<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Women remain underrepresented in leadership, particularly in traditionally masculine work settings. At the same time, the visibility of this imbalance has led to growing calls for diversifying leader...

Male gatekeeping: Study (N=887) finds that although men evaluators favored female over male candidates, they preferred women who reinforced the status quo over those who advocated equality. Female evaluators showed no such preferences. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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this is another very inflammatory headline which makes much more sense when you read the article itself

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

‘Microshifting’ puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules A new way of scheduling work time is remaking the typical nine-to-five routine. “Microshifting” is a trend that involves tackling job duties in short, productive bursts instead of a single stretch.

Microshifting: Fitting paid labor around and between non-work responsibilities and priorities. Performance is judged by output instead of hours logged behind a screen. Job duties are tackled in short, productive bursts instead of a single 9 to 5 stretch.
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Stopping gas dictating UK energy price could cut bills by £200, thinktank says — The Guardian Iran war has increased gas price, with effects on UK energy bills that could be avoided, Common Wealth says

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The flip side is that big business will pick up the bill since they are the biggest users of gas and this is why this much needed reform was stalled for years first by the Tories and now by Labour.

I worked for the energy industry for 4 years and you don't need to cap prices or raise taxes to lower the bills. All you need is energy markets reform that will decouple gas from the general market. This will lower the bills of 90% of consumers instantly.

no thanks, we're still trying to recover after he "helped" us last time

The missing pieces of menopause science Nature - Hormone therapy is back after decades in the shadows. But evidence gaps remain for treating perimenopause — often the most disruptive part of the menopause transition.

Evidence gaps remain for treating perimenopause symptoms

go.nature.com/4bHWSnm

Women are less likely to apply for jobs with a huge pay range. Here's what companies can do about it New research out of Cornell University indicates that pay transparency laws have not been as effective as intended—in part because many employers fail to truly comply with them.

Research shows women are less likely to apply for jobs with huge salary ranges. Women applied just as often as men to job ads which clarified how pay is determined, even with the wider pay ranges. There was also no gap in negotiation behavior.
www.fastcompany.com/91499649/wom...

Layoffs or an AI pivot? It's hard to tell the difference now Companies are cleansing their layoff announcements with a big dose of AI strategy talk. Cutting jobs this way is a convenient bit of corporate magic.

Companies are cleansing their layoff announcements with a big dose of AI strategy talk. Cutting jobs this way is a convenient bit of corporate magic.

I have seen similar results from UK private testing. Patients understandably expect tests they see heavily advertised to be accurate and meaningful. Often they aren't

I'm dismayed by rumours govt may scrap the windfall tax on oil and gas giants

With energy bills still driving cost of living pressures, it's senseless to cut taxes for highly profitable polluters, who already receive £2.7bn per year in tax breaks

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Currently helping an elderly family friend figure out if an email is a scam (which it obviously is) and hey, people who make mobile email apps, it's a dark pattern to not make the email address of the sender visible without needing to click on the little arrow thing.

Just thought you should know.

Immigration problem, or propaganda problem?

Lie → win power → fail → repeat... it's the same playbook every time.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

Government agencies can now track the location of your phone at scale, in real time, and without a warrant, using ad tech.

Absolutely terrifying.

ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics

Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.

The myth that women are more naturally empathetic than men Scientific research is up-ending age-old gender stereotypes about empathy – and revealing new ways of thinking about masculinity.

A 2018 study (N=46K) of DNA samples & questionnaires found no genes associated with sex played a role in empathy. Women display more empathy, not because it is innate, but because girls are socialized to act on their emotions & prioritize needs of others. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.

Good 👩‍🔬🧪

There is no LGB without the T. We rise together and we fall together.

Part of my speech in Parliament for LGBTQ+ History Month:

Opinion | Want More Babies? Abolish Commutes.

Effective fertility policy: Remote work. If both parents work at home at least one day/week, they'll average 0.5 more children, pushing toward the “replacement” level of 2.1. A result of opportunity and availability, less time commuting=more time parenting. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

ReformUK: "We're the party of the working class that's why our candidate is a liberal arts academic"

Meanwhile the Greens: "Our candidate is a plumber"

Claude is infinitely better than Gemini, but I'm not surprised. Anthropic's only meaningful revenue stream are these deals while Google still has its ads business & YouTube to fund generous discounts.

AI poses bigger threat in jobs with more women, study finds Workers in clerical and administrative roles could have the most trouble adapting to the impact of AI on jobs, new research shows.

While firms are not replacing significant #'s of workers with AI, occupations at most risk are women-dominated, (court clerks, admin assts, payroll clerks). Of 6M workers who would have hardest time finding a new job due to AI-related job loss, 86% are women. www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-job-...

Purple Elizabeth Line Train at a station.

This is good news for West London commuters.

Starting Monday 18 May, the Elizabeth line is adding three extra morning peak weekday trains at:

Southall
Hanwell
Acton Main Line

More services mean more space and more comfortable journeys.

www.londondaily.news/elizabeth-li...

Pressure grows on ministers to end secrecy over UK medicines deal with Trump Critics say government hiding true cost of agreement ‘despite being forced to admit financial burden will grow year on year’

Pressure grows on ministers to end secrecy over UK medicines deal with Trump

Never quite right: Identity factors contributing to bias and discrimination experienced by women leaders in the United States While much bias and discrimination research has focused on individual identity analysis, for example, gender, race, or ethnicity, what is not fully understood is how other social categories of differ...

"Never quite right" is now officially published in HRDQ journal.
📝 “Never quite right: Identity factors contributing to bias and discrimination experienced by women leaders in the U.S.” identifies 30 identity factors shaping bias women leaders experience. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...