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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.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2h
Just my own little bit of decoloniZation. 😄

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3h
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.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 4h
The techbroligarchy really has this administration by the short hairs.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 4h
I have not seen it. Thanks for the tip!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h
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.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 17h
How much is an AI company paying the AFT for you to write this nonsense?

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
I can't credit this administration with that much cunning competence.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
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Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Joe R. Feagin, Christine Kooi , and 2 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
My mother, her sister, her mother and her aunt (r to l) in the Bergummermeer, circa 1935.
B and w photo of 2 women and 2 girls wading in a lake.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
"Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes of life of gathering gloom
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb."

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
Holy cow....

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 1d
His latest book, Moral Reconstruction, is a fascinating look at an earlier period in US history when a Christian lobby tried to control public life. uncpress.org/978080785366...
Moral Reconstruction
Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, at...
uncpress.org

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
*understands, dagnabbit

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
My friend and colleague Gaines Foster, professor emeritus, is cited extensively in this piece. Gaines understand the history of US Protestantism better than anyone I know.

Reposted by Steven High, Christine Kooi, Raúl Pacheco-Vega , and 1 more

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 2d
I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate.

It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

Reposted by Melissa Johnson, Christine Kooi

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d
December 21, 2025
December 21, 2025
Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
LLMs are a solution in search of a problem. bsky.app/profile/dias...
diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 3d
The advice says to start by asking the LLM to summarize it.

Start by fucking reading it. If you need a summary, there's an abstract.

There is ZERO need for these bullshit machines.

Reposted by Christine Kooi, Elizabeth Ewan

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 2d
Ctl+F this
A manuscript page with Latin script

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
She may be as cynical an opportunist as her husband is.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 2d
He's decompensating visibly.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Meanwhile the American Historical Association is actually obtuse enough to make this genAI "recommendation." bsky.app/profile/disa...
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Bring back the stocks, I say.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Last semester I made an assignment in an advanced undergrad class that required the students to look up and check out a physical book from our library. One 3rd-year student in the class had never even set foot in the library before. 😬

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Once again, I am grateful to have received my historical training in a mostly analog era. Research with physicality--books and paper--may become increasingly necessary in our world of digitized fakery.

Reposted by Silvia Secchi

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
GenAI is destroying research mechanisms before our very eyes.
aryazandvakili.bsky.social Arya Zandvakili @aryazandvakili.bsky.social · 3d
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
Prepping for when the Supreme Court overturns the 14th Amendment.

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Arya Zandvakili @aryazandvakili.bsky.social · 3d
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
And totally depraved!

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d
My family came to the US with Mayflower moving van lines in 1968. Does that make me a "heritage American"?
lawrencehurley.bsky.social Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 5d
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.