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Different, not less: my life as a 10-year-old with autism People judge me for being different, but autism helps me achieve amazing things – including publishing books and writing articles

Absolutely amazing that a 10-year-old wrote this!!

Good for her, it's absolutely lovely. ❤️

Do have a quick read. 👇

02.04.2025 08:03 — 👍 491    🔁 182    💬 25    📌 9

“I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”

Stephen Fry

23.02.2025 10:30 — 👍 2466    🔁 629    💬 82    📌 29

The great climate disconnect New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time

The great climate disconnect - on.ft.com/42QS2Ae via @FT

12.02.2025 13:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello Bluesky 👋

This is The University of Manchester's official Bluesky account 🐝💜

Follow for groundbreaking research, University achievements, and compelling news stories.

💭 What other content would you like to see here?

22.01.2025 11:23 — 👍 44    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

If AI development stopped this week we would have 5-10 years of absorbing the impact of current models on education, culture, healthcare, and business.

But this week has also suggested that development is not stopping.

11.12.2024 23:03 — 👍 124    🔁 20    💬 6    📌 2

Only removal offsets, generated by the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, make any contribution to mitigating climate change, from Geoffrey Heal https://www.nber.org/papers/w33170

23.11.2024 20:00 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

AI can help learning... when it isn't a crutch.

There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use well-promoted LLMs as a tutor perform better on tests.

23.11.2024 02:29 — 👍 203    🔁 34    💬 12    📌 6