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 · 30m

Or a breed of cow.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for providing the original piece.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2h

Skyfall is the only Bond movie that contains a reference to the Reformation.

Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 4h

Make a Bond movie academic

Skyfall: Analysis of fine particulate matter on precipitation duration and intensity in mid-latitude maritime climates

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15h

Make a Bond Movie academic

Best, Russia

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 4h

Make a Bond movie academic

Skyfall: Analysis of fine particulate matter on precipitation duration and intensity in mid-latitude maritime climates

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15h

Make a Bond Movie academic

Best, Russia

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15h

Make a Bond movie casual

From Russia with Best Wishes

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 7h

What every woman working in higher education already knew.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2d

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Feast of Stephen to all who observe.
Giorgio Vasari, 1560s.

Painting of Stephen on his knees surrounded by men stoning him.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 11h

Another offering from the Department of Facile Historical Analogies, one that manages to mischaracterize both modernity and the Middle Ages.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck

Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute

www.theguardian.com

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 12h

"Since the Enlightenment, we've all been making our own decisions." That other sound you hear is modernists having a good chortle.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 12h

"Dark ages." That sound you hear is every medievalist erupting in apoplexy.

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Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - MdNL @letterkunde.bsky.social · 14h

Onlangs verscheen het nieuwe nummer van het Engelstalige multidisciplinaire Open Access tijdschrift Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC). De tweede aflevering van deze negende jaargang is nu voor iedereen online te lezen: www.mdnl.nl?p=19262

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

I have not watched it either. Not a Jimmy Stewart fan.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Secular modernity's version of indulgence selling.

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 1d

The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2d

The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner, Christine Kooi , and 1 more Rosemary A. Joyce, Daniel W. Drezner, Christine Kooi, Anne Norton

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2d

The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.

Trump’s Ice Maiden Blindsided by President’s Controversial Pardon

The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.

trib.al

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

And if you read these blurbs, none of them attests to his likeability.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Merry Christmas, friends.

A painting of the adoration of the shpherds by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1620. With Mary and Joseph bending over a spotlit baby Jesus while the shepherds react in surprise and wonder.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d

Every year I offer up a prayer of thanks to the marketing genius who came up with the gift bag.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2d

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

Here at the "Old War Skule" military history is popular with undergrads, but we don't teach the drum-and-trumpets variety.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

Mushrooms are the most disgusting "food" on earth, like dirt-flavored pencil erasers.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

He's just lying like all the rest of them.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

Just my own little bit of decoloniZation. 😄

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

One American does one thing, and now the whole country is to blame? So what does J.K. Rowling tell us about Britain, then, lol.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

The techbroligarchy really has this administration by the short hairs.

Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d

I have not seen it. Thanks for the tip!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

The age-old author dilemma on social media: To timidly try not to annoy people who'll never read your books? Or to strive to consolidate your artistic future in a world that's on fire, while not making the self-absorbed assumption that everyone sees everything you post? Lately I choose the latter.