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Julian Hamann

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Sociologist | Junior professor at HU Berlin | Academic careers, evaluation, disciplines, inequalities.

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Also, if you work in an encrypted cloud - as everybody should anyway 😉 - you would still have your files synced, i.e., have a backup and access from other devices.

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File storage is only limited if you sync the files with the Zotero server, if I'm not mistaken. I think if you store the files locally (but sync the metadata) there shouldn't be a limit.

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How do you systematize/organize your digital sources? I'm looking for a way of efficiently naming and sorting a heterogeneous and growing body of documents (some downloaded, some scanned, some created) and was wondering if there is a recommended way of doing it while staying sane. Tips welcome! 🙏

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Job! I am looking for a postdoc with excellent quant skills, ideallly experience with survey experiments, for my ERC project on beauty and inequality.

Cool international team, exciting project, lots of freedom: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please spread the word!

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Paula Villa Braslavsky's avatar Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social
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my 2cents zum neuen Spin @BMBF

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So kommuniziert die Leitung des BMBF intern über Wissenschaftler:innen.

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Not professions, but fields/disciplines, but apart from that: yes. And I'm not merely looking for a term that designates the size or developmental status of fields (e.g., "niche fields"), but wondering whether the idea behind it exists: that academic diversity and specialization are valuable per se.

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But your example already shows that specialization suggests a broader field that the specialization belongs to. Same logic as sub-discipline. That's not what I was looking for, I was looking for "niche fields" that are independent from other fields.

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Thanks, that's the impression I got as well.

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Julian Hamann's avatar Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social
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Thanks y'all for your input and the interesting discussions. My takeaway: There's a concept of "niche fields", but it's less established and, remarkably, the term doesn't carry the idea of diversity and specialization that is to be preserved and valuable per se, which is the case for "Kleine Fächer"

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Indeed, niche fields seems to comes closest. Thank you!

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Never heard of this, I'll see whether this comes up somewhere. Thanks!

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Thanks. I would say "sub-" implies the field to be part of a larger field. This is not necessarily the case.

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Thank you. I think "sub-" would imply the field to be part of a larger field, which is not necessarily the case.

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You mean whether all/most Orchideenfächer are humanities? That's true in many cases, but I don't think being a humanities field is a necessary condition for an Orchideenfach. See here:
www.kleinefaecher.de/kartierung/k...

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Julian Hamann's avatar Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social
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It probably does, yeah. I'll just have to do some research on all the suggestions. Mind you, I'm not looking for a good translation, but rather wondering whether the idea of "smaller fields as diversity and specialized knowledge" exists in the first place.

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Sorry if I cannot make myself clear enough. I'm not looking for a way to describe a small field. This is not about a literal translation, but whether a concept or an idea exists in different contexts. Perhaps this was a good way to put it:
bsky.app/profile/juli...

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In other words, I'm looking for a term that doesn't only designate the size or developmental status of fields, but also carries the - generalized - idea of diversity and specialization that is valuable per se.

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True - IF there is no policy effort based on the idea to preserve "minor fields" for the sake of diversity and specialized knowledge. This is precisely what the German term implies. I was wondering whether this notion - small fields are a thing that should be protected - exists in other contexts.

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Kind of. If I remember correctly I had a Polish speaking colleague reading the paper and they assured me that the translation wasn't far off. But that was it. 🤷

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Yeah, I guess I'll just google micro-, niche-, narrow-, focused-, minor-, and proto-, and see what comes up.

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The latter, in my non-Polish speaking case. 😬

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Julian Hamann's avatar Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social
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Thank you! This indeed sounds like an established term. But doesn't it designate "fields that are not yet disciplines but might become one", i.e., doesn't it have a developmental implication?

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Niche what, though? Fields? Disciplines? Mind you, I'm not looking for a way to describe fields that happen to be niche, but for an established term, a category that says that "niche fields" are a thing.

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Would you consider any of the above an established term suggesting, say, "niche fields" to be a thing per se? Similar to, e.g., "basic research" designating more that just "research that happens to be basic".

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English speaking colleagues, I need your help: Is there an English word for particularly small disciplines? An umbrella term for fields like sinology, frisian studies, paleontology, etc.? In Germany, small fields are a thing ("kleine Fächer" or "Orchideenfächer"). Is there an English equivalent?

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Finally, my new article was published, where I try to combine my previous research with my new project on the history of normality:
Normalizing capitalism: East Germans experiencing the market economy during the 1990s, in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
doi.org/10.1080/2573...

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So weit würde ich nicht gehen. ;) Aber zumindest erscheinen aktuelle Strukturen nicht mehr alternativlos und es wird klar, dass es auch anders funktionieren kann. Das allein ist schon so wichtig!

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An unserem Institut diskutieren wir gerade über die Einführung von Departmentstrukturen - völlig ergebnisoffen und durchaus kritisch, aber ein wichtiger Austausch. Inkl. Inputs von bestehenden Departments an der HU, z.B. @rosefeldt.bsky.social und zu Rahmenbedingungen der Unileitung (hier vom VPH).

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Hey #skystorians and other academics, what are your experiences with the costs of OA ("gold")? I'm once again trapped between funder and publisher, arguing for wildly different costs for a monograph (70k words). I'm talking 7.500 € on one side and 14.000 € on the other.

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Economics held itself above other disciplines + retained influence on gov policy. This article clearly & honestly self-appraises this problem. Namely its source: the treatment of mathematical models as 'truth', as if by magic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

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Martin Kusch of Vienna and I are editing a special issue of Studies in HPS entitled "Are Social Sciences Special?". We are interested in both history and philosophy essays, see the link for the framing and instructions for how to submit. Deadline is Sept 30th 2024 #philsci #histsci #philsky #STS

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Super, dass es bei Dir geholfen hat. Das macht Mut für meine Sehne im Fuß. Notorisch langwierige Angelegenheit, deswegen jetzt Stoßwellen zusätzlich zur Physio.

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Genau meine Nische: Ich war eben bei meiner ersten Stoßwellenbehandlung und habe davor Druckfahnen für ein Paper zu Meritokratie abgeschickt.

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Ein Aspekt des BMBF-Debakels betrifft auch das Begutachtungswesen: Bei zukünftigen Begutachtungsanfragen durchs BMBF werde zumindest ich sehr genau darüber nachdenken, ob ich durch meine Expertise zur wissenschaftlichen Legitimation einer so offenkundig politisierten Förderpraxis beitragen will.

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Why & how do scholars study rankings?

I've puzzled over this question and wrote a short piece, in which I try to make sense of divergent literatures.

The boundary problem between #rankings research and practice is smth I'd like to explore more in the future.

Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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