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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Had forgotten that I included "Yay, science!" (exclamation point preserved) in this chapter. Also the term "villainy" which I hear in Gru's voice in my head. Maybe makes it okay that I'm formatting footnotes at 10:30 on a Friday night.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I wrote in my book proposal to a press that I could have the complete manuscript of my monograph to them within a week, I didn't mean THIS WEEK.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i just wanna say we've made a lot of progress in the field of small talk

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

Today's walk to work/looking out the window after getting home.

Photograph of the brick entrance to the Lycée Déodat de Séverac. Graffiti has been added that translates to "The police are beating up children in France" and various cardboard signs have been placed against the wall. Outside the frame of this photo, about half a block away were 50 CRS officers, blocking the sidewalks, checking bags.

Photo from an apartment balcony of three-deep wall of CRS in full riot gear walking down the street.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Been trying to solve solvable problems lately. Today, because my basket was full of the rest of my boulangerie and market haul, I found a way for my beautiful fractal crucifer to get home safe and sound. Also, CRS lined up in the cold drizzle on my street, so I shot them long dirty looks.

Photograph of a child seat on the back of a big parked on a French street. In the seat is an up-turned strawberry helmet and cradled in the helmet is a brilliant fuchsia romanesco chou, all buckled in for safety!

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The youth protests in France that began over poor learning conditions in schools are now being met by police brutality. This is a clear demonstration (in every sense of that word) of the massive shift in state resources to policing & surveillance rather than public goods like education.

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Mrs Muir @hyderules.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Comme l'a rappelé un de ses camarades, ce jeune est en lycée pro et se destinait à un métier manuel. Il a donc aussi perdu son outil de travail.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I now keep a teargas kit in my bike basket (and have used it twice already) just going about my day here in Toulouse.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Really hoping nobody gets seriously hurt. The students look so small and fleshy in their sweatshirts.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm staying safe! My kids were rattled by the mini stampedes and firecrackers on our ride to school. And I definitely got teargassed on the way home, trying to thread between protesters and riot police.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is why Davis always smelled tomato paste in late summer back when the Hunts factory was still open.

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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 · 24/09/2026

Thankfully it was only about 10 minutes of terror/water gushing/dashing around with buckets and towels. And my landlord thought it was all very funny, I think because it ended well with me fixing the washer so he doesn't have to figure out how to replace it from Brazil.

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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 · 18/09/2026

@patrickmccray.bsky.social this seems like something you'd be interested in.

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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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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Same with Norwegian institutions. I actually lapped (?) myself, receiving a very belated notification of an appointment within days of applying for a different position. I had completely forgotten I applied for the first one even though I'd been ranked.

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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

Folks, we can do it. We can save the world.

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

NATÜRLICH! EINE WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTLERIN!

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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 · 10/09/2026

Yes. Especially since the inventor refuses to try it.

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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 · 30/08/2026

But not the actual eggs, those are spread across commissaries all over the country. Where is the efficiency? Running only one temperature-management program? I don’t mean to sound obtuse. I’m genuinely asking.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

But why are the refrigeration systems networked?!

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Going to try and make this but it will depend on an earlier meeting ending on time (it didn't last week) and cooperative children.

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

Ooooh, Crappy Epistemology is a great title for a book I will not write!

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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 · 23/08/2026

If I make my stock from scratch, I can write one (but only one) decent paragraph while it simmers…

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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

I think sorting out this little life puzzle will make me less grumpy as I tackle an article manuscript review after dinner though. Flemish prevents Reviewer 2!

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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 · 14/08/2026

Sven Lindquist's A History of Bombing is supposed to be read out of order, if I recall correctly.

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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 · 12/08/2026

Here’s our viewing spot for the evening. That cloud has six hours to move along.

Photo of a hillside of a tiny Spanish village with stucco homes and tiled roofs. At the crest of the hill is a red brick church. In the sky just beyond it is a single small cloud in an otherwise clear blue sky.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I love that all the digital boards on the Autovía in Northern Spain announce tomorrow’s eclipse and remind you to not look directly at the sun.

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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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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh and a magnetic timer for the pressure cooker lid that I'm terrified to use.

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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just moved into furnished apartment owned by a French family away on sabbatical. In what appears to be a junk organizer cubby in an otherwise fastidious kitchen drawer there are: rubber bands secured by twisty ties, six pairs of scissors, ice cream scooper, a usb cable, and some Brazilian coins.

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

Kept telling myself that by the time it gets so bad that it's clear I need to leave, it will be too late. (also got a promise of my old job back in writing, so have that in my pocket)

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

YES! But should not be carried in her back pocket!

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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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