Nature's Journal of Philosophical Logic have announced their immediate or pending resignation and the launch, as of today, of a new "diamo...

dailynous.com/2025/12/10/e...

An der Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- u. Umweltgeschichte des Historischen Seminars @uni-freiburg.de ist eine Stelle als Akad. Rätin auf Zeit zu besetzen. Ein ganz sympathisches Team und bei einer meiner liebsten und klügsten Kolleginnen - gerne teilen! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

Die Bürokratie, die wir loswerden müssen

Warum Hochschulen effektiver entlastet werden müssen, ohne rechtsstaatliche Standards zu opfern. Ein Gastbeitrag von Paul R. Melcher, Ulrich Möncke, Karla Neschke und Jochen Struwe.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/12...

In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!)

Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues.

A few findings you might be interested in...🧵

Sorry for being MIA. Took some time off to conclusively determine how many Skarsgårds there actually are.

Alle reden über Entbürokratisierung. Kaum jemand darüber, was wir verlieren könnten.
Bürokratie nervt – aber sie schützt auch die Freiheit der Wissenschaft.
Warum die Debatte differenzierter werden muss:
👉 Die unterschätzte Kraft der Bürokratie, im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11...

Deutschlands Hochschulen im Stresstest: Wenn Populismus auf Wissenschaftsfinanzierung trifft

Deutschlands Hochschulen im Stresstest: Wenn Populismus auf Wissenschaftsfinanzierung trifft
Das Wissenschaftssystem ist weniger geschützt, als viele glauben. Programme könnten durch einfache Haushaltsbeschlüsse gestrichen werden. Justus Henke im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/11...

Assistant Professor (f/m/d) Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

We are hiring!
The Department of Network and Data Science of Central European University (Vienna) has an open position for an Assistant Professor in network science and computational social science.

It’s Friday night, baby! Time to sip one herbal tea and politely obey the law

In addition to his resignation, note that “effective immediately, the AEA has imposed a lifetime prohibition on Mr. Summers' attending, speaking at, or otherwise participating in AEA-sponsored events or activities, including serving in any editorial or refereeing capacity for AEA journals.”

Schmitt’s argument is unintentionally revealing.

The “color revolutions” were non-violent, pro-democracy political movements aimed at ending autocratic regimes in former Soviet bloc nations.

If the Democrats are leading a “color revolution,” then Trump is an autocrat & Schmitt is pro-autocrat.

A screenshot of the CfP for SekMethoden 2026

🚨 CfP: SekMethoden 2026
🗓️ March 12-13, 2026
🗺️ Hannover, Germany
⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025

👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2...

👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!

The world gives us two problems:

1. We need to find the truth to the best of our ability.

2. We need long term institutional continuity, even as the search for truth tends to falsify institutional foundations.

Universities are an earnest and reasonably successful try at hitting those targets.

🎉 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....

“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.”🧪

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.

📣 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)

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No, religion isn't required for morality Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines

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...

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.

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.

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/

AI Killed the Take-Home Essay. COVID Killed Attendance. Now What? Reclaiming Learning in an Age of Distraction and Artificial Intelligence

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.

Ausschreibung

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.

Picture of a reporter’s notebook by Rhodia.

Bought one of these French notepads. Now what?

Grafik mit hellgrauem Hintergrund und Schrift in dunkelgrau, schwarz und magenta. Unten rechts das Logo der DVPW in dunkelgrau. Text: Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft. Mitgliederbefragung: Erfahrungen mit Anfeindungen und Bedrohungen. Zugangsdaten per E-Mail.

‼️ #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!

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