Christine Kooi

@christinekooi.bsky.social

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Reformation historian, immigrant, dochter van Nederlanders, birder (not necessarily in that order). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Nov 12

Happy to be in bluer skies. I'm working on a book titled "1572: A Year in the End of Christendom," about the working out of reformation in Europe in the later 16th cen. Any tidbits about 1572 that you come across in your research that you're willing to share are welcome.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2h

One can never praise ILL offices enough. Scholarship would be so much more difficult without them.

The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 18h

A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.

It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.

ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20h

Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2h

The techbroligarchy will not be satisfied until every institution dedicated to learning is wiped off the face of the earth.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 13h

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

www.currentaffairs.org

Reposted by American Library Association, Silvia Secchi, Christine Kooi , and 3 more American Library Association, Silvia Secchi, Christine Kooi, Greg O’Brien, Richard M. Carpiano, Finis Dunaway

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 13h

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

www.currentaffairs.org

Reposted by American Library Association, Christine Kooi

The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 18h

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20h

Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 20h

I vividly remember that episode with him and Christine Emba where Emba was left speechless by his racism.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

An interesting graph. % of immigrants in the US population are now at the roughly same level as they were at the turn of the 20th century, the last time the country had a major moral panic about immigrants.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @ericcolumbus.bsky.social for pointing me to a more recent chart. www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/dat...

U.S. Immigrant Population and Share over Time, 1850-Present

This chart displays both the number of immigrants residing in the United States and their share of the total U.S. population over time.

www.migrationpolicy.org

Reposted by Christine Kooi

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @ericcolumbus.bsky.social for pointing me to a more recent chart. www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/dat...

U.S. Immigrant Population and Share over Time, 1850-Present

This chart displays both the number of immigrants residing in the United States and their share of the total U.S. population over time.

www.migrationpolicy.org

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Original memo here.
tinyurl.com/yshznu8a

Adobe Acrobat

tinyurl.com

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

How things are going at Texas Tech. The provost will now gatekeep all course content. What a farce.

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.

Flow chart from TX Tech memo showing that most class materials must be reviewed by chair, dean, and provost, and that all curricular material must be disclosed

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Trots dat ik een hoofdstuk heb mogen leveren aan dit boek.

Henk Looijesteijn @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social · 1d

Presentatie van ons boek over Leiden in het Gravensteen. @judithpollmann.bsky.social plaatst het boek in zijn Leidse en stadshistorische context. 'Leiden is altiid erg geintesseerd in zichzelf', 😉. Open access bij @dgb-mem.bsky.social. Onder redactie van o.a. @arievansteensel.bsky.social.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

One could still get away with a lot of dissent in mid-century. But by the final third of the century it got a lot harder. Great thread!

Reposted by Christine Kooi, Judith Pollmann

Henk Looijesteijn @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social · 1d

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Fabián Muniesa, Christine Kooi

John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 1d

Abstractions without principles are mere euphemisms.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...

Yeah, what is 'Post-Liberalism' anyway?

Questions for Ross Douthat

www.unpopularfront.news

Reposted by Christine Kooi

Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social · 1d

Jour 2 #calavhist "des Strasbourgeois du XVIe siècle". Philipp Heinrich, un batelier qui ose en 1551 l'excuse audacieuse "j'ai jamais dit que je chiais sur tous les sacrements et qu'en mangeant le corps du Christ on mangeait de la merde : c'est juste que pain et vin devient des excréments".

Darauf antwort ehr Es were mit on er hatte an solchen orten allerlei geredet es were aber nett so grob als es ins furkomen wer. den er hett nitt gesagt das er in unsere alle Sacrament schisse, sonder als man des Nachtmals were zu red worden. hatte ehr gesagt, die Pfaffen geben fer, das si darin den Leib Christi essen, das erlögen were. sie fressen ein dreck, solches aber verstand er von Brot und wein".

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Brian A. Nosek, Brendan Nyhan , and 35 more Richard S.J. Tol, Brian A. Nosek, Brendan Nyhan, Scott L. Greer, Tim Bale, Michael A. Clemens, Rosemary A. Joyce, American Library Association, Chris Hanretty, Gerry Canavan, Daniel S. Goldberg, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Jonathan Hopkin, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Caroline T. Schroeder, Scott A. Imberman, Christine Kooi, Jason Dittmer, Samantha Brennan, Brian Keegan, William Myers, Zen Faulkes, Jelena Subotić, Mark Rice, Christina Ho, Alessandro Rigolon, Marcus Credé, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Kathleen Kennedy, Daxton R. Stewart, Stephen A. Meserve, Stephen I. Vladeck, Dan Immergluck, Colin Woodard, Clark Gray, David Lay Williams, Jesse R. Lasky

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

My take on the OU case: the assignment was way too openly worded, the student was likely out to get the trans instructor, and the OU administration badly overreacted by suspending the instructor. TPUSA will continue to take advantage of instances like this, especially in red-state higher ed.

Reposted by Christine Kooi

Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social · 2d

Bon, alors, jour 1 du "calendrier de l'Avent des Strasbourgeois du XVIe siècle". Commençons avec Gotthard Berr (ou Bär ?), un pelletier - c'est-à-dire ceux qui travaillent les peaux et fourrures (renards, visons, castors, loutre, lapin...). Un métier qui remplit à lui seul une des vingt corporations

Illustration of an elderly furrier (from the Nürnberg Zwölfebrüderstiftung = foundation for elderly craftsmen).

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

Headmaster.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Philip N. Cohen, Christine Kooi , and 2 more Brendan Nyhan, Philip N. Cohen, Christine Kooi, Sam Kamin, Paul Franco

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

A 1915 photo of the Christelijke Nationale School in the village of Wilnis (NL). My greatgrandfather, Jan Kooi, the schoolmaster, stands in the back row on the far right, wearing a cap. Directly above him, hanging out the window, is my teenaged grandfather Reinder Kooi.

Sepia photo of an elementary school class with its teachers, taken in the school courtyard

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

Pourquoi pas?

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, how you suffer so.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, thank you, I myself took such an oath. But Musk's remark was about "any American."

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

Ask him how much of his LSU salary he will donate to the academic "side" of the university.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

You mean Musk is wrong about something? *gasp*

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

Wat leuk.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, as an immigrant I took such an oath myself. But Musk speaks of "any American." What oath do birthright Americans take?

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

What on earth is the "oath to America"?

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

Such a splendid painting.

Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 3d

The wedding at Cana, 1562-3, Late Renaissance masterpiece, monumental oil on canvas painted for Refectory of San Giorgio monastery, by Paolo Veronese, great Venetian artist, died in 1588; supreme colourist, influenced by Titian, worked with Palladio, inspired Rubens, Tiepolo.
Musée du Louvre

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating, in a horrifying way, that they're resurrecting the term "Americanism."

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