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Simon Tierney

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The oldest trick in the patriarchal playbook

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By Simon Tierney Verified
| TheJournal.ie Verified
WHEN DENIS QUAID’S monstrous incarnation leers at a visibly upset Margaret Qualley in the hit 2024 movie The Substance, he tells her, “Pretty girls should always smile.” A rictus grin slowly forms on Qualley’s face, as she joins generations of women who face a choice in this particular instance: do I comply and remain safe, or do I challenge the dangerous absurdity of the male gaze?
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Microbial Evolution in Allodapine Bees: Perspectives From Trophallactic, Socially Plastic Pollinators

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By Simon Tierney Verified, Thomas C. Jeffries, Hauke Koch
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Bee microbiomes are relatively simple assemblages that enable organismal health to be correlated with behavior with few artifacts and high confidence. Hence, there is wide scope to assess microbial–host-behavioral relationships in social bees that exhibit caste-specific behavior. While highly organized colonies of corbiculate bees come to mind, a variety of other facultatively social, casteless, and subsocial lineages exist (Michener 1974; Dew et al.
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Why are we still putting our children through this guilt grind?

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By Simon Tierney Verified
| TheJournal.ie Verified
IN AN INTERVIEW with a Jesuit magazine in 2013, Pope Francis declared, “The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.” This is not how many Irish people will remember their first experience of entering a confession box, at the tender age of eight. The idea of telling a small child to step into a dark wooden box and to share their worst secrets with an old man who is sitting inside always struck me as bizarre.
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