Dr Lucy Carolan
@icarousse.bsky.social
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.
'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??
Are YOU artist curious??
"the perception that someone in the last stages of dementia may be “dead” feels wrong when I think of my parents. How are you to know what is happening in someone else’s brain?"
Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents’ dementia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #reading #books
#Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #reading #books
Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents' dementia | Jo Glanville
It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery, says journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:26 AM
"the perception that someone in the last stages of dementia may be “dead” feels wrong when I think of my parents. How are you to know what is happening in someone else’s brain?"
Glorious thread!
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Glorious thread!
People who are clever, kind and funny are also very attractive! shocker
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
People who are clever, kind and funny are also very attractive! shocker
I personally prefer the pencil sketched sloth anyway so yes, who really needs 'AI' when "humans can do just fine"
I mean, AI is already "powered" by real humans, but you will never see these people-- they work around the globe cleaning and labelling data and being the "eyes" for facial recognition systems.
Still, this project is interesting. Just grousing about the reporting.
www.youtube.com/shorts/W5rZZ...
Still, this project is interesting. Just grousing about the reporting.
www.youtube.com/shorts/W5rZZ...
What if chatbots were run by humans? A Chilean town tried
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I personally prefer the pencil sketched sloth anyway so yes, who really needs 'AI' when "humans can do just fine"
Musk: "Whoever said "money can't buy happiness" really knew what they were talking about 😔"
The Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by Ultimate
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February 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Musk: "Whoever said "money can't buy happiness" really knew what they were talking about 😔"
Reposted by Dr Lucy Carolan
Please, if you live in the UK, take part in this public consultation. Ten minutes well spent.
PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
February 5, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Please, if you live in the UK, take part in this public consultation. Ten minutes well spent.
"Uncovering... the multiple meanings of medical progress is important because of the concept’s impressive emotional power. The commitment to it is remarkably widespread and... influences scientific and political agendas, as well as shared beliefs about the goals of medicine."
Available OA ⤵️
Available OA ⤵️
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
"Uncovering... the multiple meanings of medical progress is important because of the concept’s impressive emotional power. The commitment to it is remarkably widespread and... influences scientific and political agendas, as well as shared beliefs about the goals of medicine."
Available OA ⤵️
Available OA ⤵️
Reposted by Dr Lucy Carolan
“... microelectrode [is still] no match for a notebook or diary in probing the reveries, daydreams, half-awakenings, and other dimly lit vestibules through which we pass as we commute between sleep and wakefulness.”
Daydreamers and Sleepwalkers: Crossing the Borderlands of the Unconscious
Scientists, novelists, and philosophers have spent centuries studying the boundaries between sleep and wakefulness. Each descent only deepens the mystery.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
February 4, 2026 at 4:56 AM
“... microelectrode [is still] no match for a notebook or diary in probing the reveries, daydreams, half-awakenings, and other dimly lit vestibules through which we pass as we commute between sleep and wakefulness.”
"Perhaps the secret to a good game or sport [or other human endeavour] is that the goals are both tantalisingly challenging and utterly unimportant"
Importantly, these things aren't linear, so are not really predictable - they wouldn't be challenging otherwise. And is e.g. enjoyment unimportant?
Importantly, these things aren't linear, so are not really predictable - they wouldn't be challenging otherwise. And is e.g. enjoyment unimportant?
February 4, 2026 at 9:25 AM
"Perhaps the secret to a good game or sport [or other human endeavour] is that the goals are both tantalisingly challenging and utterly unimportant"
Importantly, these things aren't linear, so are not really predictable - they wouldn't be challenging otherwise. And is e.g. enjoyment unimportant?
Importantly, these things aren't linear, so are not really predictable - they wouldn't be challenging otherwise. And is e.g. enjoyment unimportant?
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This is the warehouse of books that Anthropic kept to be scanned and used to feed their AI and then FUCKING PULPED. Monsters.
February 2, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Reposted by Dr Lucy Carolan
Generative AI competes with the work it is trained on, and the people behind that work. Every single new piece of evidence backs this up.
The theft must be stopped - government must step in.
ism.org/brave-new-world
/end
The theft must be stopped - government must step in.
ism.org/brave-new-world
/end
Brave New World? Justice for creators in the age of Gen AI - ISM
This ground-breaking report calls for protection of our creative industries and workforce in a time of industrial-scale theft from generative AI.
ism.org
February 2, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Generative AI competes with the work it is trained on, and the people behind that work. Every single new piece of evidence backs this up.
The theft must be stopped - government must step in.
ism.org/brave-new-world
/end
The theft must be stopped - government must step in.
ism.org/brave-new-world
/end
In the spring, when all its leaves fall off and it goes dormant for a while, lemon verbena are a bit Morticia Addams flower arrangement ugly. But in winter the leaves are still there to be brushed against or crushed in fingers, and smell of summer. Highly recommended for anyone with SADs right now 🙋♀️
February 1, 2026 at 11:41 AM
In the spring, when all its leaves fall off and it goes dormant for a while, lemon verbena are a bit Morticia Addams flower arrangement ugly. But in winter the leaves are still there to be brushed against or crushed in fingers, and smell of summer. Highly recommended for anyone with SADs right now 🙋♀️
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These aren’t fully autonomous vehicles operating without backup. There’s a human sitting in the car whose entire job is to prevent crashes. And yet Tesla’s crash rate is still nearly an order of magnitude worse than regular human drivers operating alone.
These aren’t fully autonomous vehicles operating without backup. There’s a human sitting in the car whose entire job is to prevent crashes. And yet Tesla’s crash rate is still nearly an order of magnitude worse than regular human drivers operating alone.
January 31, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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18 month funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artistic Research at LUCA School of Arts that may be of interest [to anyone lucky enough to still live in an EEA country 🙄]
The quality of the match between the applicant, the proposed research project and the envisaged supervisor will be considered in the evaluation, in line with MSCA host requirements.
www.researchcatalogue.net
January 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM
18 month funded Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artistic Research at LUCA School of Arts that may be of interest [to anyone lucky enough to still live in an EEA country 🙄]
Reposted by Dr Lucy Carolan
In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
January 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM
In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
"Nifty Gateway suggested taking screenshots of their NFTs to salvage them" and other LOLs
Remember NFTs? Apparently, neither do its own platforms. Nifty Gateway, which was plagued with reports of user issues, is the latest marketplace to call it quits.
Another NFT Platform Bites the Dust
Nifty Gateway, which was plagued with reports of user issues, is the latest marketplace to call it quits amid a protracted NFT slump.
hyperallergic.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:08 PM
"Nifty Gateway suggested taking screenshots of their NFTs to salvage them" and other LOLs
Woke this morning thinking* that the areas of my back still aching from Monday's gym session are where my wings would be attached if I had any, and wondering if throwing kettlebells in the air would help me fly better, then by cup of tea number two feeling a bit sad that I'll never know
*well...
*well...
a black and white photo of a woman hanging from a rope in a circus tent .
Alt: Scene in a circus tent from Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, showing a woman in a leotard and wings flying through the air on a trapeze towards camera before falling forward, downwards and away
media.tenor.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Woke this morning thinking* that the areas of my back still aching from Monday's gym session are where my wings would be attached if I had any, and wondering if throwing kettlebells in the air would help me fly better, then by cup of tea number two feeling a bit sad that I'll never know
*well...
*well...
"To understand how medicine shapes lives... it is essential to conceptualize medical practice not merely as a set of treatments, but as a historical practice that both organizes and is transformed by experience: the processes through which illness, care, and wellbeing acquire meaning..."
New at HEX Handbook: Anna Derksen on medicine and experience sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...
Medicine and Experience | Digital Handbook of the History of Experience | Tampere Universities
sites.tuni.fi
January 27, 2026 at 1:16 PM
"To understand how medicine shapes lives... it is essential to conceptualize medical practice not merely as a set of treatments, but as a historical practice that both organizes and is transformed by experience: the processes through which illness, care, and wellbeing acquire meaning..."
“Every time Linda comes to see Michael, he falls in love with her all over again”
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A much needed timeline cleanse:
Man with dementia forgot he’s been married 39 years. He proposed again. wapo.st/4reI8Sa
#Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #happiness
Man with dementia forgot he’s been married 39 years. He proposed again. wapo.st/4reI8Sa
#Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving #happiness
Man with dementia forgot he’s been married 39 years. He proposed again.
“There are all kinds of crises that happen in life,” said the bride, Linda Feldman, 78. “This is one story of how love can endure.”
wapo.st
January 27, 2026 at 1:10 PM
“Every time Linda comes to see Michael, he falls in love with her all over again”
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Perhaps the most crassly, predictably inevitable thing about 'AI' is that, if they succeed in imposing it everywhere, they will try to squeeze money from us to escape it, in exactly the same way that Facebook just offered to provide me with ad free access in return for £3.99 a month FS
January 27, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Perhaps the most crassly, predictably inevitable thing about 'AI' is that, if they succeed in imposing it everywhere, they will try to squeeze money from us to escape it, in exactly the same way that Facebook just offered to provide me with ad free access in return for £3.99 a month FS
A little late for Burns night, but here's David Byrne in a kilt*
🎶 I love America
Yo siempre he confiado en ti
I love America
¿Por qué me tratas así? 🎶
*cheered me up
🎶 I love America
Yo siempre he confiado en ti
I love America
¿Por qué me tratas así? 🎶
*cheered me up
David Byrne - Miss America, Live In Pori Jazz 1997
YouTube video by TheKimRo
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:12 PM
A little late for Burns night, but here's David Byrne in a kilt*
🎶 I love America
Yo siempre he confiado en ti
I love America
¿Por qué me tratas así? 🎶
*cheered me up
🎶 I love America
Yo siempre he confiado en ti
I love America
¿Por qué me tratas así? 🎶
*cheered me up
Another day, another swivel-eyed right winger swings... but not to Labour, where questions are by now surely being raised about why its fash magnet strategies are so conspicuously not working
January 26, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Another day, another swivel-eyed right winger swings... but not to Labour, where questions are by now surely being raised about why its fash magnet strategies are so conspicuously not working
Earworm...
Shock Treatment Duel Duet
YouTube video by HappyBloxer
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Earworm...
But Andy Burnham hasn't been imprisoned, poisoned, or fallen out of a window so it's all fine, yes?
January 25, 2026 at 1:10 PM
But Andy Burnham hasn't been imprisoned, poisoned, or fallen out of a window so it's all fine, yes?