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Golareh Khalilpour
@golareh.bsky.social
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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.
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janabernhard.bsky.social
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/
#aBitOfCCS – What is it about CCS
aboutccs.net
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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donni.bsky.social
It’s Friday night, baby! Time to sip one herbal tea and politely obey the law
January 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
golareh.bsky.social
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
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mariannesaam.bsky.social
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
golareh.bsky.social
Bought one of these French notepads. Now what?
Picture of a reporter’s notebook by Rhodia.
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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dvpw.bsky.social
‼️ #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...
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.
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
golareh.bsky.social
Not scary enough for nightmares, but enough to ruin your chances of falling asleep tonight.

I haven’t read it yet. Good night 🌙
seanjwestwood.bsky.social Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 4d
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 9:36 PM
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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valentimvicente.bsky.social
This seems like a great opportunity.

No one better to help think big and rigorous than @ccavaille.bsky.social
ccavaille.bsky.social Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 5d
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
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lauraonen.bsky.social
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
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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georghenning.bsky.social
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)
casperalbers.nl Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 11d
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...
screenshot from the paper, stating that no causal claims (like they did in the title) should be made. paper title
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
golareh.bsky.social
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gessunimannheim.bsky.social Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · 5d
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
golareh.bsky.social
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.
bachmannrudi.bsky.social Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · 9d
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
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annagoeddeke.bsky.social
Thanks so much for this thread!
durlauf.bsky.social Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · 7d
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...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
golareh.bsky.social
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:
Screenshot of the Wikipedia page explaining the etymology of the name “Gelareh”. The page is linked in the post reply.
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
golareh.bsky.social
Y’all have no idea how lucky you are
Soldier protecting sleeping child meme, but the captions suggest that I’m protecting my bsky followers from my chaotic takes by posting them in my insta stories instead.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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dgrand.bsky.social
🚨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/...
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
golareh.bsky.social
I’m at the Marx
I’m at the Dante’s Inferno
I’m at the combination Marx’s Inferno

cc: @marxinhell.bsky.social
Me holding a copy of William Clare Robert’s book “Marx’ Inferno” into the camera. The background is blurred but shows books and an open magazine.
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
golareh.bsky.social
This is now canon.
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
golareh.bsky.social
Our PhD students work on all kinds of cool topics, but I’ve shared Adam’s and Chris’ work so many times, in part to explain to fellow #StarWars fans why Stormtroopers are terrifying and poorly skilled and clumsy at the same time.
gessunimannheim.bsky.social Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · 8d
🌟Proud alumni moment for us🌟

In @zeit.de, CDSS alumni Dr. Christian Gläßel (Hertie School) and Prof. @ascharpf.bsky.social (University of Copenhagen) discuss the U.S. immigration enforcement agency ICE through the lens of their research on recruitment in autocratic security apparatuses (in German).
simonsaysnothin.bsky.social Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social · 9d
Kein besserer Start in den Morgen als mit einem starken ZEIT-Artikel meines großartigen Hertie-Kollegen Christian Gläßel und @ascharpf.bsky.social: www.zeit.de/politik/ausl... (Freebie-Link)
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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niallehughes.bsky.social
We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2
EJM - Econ Job Market
econjobmarket.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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indubioproreto.bsky.social
www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan...

What a great and necessary paper: "This article contends that this ‘polarisation narrative’ simplifies complex issues through a bad analogy: the construction of a spectrum where good should be found in the middle of diametrically opposed political positions."
www.researchgate.net
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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eikofried.bsky.social
Four interesting methods & stats winter courses at Leiden University also open to researchers and PhD candidates who are not affiliated with us.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/social-be...
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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chriswratil.bsky.social
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

1/4 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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gessunimannheim.bsky.social
Thinking about pursuing a #doctorate in #Business (Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Management, Marketing, Operations Management, Taxation)? 🎓🤔

📣 Then don't miss our info session hosted by the CDSB Academic Director, Program Directors, and Center Manager:

📅 27 Nov 2025 | 🕖 12-1 p.m.
CDSB Online Information Session |
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November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM