Katy Huff
@katyhuff.bsky.social
Into bikes, nuclear energy, vegetables, coffee, scientific computing, & public radio. Currently a professor at UIUC NPRE . Former NE-1. (she/her)
Go get it! It's good!
Energy is Life, out 3rd Feb. Order your copy > www.unicornpublishing.org/page/detail/...
January 8, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Go get it! It's good!
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Energy is Life, out 3rd Feb. Order your copy > www.unicornpublishing.org/page/detail/...
January 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Energy is Life, out 3rd Feb. Order your copy > www.unicornpublishing.org/page/detail/...
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Attacking a foreign country to seize natural resources and profit from them was already illegal, wrong, and bad strategy. And that's if the profits went back to the country.
It looks like taxpayers paid for a military operation that netted money for the president's private accounts or slush fund.
It looks like taxpayers paid for a military operation that netted money for the president's private accounts or slush fund.
??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.
January 7, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Attacking a foreign country to seize natural resources and profit from them was already illegal, wrong, and bad strategy. And that's if the profits went back to the country.
It looks like taxpayers paid for a military operation that netted money for the president's private accounts or slush fund.
It looks like taxpayers paid for a military operation that netted money for the president's private accounts or slush fund.
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It’s New Years Eve.
I did enough this year.
YOU did enough this year.
Bring on 2026 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I did enough this year.
YOU did enough this year.
Bring on 2026 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
January 1, 2026 at 6:03 AM
It’s New Years Eve.
I did enough this year.
YOU did enough this year.
Bring on 2026 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I did enough this year.
YOU did enough this year.
Bring on 2026 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Prof. Nuno Loureiro, Professor and Director of the M.I.T. Plasma Science and Fusion Center has been fatally shot in his home. It's an incredible shock and my heart is with his family, friends, and our shared nuclear science community. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
M.I.T. Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Prof. Nuno Loureiro, Professor and Director of the M.I.T. Plasma Science and Fusion Center has been fatally shot in his home. It's an incredible shock and my heart is with his family, friends, and our shared nuclear science community. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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Of 111 measles cases, 105 were in unvaccinated people. 6 were in partially vaccinated people.
Get vaccinated! Especially your kids!
Get vaccinated! Especially your kids!
Hundreds quarantined as South Carolina measles outbreak accelerates
A state epidemiologist said the spike in cases came in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations. At least 16 cases were traced to a church.
wapo.st
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Of 111 measles cases, 105 were in unvaccinated people. 6 were in partially vaccinated people.
Get vaccinated! Especially your kids!
Get vaccinated! Especially your kids!
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⚛️🎅🏻⚛️🎅🏻 Nuclear Santa gives tax credits for Christmas (or what well designed clean energy tax credits can do). ⚛️🎅🏻 www.eenews.net/articles/nuc...
Nuclear credits a timely gift for Illinois electricity customers
ComEd customers will receive more than $800 million in credits as power markets generate more money for reactors outside of Chicago.
www.eenews.net
December 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
⚛️🎅🏻⚛️🎅🏻 Nuclear Santa gives tax credits for Christmas (or what well designed clean energy tax credits can do). ⚛️🎅🏻 www.eenews.net/articles/nuc...
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New from me in the Chicago Tribune: What Democrats can learn from the British left under Thatcher.
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson: What Democrats can learn from the British left under Margaret Thatcher
In the midst of economic crisis, Margaret Thatcher was able to generate popular support for economic policies that hurt most British people.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New from me in the Chicago Tribune: What Democrats can learn from the British left under Thatcher.
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The IEA just released their World Economic Employment 2025 report
Nuclear has the highest wages of any clean energy technology
And it has the highest real wage growth
www.iea.org/news/energy-...
Nuclear has the highest wages of any clean energy technology
And it has the highest real wage growth
www.iea.org/news/energy-...
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The IEA just released their World Economic Employment 2025 report
Nuclear has the highest wages of any clean energy technology
And it has the highest real wage growth
www.iea.org/news/energy-...
Nuclear has the highest wages of any clean energy technology
And it has the highest real wage growth
www.iea.org/news/energy-...
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Today, DOE renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), one of the crown jewels of U.S. science and engineering for renewable energy, the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). We should be reinvesting in our world-leading national labs not renaming them. www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
News Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Lab of the Rockies' | NREL
www.nrel.gov
December 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Today, DOE renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), one of the crown jewels of U.S. science and engineering for renewable energy, the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). We should be reinvesting in our world-leading national labs not renaming them. www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
After fission, not all of the neutrons are released immediately. Some delayed neutrons slow down the chain reaction just a teeny bit. That's lucky, because without them, we would have no hope of controlling nuclear reactors (which provide 10% of global electricity & 18% of US electricity!)
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
After fission, not all of the neutrons are released immediately. Some delayed neutrons slow down the chain reaction just a teeny bit. That's lucky, because without them, we would have no hope of controlling nuclear reactors (which provide 10% of global electricity & 18% of US electricity!)
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As a reminder to all of my academic friends: the Thanksgiving break is only a few days long. Do not pack an entire semester's worth of to-do things into.
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
As a reminder to all of my academic friends: the Thanksgiving break is only a few days long. Do not pack an entire semester's worth of to-do things into.
Increasingly challenging to politely dismiss these given the volume, variety, and velocity.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Increasingly challenging to politely dismiss these given the volume, variety, and velocity.
New DOE org chart just dropped. EERE has vanished, an Office of Fusion has appeared, and S3 is now the Undersecretary of Energy, which won't be confusing at all. . .
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
www.energy.gov
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
New DOE org chart just dropped. EERE has vanished, an Office of Fusion has appeared, and S3 is now the Undersecretary of Energy, which won't be confusing at all. . .
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...
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Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
Bye bye Manhattan!
I had a great few days at the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social discussing the complexities of education in an age of AI with some of today's most thoughtful leaders in STEM education.
While we enjoyed the view from Rockefeller Center, we also saw a lot of work ahead of educators.
I had a great few days at the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social discussing the complexities of education in an age of AI with some of today's most thoughtful leaders in STEM education.
While we enjoyed the view from Rockefeller Center, we also saw a lot of work ahead of educators.
October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Bye bye Manhattan!
I had a great few days at the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social discussing the complexities of education in an age of AI with some of today's most thoughtful leaders in STEM education.
While we enjoyed the view from Rockefeller Center, we also saw a lot of work ahead of educators.
I had a great few days at the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social discussing the complexities of education in an age of AI with some of today's most thoughtful leaders in STEM education.
While we enjoyed the view from Rockefeller Center, we also saw a lot of work ahead of educators.
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It’s unacceptable that federal employees are going without pay, health care costs are skyrocketing & families are seeing SNAP benefits threatened while House Republicans stay on vacation. Until they work with Democrats to reopen the government, I’m donating my pay to the Northern Illinois Food Bank.
Foster to Donate Paycheck to Northern Illinois Food Bank During Shutdown
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) announced that he will once again donate his Congressional pay earned during the government shutdown to the Northern Illinois Food Bank.
foster.house.gov
October 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It’s unacceptable that federal employees are going without pay, health care costs are skyrocketing & families are seeing SNAP benefits threatened while House Republicans stay on vacation. Until they work with Democrats to reopen the government, I’m donating my pay to the Northern Illinois Food Bank.
"... satire helps preserve the language of critique itself."
Phenomenal piece.
Phenomenal piece.
In my latest piece, I write about satire's power to clarify our vision and deflate authoritarian rhetoric.
Satirical humor is one of the remaining glimmers of hope we have left in the fight against authoritarian rhetoric, says @luke-rage.bsky.social.
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"... satire helps preserve the language of critique itself."
Phenomenal piece.
Phenomenal piece.
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It’s Friday night.
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
September 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It’s Friday night.
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
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🚨 Breaking News | Judge Rules Harvard Funding Freeze Illegal
A federal judge said the Trump administration violated the institution's First Amendment rights when it froze billions of dollars in research grants. https://bit.ly/42bh3oH
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
A federal judge said the Trump administration violated the institution's First Amendment rights when it froze billions of dollars in research grants. https://bit.ly/42bh3oH
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
September 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
🚨 Breaking News | Judge Rules Harvard Funding Freeze Illegal
A federal judge said the Trump administration violated the institution's First Amendment rights when it froze billions of dollars in research grants. https://bit.ly/42bh3oH
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
A federal judge said the Trump administration violated the institution's First Amendment rights when it froze billions of dollars in research grants. https://bit.ly/42bh3oH
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
www.uscis.gov
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
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BREAKING: We secured a court order requiring the State Dept to preserve & account for Signal messages of senior national security officials, including Sec. Marco Rubio.
This is an important step to force accountability for an admin that’s shown alarming disregard for transparency required by law.
This is an important step to force accountability for an admin that’s shown alarming disregard for transparency required by law.
September 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
BREAKING: We secured a court order requiring the State Dept to preserve & account for Signal messages of senior national security officials, including Sec. Marco Rubio.
This is an important step to force accountability for an admin that’s shown alarming disregard for transparency required by law.
This is an important step to force accountability for an admin that’s shown alarming disregard for transparency required by law.
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In a @science.org editorial, @katyhuff.bsky.social discusses NASA's plan to install a nuclear reactor on the Moon. Is it feasible, what are the legal and practical issues, and what's the purpose?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#planetsci 🚀🛰️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#planetsci 🚀🛰️
Taking nuclear energy to the Moon
Earlier this month, Sean Duffy, the acting head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), announced an acceleration of the agency’s Fission Surface Power program, with the ambiti...
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In a @science.org editorial, @katyhuff.bsky.social discusses NASA's plan to install a nuclear reactor on the Moon. Is it feasible, what are the legal and practical issues, and what's the purpose?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#planetsci 🚀🛰️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#planetsci 🚀🛰️
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I didn’t think it was news that writing about your research more accessibly makes you think about it in different ways and therefore makes you a better researcher. But if you needed to hear that again: 🔭👩🔬🧪
Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value.
rdcu.be/eCGr7
rdcu.be/eCGr7
The unexpected value of communicating science to the public
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - As a group, our scientific community has a responsibility to unpack the ‘what’ and ‘why’ behind our work for the public, not least because much...
rdcu.be
August 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I didn’t think it was news that writing about your research more accessibly makes you think about it in different ways and therefore makes you a better researcher. But if you needed to hear that again: 🔭👩🔬🧪
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Happy first day of classes!
August 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Happy first day of classes!