Golareh Khalilpour
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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
Bought one of these French notepads. Now what?
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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:
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Y’all have no idea how lucky you are
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I’m at the Marx
I’m at the Dante’s Inferno
I’m at the combination Marx’s Inferno

cc: @marxinhell.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Finally! FINALLY carved out some time for this gorgeous print edition of the @newyorker.com that’s been sitting patiently on the coffee table for weeks.
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Please look at this cookie 🤌🤌🤌
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Impressions from the 2025 Uni Mannheim #OpenScienceDay
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
When I say I’m popping back in, I mean it literally.
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reminds me of this tweet @norsebysw.bsky.social just shared. It was meant for another context, but it fits so well.
RIP Kaleb Horton 🕊️
September 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
If you’re feeling disillusioned by the state of the world, here’s a little pick-me-up by Levitsky and Way:

shot / chaser
September 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Woman, leave me aloneee”
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
29. August is when Christmas traditionally begins in German stores.
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Another orientations in the books. ✅

I was trying to get a good shot, but my background is 🤌 “under construction”.
August 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Die Berichterstattung über das Paper ist so stark vereinfacht, dass sie irrtümlich (vermutl. unabsichtlich) einen monokausalen Zusammenhang impliziert. Auch nicht hilfreich, dass das Paper nicht verlinkt wurde: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10..... Habe es nur überflogen, aber die Autoren schreiben:
August 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Spending my last two vacation days just reading in a cafe and making new friends. Everyone say hi to Micky!
August 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I remember being puzzled by this at the time, and feeling stupid for not knowing what changes EM made to Grok’s underlying architecture.
July 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I don't know how to explain it, but my new glasses look so unmistakably like glasses.

If you searched "glasses" in an icon library, it would be these.

If you asked a toddler to draw glasses, they would draw these.

The Platonic ideal of glasses.
July 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
July 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Putting that part of my brain still taking calls to work on one final task today: reading a report.

A story missed in higher ed news is the level of institutionalization in #PhD training achieved in the past 20 years in Europe and the convergence of US-EU systems.

🔗 www.eua.eu/publications...
June 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you're interested in #freespeech and #academicfreedom in higher ed, this blog post comes highly recommended.

tldr: Any social space with free speech, let alone a university, is rowdy. You’ve got to be okay with people not always using it wisely (short of violence, libel or similar harms ofc).
April 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Had this statement ready for a while and was just waiting for the right moment for #eXit.
January 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
But Matti’s favorite window will always be the glass door of my parents' oven and her favorite object of surveillance - whatever snacks they are making.
December 5, 2024 at 10:09 PM
"I should call the cops on this mailman”
December 5, 2024 at 10:09 PM
If you invite Matti to your house she will spy on your neighbors. 🐶🔎🔭
December 5, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Y’all received an Out of Office today because I was here, on airplane mode, conducting a workshop on international ECRs' wellbeing and how graduate institutions can support it.
We had the most wonderful participants and I had a great time meeting up with colleagues from all around the country! 🤩
October 2, 2024 at 8:20 PM