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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1h

#earlymodern 🗃️

Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 1h

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys

www.history.ac.uk

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 1h

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys

www.history.ac.uk

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 4h

Boeiend interview.

Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · 9h

Ik had een heel fijn gesprek met @betonnie.bsky.social over historische verhalen als manieren om door de wereld te bewegen en relaties met mensen aan te gaan. Te lezen op @overdemuur.bsky.social:
overdemuur.org/de-poezie-va...

De poëzie van de geschiedenis. Interview met Tonnie Dieleman

Met een creatieve en hyperlokale blik doet Tonnie Dieleman onderzoek naar de Zeeuws-Vlaamse geschiedenis. Zijn werk is religieus en politiek: hij zoekt altijd naar de menselijkheid en keert zich te…

overdemuur.org

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 5h

Alternatively, make sure your chapters are divided into manageable chunks.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 5h

Smaller and manageable are better for most readers, especially narrative.

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Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · 9h

Ik had een heel fijn gesprek met @betonnie.bsky.social over historische verhalen als manieren om door de wereld te bewegen en relaties met mensen aan te gaan. Te lezen op @overdemuur.bsky.social:
overdemuur.org/de-poezie-va...

De poëzie van de geschiedenis. Interview met Tonnie Dieleman

Met een creatieve en hyperlokale blik doet Tonnie Dieleman onderzoek naar de Zeeuws-Vlaamse geschiedenis. Zijn werk is religieus en politiek: hij zoekt altijd naar de menselijkheid en keert zich te…

overdemuur.org

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 17h

Dear heaven.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 18h

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 22h

As someone working on a project about a particular year, I find this to be an evergreen imprint.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 21

Auch das ist eine Jahresangabe in einem Impressum: "Gedruckt in diesem Jahr, da alles verkehrt war."

A slightly unusual printer's imprint: "Printed in the year when everything was wrong".

#bookhistory #skystorians

Titelblatt der Flugschrift"Der Kluge Meyer, Wie er sein Gsind aufweckt, und zu der Arbeit antreibt : Ich bin genannt der kluge Mever, In die Stadt trag ich Haasen, Hüner und Ever. Samt Kurtzweiligen Klagsprüchen eines armen ausgehauseten Beltzstössels" (VD18 90882237).

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 22h

#teaching #pedagogy folks: in a course that I've inherited there is a required group project. Looking for resources to help guide students in fundamentals of group work.

Group work is often something that they don't enjoy, but I'm also sure there are ways to make it manageable/constructive. Ideas?

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 23h

I'm relieved to discover there are a few agitators on my campus; our students tend to skew to the apathetic and careerist.

Graffito on a bathroom stall that says "No one is illegal on stolen land"

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Gefeliciteerd, @judithpollmann.bsky.social!

Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 1d

Zojuist was de uitreiking van de prestigieuze Spinozapremie aan collega @judithpollmann.bsky.social. Zo welverdiend!

En het maakt me extra blij dat Judith een deel van de premie inzet om het onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse platteland een nieuwe impuls te geven.

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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 1d

Zojuist was de uitreiking van de prestigieuze Spinozapremie aan collega @judithpollmann.bsky.social. Zo welverdiend!

En het maakt me extra blij dat Judith een deel van de premie inzet om het onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse platteland een nieuwe impuls te geven.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

It's not very good on early modern history either.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

The print museum in Lyon is interesting, but Plantin-Moretus is really the gold standard.

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Maaike Dirkx (ex-X-Rembrandtsroom) @maaiked.bsky.social · 1d

And this is what is left after war. Painted in 1648 by Johan Spilberg in 1648, the year of the Treaty of Münster - not only the 80 Years War between the Dutch Republic and Spain ended but also the Thirty Years War which, it is estimated, cost 8 million fatalities.

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Historisch Nieuwsblad @historischnwsbl.bsky.social · 1d

Nederland kende geen Spaanse bezetting, schrijven Raymond Fagel en Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez in hun nieuwe boek over de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. In de Historische BoekenCast geven ze uitleg. ‘Het narratief van de Duitse bezetting wordt anachronistisch toegepast op het verleden.’ buff.ly/2kWiTkw

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

In my case today it was a sangria and a crabcake.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Oy. Just bracing myself for what my university administrators will do.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Which is a good reason never to use them.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

"Never invent data." Words to live by.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately Obama gives the impression this is all an armchair exercise, rather than a dire crisis affecting the lives of real people. Sometimes the man is too cool for his own good.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Even worse, we wrote them down.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Source? Link?

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has strayed pretty from his (nominally?) Presbyterian upbringing if he thinks good works will get him into heaven.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“It either shows a lack of understanding about grace, or an admission he is not a Christian.”

FRANKLIN, TN Pastor Kevin Riggs reacts to Trump saying he won’t be going to Heaven 👇🏽

Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DPwDaHO...

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

13 Oct 1605: d. Theodore Beza, very important #French reformation theologian at #Geneva #otd (BM)

St Edmund Campion tried, but failed, to engage with him

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“It either shows a lack of understanding about grace, or an admission he is not a Christian.”

FRANKLIN, TN Pastor Kevin Riggs reacts to Trump saying he won’t be going to Heaven 👇🏽

Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DPwDaHO...

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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