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Ancient history
Mode:Circle
Members:5
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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Nora B.

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

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Amira S.

I like following a single street through three hundred years

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Yara T.

I prefer letters to chronicles, because nobody in them knows the ending

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Anthropology
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Advanced
Media:Text, Audio
Duration:6 days
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:4 days
Languages:English
Hana Y.

I reread ethnographic classics and watch for whoever the authors quietly left out

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AnthropologyHistorySociology
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Emre C.

What occupies me is why other people's rituals look absurd and our own look obvious

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Katrin F.

Kinship, exchange, taboo — I work through the basic terms slowly, with notes

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AnthropologyHistorySociology
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Applied economics
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Duo Stubai

We trace how barter became money and test the usual story against the sources

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Applied economicsEconomicsData science
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Tandem Stubai

We're interested in who gains from a reform and who ends up paying for it

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Archaeological anthropology
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Study Pair Stubai

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

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Archaeological anthropologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Pair Stubai

We collect everyday objects and ask what story each one carries

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Astronomy
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Pro
Media:Video, Text
Duration:6 days
Challenge:Very demanding
Rhythm:4 days
Languages:English
Duo 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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Tandem Sellrain

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

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AstronomyAstrophysicsChemistry
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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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Sven H.

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

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Big dataEconomicsPhilosophy
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Ayla K.

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

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Biological anthropology
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Tandem Wipptal

Two field reports, same region, thirty years apart — we read them side by side

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Biological anthropologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Study Pair Wipptal

We take a market and watch how price, courtesy and status hold each other up

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Biological anthropologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Biology
Mode:Circle
Members:4
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Video, Text
Duration:6 days
Challenge:Light
Rhythm:4 days
Languages:English
Bendix O.

I draw cell structures, because only then do I actually see them

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BiologyEcologyChemistry
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Marta W.

I'm interested in how four bases turn into a blackbird

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BiologyEcologyChemistry
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Chiara V.

I read a chapter of ecology a week, then go find the example on my doorstep

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Ilias P.

Inheritance makes most sense to me on a pedigree — calculate first, read after

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BiologyEcologyChemistry
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Cell biology
Mode:Circle
Members:4
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Luca P.

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

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Cell biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Bettina R.

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

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Cell biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Frida K.

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

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Cell biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Samuel A.

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

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Cell biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Chemistry
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:6 days
Challenge:Very demanding
Rhythm:4 days
Languages:English
Johanna P.

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

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ChemistryBiochemistryOrganic chemistry
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Nadia B.

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

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ChemistryBiochemistryOrganic chemistry
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Clemens L.

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

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ChemistryBiochemistryOrganic chemistry
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Classical literature
Mode:Circle
Members:4
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Jonas E.

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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Piet V.

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

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Classical literatureEconomicsPhilosophy
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Anton V.

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

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Ruth E.

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

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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
Valeria M.

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

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Cognitive neuroscienceEconomicsPhilosophy
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Dario N.

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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Solveig A.

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

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Comparative politics
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Tandem Silltal

We compare two electoral systems and run the same result through both

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Comparative politicsEconomicsPhilosophy
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Study Pair Silltal

We're interested in how institutions shape majorities before anyone has voted

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Comparative politicsEconomicsPhilosophy
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Criminology
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Very demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Pair Silltal

We look at why housing keeps getting more expensive, comparing Tyrol with Barcelona and Berlin

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CriminologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Duo Arlberg

We're interested in how statistics talk about inequality, and what they leave out

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CriminologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Data analysis
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Tandem Arlberg

We review each other's charts: what can you see, and what is merely implied?

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Data analysisEconomicsPhilosophy
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Study Pair Arlberg

We state the hypothesis first and open the spreadsheet deliberately afterwards

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

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Data visualizationEconomicsPhilosophy
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Ravi K.

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

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Data visualizationEconomicsPhilosophy
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Marek Z.

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

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Development studies
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Pro
Media:Video, Text
Duration:6 days
Challenge:Demanding
Rhythm:4 days
Languages:English
Study Pair Brenner

Micro and macro side by side: we look for the places where the two contradict

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Development studiesEconomicsPolitical science
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Pair Brenner

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

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

We choose a scene and play it twice with the roles swapped

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DramaEconomicsPhilosophy
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Tandem Achensee

What the text leaves open we fill in provisionally, then compare our versions

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DramaEconomicsPhilosophy
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Economics
Mode:Duo
Members:2
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video, Audio
Duration:6 days
Challenge:Medium
Rhythm:4 days
Languages:English
Study Pair Achensee

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

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EconomicsMacroeconomicsPolitical science
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Pair Achensee

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

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EconomicsMacroeconomicsPolitical science
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Environmental science
Mode:Solo
Members:3
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Demanding
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Ines L.

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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Livia C.

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

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Environmental scienceEcologyGeology
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Onno D.

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

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Environmental scienceEcologyGeology
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Epistemology
Mode:Circle
Members:8
Knowledge Level:Beginner
Media:Text, Video
Duration:3 weeks
Challenge:Light
Rhythm:2 days
Languages:English
Malin O.

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

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EpistemologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Zeynep U.

I'm fascinated by how objective knowledge can really be

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Felix D.

I work at the basic terms and distrust quick definitions

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Hugo B.

I like thinking an objection all the way through, even when it costs me my position

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Aisha N.

I note objections in the margin and work through them later in order

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EpistemologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Rafael Q.

I'm interested in how much my language has already decided for me

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EpistemologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Elena R.

I read slowly and stop the moment I want to agree

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EpistemologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Cem T.

I'm interested in what separates a good question from a merely hard one

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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
Tobias W.

I learn metabolic pathways by drawing them without the book

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Greta I.

I like tracing how an organ was repurposed over evolutionary time

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Evolutionary biologyEconomicsPhilosophy
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Vincent M.

What occupies me is why some species manage everywhere and others nowhere

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