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
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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??
If what Starmer said about not having enough facts was true, surely that meant he was not in the loop so usual diplomatic relations between UK and US had completely broken down. Which makes what he then said about the importance of the 'special' relationship utter nonsense.
January 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
If what Starmer said about not having enough facts was true, surely that meant he was not in the loop so usual diplomatic relations between UK and US had completely broken down. Which makes what he then said about the importance of the 'special' relationship utter nonsense.
Scene: A church. Inside, everyone awaits the groom, who refuses to cross the threshold
Everyone: "Look, it's not hard - just get in there and commit FFS!"
Starmer: "As I've always said, I absolutely believe in the institution of marriage. But let’s establish the facts first and take it from there”
Everyone: "Look, it's not hard - just get in there and commit FFS!"
Starmer: "As I've always said, I absolutely believe in the institution of marriage. But let’s establish the facts first and take it from there”
January 4, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Scene: A church. Inside, everyone awaits the groom, who refuses to cross the threshold
Everyone: "Look, it's not hard - just get in there and commit FFS!"
Starmer: "As I've always said, I absolutely believe in the institution of marriage. But let’s establish the facts first and take it from there”
Everyone: "Look, it's not hard - just get in there and commit FFS!"
Starmer: "As I've always said, I absolutely believe in the institution of marriage. But let’s establish the facts first and take it from there”
"But if there is hope in Richter’s work, it... comes from accepting the reality of our world, in which beauty routinely erupts without goodness or meaning anywhere in sight."
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Richter’s painting “refuses to wring meanings from life that aren’t there. We know they’re not there because history & unimaginable loss have taught us they’re not there. The very search for meaning, his work suggests, is a histrionic response to reality”
Bro.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Bro.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Review | The ravishing beauty and (almost) nihilism of Gerhard Richter’s art
The 93-year-old master of contemporary art is the subject of a massive retrospective in Paris.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:56 AM
"But if there is hope in Richter’s work, it... comes from accepting the reality of our world, in which beauty routinely erupts without goodness or meaning anywhere in sight."
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The tone of a man who's bet the car, the house and the kids on the wrong horse and already knows it, but doesn't know how to admit it to the wife yet
Starmer's response to Trump's illegal assault on Venezuela is essentially to say that he will respond later
January 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The tone of a man who's bet the car, the house and the kids on the wrong horse and already knows it, but doesn't know how to admit it to the wife yet
In 2026, let's move to Italy!
[Sì sì, so che in Italia ci sono problemi (anche in Inghilterra, devo dire) ma... guarda! 🥲]
[Sì sì, so che in Italia ci sono problemi (anche in Inghilterra, devo dire) ma... guarda! 🥲]
January 3, 2026 at 9:21 AM
In 2026, let's move to Italy!
[Sì sì, so che in Italia ci sono problemi (anche in Inghilterra, devo dire) ma... guarda! 🥲]
[Sì sì, so che in Italia ci sono problemi (anche in Inghilterra, devo dire) ma... guarda! 🥲]
Currently very grateful to the former me who bought a thick down duvet when she had the opportunity [£s] to 🥶
January 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Currently very grateful to the former me who bought a thick down duvet when she had the opportunity [£s] to 🥶
Reposted by Dr Lucy Carolan
Using bread, drawings, marbles and PayPal’s withdrawal policy, Spanish artists are examining the role of images in the fight for democratic values #europaliaespaña we-make-money-not-art.com/the-power-of...
The Power of the Image. Artists vs fascists
The exhibition shows how artists from Spain, from the outbreak of the Civil War (1936–1939) until today, have wielded images as tools of protest, denunciation and collective awakening
we-make-money-not-art.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Using bread, drawings, marbles and PayPal’s withdrawal policy, Spanish artists are examining the role of images in the fight for democratic values #europaliaespaña we-make-money-not-art.com/the-power-of...
How I'm leaving 2025
a black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a door and saying `` oh , shut up ! ''
Alt: I love Lucy, hands on hips, saying ``oh, shut up!'' the turning and walking away
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
How I'm leaving 2025
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From high-impact weather events to stratus clouds dancing over the open ocean, this year was filled with impressive satellite imagery.
We look back on the most compelling satellite views of 2025.
1) Mesovortices slosh within Hurricane Melissa’s ferocious eye (October 8).
We look back on the most compelling satellite views of 2025.
1) Mesovortices slosh within Hurricane Melissa’s ferocious eye (October 8).
December 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Anyway. As it has baby Jesus in it briefly, binge catching up (a couple of years late) with 'Mrs Davis' (on ITVX) might be the most christmassy thing we watch this holiday. Enjoyably bonkers throughout, with a very satisfying ending (given current AI imposition), 8/10
December 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Anyway. As it has baby Jesus in it briefly, binge catching up (a couple of years late) with 'Mrs Davis' (on ITVX) might be the most christmassy thing we watch this holiday. Enjoyably bonkers throughout, with a very satisfying ending (given current AI imposition), 8/10
Did anyone bother to take an interest in what Bardot's thoughts on politics (or indeed anything at all) were while she was young and beautiful?
December 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Did anyone bother to take an interest in what Bardot's thoughts on politics (or indeed anything at all) were while she was young and beautiful?
Brigitte Bardot - Faite Pour Dormir
YouTube video by Yael Bedarshi
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"When effective, models and idealizations are... felicitous falsehoods that exemplify features of the phenomena they bear on. Because works of art deploy the same sorts of felicitous falsehoods [as the sciences], she argues, they also advance understanding."
Interesting thread!
Interesting thread!
“We should not cavalierly assume that the inaccuracy of models and idealizations constitutes an inadequacy; quite the opposite. I suggest that their divergence from truth or representational accuracy fosters their epistemic functioning.”
2/🧵
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December 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"When effective, models and idealizations are... felicitous falsehoods that exemplify features of the phenomena they bear on. Because works of art deploy the same sorts of felicitous falsehoods [as the sciences], she argues, they also advance understanding."
Interesting thread!
Interesting thread!
In an attempt to better get in the spirit of things we decided to watch a film this afternoon but chose a sci-fi which begins with the earth blowing up, leaving the last few remaining humans stranded on their space station, and by the time we get the hang of Xmas again it will be over, won't it
December 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In an attempt to better get in the spirit of things we decided to watch a film this afternoon but chose a sci-fi which begins with the earth blowing up, leaving the last few remaining humans stranded on their space station, and by the time we get the hang of Xmas again it will be over, won't it
On our annual festive six mile hike to my mum's for christmas dinner, a man on his phone walked past saying "...and she cried when I gave her that gift..." So, naturally, we spent the rest of the trip trying to work out what it could have been, e.g. her beloved pet, taxidermied 🤔
Merry Xmas!
Merry Xmas!
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
On our annual festive six mile hike to my mum's for christmas dinner, a man on his phone walked past saying "...and she cried when I gave her that gift..." So, naturally, we spent the rest of the trip trying to work out what it could have been, e.g. her beloved pet, taxidermied 🤔
Merry Xmas!
Merry Xmas!
Overheard on the way to the bakers:
Lady #1: Are you ready then?
Lady #2: Well, we have no turkey, and we've no meat...
Me: 🤔
Lady #1: Are you ready then?
Lady #2: Well, we have no turkey, and we've no meat...
Me: 🤔
December 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Overheard on the way to the bakers:
Lady #1: Are you ready then?
Lady #2: Well, we have no turkey, and we've no meat...
Me: 🤔
Lady #1: Are you ready then?
Lady #2: Well, we have no turkey, and we've no meat...
Me: 🤔
‘what if the patients most health professionals actively seek to avoid, people with “medically unexplained” or functional symptoms, were those who hold the key to a more successful, more rewarding and more just system of medical practice for all?’
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
‘what if the patients most health professionals actively seek to avoid, people with “medically unexplained” or functional symptoms, were those who hold the key to a more successful, more rewarding and more just system of medical practice for all?’
Reposted by Dr Lucy Carolan
"Philosophers of science have much to learn from the history and philosophy of art and artistic representation."
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Philosophers of science have much to learn from the history and philosophy of art and artistic representation."
With apologies, but...
Shite Christmas
Shite Christmas
Ruin a movie by changing or adding one letter, holiday edition. 🎄👀
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
With apologies, but...
Shite Christmas
Shite Christmas
My partner did some serious baking yesterday and now my body is about 20% mince pie
December 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My partner did some serious baking yesterday and now my body is about 20% mince pie
"every snowflake is buffeted by changing winds, sunlight and other variables... As each crystal submits to the chaos of a cloud, they all take on slightly different forms"
❄️Everyone knows no two snowflakes are alike, a fact that stems from the way the crystals cook up in the sky. www.quantamagazine.org/toward-a-gra... (From 2019)
Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes | Quanta Magazine
Snow crystals come in two main types. The “pope” of snowflake physics has a new theory that explains why.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"every snowflake is buffeted by changing winds, sunlight and other variables... As each crystal submits to the chaos of a cloud, they all take on slightly different forms"
"Your sacrifice completes my sanctuary of one thousand testicles."
Name your fav film quote.
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Your sacrifice completes my sanctuary of one thousand testicles."
I've been thinking about chatbots. I don't use them myself so can only imagine why people anthropomophise them (a friend calls 'hers' Norman, for ex).
But isn't it discomfortingly like knowing 100s of 1000s of slaves have done all the graft, yet only crediting the slaver via their algo-locum?
But isn't it discomfortingly like knowing 100s of 1000s of slaves have done all the graft, yet only crediting the slaver via their algo-locum?
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I've been thinking about chatbots. I don't use them myself so can only imagine why people anthropomophise them (a friend calls 'hers' Norman, for ex).
But isn't it discomfortingly like knowing 100s of 1000s of slaves have done all the graft, yet only crediting the slaver via their algo-locum?
But isn't it discomfortingly like knowing 100s of 1000s of slaves have done all the graft, yet only crediting the slaver via their algo-locum?
Reposted by Dr Lucy Carolan
A couple of ways to support the four Palestinian hunger strikers. Sign the petition to force the govt. to act: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...
Stop ignoring the Palestine hunger strikers | Good Law Project
Force the UK government to meet with the Palestine Action hunger strikers’ legal team, before it's too late
goodlawproject.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A couple of ways to support the four Palestinian hunger strikers. Sign the petition to force the govt. to act: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...
I've just started reading this v. interesting book, and though I'm only 40 pages in I have questions already...
December 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I've just started reading this v. interesting book, and though I'm only 40 pages in I have questions already...