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Hope Henderson
@hoperhenderson.bsky.social
writer & scientist
😷 🩷💜💙 🍉
berkeley, california
hoperhenderson.com

writing in river teeth, electric lit, rumpus, hobart, phoebe, & more

scicomm for @innovativegenomics, views my own
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hi friends, it’s a great time to donate to your local food bank if you are able. folks are really struggling.

@accfb.bsky.social is a great option if you live near me & i donate monthly (i am peer pressure-ing you)
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Reading is punk.
Keep reading in public.
Reading in public is hot.
Oh fuck off
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Caroline Bird
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Octavio Paz
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
live your life such that, when you die, your obit doesn't need a whole section on how you didn't credit your colleagues in general or how you stole data from a female scientist in particular
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
through the kalix
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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big question of the night: why didnt NYC like the billionaire backed groper who killed their grandparents
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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The Reader, Ichijō Narumi.
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Richard Avedon
The Beatles 1967
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Jack Clarke
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s one I love for the first weekend of the month, by Jane Cooper~
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Dan Smith “Knowledge Wins” World War I Propaganda Poster (American Library Association, 1918)
movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Fujita Tsuguharu (Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita), Self-portrait with Cat, c. 1920s, Color woodblock print, 38.8 × 28.5 cm (15 1/8 × 11 3/16 in.) (Art Institute of Chicago)
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This is a great resource in precarious times.

Tried it for my city and it pulled up all the things I know about + more I didn’t. It finds food pantries, but also stuff like legal help and housing assistance.

For those of us more fortunate, great way to find volunteer and donation opportunities.
findhelp.org by findhelp - Search and Connect to Social Care
Search and connect to support. Find financial assistance, food pantries, medical care, and other free or reduced-cost help in your area, anywhere in the US.
findhelp.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"WHEREAS, the annual event is a fang-tastic Elmwood community tradition..."

(etc)

shout-out to @markhumbert.bsky.social who had a lot of fun with this official doc on the Russel St Halloween Festivities berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...
berkeleyca.gov
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Feeling seasonal, might delete later...
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
nonfiction book: the ghost map
author: steven johnson
topics: epidemiology, john snow, cholera, managing human waste, waterways, city planning, engineering
recommendation: hard yes, a compelling read about an underdog tracing the origins of an epidemic & old-timey waste management practices
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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A fiction debut by Hope Henderson (@hoperhenderson.bsky.social), about a scientist couple grappling with their young daughter’s devastating illness, recommended by Willem Marx.

buff.ly/Ho0ScjN
Illness Is a Tear in the Great Cosmic Pattern - Electric Literature
“Poppy” by Hope Henderson, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature
electricliterature.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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my library knows the deal
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa.

Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
that HMO feeling
in rockridge (oakland)
October 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
existential halloween decor in rockridge (oakland)
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
novel: songs of no provenance
author: lydi conklin
status: DNF
who might enjoy this more than me if: folks who like feral/“bad”/taboo-breaking female characters, folks into the underground music scene, fans of tampa by alissa nutting, water-sports enthusiasts
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
ICE is in the Bay – some advice from Berkeley’s mayor
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM