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Alix Hui@alixhui.bsky.social |
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Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
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Alix Hui
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My auto-reply email: Howdy! From 6/29-7/9 I'm traveling without my computer & cell service. If I can't respond on my phone via spotty coverage, you'll just have to wait. Also, I'm not longer co-editing HSS publications. Take your problems to Projit and Elise. --warmly like the planet, Alix
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Alix Hui
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More sound studies meets ethnomusicology meets post-colonial studies than pure history of science. Here's the link to the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Alix Hui
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The last of my pre-COVID projects is finally out! My contribution is about starlings and U.S. immigration policy and the sounds of acclimatization. I'm super pleased to be part of a collection of work by so many scholars I adore.
#histstm #histsci #histmed #histtech
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Alix Hui
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But wait. Half of the population says “turn down” and means raise the temperature threshold so that it turns down the work the AC has to do. Or something like that. It doesn’t make sense to me but I married such a person. He also doesn’t fold towels correctly.
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Alix Hui
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A 400-mile drive through record heat with two bouncy dogs and a toddler that is newly-terrified of public restrooms is misery for everyone. But all is forgiven with the sighting of one of those bright pink dancing balloon man wind-sock thingies. I'm pinning their locations on my mapping app.
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Alix Hui
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Make matchsticks of the bulb, strips of the greens, toss with minced garlic, lemon juice, and maybe a Tablespoon of olive oil or mayo. Salt and pepper and you have garlicky kohlrabi slaw! Or, pickle it like the Germans.
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Alix Hui
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Tonight on the way home I saw A BEAR! And it was so big and glossy and healthy-looking. Good job, bear!
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Alix Hui
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See also: “I just saw a roundish thing come out of the back of a bird and I am going to put it in my mouth.”
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Alix Hui
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I'm still sending them and plan on getting impatient about slow replies, as Watrick would.
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Alix Hui
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Yeah, I have a bunch of emails queued up to send right now but it's not like they're going to be read before tomorrow.
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Alix Hui
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Stroll home from writing day with @emilypawley.bsky.social. Wrote many words but also walked into many spider webs.
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Alix Hui
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I'm your enemy.
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Alix Hui
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p.s. We're still overseeing the production of the September (Centennial!) and December issues but as, like, lame-duck editors.
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Alix Hui
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Behold THE LAST ISSUE of Isis under @mttlvn.bsky.social & my's editorship. It's been a tremendous ride. We're forever grateful to our editors, editorial assistants, UCP, reviewers, & authors. The best part, of course, has been the friends & enemies we made along the way. #histsci #histtech #histSTM
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Alix Hui
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It's so good already! Maybe we shouldn't write anything at all?
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Alix Hui
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So what does it mean then when the farmers threaten the Fantastic Mr. Fox that he will soon be "dead as a dingbat"? This was my son's favorite taunt for a while but we never did figure out what made dingbats extra dead.
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Alix Hui
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Planted a bunch of bare-root ferns (so, started my fern gully).
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Alix Hui
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They’ve swung back to police violence today. A helicopter circled as police moved in and arrested more students with unnecessary roughness.
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Alix Hui
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Sniper is back. Actually this looks like its just two campus police officers with some spotting scopes. The law enforcement presence is barely visible today. Just a few campus police cars and these fellows on the watchtower.
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Alix Hui
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It's a talk about the sounds and silences of early prairie chicken conservation so a bit of a stretch but I plan to say something at the start. Talk is tomorrow. Holding my breath and hoping the admin changes its approach.
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Alix Hui
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What's the etiquette on giving an invited talk at an institution where there were just snipers on the roofs of academic buildings and law enforcement used violence to arrest several student and faculty protesters? No calls for walk-outs and the symposium is organized by students, if that matters.
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Alix Hui
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I’ve grown them from seeds with success but I’m down in MS with the longest growing season ever. I started them indoors under grow lights.
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The HPS Podcast
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Love this story! Beautiful description of the joy of small-finds-that-are-actually-huge that happen in history research. And such a great case of lived-experience (bus music) to science-standpoint (environmentalism) connection #histsci 👏
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Alix Hui
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I’ve decided that this case radicalized William O. Douglas’ environmentalism. EEEEEE! IT IS MIIIINE!!!
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Alix Hui
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I will tell you: it was used as evidence in a public utilities case against the transit company for “forced listening.” And because this was D.C., the appeals wound up at the US Supreme Court. Two different justices had to recuse themselves (they rode these buses and hated the background music).
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Alix Hui
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A not-zero number of people indicated “no particular reason.” I love these grumps. Alix, you ask, why do you care about this once-off, hyper-local rider survey?
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Alix Hui
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AND IT’S GLORIOUS! Respondents can indicate “more enjoyable” “less enjoyable” “neither” and “not unenjoyable,” which is exactly the kind of poll I want to think about on my bus ride to work. And they had follow-up questions for folks that didn’t like it.
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Alix Hui
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But today! I checked the special collections site and you can request their digitized material! So I did! And they sent it right away!
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Alix Hui
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THE ONE COPY is in UMD Special Collections. I had an undergrad at UMD on it but then she ghosted me. But then she reappeared to tell me that the report had been swallowed up by the purgatory of waiting-to-be-digitized. The contact she gave me about never replied to my inquiries…
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Alix Hui
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WHO WANTS SOME VICARIOUS SMOKING NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK ARCHIVE FIND THRILL!? In fits and starts for I have been searching for a supposed survey designed and done by psychologists for a marketing firm to evaluate rider attitudes about background music on DC buses and streetcars in the late 1940s.
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Alix Hui
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You could do it every day. Eclipse glasses don’t have to be special occasion wear.
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Alix Hui
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I guess this bird is behaving strangely but it may be because of the severe thunderstorm rolling in.
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Alix Hui
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Real mountains! Pointy like these! #ASEH2024
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Seth Rockman
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New LaborOnline blog post about the final piece of the history of science + labor history project with @alixhui.bsky.social and @historyofscience.bsky.social
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Alix Hui
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I'm just going to bring some sharpie pens instead.
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Alix Hui
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Jealous of your sticker game. I thought too late to order some for @emilypawley.bsky.social and mine's mega project.
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Alix Hui
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I co-edit a way less fancy journal and have to say that for us at least, it’s all on the press side. It started during the pandemic when supply chain, social distancing the actually printing and unreliable post were reasonable causes for pivoting to digital. But then they never went back.
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Tom Gauld
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Hunting for Easter Eggs with Werner Herzog
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Seth Rockman
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At last, the new issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social has arrived to join its companion issues of @historyofscience.bsky.social and Isis! All of your history of science + labor history questions can finally be answered. Congratulations to co-editors Lissa Roberts and @alixhui.bsky.social.
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Alix Hui
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I dug out the recipe my Dad (3rd gen Chinese-American by way of Hawaii) wrote out for me. You'll see its way heavy on the cilantro, presumably because he grew up in the Imperial Valley and used to have vivid dreams of sleeping in fields of the stuff.
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Alix Hui
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To provide some visual interest and habitat, I've been nurturing a brush fence in our yard. As a result I've become low-key obsessed with collecting sticks. Today, after telling me about school, my son asked, "Did you find any good sticks today?" Like I'm a medieval peasant or a golden retriever.
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Alix Hui
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I grew up on this! It was the dish I always requested for my birthday dinner. I'd always figured it was something my Dad had made up and didn't realize it was a real dish with a proper recipe (he was a Lee Kum Kee absolutist too). This is a revelation!
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Alix Hui
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Humiliated but also snuggly warm
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Alix Hui
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And here is the matching Isis issue:
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Here's the matching @historyofscience.bsky.social issue:
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Alix Hui
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"You/labor history complete me."
The final piece of our 3-JOURNAL labor history & history of science puzzle is out! @sethrockman.bsky.social and @historyofscience.bsky.social and lots of smart, creative people worked for years to pull this off. So proud of what we built.
#histsci #histtech #histSTM
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Alix Hui
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Brumation ends NOW!
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Alix Hui
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Your power cord is definitely going to fall into the toilet.
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Alix Hui
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@patrickmccray.bsky.social if you do this, I want in. Like a little free library of bloat. I'm willing to help organize a spin-off project of the missing ends of my unfinished thoughts.
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David Anaxagoras
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We never ask this about bombs.
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