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Katie Holten

@katieholten.bsky.social

Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Host of Sunday Salons | Rights of Nature 🌍 Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Irish in NYC / Ardee | Born @331ppm | Climate Justice Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees

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betsy ladyzhets 😷@betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 12h ago

Today @thesicktimes.org: In recognition of Severe ME Awareness Day, we republished excerpts from the new book What Is ME Like? focusing on Severe ME. Many thanks to the WIMEL team for allowing us to share their powerful work 🙏🏻 thesicktimes.org/2026/08/08/t...

“This exhaustion is cellular”: Excerpts from the new book ‘What Is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Like?’ - The Sick Times

Essays focusing on Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), from a new book by an international group of writers documenting their ME experiences.

thesicktimes.org

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · 13h ago

Today is August 8, Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Day. 💙 Solidarity with all those suffering a “living death”. My Long COVID triggered ME/CFS, but I’m lucky, it’s mild. Such a cruel disease. Highly recommend Jennifer Brea’s documentary, UNREST. #MECFS #MEawareness #SevereME

Unrest Documentary – Jennifer Brea & ME/CFS Awareness

Explore the 2017 documentary Unrest, directed by Jennifer Brea, which documents life with ME/CFS and a global movement for recognition and research.

unrest.film

Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 5d ago

130-year-old Hitachi Tree, located in Moanalua Gardens on Oahu, Hawaii. Also known as the rain tree or monkeypod tree, it is famous for its massive umbrella-shaped canopy, which can reach over 40 meters (131 ft) in diameter.

Center for Biological Diversity@biologicaldiversity.org · 3d ago

“Places like #Lochiel with this cottonwood forest, where this ribbon of green runs dozens of miles from #Mexico to the US, these are the last threads of an ecosystem that has declined so much already," said Russ McSpadden, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’

Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall

theguardian.com

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · 3d ago

I can't wait to celebrate the 🍃special edition🍃 of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES, coming September 22. I'm THRILLED that @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social is joining me for the launch on September 21st in NYC. 🥰 ptknitwear.com/events/51202 BOOK TOUR info, in formation! 🥳 www.katieholten.com/books#/https...

Invitation to a book launch on Monday, September 21. Doors 6.30pm, Talk 7pm. at P&T Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street, New York City. Katie Holten presents The Language of Trees (Special Edition) in conversation with Lauren O'Neill-Butler. Tickets $10 or purchase of event book. The book cover for The Language of Trees is on the left, a forest green cover with drawing of forest in gold. Photos of two white women on the left. Subtitle of the new edition: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds, and Rewild Our Lives The graphic has eye-catching bright red and yellow font.
Lauren O'Neill-Butler@laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'll be in conversation about 🌳🌲, art, and activism with the great @katieholten.bsky.social on 9/21 at P&T Knitwear. Do come! (And let me know if you need help with tix.)

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · last wk.

Grateful for a wonderful month in Iceland at a very special residency for artists (and writers). Having a studio to focus on a new project was incredible. Living on a horse farm surrounded by volcanic mountains was a dream. A highlight was visiting a little island inhabited by 500,000 puffins.

Photo taken inside my studio in Iceland. It’s a beautiful sunny day with big blue sky and no wind, so the big door is open to the view of the valley and rolling mountains of the horse farm. A table in the corner by windows is full of drawings and writing on paper and my jacket hangs over a chair on wheels. Not seen, snipe singing in the sky above. Photo of puffins on Dragney island in northern Iceland. Three puffins sit and stand, perched on the edge of a cliff with a nesting gull in the background. Photo of me sitting on a grassy verge near the edge of the island, smiling and happy to see so many puffins. There are more puffins on this tiny island than people living on all of the island of Iceland! We are in the land of the Midnight Sun, just south of the Arctic circle. I’m wearing layers and a puffy green jacket to keep warm, although it’s July and the height of summer. Photo of me in my studio in Iceland. I’m sitting at a large desk in a corner with windows on both sides, on a swivel chair with wheels, wearing my green wool blanket. Lots of drawings on paper and notes lying around. Blue sky with puffy clouds and rolling green hills with horses outside the windows. A stack of books on the couch, including On Time and Water by Andri Snaer Magnason, Remembering Earth by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Hidden Creatures by Dino Martins, Plants of Iceland: Traditional Uses and Folklore by Gudrun Bjarnadottir and Medicinal Plants of Iceland by Arnbjörg Linda is on my lap. Jóhannsdóttir
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2w ago

We went inside Sweny's Pharmacy, 179-year-old chemist made famous by James Joyce's Ulysses. To this day, so little has changed about its interior that even the original prescriptions are still sitting in drawers. jrnl.ie/7112127

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today is World Brain Day! We've all got one. More than 3.4 billion people live with neurological conditions, making brain disorders the leading cause of disability worldwide. New brain scans link #LongCOVID to changes in the dopamine system that may help explain brain damage. More research please!

Long COVID May Affect Motivation and Memory by Injuring the Brain’s Dopamine System

Learn how new brain scans link long COVID to changes in the dopamine system that may help explain fatigue, brain fog, and loss of motivation.

discovermagazine.com

ME/CFS Science@mecfsscience.org · 3w ago

1) We wrote a new article on cell and tissue analysis using genetic data. For ME/CFS, the results strongly point to neurons. One of the top hits is the medium spiny neuron, located in a region deep inside the brain called the striatum.

Cell and tissue enrichment in ME/CFS - ME/CFS Science

By matching DNA results with gene expression databases researchers can determine the tissues and cellContinue readingCell and tissue enrichment in ME/CFS

mecfsscience.org

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · 4w ago

A lovely welcome to Iceland! On our first morning we visited Björk’s show at the National Gallery in Reykjavík. Beautiful songs remembering her mother (who I met in Venice years ago), masks by James Merry, and an active volcano.

Upaya Zen Center@upaya.bsky.social · 4w ago

PLEASE SHARE: Next month, Upaya Zen Center welcomes the BIPOC community for The World We Know Is Possible, an in-person retreat created to nurture connection, belonging, & collective renewal. Sharing this helps ensure that BIPOC practitioners know this space exists. https://ow.ly/Qtzv50Zmv1f

The World We Know is Possible: A BIPOC Retreat

Exhale deeply in Upaya’s first retreat designed for Black, Indigenous and People Of Color (BIPOC) that creates a refuge of belonging, connectedness, and joy…

ow.ly

Miles W. Griffis@mileswgriffis.bsky.social · last mo.

"If you recognize airborne illnesses as an ongoing instrument of mass death and disablement, you are morally obligated to oppose ICE for the same reasons." New essay by @crookedneighbor.bsky.social in TST 😷 thesicktimes.org/2026/07/07/h...

How to protect your community from ICE when you have Long COVID - The Sick Times

People are taking on immigration enforcement from bed and the streets. We talked to two organizers for tips to participate in resistance while staying safe.

thesicktimes.org

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve been in Iceland for one week, but it feels like one magical, never-ending day. I took the video just after midnight when the sun briefly dips below the horizon. This is as dark as it gets. The horses, birds, and bees seem to have figured out an optimal napping strategy. #MidnightSun

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · last mo.

Welcome to my studio in northern Iceland, just south of the Arctic Circle. Here, the sun only briefly dips below the horizon, day and night merge into endless brightness. Icelandic horses keep me company, and lots of beautiful birds, including Godwits, Snipe, Curlew, Plover, Redshank, Arctic Tern

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy Interdependence Day! Greetings from Iceland. It snowed overnight. Sending cool air to those struggling in the heat. Sorry, I didn’t realise the wind sounds so loud, you can’t hear me whisper, or the birds. I’m reading On Time and Water by @andrimagnason.bsky.social. All flourishing is mutual 🤍

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · last mo.

We the people hold these truths to be self evident, that all flourishing is mutual. —Robin Wall Kimmerer #InterdependenceDay

Katie Holten@katieholten.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy Interdependence Day! Greetings from Iceland. It snowed overnight. Sending cool air to those struggling in the heat. Sorry, I didn’t realise the wind sounds so loud, you can’t hear me whisper, or the birds. I’m reading On Time and Water by @andrimagnason.bsky.social. All flourishing is mutual 🤍

The Linnean Society of London@linneansociety.bsky.social · last mo.

Nominations open for Linnean Medal for research! Awarded for significant and sustained advances in the understanding of nature, including academic research into any relevant branch, including science, history and the humanities. Deadline Sept 30. For more details and past winners 👇️ buff.ly/X52reM9

The Linnean Medal (for research)

An awarded to scientists for an outstanding contribution to the natural sciences.

linnean.org

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

I would beg you to read the whole thread, as I think very few people have seen how fast the foundations of democracy are being torn out in the UK, and how far down the road towards authoritarianism we have already travelled. Sorry to pester you, but this could not be more important. Thanks.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...