Dr. Kristi DiClemente

That's awesome, thank you! I've been thinking about leading an informal stitching hangout at Kalamazoo next time I go. I do have one more marginalia but pictured her, and I'm just starting to design a fifth. 😁

My students think I'm crazy with how hard I hype up writing as technology. I, literally, get choked up in class!

YES!! THE PROCESS IS THE POINT! I have started focusing on this. I literally say "I don't assign essays because I want to read your essays, I assign them because I want you to write essays!"

Thank you! I've been rewatching stuff, but really want something new for the start of the semester

Do you have recommendations? 😁

It's amazing, and I just doubled my donation.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

I'm not sure this absolute unit is qualified, unfortunately.

Thank you so much for posting! It always makes me laugh 😂

I also have students play Plague Inc, to simullate one of the diseases we discuss in class and write an essay on what they discover

I really like Plague Ports by Myron Echenberg. It's about the third plague pandemic in the 1890s-1901. It focuses on a different global city for each chapter, and talks a lot about medical inequalities and culture. My students really like it.

If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers.

They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.

This thread is phenomenal! 📌

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).

If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

So fancy!!

😂😂😂 I think this is the only place I could post this and someone else would be excited with me

A white drawer with a black and white embossed label that says "STAMPS 7 WASHI" in all caps.

POV: your new, old-school label maker doesn't have an "&" so you use a "7" to approximate a Tironian et.

I was going to like this but it was ar 69 likes and I feel like Mel Brooks would approve 😂 and I'm apparently 12 years old

a man in a red jersey is sitting in a locker room with the words nerds written on his face . Alt: a man in a red jersey is sitting in a locker room with the words nerds written on his face .

😂😂😂

It will cost you $0 to repost that SCRIPTORIUM PLAYTEST IS NOW LIVE 🎉

We’ve poured our hearts into this build, and we can’t wait to see your most magnificent medieval designs ❤️

Play for free on Steam until July 10!

Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...

That was my first thought, too!

It's a great episode!

The semiliterate people who use chatgpt like to point to calculators as a precedent of assistive technology but the thing is: calculators actually calculate.

A calculator really does let you outsource calculation. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and marketed as doing, reproducibly.

a page from the mentioned book about dreams and their meaning from 1603. the page features the entry: "Bücher sehen oder lesen / Traurigkeit".

Have you dreamed of seeing or reading books recently? Well, according to a German publication about dreams and their meaning from 1603 this means: future sadness and depression.

Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40...

#booksky #bookhistory

Elephas Anthropogenus Uli Westphal (2008) After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how this animal actually looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant, thus reinventing an actual existing creature. This tree diagram traces the evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages up to the age of enlightenment

Quelle excellente idée d'avoir réuni les éléphants médiévaux dans une seule œuvre!
www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Juneteenth Digital Toolkit A digital toolkit created with information about the origin of and how to observe Juneteenth, which is a time to celebrate, gather as a family, reflect on the past and look to the future.

I feel like people need reminding: We have acknowledged #Juneteenth here for generations, without acknowledgement from the federal gov’t or corporate sponsorship. We will continue to do so. Them folks can only gentrify our holiday if we let them.
Some background:

nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

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