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I'm leading a class "High Finance in the Low Countries", Summer 2026 for @themimbresschool.bsky.social. About major financial operations, transactions & flows in the history of the Low Countries. Course Description now available. Syllabus to follow! Course artwork by @penkeeper.bsky.social

The Dollar System depicting the earth surrounded by swirling green Dollar bills and gold coins

Theology 101 depicting a man reading a Hewbrew scroll

History of Zionism depicting a shovel digging into a settlement on a hill casting a long shadow

Ghost kn the machine depicting Prometheus having his liver torn out by a raven with an atomic bomb in the foreground and flames in the background

Mimbres School Spring 2026 🌱
The Dollar System w Colin Drumm
Theology 101 w Sean Carpenter
History of Zionism w Daniela Tolchinsky
Ghost in the Machine w Jules Delisle
Sign-ups open soon! mimbres.org

𝗟𝗮 𝗥𝗲́𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝘀-𝗕𝗮𝘀,𝟭𝟱𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟲𝟮𝟬
Par Christine Kooi

Plus d'Infos: bit.ly/3ISoMS9

#Reformation #Theology #Protestantism #Religion #ReligiousHistory #LowCountries

A map of of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. It is quite busy with roads, and towns, and counties. There are monsters in the sea, and several ships. There are 2 large insets, one showing the a view of the city of London and one showing the city of Edinburgh. There is a smaller inset above the Edinburgh one showing the northern tip of Scotland and the Orkneys. Above the inset for London is the coat of arms for the Order of the Garter, with a lion and unicorn. The arms have the order's motto around them: "honi soit qui mal y pense" (shame on him that thinks ill of it), and below it the popular Puritan phrase, "Semper Idem" (always the same). It is a very detailed and pretty map. "Always the same" and "shame on him that thinks ill of it" is strident rejection of the Growth Mindset ideology, and I am here for it.

It's Friday! Let's end the week with a map & some eels!

Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread)

Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5
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Join my upcoming reading group with @themimbresschool.bsky.social ,Oct 25 (11AM DMT, Zoom). We’re discussing the new (2025) book “Lordship, Capitalism and the State in Flanders, 1250-1570” by F. Buylaert and M. Adriaens. On the relations betw lords, peasants, agrarian capitalists, towns, state, etc.

There is still time to start reading for my next reading group on July 6!

For my next reading group @themimbresschool.bsky.social we’ll think about the guilds & labour: Bert De Munck’s book Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800 (Routledge, 2017). July 6 at 10 AM MDT (6 PM Brussels). Interested? – pm etc!

It's a good start when the coins are involved on page 1

Excited to start reading De wereld van Clovis by @drdragases.bsky.social. Curious for your take on the fall of Rome, early medieval 'West', etc

This is going to be one of our best

Check out the Mimbres School reading schedule and tell me this isn't dope

In order to avoid confusion between a and b, throughout this book we will be calling a 'c and b 'd'

"Capital Women: The European Marriage Pattern, Female Empowerment and Economic Development in Western Europe 1300-1800" shows deteriorating conditions for women and emerging dependence on volatile non-kin arrangements for support, and ends with "THAT'S WHAT MAKES US THE BEST!"

sigh...

Fuck dire wolves, we need to de-extinct the Passenger Pigeon. We have the means! They only became extinct a century ago. With the right protections and resources, they can flourish again. But biotech wants big flashy megafauna for private trophy hunting ranches.

Figure 3 from Doughty (2020). (A) Hypothetical example of a South American Late Pleistocene animal assemblage and their home ranges. The animals host tick-borne and fecal pathogens with homogenous colors because the large home range of the megafauna keeps them interacting. Numbers indicates the mean global dispersal distance (Table 1) for ectoparasites and fecal pathogens. (B) Hypothetical early to middle Holocene animal assemblage without the extinct megafauna, thus removing the regular interaction between tick and fecal pathogens increasing immuno-naivety for all species. Colors of tick-borne and fecal pathogens begin to diverge representing a hypothetical speciation because without the now extinct megafauna there is less interaction between pathogens. (C) Hypothetical late Holocene animal assemblage with humans and their domestic animals picking up the now diverged (many colored) pathogens which could cause EIDs in people and domestic animals. This panel has no numbers because we did not calculate Anthropocene pathogen dispersal.

Megafauna disperse pathogens and ectoparasites. The End Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions led to an 85% reduction of pathogen dispersal, causing surviving species to become immunonaieve. This led to the rise of zoonotic disease and epizootics 🧪
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Sounds about right. Excited to read more

Zoognosis with Joy! Hello! My name is Joy. I'm a DVM with an interest in animals, health, and society. Stick around for commentary on One Health topics.

Please allow me to (re)introduce myself: My name is Joy! I'm a practicing veterinarian, a fellow with the Mimbres School, and an interdisciplinary animal scholar. My YouTube Channel is Zoognosis with Joy! I'm teaching a course in Summer 2025 with the Mimbres School about Animal Domestication.

November 25 I'll be leading a reading group @themimbresschool.bsky.social on Bas Van Bavel's 2010 book Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500-1600. (This means there's still time for dedicated readers to sign up!).