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Thinking about #DiscoElysium succesors(?), including ones with heavy ethical concerns. A lot of them have gone for female protagonists: Good! There could have been a couple more leading women in DE. But the reveal trailers are mainly voiced by men... men berating or mocking the central character.
Longdue's Hopetown has a father figure voice over, berating the protagonist: "Who do you think you are? [...] You don't understand the forces at play" Infantalised, she doesn't get to respond.
ZA/UM's Zero Parades VO is also a man, initially flattering the spy protagonist "brilliant, relentless" ... then saying she came after him and "everything she touched, written into failure". Again, no chance for the female spy to tell her side of the story ... And there's an objectifying/threatening section about how her fair hair is like a dandelion. Tangeant: what's with the heavy/bad pseudo-German VO accent?
Do I bother mentioning DarkMath's XXX Nightshift? Yes, for once a woman's VO, but (as you'll have guessed from the name) a porn-like, male-gaze view of what a woman would say and think.
So, don't be fooled that a female protagonist means we're actually getting a woman's POV. It's just a cosmetic change. Dora Klindžić's https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rx3zlqzbjylvtyg6siikaouq experiences as a writer at ZA/UM show how women struggle to have a voice and stay employed in these types of studios. Many of the senior men she mentions are still at ZA/UM.

Studying the multi-phase interstellar medium in the Large Magellanic Cloud with SRG/eROSITA -- I. Analysis of diffuse X-ray emission
Martin G. F. Mayer, Manami Sasaki, Frank Haberl, Kisetsu Tsuge, Yasuo Fukui, Chandreyee Maitra, Miroslav D. Filipovic, Zachary J. Smeaton, Lister Staveley-Smith, Baerbel Koribalski, Sean Points, Patrick Kavanagh
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Studying the multi-phase interstellar medium in the Large Magellanic Cloud with SRG/eROSITA -- I. Analysis of diffuse X-ray emission
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), being a nearby and actively star-forming satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is an ideal site to observe the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) of a galaxy across the electromagnetic spectrum. We aim to exploit the available SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey data to study the distribution, composition and properties of the diffuse X-ray emitting hot gas in the LMC. We construct multi-band X-ray images of the LMC, reflecting the morphology and temperatures of the dif…

End-to-End Agentic RAG System Training for Traceable Diagnostic Reasoning
Qiaoyu Zheng, Yuze Sun, Chaoyi Wu, Weike Zhao, Pengcheng Qiu, Yongguo Yu, Kun Sun, Yanfeng Wang, Ya Zhang, Weidi Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15746

End-to-End Agentic RAG System Training for Traceable Diagnostic Reasoning
Accurate diagnosis with medical large language models is hindered by knowledge gaps and hallucinations. Retrieval and tool-augmented methods help, but their impact is limited by weak use of external knowledge and poor feedback-reasoning traceability. To address these challenges, We introduce Deep-DxSearch, an agentic RAG system trained end-to-end with reinforcement learning (RL) that enables steer tracebale retrieval-augmented reasoning for medical diagnosis. In Deep-DxSearch, we first construc…

Hard X-ray Contribution in AU Mic Flares and Its Minor Role in Atmospheric Escape
Yifan Hu, Murray Brightman, Fabio Favata, Haiwu Pan, Brian Grefenstette, Fiona A. Harrison, Daniel Stern, Weimin Yuan, Yuk L. Yung, Xiurui Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15107

Hard X-ray Contribution in AU Mic Flares and Its Minor Role in Atmospheric Escape
Flares from stars can significantly impact the atmospheres of their orbiting planets, yet the role of hard X-ray (HXR; 3-20 keV) emission in driving escape and tracing particle acceleration remains poorly constrained. With the aim of quantifying the HXR share of the total radiative budget, we obtained a NuSTAR observation, quasi-simultaneous with Swift and Einstein Probe observations, of the young M1Ve star AU Mic, detecting two flares. We build an empirical soft X-ray (SXR; 0.3-3 keV)-HXR scal…

An S-shaped filament formed due to Cloud-Cloud Collision in molecular cloud G178.28-00.61
Tianwei Zhang, Tie Liu, Yuefang Wu, Linjing Feng, Sihan Jiao, Derek Ward-Thompson, Alessio Traficante, Helen J Fraser, James Di Francesco, Doug Johnstone, Paul F. Goldsmith, Yasuo Doi, Xunchuan Liu, Chang Won Lee, Fengwei Xu, Ram K. Yadav, Glenn J White, Leonardo Bronfman, Yi-Jehng Kuan, Kee-Tae Kim, Donghui Quan

An S-shaped filament formed due to Cloud-Cloud Collision in molecular cloud G178.28-00.61
We present compelling observational evidence supporting G178.28-00.61 as an early-stage candidate for Cloud-Cloud Collision (CCC), with indications of the formation of an S-shaped filament, evenly-separated dense cores, and young star clusters. The observations of CO molecular line emission demonstrate the existence of two interacting molecular clouds with systemic velocities of 0.8 km/s and -1.2 km/s, respectively. The convergence zone of these two clouds reveals an S-shaped filament in the JC…