Alix Hui
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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.
Surely ornithology is up there too! Ebird!
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Texting JP every time my kid throws up doesn’t count? (Our kids have gone through similar vomity phases)
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yay! So excited to hear this!
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One of the explanations for why Walmart never took off in Germany (besides folks not really bulk shopping) is that everyone was put off by the overly-friendly greeters.
November 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ranked first, also carefully underlined by ballpoint pen, was a Theodore Porter.

(sharing since we’re all piling on Bill Gates today)

2/2 #histsci
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I will send you some! Unless y’all have anyone coming to NOLA, in which case I can hand them some!
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I am about to explode. Friday is my book-writing day and I promise there will be overly-long descriptions, digressive footnotes, and rambling sentences cluttering the sink. 3/3
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
All the drawers are open, their contents burped out. There are used spoons cluttering the sink and sweatshirts on the floor. Anyway, over the last week I have spent every single day battling word counts for fellowship applications, sabbatical requests, today for the text of a sound art exhibit. 2/3
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
On the Metro! If that wasn’t clear.
September 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM