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Sarah Hearne
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Sarah Hearne is a PhD student studying marine ecology with a focus on niche separation in living and fossil fishes from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She is a feminist with a particular interest in the issues facing women in STEM.
Rapa Nui: European myths mask the reason for societal collapse on Easter Island – colonialism
The belief that the islanders – and not Europeans – destroyed Rapa Nui minimises the devastating impacts of European colonialism.
iNaturalist’s flaws leave people with a false impression of the world around them
AI-based apps like iNaturalist are fun but flawed - they're no substitute for real interaction and engagement with nature
Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
Seaspiracy is just the latest example of a documentary using style and glossy production to hide the fact that it's peddling misinformation
Coping with Death: Why the 5 stages of grief don’t tell the whole story
The five stages of grief are a overly simplistic representation of the grieving process, and one that was never intended by their creator
Species, Individual, Gender – biology and taxonomy don’t deal in black and white
We can try to define biological traits though simple catch-all labels, but nature is always much more complex in reality
Chiropractors love to claim their treatments are ‘individualised’, but they’re wrong
Although practitioners like to claim chiropractic is individualised, in reality patients are offered the same treatment plan, whatever their complaint
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