Katy Huff

@katyhuff.bsky.social

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Into bikes, nuclear energy, vegetables, coffee, scientific computing, & public radio. Currently a professor at UIUC NPRE . Former NE-1. (she/her)

Two large geese guard five yellow goslings on the grass of the UIUC Bardeen Quadrangle. The goslings are fluffy.
Katy Huff taking a selfie in front of Columbia's iconic library.
NYT headline: How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern.
An HBO banner, with Bill Maher on it, that recommends: "Because you watched Game of Thrones; REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER". It's unclear why the Hulu/HBO AI thinks Bill Maher is similar to Game of Thrones. Having never watched Bill Maher in my life, I'll have to assume his politics wonk show is also full of dragons, epic battles, palace intrigue, incest, murder, and plots to rule the realm.
The view from the bridge leaving Manhattan!
A screenshot from the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/science/nasa-nuclear-reactor-moon.html in which I suggest the timeline might be too aggressive.
My dog nyx, black with white fur on her chin, and her stuffed dinosaur toy, sitting on Nyx's personal leather chaise.
They avoided one another’s faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I’ll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I’m not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard… But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.
A slide from Lace Padilla's talk at AAAS that recommends a paper called The science of data visualization: What works.
This is a screenshot of the "quotes" portion of the Goodreads website. It includes a picture of Sir Terry Pratchett, wearing his sunglasses and smirking a bit, alongside a quote from Equal Rites, which reads: "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance." ― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
Panorama of women at round conference tables with a speaker on stage.