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Day 3 of lycée student protests on my street: Have spent the morning with the windows shut tight against tear gas and smoke, slowly working through an interviewer’s questions about my Safe Place for Science fellowship.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If I owed you an email today, I didn't send it because I spent the morning (a) flooding my apartment and (b) fixing the clothes washer. Accomplishment net zero? (I found the main shutoff valve before the floodwaters made it out of the kitchen to the wood floors)Ph

Photograph of the side of a small French clothes washer with the panel removed. The belt that turns the wheel that turns the drum so that clothes are actually agitated rather than just sitting in soapy water for three hours has been reattached. Other than flooding the laundry room, I'm very proud of myself.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: Hey, kids, there's an organ festival coming up. I thought maybe we'd be interested in going? My kids (one's eyes narrowing, the others' widening): WHICH organ?

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 13, 1990. The mostly Black workforce at Delta Pride Catfish in Indianola, Mississippi walked off the job in revolt over the working conditions they faced. Let's talk about this key moment of civil rights unionism against a racist employer!

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trying so hard to not shout BUT OUR BOOK COVER IS UP SO I CAN FINALLY POINT YOU ALL TO THE MOST GRATIFYING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT EVER. @emilypawley.bsky.social Head over on Nov 17th for the OA version &/or NOW to preorder it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205625... #envhist #envhum #hisSTM #skystorians

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A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World

The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed ...

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: Trump now promising that if republicans win the midterms, he will personally record the remainder of Sufjan Stevens’s 50 states albums.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very few things on the internet brought me joy back in 2020 but witnessing this unfold in realtime was by far the most delightful. * some weird context: my family was getting a private tour of our university's milking barn and I bumped into more than one cow because I was staring at my phone

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There's lots to love about the public transit in Toulouse but my favorite thing is that each metro car has a padded butt rail to lean on, aloofly. I've never been so cool on a commute. Also, there's unsettling art in the stations!

A photograph of a large (like, 20 feet high) cement mushroom-like tree on the metro platform at Mirail-Univeristé station in Toulouse. On the floor and in the background is grey and white tile and paneling.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Am working through a final round of edits on my monograph introduction and one of my readers says that I can have "crappy" or "epistemology" in the a paragraph but not both (because tonal whiplash or some such). So much for epistemology! #histSTM #histsci #envhist #envhum

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Have been talked out of starting every sentence of this article manuscript review with “however” to drive home my point that overusing it weakens one’s writing.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today has been a lot of stupid bureaucratic hurdles and webforms requiring resets and nothing just being straightforward and easy. I throw in the towel on productivity and pull out the whole-grain rice mix thingy for an easy dinner base. Only to discover the cooking instructions are in Flemish.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Should we throw something heavy at your brother or something sharp?” Little sister: “Something sharp.”

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Instead of packing or sleeping or keeping the kids out of the car snacks, I went all craft night on our eclipse glasses.

Photo of three pairs of eclipse glasses, decorated to look like a horned creature mask, a half eclipse, and a tree with a glowing hole in its center.

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Erika Milam @emilam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

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Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG

Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Folks, is this how you video chat on a banana phone? The five-year old would like confirmation.

Photo of a child’s hand holding up half a banana, with one strip peeled down. In front of two light-colored wood chair backs and a grey wall.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

With each demented “coo,” the soundmark of the wood pigeon is increasingly decoupled from my memories of Berlin, and putting down auditory roots here in Toulouse.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I love the "behavioral advices" that accompany our current "orange awareness" weather: 1) I'm moving away from trees & waterways 2) I take shelter in a solid building 3) I stay informed 4) I protect property exposed to wind or which may be flooded 5) I avoid to use my phone & electrical devices...

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Woke up to blessedly cool, breezy air. But it smells like wildfire smoke and I fear the Pink City will only grow pinker in the coming days.

Photograph of the sky above a 19th-century brick building and a graffitied dirty white high-rise. Clouds and wildfire smoke are passing in front of the rising sun, making it a pink-orange fluff against a grey-blue sky.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Today I caught a coke bottle midair as it tumbled off a waiter's tray while he was serving us. He looked me in the eyes and said something like "Je m'en souviendrai pour toujours." I might be falling in love with Toulouse.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A few years ago, one of the TSA guys at our little airport said I always walked up to his perch like I owned the place. I guess I have an city stride, swing my arms vigorously, and am often spaced out, which probably comes across as aloof. My step matches whatever music I’m listening to. 1/5

A panoramic photograph of a lush, wooded area with a small canal on the left, a cobbled path curving through the middle, and tall trees and bushes and a small waterfall on the right. An unexpected woodland glade in the middle of France's third largest city.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Rule of threes I believe in you

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Having now trudged back and forth across several (beautiful!) bridges during France's heatwave, I humbly request that someone design a mapping overlay that charts routes by shadiness.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Threatened ground stop due to lightning in the area gives way to auspicious double-rainbow. Net good omens for our leap to France?

Photo through a rain-spattered window of the ATL control tower, parting blue clouds, and an arcing double rainbow.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Of course the wind-and-thunderstorm breaking a brutal week of high temps descends on Berlin as an interdimensional portal over Schlachtensee. I have no idea how my phone camera did this. A perfectly exhilarating end to an exhilarating sound studies workshop.

Photograph of Schlachtensee during sunset right as a windstorm hit, breaking the week of brutal temerpatures in Berlin. Somehow managed to wobble the camera so that it looks like a swirling inter dimensional portal is descending on the lake. Swirling black, leafy trees in the foreground. Blue-grey lake in the middle ground. Grunewald and blush of setting sun in the background.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Folks, my favorite colleagues read over the sample monograph chapters & intro I'm sending to a press next week. The consensus is that I use too many exclamation points. I'm willing to admit my tone is maybe too shouty. So for each like, I'll kill a punctuation of joy. #skystorians #histstm #envhum

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

UPDATE: making progress but have been told that tucking all the Crichton books behind the Faulkner portrait makes it hard to access the thermostat. At least the very good dog approves.

Photograph of the quote-posted bookshelves, this time with daylight, some books, and a very good dog napping in a yellow chair.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Inquisitor: Who moves the chaos? Menocchio: It moves by itself.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Okay, nerds! Our local bookstore owners retired & sold off their wooden bookshelves cheap. I bought EIGHT. We're lining the sitting room in our cabin with them, including framing the entryways to make... book tunnels! Anyway, so many books and so much shelving, so... how should I organize them?!

Panoramic photo of three walls of a dark red room. There are six tall wooden bookshelves. Around the opening to the dining room, a tunnel has been framed (to be added to the other two openings). Lots of yellows and medium browns and dark reds.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sound, politics, sound-politics

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

members of the Norway men’s national football team on a rocky shore, styled as a fierce group of ancient Vikings. They are dressed in elaborate historical costumes, including fur-trimmed capes, leather tunics, chainmail, and armor pieces, while holding traditional gear like circular wooden shields, spears, axes, swords, and blowing horns. In the background, longships rest on a calm body of water that cuts through a vast, dramatic fjord. The rugged landscape is framed by massive, steep green mountains, with a thin waterfall cascading down a cliff face on the left, all under a cloudy, overcast sky.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Arrived super early at the mechanic’s in the hopes of getting through a brake inspection quickly. The waiting area reeks of tire rubber, I can see mechanics smoking and pounding energy drinks in the bay, and I’m realizing I only have 2 crayons in my bag for marking up the book I brought to work on.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

202 years ago today, this stork was shot in the village of Klütz in northern Germany. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this first ‘Pfeilstorch’ (‘arrow stork’) played a pivotal role in the understanding of bird migration.

A stuffed stork with an arrow through its neck – it’s that very stork, now found in the zoological collection at the University of Rostock.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

They’re gonna close down the predatory learning management system unless we put on the best dang talent show this town has ever seen!!!

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When I think about Ted Turner: as I stroll/sprint through ATL, I’m bemused/irked that the “Walk Through Atlanta History” in the corridor between Concourse B and Concourse C devotes the same amount of wall space to Reconstruction as it does to Ted Turner bringing the 1996 Olympics Games to Atlanta.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Continue to be of the firm belief that the only way to get through ATL unscathed is to be slightly buzzed. An elderly man that may or may not work here at the third saddest bar in the airport, just took my menu and my ketchup.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Was revisiting one of my favorite bird song diagrams (by Doc Allen two years before his Cornell Lab developed techniques for recording birds in the field) and stumbled on this hilarious and crushing belittling of Greater Yellowlegs as too boring to kill. #envhum #histsci #histstm #envhist

Image of a series of representations of the sounds of seven bird species. First they are listed with various dashes or squiggly lines next to them. Then they are listed by mnemonics (the chickadee says “Phe-be-be”). From “Learning Bird Songs” in The Book of Bird Life by Arthur Allen (1930)

A black and white photograph of a Yellowlegs bird wading ing the water near a grassy shore in the foreground. The caption reads: AN UNSATISFACTORY GAME BIRD The Yellowlegs is not prolific, it is not wary, it is not resourceful, and little skill is required to shoot it. Its food habits are somewhat beneficial, and it should be removed from the game list.

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

My small child asked to help with dinner and after some tedious de-stemming work, she gave each beet a name and personality and inter-beet drama and now she’s screaming* as I grate them in the cuisinart. NOT HELPING. * expressing their inner lives and voices, not her own horror

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Don’t know if the culprit was autocorrect or the state of my brain this point in the semester, but I noticed today that the dental appt for my son (Wren) was in my calendar as “Warn dentist.”

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

300+ edits later and OUR PROOFS ARE IN. I am getting ice cream, I tell you what.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Today I planned to finish the proofs of our (@emilypawley.bsky.social & 100 other folks’) Handbook for Saving the World. Was faltering with sorrow/rage but found the line “fuck that—no more fossil fuels for you” & it got me over the finish line. Page proof done. No more fossil fuels for you.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Pulling my historian hat down so it’s nice and snug AND JUDGING RIGHT NOW.

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A citizen group working to prevent large data centers from being built on prime farmland are seeking a noise expert who can speak to detrimental effects of noise from data centers, especially low frequency sound. They're able to pay. Any recs, incl names/contact info, asap would be so appreciated 🙏

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