Dr Lucy Carolan

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!? 🙄

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

"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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Yes :)
theseenjournal.org/through-smoke/

"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?

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...

Yes it cheered me up too 🙃

YouTube video by Found Footage Fest Video Dating: Women's Edition

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...

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

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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I have a memory of a UK TV drama (from sometime around the 1980s?) about this very thing, but I can't find it...

While searching, (re)found this from 1989 instead, though 👀

Book cover of “The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking” by Thomas A. C. Reydon, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

New Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—fully #openaccess! @thomasreydon.bsky.social explores how evolutionary theory crosses over from biology into other fields, showing how these crossovers embody a broader style of reasoning: 'evolutionary thinking' bit.ly/48z3h36 #HPbio #evosky

"When we use GenAI, [we] stuff the pockets of oligarchs... We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre... We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we wld rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

a cat is sitting on a bed with a pile of money in its mouth .. ALT: a cat is sitting on a bed with a pile of money in its mouth ..

Hurray for the annual @dacs.org.uk royalty payment!

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

What is agency? How did it emerge through evolution? Why is it key to understanding complexity? Check out this brilliant Open Access book by my dear colleagues Alvaro Moreno & @julipereto.bsky.social. A deep exploration of a crucial concept. Highly recommended! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Looking forward to talking to myself while having sex in a plumber's van

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Are there points for doing more than one at the same time?

Some of us have a crush on Miles Jupp's laugh...

"Charities and statutory bodies must stop creating fear by exaggerating the likelihood of developing dementia, and must stop presenting every stage of dementia as devastating."

Absolutely 🎯 💯 👏

I can't read 'aging' without it automatically sounding in my head like 'sagging'* rather than, well, ageing, and I'm tired

*which is kind of appropriate, now I think of it, but still

Question for America: ageism is spelt the same in both American and UK English, so why is ageing spelt 'aging' [and can it stop please]

Hurray!

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I was born here and me too

Hello, was this symposium recorded at all?

Image of Gollum from Lord of the Rings

Image: Acheiropoieta by Clifton Meador (2020). A picture of a woman from photographs in the collection, reworked in colour.

The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at:
www.hab.de/en/artists-b...