Irene Garcia-Ruiz

Fitness drivers of division of labor in vertebrates biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_behav

Celebrating #WomensDay, I interviewed for the newspaper AQUI about my career in science and my participation in events to promote STEM careers in women. aquimediosdecomunicacion.com/2025/03/06/la-…

Something is pumping out large amounts of oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, at depths where a total lack of sunlight makes photosynthesis impossible go.nature.com/3Ly0876

Even Fish Societies Show Signs of Social Control and Nepotism | Columbia News news.columbia.edu/news/even-fish…

Our new research on the evolution of cooperation and enforcement is out! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

☺️ How kind would you say you are as a family? Our latest episode of #MysteriesofScience is about altruism, which asks why animals (and people) are kind to each other. With @RedSnow1984 and @MichaelLouisPl1. 🎧 Listen now at funkidslive.com/mysteries

Ringed caecilians and mammals are separated by hundreds of millions of years, but their babies are both raised on milk. sciencenews.org/article/caecil…

@Nature If this is due to a bias against women, then the solution is to have the selection process blind to the name of the authors, not to artificially fill up a quota by lowering the standards for women.

Researchers submitting original research to Nature over the past year will have noticed an extra question, asking them to self-report their gender Nature publishes too few papers from women researchers — that must change #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024 go.nature.com/48QpdDs

Within-group conflicts don’t only affect those involved, but also bystanders, as beautifully shown by @AmyMorrisDrake, @Julie_M_Kern and Andrew N Radford in this cool experiment: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… (1/3) #ethology #behavior #Biology #cognition

My new webpage is now up and running! irenegarciaruiz.com

New video! How artificial gecko skin lets you climb walls: youtu.be/vS0TuIPoeBs

How do animal courtship displays evolve? New paper rdcu.be/c6t0t started life as a student research project by Irene García-Ruiz @RedSnow1984 on our MSc Animal Behaviour course exeter.ac.uk/study/postgrad…. Delighted to see it in print now!

It’s not about the money

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@RichardDawkins In my opinion depends whether the alien environment is fundamentally different. However, it's likely to be a lot of convergence. Like having one plane of symmetry seems very adaptative but alternatives exist.

There’s only a few ways to make an eye & natural selection has discovered them all. If there’s alien life, it’s safe to predict eyes built on familiar lines – camera,  compound,  or curved mirror. Or do we just lack the imagination to think of other possibilities? Discuss.