🚨🚨🚨 New paper alert “How did historical trends impact women’s involvement in financial markets? Evidence from women shareholders in Spain (1918-1948)” @HSScomms is #openaccess and available here doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-0…

Por mucho que corras sigue siendo lunes (Valencia, junio 2026)

She was 57 years old. White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject. She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home. The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene. Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it. The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her. Most people would have gone quiet. Mary Beard went further in. She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation. And she found it had always been there. In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men. She goes. Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately. Not as ancient history. As a pattern. In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts. In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches. Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country. The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life. Mary Beard had found something important. In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening. Her argument was precise and devastating. The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years. The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like. She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it. The threats continued. But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked. They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them. The room had been designed without them in mind. That is not a personal failing. That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision. And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it. Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men. He was wrong then. He is still wrong now. And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it. via The Inspireist #FeministFriday #HERstory

Una de las casas abandonadas más bonitas de la Región de Murcia se encuentra en Librilla, año tras año su deterioro es mayor, salvemos nuestro patrimonio olvidado. Da al me gusta o RT.¡Muchas gracias!

Este editorial de @Nature sostiene que estamos viviendo uno de los mayores cambios en el acceso a la información. Si la comunicación científica quiere seguir siendo relevante e influyente, deberá adaptarse a estos nuevos formatos sin renunciar al rigor científico. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Trump cumple 80: el privilegio masculino de envejecer sin dejar de mandar Mientras la Casa Blanca certifica el excelente estado de salud de Trump, numerosas investigaciones muestran que las mujeres pagan un precio mucho más alto cuando cuando envejecen en puestos de poder articulo14.es/internacional/…

🎼 O concerto 'Rock Symphonie', da man da @BMSCompostela chega á praza das Praterías baixo a dirección de David Fiuza 📍Xoves, 18 · 20.00 h · Praza das Praterías 🎟️Acceso libre

La IA está estandarizando el pensamiento A escala global y sin precedentes Todos reciben respuestas similares de unos pocos modelos, moldeados por los mismos valores y datos No es censura: es gravitación hacia una sola forma de pensar arxiv.org/abs/2508.16628

Estudia Ciencia de Datos en Melilla @SocialesMelilla @CanalUGR

La visita de @Pontifex_es deja huella en nuestro país, un análisis muy recomendable de @vrrios @laverdad_es laverdad.es/opinion/victor-r…

🎨Nace una asociación para recuperar la huella murciana del pintor Eduardo Rosales laopiniondemurcia.es/cultura…

A mi me gusta mucho la obra de Jaume Plensa, las obras de esta exposición son magníficas y muy bien expuestas. Supongo que se podrá ver por otras ciudades porque es una exposición de @fundacionTef

Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) Exposión temporal en Centro cultural contemporáneo "La Cárcel Vieja". Murcia #ArteYArt #escultura @cultura_hola @ampomata @montotomsol @AraceliRego @BrindusaB1 @patriciacarles @Ramona85846660 @Brindille_ @DEOLINDAMA93701 @mv_arte @pepejaraNCactus

El discurso del @Pontifex_es #Acusederecibo laverdad.es/opinion/javier-b… a través de @laverdad_es

The University of Murcia invites expressions of interest for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026 hosting offer on Women at the Margins, Financial Agency and Economic History. Deadline: 15 June 2026 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/h… #MSCA #EconomicHistory #WomenInFinance

Muere David Hockney. Se va uno de los más grandes. elpais.com/cultura/2026-06-1…

David Hockney, one of the most popular and influential artists of the past century, has died aged 88. ft.trib.al/YLDTpOW

El país que más invierte en inteligencia artificial del planeta acaba de sancionar una ley nacional para obligar a sus ciudades a abrir bibliotecas y volver a los libros de papel. China era el candidato perfecto para enterrar el papel: pone más de cien mil millones de dólares al año en inteligencia artificial y es de los que más la incluyen en los currículos educativos. Si algún país iba a declarar que el libro ya no hace falta, que para eso está la máquina, era este. Sin embargo, hizo exactamente lo contrario: en vez de mandar todo a la pantalla, está promoviendo el libro por ley. Desde el primero de febrero, rige una norma que obliga a cada gobierno local a poner dinero en bibliotecas, abrir espacios de lectura hasta en las zonas rurales y sostener una Semana Nacional de la Lectura. Desde ahora, es obligación del Estado. ¿Por qué un país que ya tiene la mejor tecnología se molesta en legislar la lectura? Porque separaron para qué sirve cada cosa. La inteligencia artificial te sirve para producir, competir, ir rápido: es la herramienta. El libro te entrena en lo que ninguna máquina te da: atención sostenida y criterio propio. Es la cabeza la que después decide qué hacer con esa herramienta. Como lo resume uno de sus investigadores: solo a través de la lectura se llega a un pensamiento profundo e independiente. El premier Li Qiang lo decretó dentro del mismo plan quinquenal donde está su apuesta de inteligencia artificial. Las dos cosas son estratégicas y van de la mano. Mientras tanto, Estados Unidos hace el camino inverso: batió su récord de libros sacados de las escuelas (casi veintitrés mil desde 2021) y sus chicos sacaron las peores notas de lectura en más de veinte años, con cuatro de cada diez de cuarto grado que no llegan ni al nivel básico. La inteligencia artificial la va a tener todo el mundo. La cabeza para saber qué hacer con ella, no. Usala para pensar CON vos y no POR vos.

RT @matete100: ♥️Taller de Sabores acoge en Bullas una colectiva fotográfica de mujeres sin precedentes en Región de Murcia .Mostrará en 'F…

Alimentar la IA i destruir els llibres: el projecte Panamà vilaweb.cat/noticies/aliment…

🎙️PÓDCAST |"Rescata la vida de..." Piedad de la Cierva Viudes 🧪 Murciana, pionera en radiactividad y única mujer investigadora del CSIC en 1939 🗣️ En @OndaCero_es, con @sumaro76, catedrática de Historia Económica en la @UMU ¡Descubre más! ⬇️ amp.ondacero.es/emisoras/mur…