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
😷 🩷💜💙 🍉
berkeley, california
hoperhenderson.com
writing in river teeth, electric lit, rumpus, hobart, phoebe, & more
scicomm for @innovativegenomics, views my own
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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
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
My story is out! Give it a read!
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)
@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
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)
@accfb.bsky.social is a great option if you live near me & i donate monthly (i am peer pressure-ing you)
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Reading is punk.
Keep reading in public.
Reading in public is hot.
Keep reading in public.
Reading in public is hot.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reading is punk.
Keep reading in public.
Reading in public is hot.
Keep reading in public.
Reading in public is hot.
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
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 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
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
through the kalix
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
through the kalix
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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
big question of the night: why didnt NYC like the billionaire backed groper who killed their grandparents
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The Reader, Ichijō Narumi.
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The Reader, Ichijō Narumi.
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Richard Avedon
The Beatles 1967
The Beatles 1967
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Richard Avedon
The Beatles 1967
The Beatles 1967
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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~
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
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~
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~
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Dan Smith “Knowledge Wins” World War I Propaganda Poster (American Library Association, 1918)
movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...
movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Dan Smith “Knowledge Wins” World War I Propaganda Poster (American Library Association, 1918)
movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...
movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...
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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
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)
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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.
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
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.
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.
"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...
(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
"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...
(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...
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Feeling seasonal, might delete later...
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Feeling seasonal, might delete later...
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
buff.ly/Ho0ScjN
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my library knows the deal
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
my library knows the deal
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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.
Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa.
Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
that HMO feeling
in rockridge (oakland)
in rockridge (oakland)
October 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
that HMO feeling
in rockridge (oakland)
in rockridge (oakland)
existential halloween decor in rockridge (oakland)
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
existential halloween decor in rockridge (oakland)
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
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
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
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
ICE is in the Bay – some advice from Berkeley’s mayor
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ICE is in the Bay – some advice from Berkeley’s mayor