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Dr. Kristi DiClemente

@xpi.bsky.social
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History professor, medievalist, and textile artist who loves cozy mysteries and her dog.

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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Whew! It's been a while! Mississippi IPs are still banned from Bluesky, so I have to get as much info and connection as possible when I have access. What did I miss?
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Oh, man, I'm assuming it's one of ours 😂
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Sometimes past us are truly the best us!
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I've decided that I'm going to have my students debate who was "greater": Alexander the Great or Phillip II. I want them to be brutal! 😂😂
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This theory doesn't have a lot of evidence www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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Is “Botanical Sexism” Really to Blame for Increased Pollen Allergies in Urban Cities?
The story starts with horticultural epidemiologist Thomas Ogren. His major citation is that of the 1949 USDA Yearbook of Agriculture where it was recommended that “when used for street plantings, only...
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
When I was a kid, a friend of mine told me that she wasn't afraid of eating a particular thing (don't remember what it was anymore) because it was natural and God wouldn't make anything to hurt her. My response was that God made rattlesnakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I think this is such a common belief.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Slightly diminish a band: Counting Pigeons 9999 Maniacs
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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. 😁
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
My students think I'm crazy with how hard I hype up writing as technology. I, literally, get choked up in class!
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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!"
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Thank you! I've been rewatching stuff, but really want something new for the start of the semester
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Do you have recommendations? 😁
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
It's amazing, and I just doubled my donation.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? I'm not sure this absolute unit is qualified, unfortunately.
A white woman with red hair and glasses smiling next to an open drawer within the drawer is a black and white picture of a very very large sheep that went viral a few years ago
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Thank you so much for posting! It always makes me laugh 😂
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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.
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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This thread is phenomenal! 📌
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
So fancy!!
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
😂😂😂 I think this is the only place I could post this and someone else would be excited with me
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
POV: your new, old-school label maker doesn't have an "&" so you use a "7" to approximate a Tironian et.
A white drawer with a black and white embossed label that says "STAMPS 7 WASHI" in all caps.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
😂😂😂
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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 .
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Yaza Games 📖 Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts is OUT NOW! 🎉 @yazagames.com · 26/06/2025
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!
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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...
A detail from a page of a 1702 German publication with the title "Reimb Dich, Oder Ich Liß Dich, Das ist: Allerley Materien, Discurs, Concept, und Predigen, welche bißhero in underschiedlichen Tractätlein gedruckt worden" (vd18 10307974). The author explains on this page, and on pages before and after the Holy Trinity. Part of the detailed explanation if a human heart, made of a V (in German printing a "U") and a three as a cap. In the text, the "V" stands for the Latin "unum" (meaning: one, as in: together as one) and the number 3 is of course the Holy Trinity. This heart symbol, explained in the text, looks like a contemporary emoticon:  <3 . The typographical entity highlighted consists of a the letter "i", the number "3", the word "HOMO" (in which all letters are crossed out except for the "M"), a small "z" as part of the M, and the mentioned emoticon: a "V" with a "3" on top.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
That was my first thought, too!
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It's a great episode!
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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
a page from the mentioned book about dreams and their meaning from 1603. the page features the entry: "Bücher sehen oder lesen / Traurigkeit".
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Suave Morbida @maitre-poulard.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Quelle excellente idée d'avoir réuni les éléphants médiévaux dans une seule œuvre! www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
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
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.
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Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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
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Zodi Addams 🍁☕️🎃 @zodi777.blacksky.app · 19/06/2025
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...
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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.
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"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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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
😂😂😂
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
IT'S AMAZING!! Thank you for tagging me, it's the first finish of this one I've seen in the wild. 😍
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I mean, it's never guaranteed 😂 I'm always pleasantly surprised when my schemes work
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I made a quill pen! There's definitely room for improvement 😂
A rectangle metal baking pan filled with white sand on a stovetop. There are white goose feathers sticking out of it. The caption reads: Quill Making in 3 parts, Heating up the quills.Those same white goose feathers in another rectangle metal baking tray with very clearly burnt ends. Caption reads: Whoops! I burned them and they smell like burnt hair!A quill pen and an open bottle of calligraphy ink on a sheet of white paper that reads: Holy crap it works. Hello. Not perfect  but not the worst thing I've ever made! Caption reads: is a start! I only destroyed 6 feathers and made my house smell like burnt hair... TOTALLY WORTH IT!!
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
As the coordinator of the North Regional MS History Day competition, I can genuinely say that this program changes students' lives. I volunteer my time because it matters. If you care about history education, please call your reps and make some noise!
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I just texted my friend to bring one back for me. Thanks for the heads up!!
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Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I've updated my " #Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages" bibliography site. It now contains 6,250 entries & covers: — Secondary lit on the order, 1480s-2025 — 22 languages from Basque to Swedish — Array of digital & print sources — Themes, houses & individuals www.geneseo.edu/researchweb/...
Screenshot of the Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages Bibliography website, showing a searchable bibliographic database.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This sounds great!
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
When I was a kid in New Jersey, we would pass Oliver Twist Day Care on our way to the mall. 😂 And it was open for YEARS!
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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
For a little light heartedness, my friends and I are playing pick 3 fantasy conclave. Here are the rules if anyone is interested 😂 I'm going to ask about wild cards
Black text on white background reading:

Fantasy Conclave: Pick 3 Edition

How to Play:
- Each player picks three Cardinals ranked A, B, and C
- Each player picks a team name
- Each player will submit a guess for the number of days it will take to choose a new pope
- Picks must be locked before the conclave starts

Scoring
- If your A pick becomes pope, you win!
- If no A picks hit, check B picks
- If no B picks hit, check C picks
- If no picks hit, the player with the closest number of days without going over wins

There is an example of how it all works, but I think it's pretty self explanatory, so I'm leaving it out of the alt text

Summary
3 picks. 1 days guess. 1 hilarious team name
First correct pick wins, or closest days guess wins
Good luck and may your cardinal ascend faster than a smoke signal!
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
If they want to move to Mississippi, we're still accepting students and have scholarship money left
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Dr. Kristi DiClemente @xpi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I sent a dm
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