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Ancient history
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Very demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Helena M.

I'd rather read few sources slowly than many quickly, noting what I don't understand

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Ancient historyEconomicsPhilosophy
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James L.

I'm interested in how much of the present sits inside every account of the past

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Amira S.

I work my way along one century until it stops feeling foreign

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Anthropology
Mode:Team
Members:4
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Audio, Text, Video
Duration:4 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:3 days
Languages:English
Field Group Nordkette

We compare kinship systems from three regions and ask what they reveal about belonging

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AnthropologyHistorySociology
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Field Group Inntal

We read field notes against the theory, and argue productively when the two refuse to meet

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Field Group Stubai

We're interested in how ritual makes community, even where nobody believes in it any more

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Field Group Sellrain

Ethnographic classics, read again: what did the researcher's own gaze add to the field?

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AnthropologyHistorySociology
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Applied economics
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Advanced
Media:Text, Audio
Duration:2 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:1 day
Languages:English
Nora B.

I read the history of money backwards: crises first, theories afterwards

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Applied economicsEconomicsData science
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Yara T.

I'm interested in why economic models are so often elegant and so rarely right

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Applied economicsEconomicsData science
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Emre C.

I work the examples myself, because my intuition is wrong too often

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Archaeological anthropology
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Hana Y.

I collect cases where translation changed more than anyone intended

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Archaeological anthropologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Katrin F.

I'm interested in who gets the right to describe a society

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Sven H.

I note the everyday rules nobody states and wonder who enforces them

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Astronomy
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Pro
Media:Video, Text
Duration:6 weeks
Challenge:Very demanding
Rhythm:1 week
Languages:English
Tandem Sellrain

We split the observing nights between us and then clean up the raw data together

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AstronomyAstrophysicsChemistry
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Study Pair Sellrain

We check exoplanet candidates twice: alone first, then line by line as a group

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Big data
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Mateo R.

I build small analyses and document every decision that moves the result

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Big dataEconomicsPhilosophy
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Ayla K.

I'm interested in how often a model is right for the wrong reasons

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Big dataEconomicsPhilosophy
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Marta W.

I practise on open data and deliberately pick questions without a clean answer

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Biological anthropology
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Bendix O.

I'm interested in what people pass on without ever having it explained

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Biological anthropologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Ilias P.

I read a chapter of fieldwork and then look for the counter-example close to home

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Biological anthropologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Bettina R.

I like working on terms that mean something different in every language

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Biology
Mode:Team
Members:4
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Video, Text
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Light
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Field Biology Group Nordkette

We follow one metabolic pathway from cell to organism and mark where our picture tears

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BiologyEcologyChemistry
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Field Biology Group Inntal

Evolution explains a great deal — we're interested in what it currently does not explain

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BiologyEcologyChemistry
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Field Biology Group Stubai

We collect identification data in the field and check it against the literature that evening

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BiologyEcologyChemistry
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Field Biology Group Sellrain

Genetics through cases: we take one inherited disease and work back to the mechanism

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BiologyEcologyChemistry
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Cell biology
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Chiara V.

I identify plants within a kilometre of home and keep a record

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Cell biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Samuel A.

I'm interested in how much chance sits inside what we call adaptation

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Cell biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Nadia B.

I watch one pond across a year and write two lines a week

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Cell biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Chemistry
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:2 weeks
Challenge:Very demanding
Rhythm:1 day
Languages:English
Luca P.

I work equilibria out by hand until the answer stops surprising me

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ChemistryBiochemistryOrganic chemistry
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Clemens L.

I'm fascinated by how much structure sits inside a single spectrum

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ChemistryBiochemistryOrganic chemistry
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Piet V.

I'm working through organic mechanisms and drawing every step myself

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ChemistryBiochemistryOrganic chemistry
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Classical literature
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Frida K.

I read a play several times and watch only the minor characters on the second pass

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Classical literatureEconomicsPhilosophy
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Ruth E.

I'm interested in how roles become identity — in Pirandello, quite literally

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Classical literatureEconomicsPhilosophy
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Dario N.

I write three sentences per chapter, or I lose the thread

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Cognitive neuroscience
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Light
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Johanna P.

I learn brain anatomy by drawing it and looking up the names afterwards

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Cognitive neuroscienceEconomicsPhilosophy
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Solveig A.

I'm interested in how little we notice that our brain is constantly filling in

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Cognitive neuroscienceEconomicsPhilosophy
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Marek Z.

I read one original study a week and hunt for its limitations

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Comparative politics
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Jonas E.

I follow a single reform from the idea to the implementation

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Comparative politicsEconomicsPhilosophy
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Livia C.

I'm interested in why procedure so often matters more than programme

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Comparative politicsEconomicsPhilosophy
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Onno D.

I read primary texts, because summaries smooth the contradictions away

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Criminology
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Very demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Anton V.

I watch one square at different times of day and note who uses it

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CriminologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Zeynep U.

I'm interested in how invisible class difference has become in daily life

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CriminologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Hugo B.

I read the classics and ask what still holds of their diagnosis today

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Data analysis
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Valeria M.

I draw every chart twice — once honestly, once seductively — and compare

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Data analysisEconomicsPhilosophy
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Rafael Q.

I start with the missing values, not the ones that are there

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Data analysisEconomicsPhilosophy
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Cem T.

I'm interested in what a chart suppresses in order to look convincing

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Data visualization
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Sabine G.

I work one statistic out by hand before I trust it in code

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Data visualizationEconomicsPhilosophy
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Ravi K.

I'm interested in how many decisions sit between the raw data and the chart

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Data visualizationEconomicsPhilosophy
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Greta I.

I collect charts that are technically correct and still misleading

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Development studies
Mode:Team
Members:5
Knowledge Level:Advanced
Media:Audio, Text
Duration:6 weeks
Challenge:Demanding
Rhythm:1 week
Languages:English
Markets Workshop Sellrain

We read economic data like texts — asking about origin, intent and omission

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Development studiesEconomicsPolitical science
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Markets Workshop Wipptal

We take one price series and gather every explanation that fits it

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Development studiesEconomicsPolitical science
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Markets Workshop Ötztal

Money, trust, institution — we test which term actually carries weight

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Development studiesEconomicsPolitical science
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Markets Workshop Zillertal

We take one tax and follow who actually ends up carrying it

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Development studiesEconomicsPolitical science
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Markets Workshop Karwendel

We're interested in why forecasts are so reliably wrong and still get made

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Development studiesEconomicsPolitical science
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Drama
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Light
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Ines L.

I take poems one at a time, often one a week, often the same one twice

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DramaEconomicsPhilosophy
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Vincent M.

I read the opening and the ending first, then everything in between

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DramaEconomicsPhilosophy
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Lotta K.

I'm interested in why some sentences stay and whole chapters vanish

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DramaEconomicsPhilosophy
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Economics
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video, Audio
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Tandem Pitztal

We read a central bank report and translate it for each other into plain sentences

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EconomicsMacroeconomicsPolitical science
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Study Pair Pitztal

One market, two models — we test which one explains the exceptions

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Environmental science
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Advanced
Media:Video, Text
Duration:4 weeks
Challenge:Demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Malin O.

I follow a single weather station across decades and learn more from it than from any forecast

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Environmental scienceEcologyGeology
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Idris W.

I'm interested in how uncertainty gets turned into political certainty

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Environmental scienceEcologyGeology
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Paula N.

I read the reports in the original before I trust a summary

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Environmental scienceEcologyGeology
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Epistemology
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Light
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Felix D.

I read a passage and rewrite it in my own words until it holds

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EpistemologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Bruno F.

I'm fascinated by how objective knowledge can really be

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EpistemologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Sena G.

I work at the basic terms and distrust quick definitions

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Evolutionary biology
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Aisha N.

I'm interested in how much behaviour already sits inside a single cell

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Evolutionary biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Elena R.

I learn metabolic pathways by drawing them without the book

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Evolutionary biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Arne L.

I like tracing how an organ was repurposed over evolutionary time

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Evolutionary biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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