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
Bought one of these French notepads. Now what?
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Bought one of these French notepads. Now what?
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
I’m at the Marx
I’m at the Dante’s Inferno
I’m at the combination Marx’s Inferno
cc: @marxinhell.bsky.social
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
I’m at the Marx
I’m at the Dante’s Inferno
I’m at the combination Marx’s Inferno
cc: @marxinhell.bsky.social
I’m at the Dante’s Inferno
I’m at the combination Marx’s Inferno
cc: @marxinhell.bsky.social
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
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.
Please look at this cookie 🤌🤌🤌
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Please look at this cookie 🤌🤌🤌
Impressions from the 2025 Uni Mannheim #OpenScienceDay
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Impressions from the 2025 Uni Mannheim #OpenScienceDay
When I say I’m popping back in, I mean it literally.
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
When I say I’m popping back in, I mean it literally.
Reminds me of this tweet @norsebysw.bsky.social just shared. It was meant for another context, but it fits so well.
RIP Kaleb Horton 🕊️
RIP Kaleb Horton 🕊️
September 30, 2025 at 10:50 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 🕊️
RIP Kaleb Horton 🕊️
If you’re feeling disillusioned by the state of the world, here’s a little pick-me-up by Levitsky and Way:
shot / chaser
shot / chaser
September 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you’re feeling disillusioned by the state of the world, here’s a little pick-me-up by Levitsky and Way:
shot / chaser
shot / chaser
“Woman, leave me aloneee”
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“Woman, leave me aloneee”
29. August is when Christmas traditionally begins in German stores.
August 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
29. August is when Christmas traditionally begins in German stores.
Another orientations in the books. ✅
I was trying to get a good shot, but my background is 🤌 “under construction”.
I was trying to get a good shot, but my background is 🤌 “under construction”.
August 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Another orientations in the books. ✅
I was trying to get a good shot, but my background is 🤌 “under construction”.
I was trying to get a good shot, but my background is 🤌 “under construction”.
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
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:
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
Spending my last two vacation days just reading in a cafe and making new friends. Everyone say hi to Micky!
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 remember being puzzled by this at the time, and feeling stupid for not knowing what changes EM made to Grok’s underlying architecture.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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
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...
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...
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).
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
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).
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).
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
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.
"I should call the cops on this mailman”
December 5, 2024 at 10:09 PM
"I should call the cops on this mailman”
If you invite Matti to your house she will spy on your neighbors. 🐶🔎🔭
December 5, 2024 at 10:09 PM
If you invite Matti to your house she will spy on your neighbors. 🐶🔎🔭
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! 🤩
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
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! 🤩
We had the most wonderful participants and I had a great time meeting up with colleagues from all around the country! 🤩