Great news to share:

In August we will kick off our new collaborative research project about long-term monetary development and monetisation in the early modern Swedish Empire:

moneymakingempire.se

What is more, we are hiring two PhD students:

https://www.sh.se/ledigajobb?rmpage=job&rmjob=9711&rmlang=SE

Come and work with us!
Application dealine: 9 August 2026

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Gestern habe ich in Wetzlar bei der Gesellschaft für Reichskammergerichtsforschung einen Vortrag zu Johann Wolfgang Textor d. Ä. und der Frage des ewigen Friedens gehalten.

Nun geht es zurück in den Norden.

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Meta-reviews have been introduced to program committee meetings to summarize the discussion in the PC. I can now see increasingly many PC chairs forcing PC members and area chairs to write meta-reviews for papers which were rejected without any discussion (for instance all early rejects).  These meta-reviews have no content, as they purely summarize the reviews (for what purpose? are authors unable to read the reviews?). Pure make-work with no purpose. And all reviewers need to agree on them, so they generate thousands of emails. We really have better things to do.

Could we just limit the meta-reviews to cases where there was a discussion in a PC?

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My day starts with submitting a book manuscript - marvellous! I am so excited to see the book finally coming about.

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Perhaps you read about the latest data security incident in higher education: hackers successfully gained access to personal information of estimated 275M Canvas users from round about 9000 universities and schools. Another example of the risks associated with technical dependence on a few big players.

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