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Marie-Anne McQuay

@m-amcq.bsky.social

Curator, other things. she/her

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes@phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 3d ago

The late-afternoon sun had turned now from a vivid yellow to a warm lazy orange, and it seemed almost as tired as he was. The road raced ahead in a series of gentle curves that began to look familiar, and off in the distance the solitary tollbooth appeared, a welcome sight indeed.

Noreen Masud@noreenmasud.bsky.social · 2w ago

E is a really amazing young person who has had to swim against the current of so many things, and has shown up in solidarity again and again even when struggling so much herself - please do help if you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-e-a-l...

Donate to Help E, a lesbian woman of colour, with UK visa costs, organized by East and Southeast Asians North East

E is in urgent need of support with visa costs so that she … East and Southeast Asians North East needs your support for Help E, a lesbian woman of colour, with UK visa costs

gofundme.com

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d ago

Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2

Arts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cuts

University for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero

timeshighereducation.com

Marie-Anne McQuay@m-amcq.bsky.social · 7d ago

My mum was sent a classic ‘buy me £250 voucher now’ scam email. Sadly for the hackers they received a reply from her saying her daughter would send the money but she’s freelance in the arts so can’t afford to at the moment.

NoEnemiesToYourLeft@liquidmorpheme.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hate these sci-fi headlines. "Escaped containment". None of these models do anything until someone types something. It's always some test and the scare results are practically PR, "Look! It's an agent! With agency!" Bite my ass, it's a stunt

Genie Lauren@moreandagain.me · 2w ago

I could be wrong but it sounds like another lie they're telling to make this fake"ai" sound like it's actually AI. They programmed it to believe it's god and then asked it if it's god, again.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of: improved recognition changing help-seeking behaviour institutional incentives pressures within existing service pathways Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including: real increases in distress in some groups improved recognition of previously unmet need changing expectations about support systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services. The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
Ruth@bouledenerfs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Church friend is currently in a care home and has phoned me to (among other things) complain that they keep putting on world war 2 music for the residents, the oldest of whom were small children during the war.