Alix Hui
@alixhui.bsky.social
Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
“Mom, I got first place in the science fair and also my hypothesis got run over by a bus!”
January 29, 2026 at 9:56 PM
“Mom, I got first place in the science fair and also my hypothesis got run over by a bus!”
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"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ
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Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org
January 22, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
Some personal/professional news: I’ve been awarded a Safe Place for Science fellowship at the University of Toulouse & will be moving to France with my family in July.
Someone on either the #envhum #envhist or #histsci #hstm feeds noted that the call included humanists, so thank you to that person!
Someone on either the #envhum #envhist or #histsci #hstm feeds noted that the call included humanists, so thank you to that person!
January 21, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Find of the day: DJ Magnificent Montague’s catch phrase, “Burn, Baby, Burn!” (became the rally cry for the Watts Rebellion) was the title of the Apollo 11 master ignition routine code.
The beauty of footnotes is that this is going into my environmental phenomenology of background music monograph.
The beauty of footnotes is that this is going into my environmental phenomenology of background music monograph.
January 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Find of the day: DJ Magnificent Montague’s catch phrase, “Burn, Baby, Burn!” (became the rally cry for the Watts Rebellion) was the title of the Apollo 11 master ignition routine code.
The beauty of footnotes is that this is going into my environmental phenomenology of background music monograph.
The beauty of footnotes is that this is going into my environmental phenomenology of background music monograph.
Automatic repost whenever I hear Take Five. This time courtesy to Apple Music’s Listen Now algorithm as I frantically try to wrap up writing THE LAST SECTION THE LAST CHAPTER OF MY NEVERENDING BOOOOOOK! Oooh, this outtake is much more jumpy.
My dad grew up working in the family’s Chinese market outside Calexico. He wished for a pillow case filled entirely of fresh cilantro from the nearby fields, earned one of the first PhDs in “ecology,” and loved Dave Brubeck.
January 19, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Automatic repost whenever I hear Take Five. This time courtesy to Apple Music’s Listen Now algorithm as I frantically try to wrap up writing THE LAST SECTION THE LAST CHAPTER OF MY NEVERENDING BOOOOOOK! Oooh, this outtake is much more jumpy.
Clinging to this today: as I transfer contributors’ copyedits I am, per their request, putting (erased by et al. style constraints) Palestinian scholars’ names BACK IN, putting the “Nation” of Gwich’in Nation BACK IN. Writing the reality I want to see into the word, one stet at a time.
January 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Clinging to this today: as I transfer contributors’ copyedits I am, per their request, putting (erased by et al. style constraints) Palestinian scholars’ names BACK IN, putting the “Nation” of Gwich’in Nation BACK IN. Writing the reality I want to see into the word, one stet at a time.
Yay for discovery! (And this case moving forward in general)
Honolulu is one step closer to putting Big Oil on trial for its decades of climate lies. 🙌
A Hawaiʻi state judge has rejected Big Oil’s last-ditch efforts to prevent the case from entering full discovery, green-lighting efforts to gather more evidence of the industry’s ongoing deception.
A Hawaiʻi state judge has rejected Big Oil’s last-ditch efforts to prevent the case from entering full discovery, green-lighting efforts to gather more evidence of the industry’s ongoing deception.
Court: Honolulu can gather more evidence of Big Oil’s climate lies | Center for Climate Integrity
A Hawaiʻi state judge rejected Big Oil’s last-ditch efforts to prevent the case from entering full discovery.
climateintegrity.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Yay for discovery! (And this case moving forward in general)
This is the only thing that has made me audibly laugh in 2026, so I must share it with all of you.
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
This is the only thing that has made me audibly laugh in 2026, so I must share it with all of you.
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Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.
January 8, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.
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finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
finally, we're living through precedented times
Out of curiosity, I looked into the history of inevitability. It was first used as an adjective in the 15th century in Life it St. Katherine. The noun form was used 100 years later. Anyway, possibility has been around for longer. Take that with you into the new year.
#academicsky #skystorians 🗃️
#academicsky #skystorians 🗃️
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Out of curiosity, I looked into the history of inevitability. It was first used as an adjective in the 15th century in Life it St. Katherine. The noun form was used 100 years later. Anyway, possibility has been around for longer. Take that with you into the new year.
#academicsky #skystorians 🗃️
#academicsky #skystorians 🗃️
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an article about postwar bells & sonic gaps? MADE FOR ME (& i kinda wish i wrote it tbh) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...
The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
an article about postwar bells & sonic gaps? MADE FOR ME (& i kinda wish i wrote it tbh) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...
In a footnote about Peale’s Power of Positive thinking do I include the current president saying Peale helped him navigate his crushing debt in the 1990s? On the one hand I don’t want his name tainting my lovely monograph. On the other hand I could index his name under “Bilious Turd that I Hate.”
December 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In a footnote about Peale’s Power of Positive thinking do I include the current president saying Peale helped him navigate his crushing debt in the 1990s? On the one hand I don’t want his name tainting my lovely monograph. On the other hand I could index his name under “Bilious Turd that I Hate.”
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NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
My childhood Santa candle is dubious of the world generally and the next generation’s holiday decorating scheme specifically. Not my dried okra garland though. Santa loves that.
December 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My childhood Santa candle is dubious of the world generally and the next generation’s holiday decorating scheme specifically. Not my dried okra garland though. Santa loves that.
Have completed my institution’s active shooter response training module (such helpful tips as how to gouge out an attacker’s eyes) and will now change my work email sign off from “taking care of what matters,” our branded school motto to “I deserve to live,” the tag line of this horrendous exercise.
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Have completed my institution’s active shooter response training module (such helpful tips as how to gouge out an attacker’s eyes) and will now change my work email sign off from “taking care of what matters,” our branded school motto to “I deserve to live,” the tag line of this horrendous exercise.
A query for those of you that write and publish academic things: what is a ballpark rate and timeline for hiring an indexer for a ~130,000 word edited volume? We already have a spreadsheet of keywords built. #academicsky #skystorians #histstm
December 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A query for those of you that write and publish academic things: what is a ballpark rate and timeline for hiring an indexer for a ~130,000 word edited volume? We already have a spreadsheet of keywords built. #academicsky #skystorians #histstm
I’ve figured out why my (fabulous, wide-wale, red-orange) corduroy pants are agitating me so much today: they sound just like the cords worn by middle-aged women in the 80s and oh my god, THIS IS MY MOM’S ZIP ZOP!?
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I’ve figured out why my (fabulous, wide-wale, red-orange) corduroy pants are agitating me so much today: they sound just like the cords worn by middle-aged women in the 80s and oh my god, THIS IS MY MOM’S ZIP ZOP!?
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"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
Who has two itchy wrists and poison ivy in December? THIS GAL!
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Who has two itchy wrists and poison ivy in December? THIS GAL!
My son has many wonderful characteristics but today my favorite is that he will break into a Peanuts dance and coax everyone else into it as the (absolute best holiday album) Vince Guaraldi Trio Charlie Brown Christmas tracks come on.
a group of peanuts characters are dancing on a pink stage
Alt: a group of peanuts characters are dancing on a pink stage
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December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
My son has many wonderful characteristics but today my favorite is that he will break into a Peanuts dance and coax everyone else into it as the (absolute best holiday album) Vince Guaraldi Trio Charlie Brown Christmas tracks come on.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot