Golareh Khalilpour

#womeninresearch #unima | University of Mannheim Interview series „Women in Research – Success Stories @UniMA” Meet Yasmin Kuhlmann, doctoral candidate at the University of Mannheim, and learn more about her path into research, challenges, and wha...

To mark #InternationalWomensDay, the University of Mannheim is launching “Women in Research – Success Stories @UniMA” on LinkedIn. Look out for new interviews highlighting our scholars and their career journeys.
The first interview features our doctoral candidate Yasmin Kuhlmann (CDSB):

#IWD2026

Allen Strategiedebatten der Grünen sollten nicht vergessen, dass BaWü Wahleregbnisse weiter ein Produkt des Fukushima Bumps sind, der ganz knapp dazu geführt hat, dass es einen MP gab. Man sieht das an der Altersstruktur. Ältere Wähler:innen sind MP Wähler:innen. Sie wählen in BaWü daher eher Grün

Die AfD ist nur unwesentlich stärker als bei Landtagswahlen 2016 - da war sie ebenfalls drittstärkste Partei.

Der Vergleich zu 2021 überschätzt massiv den angeblichen Wahlerfolg heute. Abstände zu Grüne & CDU nahezu gleich groß wie 2016.

ARD & ZDF wollen aber lieber die andere Story. 🤷‍♂️

#ltwbw

Little did the NZ police know that if you learned to drive in Tel Aviv or Tehran, everywhere else feels easy. This is not even a controversial opinion.

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

Headline “Holiday Shock: Couple Robbed by Mischievous Kiwi Bird
— Officials claim, the Kiwi had just escaped from a nearby prison.”

The University of Cambridge has an exciting Assistant, Associate, and Full Professorship of Public Policy open in the new Bennett School of Public Policy. It's a fantastic group with great people, they have a focus on digital policy too! Area open.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/term/De...

📢 Call for papers:

CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education
co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford)

🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich

🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social

👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026

🖼️ Past programs:
sites.google.com/view/woessma...

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

When I tell you I’ve been looking for a paper like this (about polisci) ever since those articles about socioeconomic/class background in econ came out (credit to Prof. @annastansbury.bsky.social and co-authors). Excited to add this to my weekend reading plans. 🧐

Authoritarian Persuasion at Home and Abroad: The Partial Effectiveness of Foreign Influencers in Propaganda Work - Siyu Liang, Lachlan McNamee, 2026 How do authoritarian regimes make propaganda persuasive? This study evaluates the impact of foreign influencers in propaganda. Social media videos and state bro...

Foreign influencers help authoritarian regimes: while they may not sway domestic audiences already saturated with propaganda, they can reshape the perceptions of more credulous foreign publics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Am Sonntag ist Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg. Was sagt das Zweistimme.org Modell vorher? ⬇️

Mein Institut verabschiedet sich von X! 🎉 Damit sind wir zwar keine Vorreiter mehr - aber aus meiner Sicht auch jetzt noch ein sehr guter Schritt. Auf dass noch möglichst Viele folgen - nicht nur aus der Wissenschaft, sondern auch aus der Politik. Bitte folgt dem @diw.de auf den anderen Plattformen!

Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Cambridge An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Exciting news, join us in Cambridge as Caius & Homerton are hiring for yet another Assistant/Associate Prof in Sociology🎉

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS875/a...

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

New post!
Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.
That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it

Paper with DOI now SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/so...

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...

🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?

We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

GESS - Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - YouTube The Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim provides graduate training in empirical and quantitative methods as ...

🎬📼 We are launching a new video series, with a fresh episode every 2 weeks, and episode 1 is out now!
Listen to doctoral researchers and alumni explain how cohort meetups, feedback circles, and celebrating collective wins translate into stronger scholarship and a more rewarding doctoral journey.

Aim to live in a way that word of your passing is not followed by applause … and celebrations.

Building benchmarks is only one way scholars can help steer AI development. We can also measure the effects of AI on students, build better datasets, or tune new open models. Openness itself could be our most important contribution. Universities have huge libraries, and the legal doctrine of fair use should protect models trained on those collections for a nonprofit educational purpose. At the moment, we are not pressing this advantage. Higher education has been so cautious about fair use that the private sector can now train more freely on our libraries (via Google Books) than is possible for academic AI researchers. We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers, who sell our own research back to us at a steep markup.

We're in a strange situation rn where Google can train freely on books from university libraries—but researchers *at* universities have limited access. I'm optimistic this can be fixed, but if you're in admin or working at a foundation, please know: univs are failing here & resources are needed.

This has "suspiciously many people die near doctors, avoid them at all cost" energy

There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.

Machine guns to machetes: Weapons that massacred thousands in Iran BBC News Persian Forensic has been able to confirm the security forces' deployment of a wide array of lethal and non-lethal weaponry.

For context:

I don’t have that one smart take. I’m still seeing new videos of funerals and morgues in Iran on my ig feed narrated by parents, bereft of their beloved adult child, sometimes their only child. I’m mourning their children and I’m grieving the life we all could have had.

🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇

I mean, phew: “In an international perspective, Germany exhibits lower intergenerational wealth persistence than the United States.”

Abstract This paper provides the fi rst systematic evidence on intergenerational wealth mobility in Germany using newly harmonized wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) spanning nearly three decades (1988–2017). Linking parents and their adult children, we estimate intergenerational rank–rank correlations (IRRC) in net wealth to assess the persistence of relative wealth positions across generations. We fi nd substantial wealth persistence in Germany, with an IRRC of around 0.25. Strikingly, this association remains highly stable across two observation windows (1988–2002 and 2002–2017), despite pronounced changes in the macroeconomic and institutional environment. Mobility curves indicate that the rank–rank relationship is approximately linear and exhibits little evidence of strong non-linearities at the top or bottom of the parental wealth distribution. We further document limited heterogeneity by off spring gender and birth cohort, and show that controlling for parental income and education attenuates the IRRC only modestly, suggesting that wealth captures an additional dimension of socioeconomic advantage beyond standard indicators of parental background. In an international perspective, Germany exhibits lower intergenerational wealth persistence than the United States. Exploratory evidence suggests that cross-country diff erences in homeownership may account for a sizable part of this gap, highlighting the potential role of housing-related institutions in shaping intergenerational wealth mobility.

scatter plot titled “The Great Gatsby Curve in Wealth.” X-axis: Wealth inequality in 2005 (more inequality to the right). Y-axis: Intergenerational wealth correlation (higher values mean less mobility). Countries country United States, Sweden, Italy, Taiwan, Norway, Germany, South Korea, Denmark, France, Australia, Japan inear trend line (slope ≈ 0.46) shows a positive relationship: countries with greater wealth inequality tend to have higher intergenerational wealth correlation, meaning lower wealth mobility. The United States and Sweden toward the upper-right; Denmark and France are lower-left; Germany in the right-middle.

Interesting working paper on wealth mobility in Germany by Markus Grabka, @pmlersch.bsky.social, @smaexie.bsky.social, and @drschnitzlein.bsky.social population-economics.committee.socialpolitik.de/sites/defaul...

Fascinating new paper by and @elena-amaya.bsky.social and Robert Braun on the role of folklore in shaping far-right support in Weimar Germany: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Assistant Professor School/Applied Child Psychology Program Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

School psychology scholars: we have a job opening. We are Canadian and very nice humans. You can contact me for more info. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...