Sometimes we adopt social rules as they were the absolute truth. One should stop an think whether we really want to follow these rules

Reindeer Cyclones are a real thing... a swirling mass of threatened reindeer stampeding in a circle making it impossible to target an individual.. here the fawns are in the middle This herd is on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, in the Arctic Circle

Hello! Would you like an advance copy of The Social Instinct? No? Keep scrolling ☺️ Yes? Keep reading! I’m giving away these 2 signed trade paperbacks (the Oz/NZ/IRL version) to 2 randomly selected people. Please RT / comment before Fri if you want one. 🐝 #TheSocialInstinct

It’s not about the money

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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 Irene Garcia-Ruiz on our MSc Animal Behaviour course exeter.ac.uk/study/postgrad…. Delighted to see it in print now!

Within-group conflicts don’t only affect those involved, but also bystanders, as beautifully shown by Amy Morris-Drake, Julie 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

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

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☺️ 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 Irene Garcia-Ruiz and Michael Platt. 🎧 Listen now at funkidslive.com/mysteries

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

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…

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-…