Interdisciplinary researcher
ERC StG "Ontological Reconstruction of Gaming Disorder" (2022–2027)
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Until breaking knees, orienteering & marathon.
Before stuck in academia, journalist & art critic.
Made a full feature movie.
Currently listening Jo Quail.
Currently reading Infinite Jest (DF Wallace).
Hate social media.
Täytyy arvostaa idean pöpiyttä: Business Cityn älppärin pystyi viime vuonna ennakkotilaamaan toimitettuna maastokätköön, jonka GPS-koordinaatit saisi viestinä nyt keväällä, kun levy ilmestyy.
Jonkinasteista pöpiyttä oli sekin, kun viime viikolla koordinaatit saatuani liukastelin tuolla pusikossa happoteknokaiuttimen ja suksisauvojen kanssa.
And the circus continues. The "editor" is clearly using an LLM to produce generic responses without being able to point at any specific issue. Let's see if they have some supervisor (human) we can talk to.
The circus and wasted work time continues (with our response).
After asking what needs to be revised, here's the next reply. Apparently there's some kind of AI bot writing emails for Open Research Europe.
WTF is this circus? Is this how the EC and @ERC_Research want researchers to spend their work time?
European Commission's ( @EUCommission ) own journal "Open Research Europe" has been the most difficult to work with over my 16 years in academia. There are no editors but (undisclosed) AI proofreading, AI reviewers, and nonsensical communication. The problems continue every time we submit -- this time a colleague getting a random rejection letter without any information.
Cannot understand why EC accepts this as paid service from F1000 (owned by Taylor & Francis).
🎉 PCI RR is proud to announce the 🥇 first Stage 1 #RegisteredReport in the field of history / history education!
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Creating an epistemic framework for second-order concepts in historical thinking
by Juda Kaleta and Michal Pajer with Michèle Nuijten as the recommender
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/116023392338375759
it's good people are working on this but
a) every successful app/platform has these same features
b) the analytic process should be transparent, eg when experts are interviewed, would be a no-brainer to share the data in 2026
Saying as a researcher of this very topic funded by EC.
What a lovely small 3-page essay on Wittgenstein's lifework by Thomas Nagel, 1971. It's always pleasant to read an author being both expert and passionate about something they didn't create itself.
ht Anita Leirfall
Procurement Before Prestige: How audit rules and public #infrastructure could break #science’s #publishing monopolies.
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/
An English version of my post in German for the Verfassungsblog:
https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/
How audit rules and public infrastructure could break science’s publishing monopolies. An English version of my post for the Verfassungsblog from December 19, 2025. Scientific journals that feel straight out of 1665, prices that could come from a MrBeast meet-and-greet, […] <a class="more-link" href="https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/01/procurement-before-prestige/">↓ Read the rest of this entry...</a>
Dear #QualitativeResearch people! 🎙️
We need your help - more specifically, your exported projects 🙂 We're working on a way to liberate qualitative projects from Closed, proprietary software such as NVivo, Atlas, MaxQDA, Dedoose, etc.
This project will allow converting projects exported to the REFI-QDA file format to the Reproducible Open Coding Kit project format, which is much more accessible, much simpler to work with in other software, and so lends itself better for #OpenScience.
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JuhaS
PCI RR
Björn Brembs
Gjalt-Jorn Peters