Golareh Khalilpour

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I work for Uni Mannheim. Posts about Academia, Econ, PoliSci, SocSci, Star Wars, books, my dog, and music. All views my mom’s. 📸: Annette Mück

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Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· 10d

Random, but this screengrab from @rasbt.bsky.social’s post almost took me out, because it reminded me of gemini trying to engage in “deep” convo each time I google search a Reddit thread with its title.

rasbt now
What is 1+1?
DeepSeek-R1 now
<think> Okay, so the user is asking what 1 plus 1 is. Hmm, that seems pretty straightforward, but maybe I should make sure I understand the question correctly. Let me think.
First, 1 is a basic number, right? When you add another 1 to it, you're combining the two. So, if I have one apple and someone gives me another apple, how many apples do I have? That's two apples. So, 1 + 1 should equal 2. But wait, is there any context where this might not be the case? Like in binary or some other number system?
In binary, 1 + 1 equals 10, which is 2 in decimal. But the question doesn't specify the number system. The user probably expects the answer in the decimal system since that's the most common. Also, in modular arithmetic, like modulo 1, 1 + 1 would be 0, but that's a more advanced concept. The user is likely asking a simple math question, so I should stick with the basic answer.
Let me double-check with some references. In elementary math, addition of two single-digit numbers starts with 1 + 1 =
2. All the textbooks and educational resources confirm that. There's no trick here unless the question is a riddle, but the way it's phrased is direct. So, the answer is definitely 2. I should present it clearly without overcomplicating things.
</think>
The result of 1 + 1 is 2. This is a fundamental arithmetic fact in the base-10 (decimal) number system. If you have any other context in mind (e.g., binary, modular arithmetic), let me know!

Figure 13: Reasoning models are very verbose, even for the simplest prompts.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· 18d

When I say I bike everywhere, I mean I bike everywhere.

Top-down view of a light blue blazer, blue-and-white striped blouse, and navy wide-leg trousers paired with black suede slingback pumps. A hand wearing a gold bracelet lifts one pant leg to reveal neon trouser clips underneath.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· 25d

Holding onto summer for as long as I can. No matter how pretty the fall colors get, autumn has nothing on this view.

A low-angle shot looking up through green tree branches toward a bright blue sky. A corner of a blurred book page is visible in the bottom right corner.

An ice cream cone with two light-colored scoops stacked on top, held outdoors. The background is softly blurred, showing a residential area with brick apartment buildings and a tree.

An outdoor view at a restaurant table featuring an orange coffee cup on a marine blue saucer. A person wearing blue pants sits at the table holding the cup handle, with another person visible seated on the opposite side in the background.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jul 11

Grüße von der Monnem Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙋🏻‍♀️

Schild mit Aufschrift „Academic Freedom“, weiße Schrift auf dunkelblauem Hintergurnd.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jul 7

“Expedition Open Science Land – A Guidebook for Business Researchers” is now also available in English! A practical guide with ideas and steps for using Open Science in research. @ our PhD students: Printed copies available at B6! Feel free to take a look.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jul 1

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We’re looking for a Program Manager for our doctoral program in #Business! 📍Mannheim 🏰 is a fantastic place to work. Great colleagues & PhD students! 📮 Apply by 24 July! 🙆🏻‍♀️ Feel free to DM/email me if you have any questions. 🔗 Full job ad here: www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Univer...

Job advertisement from the University of Mannheim, Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS). The position is “Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) am Center für Doctoral Studies in Business (E13 TV-L BW)” (program management role) starting 2 November 2026. The role involves coordinating and managing a doctoral program, supporting PhD students and faculty, organizing processes, events, and international programs, and contributing to strategy and administration. The position is part-time (29.63 hours/week) and fixed-term until 21 February 2028, based in Mannheim city center. Application deadline: 24 July 2026. The layout includes university logos, a photo of three people talking in a hallway, and sections describing responsibilities, the institution, and key job details.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Apr 30

Proof

A woman is seen in a mirror reflection outdoors, walking and holding up her phone. She wears sunglasses, a white-and-blue striped sweater, and a fanny pack, and carries a paper coffee cup. Her dark hair frames her face as she turns toward the glass, with trees in the background.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Apr 21

Jede Einzelheit aus Christian Lindners Privatleben habe ich gegen meinen Willen erfahren, deshalb:

New York Times opinion piece „We should all know less about each other” by Michelle Goldberg

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Feb 26

This was sooo tasty, it left a cinnamon-roll-shaped hole in my heart.

A round, golden-brown baked cinnamon roll, decorated with several golden-brown strands of dough that twist together into a knot.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jan 21

Vielen lieben Dank an das @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social für die Post! 📦 Unsere Promovierenden freuen sich sicher über diese äußerst kreative und verständliche Einstiegslektüre zum Thema #OpenScience! 🔗 Hier können alle anderen die Publikation abrufen (auch eng): expedition-open-science.org

A person wearing a green knitted sweater holds a booklet titled “OPEN SCIENCE LAND – Expedition Open Science Land,” with purple typography and playful black line drawings (mountains, a traveler, and a car labeled “Open Science”). The subtitle reads “Ein Reiseführer für die Wirtschaftsforschung” and “It’s a Journey.” In the background, daylight comes through a window; a yellow rubber duck with a graduation cap sits on the windowsill.

A person wearing a green knitted sweater holds open a small illustrated booklet. The pages show a colorful, hand-drawn map titled “Open Science Land,” with labeled regions in German such as Dokumentation, Planung, Verbreitung, and Ziel, plus playful drawings of mountains, paths, buildings, and icons. The background is an indoor setting with soft daylight and a window.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jan 6

I will never pass an opportunity to share a classic: For those who didn’t get the reference, Glub Shitto is canon!

Iconic Tumblr post by user “gomjabbar”: “every time a new Star War movie or show is announced all the fans are like “OMG Glup Shitto is back 😭😭😭”

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jan 1

Well, in a true act of defiance against perfectionism, I included a “Persian flaw” in my last post: Hewitt is at UBC!

Still, other cultural practices suggest that different paths might exist. The so-called "Persian flaw" refers to the way traditional Persian-carpet weavers would deliberately include a flaw in their rugs to acknowledge that only God was per-

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jan 1

Starting the new year strong by reading about Gordon Flett’s and Paul Hewitt’s (both York University Toronto 🇨🇦) research about perfectionism and its physical and psychological toll in the New Yorker.

The byline of an older New Yorker Article in the category “Annals of Psychology” with the title “Enemy of the Good — the pain of perfectionism.” by Leslie Jamison. Below a picture showing a dartboard with black, blue, red, and yellow colored sections. Seven darts are stuck in the yellow center of the dartboard. A person wearing a yellow shirt is hanging from one of the darts, gripping it with both hands. The caption reads 'Admirable striving is one thing, but a true need to be perfect can be terrorizing.'

From the article “If humanity is imperfection, the only perfect woman is a dead one.”

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Nov 15

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.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Nov 14

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.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Oct 28

Impressions from the 2025 Uni Mannheim #OpenScienceDay

BERD roll-up:

BERD @NFDI

1 Community Involvement
• Involving Scientific Communities and
Libraries
• User-centered Requirements Engineering

2 Collecting Data
• Collecting Data from Research Projects
• Harvesting Data

3 Processing Data
• Anonymization
• Data Quality and Normalization
• Processing Digitalized Documents

4 Analyzing Data
• Data Analysis Algorithms and Tools
• Semantic Enrichment and Linking of Data
• Providing Long-term Storage Capacity

5 Preserving and Accessing Data
• FAIR Metadata Management
• Searching and Browsing
• Remote Access and Secure Data Storage
• Persistent Identifiers

6 Re-using Data
• Education and Training
• Data Stewardship Services
• Networking and EOSC integration

nfdi (Nationals Forschungsdaten Infrastruktur) bag in dark blue.

Drei Sticker zu Open Science:

“Das Bundesforschungsministerium warnt:
OPEN ACCESS verleitet dazu,
Wissen mit anderen zu teilen.

Das Bundesforschungsinisterium warnt:
OPEN ACCES!
baut Elfenbeintürme ab.

Das Bundesforschungsministerium warnt:
OPEN ACCESS vereinfacht den Zugang zu Wissen.”

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Oct 17

When I say I’m popping back in, I mean it literally.

Selfie. I am wearing a grey turtleneck and round glasses. I’m sitting and looking at the camera from the side.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Aug 29

29. August is when Christmas traditionally begins in German stores.

store shelves stocked with speculoos cookies and chocolate-covered gingerbread.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Aug 29

Another orientations in the books. ✅ I was trying to get a good shot, but my background is 🤌 “under construction”.

A selfie of me. My head is on the left side. I’m wearing glasses and headphones. Behind me is the glass door of our Uni building with the writing “Universität Mannheim, B6 30-32”. A construction site is clearly visible in the reflection.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Aug 16

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:

Importantly, moreover, the claim that long-term economic forces matter is not an argument against the role of cultural values in shaping support for xenophobic, anti-system parties. Rather, we see the rise of the far right as likely grounded in multiple factors, some fundamentally cultural and others driven by economic forces. If, as our results suggest, downward intergenerational occupational mobility fuels anti-democratic and anti-elite sentiment, then some of the seemingly non-economic predicates of far-right voting may themselves have long-run economic causes. Other attitudinal drivers of far-right support - such as xenophobia - may have deeper cultural roots: indeed, we do not find an association between downward mobility and culturally focused anti-immigrant attitudes.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jul 20

I remember being puzzled by this at the time, and feeling stupid for not knowing what changes EM made to Grok’s underlying architecture.

Screenshot from the article in the quoted post: “In other words, LLMs become "woke" because they are trained to be pro-social-to be helpful, kindly, truthful, and not to say bigoted or cruel things. Training it to do the opposite-to be anti-woke-is to activate every antisocial association in the English language, including racism, sexism, cruelty, dishonesty, and Nazism.”

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jul 18

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.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jul 7

Screenshot of two user comments: the top one reads "Stay in school, kid” and the bottom one adds "More like: go to school”

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jun 30

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...

Cover page "2025 SURVEY - REPORT II Doctoral education in Europe today: enhanced structures and practices for the European knowledge society”

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Apr 12

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).

But why stop there? Safest of all would be just to prevent anyone saying anything that might cause a protest in the first place. Of course you couldn't quite do that directly without bringing the regulator down upon you. But by imposing differential costs on having different kinds of speakers, choosing who you hire and who you fire, and so on, you can approximate to this. A university filled with anodyne, bland, nobody-cares conversations, being held by people with no emotional investment in what they discuss -- this is the safest way of all to ensure that no speech is ever chilled. And just in case that doesn't work, to protect the freedom thus provided, the state will ensure any speech that might knock us out of that equilibrium is punished.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Jan 21

Had this statement ready for a while and was just waiting for the right moment for #eXit.

Post on X by the GESS.
"In step with many other higher ed institutions, we're moving on from X and will no longer be sharing updates here. You can still find us on our other social media and website-we hope to see you join us there!
It was a pleasure being part of this community. Goodbye!"

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Dec 5

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.

A small Jack Russel Terrier with a black, white and brown coat sitting on a beige chair. We are seeing her back and the back of her head looking at an oven with food in it.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Dec 5

"I should call the cops on this mailman”

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Dec 5

If you invite Matti to your house she will spy on your neighbors. 🐶🔎🔭

A small Jack Russel Terrier with a black, white and brown coat watching through balcony rails into the distance.

A small Jack Russel Terrier with a black, white and brown coat standing on the windowsill and looking outside through the curtains. It is dark outside.

Golareh Khalilpour@golareh· Oct 2

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! 🤩