There is no application form. The research is published. The data is available. Begin when you are ready.
The University of OMXUS does not believe in gatekeeping knowledge. We do not believe that learning requires permission, that understanding requires credentials, or that inquiry requires enrolment. These beliefs are not radical. They are the default in every domain except education.
No zoologist requires a licence to observe animals. No physicist requires institutional approval to read a paper. No historian requires enrolment to visit an archive. The idea that learning requires a gatekeeper is a product of the Prussian education model — a system designed in 1806 for producing obedient citizens, not curious ones. We have an entire faculty that documents this (see: Education & Psychology).
Our model is based on a simpler observation from the discipline that founded this University: animals learn through exploration, play, and direct engagement with their environment. They do not learn through lectures. They do not learn through examinations. They learn by encountering the world directly and adapting their behaviour to what they find. Jaak Panksepp identified play as one of seven primary-process emotional systems in all mammals (1998). It is not optional. It is neurobiological infrastructure for learning. We designed our admissions model accordingly.
"The goal is not to produce graduates. The goal is to produce people who do not need institutions to tell them what is true. If we succeed, the institution becomes unnecessary. That is the measure of success." University Charter, Article IV
We publish all our research openly. We provide all our data freely. We share all our methodology transparently. We license everything under CC BY 4.0. If you can read, you can study here. If you can think critically, you can contribute. If you can build, you can apply what you learn to the construction of systems that actually serve people.
The University of OMXUS operates on an inquiry-based model. There are no fixed curricula, no scheduled lectures, no compulsory assessments, and no prescribed reading order. Instead, learning follows three phases that mirror the scientific method itself:
Begin with the published research. The University Library contains 96 papers across 12 faculties, two books, and 10 reproducible studies. Start with whatever interests you. There is no wrong entry point. A reader who begins with food toxicology will eventually encounter regulatory capture, which leads to corporate lobbying, which leads to governance structure, which leads to democratic alternatives. A reader who begins with play deprivation will encounter enclosure conditions, which leads to zoo science, which leads to the Five Domains framework, which leads to the full Human Zoology thesis. Every path through the collection arrives at the same interconnected map. The entry point doesn't matter. The connections do.
Every study published by the University includes its full replication package: source data, analysis code, and documented methodology. This is not a courtesy. It is Charter Article II. Download the data. Run the analysis yourself. Change the parameters. Test the edge cases. If our conclusions do not survive your scrutiny, they do not deserve your trust — and we want to know about it. A finding that only holds when the original authors run it is not a finding. It is a performance. We publish findings, not performances.
Identify a system that fails the people it claims to serve. Study how it actually operates — not how it describes itself, but what the measured outputs reveal. Document who it serves. Research what already works better. Design the replacement using evidence, not ideology. Build it. Deploy it. Measure it. Publish the results. This is the applied arm of the University's mission. The research exists to inform construction, not to exist as an end in itself. Understanding a broken system is valuable. Replacing it with something that works is the point.
If you want an overview of the entire framework, start with one of these:
Study Pathways
Choose your depth of engagement. All pathways are free. All pathways are open. You may move between them at any time.
Access the full University research collection and study at your own pace, in your own direction, on your own terms. This is how most people engage with the University. It requires nothing from us and everything from you.
Reproduce existing studies, extend the analysis, challenge the findings, contribute new data, or submit original papers for review and publication through OMXUS Press. The University's research improves through scrutiny, not through deference.
Take the research from theory to practice. Design and build replacement systems informed by evidence rather than ideology. This is the University's applied mission: not to describe what's broken, but to construct what works.
Transparency requires stating not only what we are, but what we are not. These are not apologies. They are design decisions, each with a documented rationale:
There is one prerequisite for study at the University of OMXUS:
"The willingness to follow the evidence wherever it leads, including away from your own prior beliefs. Including away from ours."
No prior qualifications. No age requirement. No geographic restriction. No language requirement (though the current collection is published in English). No application form. No admissions interview. No personal statement. No references. No fee.
The research is published. The data is available. The code is open. The library is unlocked. Walk in. Start reading. When you have something to contribute — a replication, a correction, a new analysis, a counter-argument, a built system — publish it. That is the entire admissions process.
Begin
Four entry points. Pick whichever one matches how you learn.
The complete catalogue: every paper, every book, every study, organised by faculty. Start with whatever interests you. There is no wrong entry point.
If you prefer narrative over academic prose, start here. Satirical field notes from a zookeeper assigned to the human enclosure. Accessible, funny, and evidence-based.
If you learn by doing, clone the repositories, run the analysis code, reproduce the findings, change the parameters, and see what happens.
Have a research question? Want to submit a paper? Found an error in our analysis? Disagree with a finding? Good. Contact the research team.
