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Irene García-Ruiz

@irenegarciaruiz.com
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Behavioural ecologist, Ph.D. • SNSF-Ambizione Research Fellow at University of Basel, Switzerland. Cooperation | Sociality | Sexual selection | Theoretical and empirical research irenegarciaruiz.com

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 10/10/2026
So that they put all the blame on him or make him a martyr? He is terrible but he is not alone. The people that put him there are the ones with the real power. People need to throw him out of power, or the shitshow will continue.
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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026
The research community is in uproar after OpenAI released a trove of more than 700 mathematical preprints entirely generated by AI on 6 October go.nature.com/4jJuLIT
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OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
The firm used unreleased models to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems.
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 27/09/2026
That he lies more than talks doesn't mean he's a good liar
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Louis Bliard @lbliard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New preprint out with Michael Griesser and @ryangermain.bsky.social, for some comparative analyses in which we find that population growth rates of cooperative breeders are less sensitive to annual variation in precipitation and temperature doi.org/10.32942/X26...
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Devi Satarkar @devisatarkar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Heavier great tit nestlings 🐥 usually end up as heavier adults 🐦. Is this always a strong correlation? Our new preprint shows that the strength of this 'silver-spoon' association shifts continuously with environmental context, and is stronger in harsh conditions! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
14-day old great tit (Parus major) nestling in hand. Bird handled under appropriate BTO licence. Adult great tit (Parus major) in hand. Bird handled under appropriate BTO licence.
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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.
Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 16/09/2026
I love your content but I can't support Meta, they zuck.
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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tomorrow, the next FINE season starts!
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Baddtraxx @baddtraxx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
this is seriously the funniest shit I saw today
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/08/2026
Cockroaches Feeling Very Optimistic About Future Of Planet theonion.com/cockroaches-feeling-ve…
Cockroaches Feeling Very Optimistic About Future Of Planet
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 29/08/2026
Me too comb jelly, me too..
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 23/08/2026
Such a cool mask!
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Lizzylizumab @lizzylizumab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Be yourself. Unless you can be a bird with happy feet in a puddle. In that case, you should always be a bird with happy feet in a puddle. 🐧
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 22/08/2026
That doesn't sound as good as he wants it to look like...
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 20/08/2026
Source: thecottonwoodpost.net/2019/12/10/m...
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Modern climate change is 10x faster than historic global warming mass extinction events
There have been several mass extinction events in the history of the earth, most of them caused by global warming due to “sudden” releases of carbon into the atmosphere, and it only too…
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 19/08/2026
Ideally, in a real democracy this would not happen because people wouldn't allow it with their vote. We would not need to make such constraints explicitly. But...
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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I rarely copy memes from Reddit to post here but this one was too good to leave it there 👩‍💻
Two guys on stage at a (seemingly tech) conference. The giant presentation slide above them says

Stack Overflow: you're absolutely wrong
ChatGPT: you're absolutely right
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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A model of subordinate helping decisions under varying levels of uncertainty #DynamicGameModel #CooperativeBreeding doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The way the morning sun's rays lit up this pair of big, beautiful Spotted Eagle Rays yesterday at the beach near Clearwater, Florida. #nature #animals #wildlife #rays #florida
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 13/08/2026
Eclipse sunset
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/08/2026
Researchers in Western Australia observed a dolphin mother carrying her dead calf through an estuary for days after it died. The calf was about two weeks old, and the mother has now lost her last four calves.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Politicians discussing global warming" by Isaac Cordal
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
This is ... horrific
lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them usina industrial- grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors' books to train its Al
This process took advantage of a egal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder's say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physicak texts into digital ones - rather than redistributing them as new copies a iudqe found this to be "transformative." and therefore
protected by fair useOne small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds. and he's almost certain that the customers are Al labs. noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books. meaning that an Al company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
A cartoon of two people standing under a flock camera speaking to each other. The man says “I’m fine with mass surveillance ‘cause I’m not doing anything wrong.” The woman responds “… Until someone changes the definition of what’s ‘wrong.’”
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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A cancer usually dies with its host. Four times it hasn't, spreading between animals: in dogs, Tasmanian devils, clams, and now a catfish. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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Scientists Just Discovered A Contagious Cancer In A Catfish, The Fourth Known To Science. Meet The Other Three
Only four transmissible cancers are known, contagious cell lineages that spread between animals. Meet the dog, devil and shellfish cancers behind the catfish.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 26/07/2026
Unfortunately the narrative seems fake but that would have been epic!
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
1/4 Orcas making sunfish explode One orca firmly holds the carcass of a sunfish (whose viscera have already been removed) while an adult male crashes into it at high speed, making it explode into countless pieces. (paper) www.frontiersin.org/journals/eth...
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 20/07/2026
Love to be included!
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 20/07/2026
Yet again: are you gonna believe the whole scientific community and your own eyes before me???!
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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!
Logo of a gosling looking up at a bee on its beak. "Behaviour" underneath.
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 05/07/2026
Love the place! Lots of great memories. You should definitely consider this offer.
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Cost of Free Labor: Will Nature Ever Pay for Peer Review?
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/06/2026
Max Planck, a legendary pioneer of quantum mechanics and the 1918 Nobel laureate in physics, had two papers retracted decades after his death for reasons that remain mysterious. Learn more: scim.ag/4exoz3T
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 21/06/2026
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Jeremy Clarkson Oh No Anyway Meme
ALT: Jeremy Clarkson Oh No Anyway Meme
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Nature @nature.com · 18/06/2026
Embryonic ‘organizer cells’ can tell embryos of various phyla what kind of body to build go.nature.com/4vnO1ig
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Cell transplant across the tree of life hints at how animals emerged
Embryonic ‘organizer cells’ can tell embryos of various phyla what kind of body to build.
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 14/06/2026
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 12/06/2026
They eat a lot of house pests, they do us a great service.
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 10/06/2026
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Peter Griffin's 'Okay Not Okay' Race Card
Alt: Peter Griffin's 'Okay Not Okay' Race Card meme with light color skin as okey and dark color skin as not okey
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Wayne Maddison (waynemaddison.bsky.social), professor emeritus at UBC, captured this video of a nearly transparent jumping spider (tribe Amycini) from Canandé Reserve, Ecuador. Look closely & you'll see the principal eyes moving as it scans the area visually. Let's talk about spider-vision! 🕷️🧪
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 17/05/2026
What did the poor monkey do for such comparison?
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 12/05/2026
My cat definitely reacted to our other cat's death. He was much less active, stopped playing and barely left the house.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
How armadillos gather foliage for their nests
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Irene García-Ruiz @irenegarciaruiz.com · 06/05/2026
Can he just... you know
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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
An ant that behaves like a cleaner fish? With awesome photos. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The First Cleaner Ant? A Novel Partnership in the Arizona Desert
I give an account of an undescribed ant species from Arizona that licks and nips the much larger workers of a different ant species in manner remarkably parallel to the actions of cleaner fish that c...
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