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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christinekooi.bsky.social
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.

christinekooi.bsky.social
#earlymodern 🗃️
annegoldgar.bsky.social
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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annegoldgar.bsky.social
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

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

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

christinekooi.bsky.social
As someone working on a project about a particular year, I find this to be an evergreen imprint.
dbellingradt.bsky.social
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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lizlehfeldt.bsky.social
#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?

christinekooi.bsky.social
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"

christinekooi.bsky.social
annepetterson.bsky.social
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.
annepetterson.bsky.social
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.

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

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

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maaiked.bsky.social
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.
historischnwsbl.bsky.social
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

christinekooi.bsky.social
In my case today it was a sangria and a crabcake.

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

christinekooi.bsky.social
Which is a good reason never to use them.

christinekooi.bsky.social
"Never invent data." Words to live by.
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
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"

christinekooi.bsky.social
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.

christinekooi.bsky.social
Even worse, we wrote them down.
bleary.off-the-records.com
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?
2? Questions
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?

christinekooi.bsky.social
Trump has strayed pretty from his (nominally?) Presbyterian upbringing if he thinks good works will get him into heaven.
thetnholler.bsky.social
“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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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
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
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
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"

Reposted by Christine Kooi

thetnholler.bsky.social
“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...
bleary.off-the-records.com
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?
2? Questions
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?