Emma Francis

About 76% of top-performing women encounter negative feedback compared to just 2% of men—and it’s making them want to quit “We tend to relate to women in the workplace based on how they make the people around them feel, rather than the work that they're doing.”

Around 76% of high-performing women receive negative feedback compared to only 2% of men
fortune.com/2024/08/08/m...

A dog and his boy 🖤

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A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose.

Recently, I shared a Lord of the Rings subway map, & I had a bunch of people asking me to do a Narnia version. Well...here you go!

It's covers all 7 books, so it's a lot more complicated the the LoTR ones. And if you like it, it's available to buy on my Etsy store:
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...

NEW: 90,000 people protesting against the genocide in Gaza have shut down Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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Hind Rajab was killed at 6 years old.

She spent her final hours trapped in a car, surrounded by the bodies of six relatives. A Red Crescent operator stayed on the phone, comforting her as an Israeli tank approached.

Twelve days later, she was found dead. wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Cormorant is just bastardized latin for corvus marinus (sea raven)

UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.

Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.

If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Holyrood 🤗

ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩‍🔬🔭🧪

is anyone else having just an ungodly difficult time being anything even faintly resembling their "best self" of late

I'm sure I'm not the only GenXer who is tearing up at this. If you were there when it began, then you know why.

Chloe Kelly proudly posing by the corner flag having scored a goal

Sporting photo of 2025 #Lionesses

For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

As @gregpak.net has noted, unless there was a specific clause in all the contracts that allows for this, they can't go back and retroactively amend contracts without the author's consent. This is a class action suit waiting to happen.

Practising gratitude is absolutely beneficial, but "wellness" isn't always straightforward.

It can be tricky in a world where lots of things feel pretty awful. Well-being is more than just "insta-wellness" and we must be aware of that as the algorithm keeps throwing shit our way.

Bookplate with a series of six images illustrating a stick figure from the purchase of their first book to their books being unceremoniously tossed after death. Text reads "EX LIBRIS KNUD SCHØNBERG"

Are YOU the most depressing book plate ever? YES, You ARE!

much respect to utilities for automated outage alerts, granted they are important.

but if i may there is literally A MAMA BEAR AND HER CUB IN THIS OUTAGE MAP and some poor comms professional at SCL is wishing they had their one shot at this content, just one.

🎉 Excited to see our project 'CRediTs for Students? – Promoting Student Authorships in Psychology' recognized alongside so many other inspiring initiatives!

If you're interested in implementing something similar, reach out! Or check out our OSF page: osf.io/tygsp/.

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Four-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: A woman sits in a boat crossing a river with the Grim Reaper and Charon. The Grim Reaper asks, “Do you want to see the Top Ten of How you almost died?” Panel 2: The Grim Reaper continues, “Remember that one guy you almost went home with?” Panel 3: The woman, wide-eyed: “Oh my GOD! Was he a serial killer? A cannibal?” Panel 4: The Grim Reaper calmly replies: “No. His bathroom floor was very slippery.”

Is it the end for male novelists? The lonely life of a man writing fiction in 2025 A long-overdue shift to female perspectives means male authors are being sidelined, or so says the founder of Conduit Books, a new publishing house that trades only in novels written by men. Nick Duer...

Every time I read an article like this, I think, if male novelists are so endangered, how do I know so fucking many of them? Apparently the answer is, because we're all in "genre," which is the One Simple Trick for still getting published when you're a dude.

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

A figure stands in front of the Getty Center's piano curve. Text reads: Marriage is scary, what if they think museums are boring

A close up of a museum wall label. Text reads: Marriage is scary, what if they don't let me read all the wall labels

A close up of a Monet painting. Text reads: Marriage is scary, what if they think Monet is Manet

A close up of a medieval manuscript. Text reads: Marriage is scary, what if they don't like the smell of old books

marriage is scary trend, for the art girlies.

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding

12 points to Gryffindor

Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO

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As a matter of existential urgency, the UK desperately needs a national broadcaster willing to report basic facts about the Reform Party.

Private Eye hits the nail on the head

We’ve got a job going. You get to work with me and quite frankly I am an exceptionally hilarious* and brilliant** person to work with, honest.

* Moderately funny on occasion
** Shouty about big publishers but in a knowledgable way