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Dr Lucy Carolan

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Creative practice research about dementia. 'Picturing Clouds of Unknowing: Photography, Lostness, and Cognitive Decline' DOI: https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1862857 No DMs (sorry). European (English origin, very sorry). Mainly fair: good occasionally rough.

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · Nov 15

"We welcome expressions of interest from academics who have experience working with artists as well as those who are curious but have not explored this previously."

Are YOU artist curious??

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 5h

do consider applying again

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 12h

Does UK Gov have any contingency for when/if the AI bubble bursts? Does UKRI have plans for reviving a research ecology blighted by its monoculture funding focus on AI for everything - or does it expect people to ask the Magic 8 Ball for solutions to that issue as well?

#WakingBrainThoughtOfTheDay

Latest of many AI focussed funding calls from UKRI, this one for 'world-leading data science and AI approaches to tackle environmental challenges' (eye-roll.gif just out of frame...)

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 1d

There are lots and lots of prizes for which judging panels are able to withhold awards if they deem the available candidates not quite up to standard. Just saying.

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 2d

Awkward

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Machado has also expressed support for foreign military intervention to topple the socialist government of Maduro and personally appealed to Netanyahu for help with regime change in Venezuela. Trump has publicly praised Machado in the past.

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, has praised Donald Trump as a "visionary" and approves of his military attacks on Venezuelan civilians

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 2d

“There are people in the family who don’t want to talk about it. It really is hard to put your medical information out there, to be public about it because everybody’s got a theory — like, if you ate right, this wouldn’t happen to you.”

Is this the most sensible statement in this article?

He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 2d

It does make you wonder what qualified as TMI at the time, if sharing your poo problems with work colleagues and their partners was perfectly fine

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 3d

Many thanks!

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 4d

From the introduction to the 'Beckett's Library' book ref'd above, "[o]ne of the most important aims of [which] is to assess the amount of knowledge Beckett had to acquire before he was able to develop a poetics of unknowing." 👀😍

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 4d

But I'm just now and accidentally discovering something that's long been common knowledge in the vast and varied field of Beckett studies, right?

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 4d

When I read the Pepys diary extract below I thought, sounds familiar, stylistically... did Beckett read him? Answer: yes!

Two refs to Pepys (the only two) in Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon's 2013 book 'Samuel Beckett's Library' (Cambridge University Press)

Paragraph listing Pepys' diaries amongst other English auto/biographical books from Beckett's library

[Footnote] 17. Beckett read Pepys throughout 1978, despite admitting that he was 'bored to death' with him. Quotations from Pepys's diaries already appear in the 1930s 'Whoroscope' Notebook (WN72r).

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 4d

Is this of interest @marieallitt.bsky.social ?

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 4d

*curtsies* 😌

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 4d

Did Beckett read Pepys 🤔

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 4d

"...despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large amounts of carbon"

“The [UK] government are being quite sneaky with this... You cannot call these areas protected on paper and still allow this type of fishing to take place...”

FFS!

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 5d

UK rejects total ban on bottom trawling in offshore marine protected areas

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large…

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 5d

How did the definition of pain change? Elisabetta Lalumera talks about conceptual change in medicine in this wonderful talk as a part of our @triphilosophy.bsky.social lectures by Women in Philosophy: youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s Enjoy! #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice

Women in Philosophy: Elisabetta Lalumera

YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 5d

Last night I sent off an 11th hour abstract for a workshop thing I'm interested in. This morning I noticed my proposal has a wrong date in it and the email it's attached to is word salad. 😳

And I hate presenting anyway, so why didn't I just write to ask if I could attend!? 🙄

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 5d

"A cost-benefit analysis by Alma Economics found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 in return, including more than €100 million in social and economic benefits. It also found that recipients’ arts-related income increased by more than €500 per month on average" 👏

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Numerous countries express interest in Government’s basic income for artists pilot scheme

Minister for Culture committed to making the scheme permanent if funding is secured in budget

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 6d

Yes :)
theseenjournal.org/through-smoke/

Through Smoke and Across Dissent: Power Plays with Perfumery – THE SEEN

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 6d

"Flora Bastiani saisit ainsi un état de la subjectivité humaine (« le phénomène de l’ensemble ») à un moment où elle... n’est plus en mesure d’être indépendante, où elle n’existe que grâce à la subjectivité du soignant et exclusivement au sein de la relation de soin."

Sounds interesting?

La Vie des idées @laviedesidees.bsky.social · 6d

Comment considérer un patient dans un état critique, inapte à la communication, comme un véritable sujet ? Flora Bastiani propose une phénoménologie du soin.

Soignants et patients

Comment considérer un patient dans un état critique, inapte à la communication, comme un véritable sujet ? Flora Bastiani propose une phénoménologie du soin.

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 7d

Hadn't heard of this before. One person can make a difference. 12 can help change the world.

For more, see this interview with Mary Manning: www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-store...

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 7d

Yes it cheered me up too 🙃

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 7d

Everything is relentlessly terrible 😭 and the cognitive dissonance from last week alone seemed particularly difficult to cope with.

So I tried to have last night off; started out innocently looking for new music to listen to and then, by way of a random cat massage video tutorial, ended up here...

Video Dating: Women's Edition

YouTube video by Found Footage Fest

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 8d

This bleet is brought to you by the grumpy pre-teen that haunts the space between my sleeping and caffeinated geriatric self 🙄

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 8d

If it's true that the brain is an isolated blob inside the Plato's cave of the skull, indirectly 'predicting' what's happening around it by interpreting the abstract signals helpfully provided by its host body, why are its primary sense organs (eyes, ears etc) arranged as close to it as possible?

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Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 9d

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 9d

Batool Showghi is a London-based mixed media and book artist, working with photography, illustration, painting and textiles to explore women’s issues, immigration, and displacement. A new work, 'A Visual Reflection on Displacement', launches at #smallpublishersfair25.

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