About us

Who we are

Parilem is an independent publication founded to report developments in mathematics, computer science, psychology, cognitive science and philosophy faithfully to their sources and in plain language. We try to close the distance between the academic paper and everyday curiosity.

Parilem was founded by three friends who met at Paris-Saclay. Today we are a team of working researchers, editors and volunteer writers, and every piece is written by someone who knows the subject.

Why we exist

Science journalism tends to fall into one of two traps: striking but misleading headlines, or text only a specialist can follow. Both blunt curiosity instead of feeding it.

We are trying a third way: saying what gets sacrificed when a result is simplified, showing uncertainty instead of hiding it, and taking the reader all the way to the source.

How we work

Three principles bind everything we publish. If a piece fails one of them, it does not go out.

Faithful to the source

Every claim rests on peer-reviewed work or a primary source, listed with its full reference at the end of the piece. Where a finding is contested we do not hide it — we also say how strong the evidence is.

Independent

Our content is not shaped by advertising, sponsorship or institutional ties. Where a conflict of interest is possible, we state it plainly at the top of the piece.

Clear

We define a term before we use it. Simplification is unavoidable, but it is never silent: we say what has been left out and where the full picture is.

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Sources cited

Questions answered

We are just starting. Our aim is two in-depth pieces a month — in five languages, open all the way to the source, and free of advertising.

Our team

The managers, editors and writers who put Parilem together.

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Selim Kusursuz

Founder

Studies Computer Network Systems at Paris-Saclay, on the Autonomous Systems track. Works on mathematics and computer science. Speaks French, English and Turkish well.

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