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The KLI (https://www.kli.ac.at/) is an institute of advanced studies in the life sciences. Subscribe to our KLife newsletter: http://eepurl.com/g7GLdr The KLI also publishes the journal Biological Theory: @biologicaltheory.bsky.social

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🗓️ Save the date! Join our Fall-Winter 2026/27 KLI Colloquium series! www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e... We kick off the series on October 1 with Olesya Bondarenko (KLI) on "Scientific Integration as Fit: The Developmental Biases of Interdisciplinarity".

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The KLI hosted the Science Day of the Dept. of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology (University of Vienna), a networking event for students and academic faculty, organized by @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social and his team. About 80 participants presented their research and used the space for discussion.

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🌟Barbara Fischer (@barbarafischer.bsky.social) hosted the “Pelvis and Evolution” seminar at the KLI, which brought together urogynecologists, evolutionary biologists, and midwives from the Vienna area to discuss topics in evolutionary medicine.

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KLI alumna Joyshree Chanam and KLI group leader Isabella Sarto-Jackson conducted a research project funded by the Club of Vienna and Stadt Wien on how ecological empathy could foster environmental awareness and sustainable behavior. Join the presentation on Nov. 17! www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

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Yesterday's KLI Hike took us to the Biosphärenpark Wienerwald. Peter Sziemer guided our tour and explained the region's flora and fauna, along with some cultural/historic facts. We enjoyed the views of Vienna and Klosterneuburg and the many organisms we discovered. #Biosphärenpark #Wienerwald

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🌟 KLI Visiting Fellow Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra delivered a Brown Bag Talk on the natural and cultural history of the Orinoco River. Thank you, Marcelo, for sharing your knowledge and sparking lively discussions on cultural macroevolution! 👏👏👏

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🌟🪰 KLI Postdoctoral Fellow Marcelo Domingos de Santis, together with A. Camargo (NHM Wien, @nhmwien.bsky.social) describes a new species collected 200 years ago. Congratulations! 💐 evolsyst.pensoft.net/articles.php...

evolsyst.pensoft.netA new species of Prophorostoma Townsend (Diptera, Tachinidae) collected by Johann Natterer during the Austrian scientific expedition to Brazil (1817–1835)A new species of the Neotropical genus Prophorostoma Townsend, 1927 (Diptera, Tachinidae, Dexiinae) is described based on specimens collected by the famed Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer during hi...
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🌟📣Check out the new book chapter co-authored by KLI group leader Cristina Villegas on "Mecanismos de reproducción musical en el son jarocho: un enfoque evo-devo" [trans. as: Mechanisms of musical reproduction in son jarocho: an evo-devo approach] Short English summary: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/t...

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🔔 Gentle Reminder: Join our KLI Colloquium this afternoon, 3:00 PM CEST.

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Join our KLI Colloquium: "The Role of Conversational Cues in the Co-Evolution of Language and Cooperation" Speaker: Theresa MATZINGER (University of Vienna) 🕒 8 Oct. 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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🌟 Thank you, Theresa @thematzing.bsky.social, for an inspiring talk and discussion on conversational cues and their role in cooperation, and to our audience for their participation! 👏👏👏

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Join our KLI Colloquium: "The Role of Conversational Cues in the Co-Evolution of Language and Cooperation" Speaker: Theresa MATZINGER (University of Vienna) 🕒 8 Oct. 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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🔔 Gentle Reminder: Join our KLI Colloquium this afternoon, 3:00 PM CEST.

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Join our KLI Colloquium: "Scientific Integration as Fit: The Developmental Biases of Interdisciplinarity" Speaker: Olesya BONDARENKO (KLI) 🕒 1 Oct. 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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🌟 Thank you, Olesya, for a great talk and discussion on scientific integration, and thanks to our on-site and online audiences for their participation! 👏👏👏

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💐 Congratulations to our KLI Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludo Schoenmakers, on his recent publication! 👏👏👏 "Scientific understanding and the controversy over adaptationism in evolutionary biology" www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

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🌟Philipp Mitteroecker opened our Brown Bag series after the summer break with a talk on "Evolutionary adaptation, reproductive timing, and why we have to die". Thank you, Philipp, for this "memento mori" and for sparking discussions on the evolvability of traits and reproductive timing!👏👏👏

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Join our KLI Colloquium: "Scientific Integration as Fit: The Developmental Biases of Interdisciplinarity" Speaker: Olesya BONDARENKO (KLI) 🕒 1 Oct. 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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🌟📣 Check out the new publication by KLI Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow Anne Le Maître on the analyses of the middle and inner ear of extinct rodents in relation to their locomotory behavior Congratulations to the authors! 💐 www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

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🏵️ And it's a pleasure to also welcome Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra as a new Visiting Fellow! Marcelo is a professor of palaeobiology at the University of Zurich, working on evolutionary morphology of vertebrates, and cultural macroevolution and archaeology of South America. www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

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🏵️ A warm welcome to our new Writing-up Fellow, Cassandra Yang! Cassandra is a PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, working on “Reconstructing Waddington’s Organicism for the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis”. www.kli.ac.at/content/peop...

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🏵️ A warm welcome to our new Writing-up, Fellow Lakshmi Kalathinkunnath! Lakshmi is pursuing her PhD at the University of Vienna (VDS CoBeNe), working on “Diversity in Chronobiology and Cognitive Parameters Caused by Altered HPA Axis Signalling.” www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu...

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🌟📣KLI postdoc fellow Enrico Petracca, together with Shaun Gallagher, received the Elinor Ostrom Prize at #WINIR2026 in Rome, for their paper “Norms are Relational: Cognitive Institutions, Practices, and the ‘Where’ Question” in the Journal of Institutional Economics. doi.org/10.1017/S174... 👏👏👏

doi.orgNorms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question | Journal of Institutional Economics | Cambridge CoreNorms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question - Volume 21
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💐 Congratulations also to our KLI Alumnus, Elis Jones, on his new publication!👏👏👏 The concept of metabolism in ocean biogeochemistry: departures, consistencies, and implications doi.org/10.1057/s412...

doi.orgThe concept of metabolism in ocean biogeochemistry: departures, consistencies, and implications - BioSocieties‘Metabolism’ is a term commonly defined as the sum total of chemical processes happening within some living entity which sustains that entity. Biogeochemists use this concept somewhat differently. A stark example comes from marine contexts, where biogeochemists sometimes refer to ‘ocean metabolism’. From the standard biomedical perspective, the ocean does not seem to be the kind of thing which can possess metabolism; it does not seem to be a single living entity that is sustained by chemical processes. In the light of this puzzle, this paper does three things: first, we flesh out a distinct biogeochemical sense of metabolism, exploring how this differs from, but retains connections to, biomedical definitions of metabolism. Second, we use this to explain how the ocean can be considered metabolic without needing to be considered an organism. Finally, we explore the consequences and implications of this sense of metabolism–in scientific, epistemic and social dimensions – and of recognising biogeochemical systems, such as oceans or parts of them, as metabolic.
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🌟📣 And yet another publication: Congratulations to KLI Alumna Marta Gómez-Recio and colleagues on their recent paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! 👏👏 A 4D geometric morphometrics workflow to quantify complex biological motion doi.org/10.1111/2041...

doi.orgA <fc>4D</fc> geometric morphometrics workflow to quantify complex biological motionQuantifying biological motion is fundamentally tied to quantifying the biological structures that produce that motion. Yet, this dependence makes it essential to decouple motion from static morpho...
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🌟📣 We are happy to announce a new publication by Barbara Fischer (KLI Group Leader) and Katya Stansfield (KLI Postdoc Fellow): Human evolution and the obstetrical dilemma: The pelvic floor hypothesis doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... Congratulations to the authors! 💐

doi.orgHuman evolution and the obstetrical dilemma: The pelvic floor hypothesisHuman childbirth is mechanically difficult because a large-headed, broad-shouldered fetus must pass through a comparatively narrow, twisted bony birth canal. Traditional explanations of this “obstetr...
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🌟📣 Check out the special issue "The Relevance of a Philosophical Toolkit to Advance Neuroscience" in the EJN, co-edited by KLI group leader Isabella Sarto-Jackson. It features 31 interdisciplinary papers on understanding the functions of the brain and mind. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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💐 Congratulations also to our KLI Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow, Olesya Bondarenko (@olesyabondarenko.bsky.social), on her recent book review! 👏👏👏

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science@thebjps.bsky.social

New from BJPS Review of Books: Plasticity in the Life Sciences – Antonine Nicoglou Reviewed by Olesya Bondarenko www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook... #hpbio #philsci #philsky

thebsps.orgAntonine Nicoglou, Plasticity in the Life Sciences | BJPS Review of BooksOlesya Bondarenko reviews Plasticity in the Life Sciences, by Antonine Nicoglou
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🌟📣 Congratulations to KLI alumni Hari Sridhar and Joyshree Chanam on their recent publication! 💐 Spark, Scaffold, Substrate: The Multiple Hidden Roles of Natural History in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

American Naturalist / ASN 🐌@asn-amnat.bsky.social

Historical Perspective: Sridhar et al. use the backstories of famous scientific papers in Ecology and Evolution to uncover the background roles of natural history that are written out of papers. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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🌟 KLI Visiting Fellow Arun Chavan (@arunchavan.bsky.social) delivered a Brown Bag Talk on the "Evolutionary origin of vertebrate digestive organs". Thank you, Arun, for sharing your knowledge and sparking lively discussions on the evolution of cell types! 👏👏👏

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🌟📣 Congratulations to KLI postdoctoral fellow Enrico Petracca!💐 He has received an FWF grant for his project “Integrating evolution and enactivism through decision-making”. www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n... 👏👏👏

Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF@fwf-at.bsky.social

174 neue Forschungsprojekte mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 84,3 Millionen Euro erhalten eine #FWF-Förderung. Insgesamt wurden über 780 Förderanträge eingereicht. 📑 Die neu bewilligten Projekte sind ab sofort im Forschungsradar online abrufbar. 👉 www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

fwf.ac.atDer FWF fördert exzellente GrundlagenforschungIn der dritten Vergaberunde 2026 fördert der Wissenschaftsfonds FWF 174 Forschungsprojekte. Die Details zu den aktuellen Förderzusagen sind online abrufbar.
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💐 Congratulations to our Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow, Olesya Bondarenko, on her new publication! 👏👏👏

Olesya Bondarenko@olesyabondarenko.bsky.social

A book review I recently wrote

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🌟 KLI Visiting Fellow Juan Vila delivered a Brown Bag Talk on metaphysical, biological, and ethical dimensions of population thinking. Thank you, Juan, for sharing your knowledge and sparking lively discussions! 👏👏👏

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💐 Congratulations to our KLI Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow, Olesya Bondarenko, on her recent publication! 👏👏👏

Olesya Bondarenko@olesyabondarenko.bsky.social

Can social scientists use genomic tools to make claims about complex phenomena like equality while also steering behavioural genomic research away from determinism? My new paper argues that sociogenomic research on gene-environment interaction (GxE) faces significant challenges on both fronts.

link.springer.comCredibility and trustworthiness: the promises of sociogenomic integration and research on gene-environment interaction - European Journal for Philosophy of ScienceThis paper provides a philosophical examination of the integrative field of sociogenomics which seeks to incorporate genomic tools into social science research on individual outcomes. I characterise s...
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🌟📣 Check out the new publication of KLI fellow Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social) and colleagues: "Notch coordinates self-organization of germ layers and axial polarity in sea anemone gastruloids". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to the authors! 💐

nature.comNotch coordinates self-organization of germ layers and axial polarity in sea anemone gastruloids - Nature CommunicationsHere they show that gastruloids made of embryonic cells of the sea anemone Nematostella can robustly regenerate whole organisms. They show that Notch signaling is crucial to sort out the randomly disp...
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🔔 Gentle Reminder: Join our KLI Colloquium this afternoon, 3:00 PM CEST.

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Join our KLI Colloquium: "The Evolvability of the Mammalian Ear: From Microevolutionary Variation to Macroevolutionary Patterns" Speaker: Anne LE MAITRE (KLI) 🕒 25 June 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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🌟 Thank you, Anne, for a great talk on the evolvability of the inner ear in mammals, and thanks to our on-site and online audiences for their participation! 👏👏👏

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🌟 KLI Visiting Fellow Elisa Domínguez-Hüttinger delivered a Brown Bag Talk on modeling epithelial homeostasis. Thank you, Elisa, for sharing insights into your fascinating research and sparking lively discussions! 👏👏👏

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🌟KLI Visiting Fellow Tomasz Szubart (@tszubart.bsky.social) presented his research on musical meaning, emotions, and evolutionary origins/functions of music in a Brown Bag Session. Thank you, Tomasz, for sharing your thoughts and sparking discussion! 👏👏👏

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🌟📣 New book in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology is out now! Towards a Biosemiotic Theoretical Biology: Sign Processes and Meaning-Making in Living Systems featuring also a chapter by KLI postdoctoral fellow David Cortés-García (@davidcortesgarcia.bsky.social) Congratulations! 💐

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social

Just one new release this week: An edited volume that brings together 25 of today’s most forward-thinking biologists and philosophers to discuss sign processes and meaning-making in organisms: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205361... (available #openaccess) Congrats to everyone involved!

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Join our KLI Colloquium: "The Evolvability of the Mammalian Ear: From Microevolutionary Variation to Macroevolutionary Patterns" Speaker: Anne LE MAITRE (KLI) 🕒 25 June 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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Several KLI fellows are presently at the EuroEvoDevo #EED2026 in Glasgow, where they are sharing their research and participating in an inspiring conference.

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🌟📣We are very happy to share a new publication co-authored by KLI group leaders Isabella Sarto-Jackson and Barbara Fischer. Congratulations! 💐

Biological Theory@biologicaltheory.bsky.social

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ Integrative Neurobiology and Cultural Context Theory: The Role of Cultural Neurobiological Inheritance Systems by Daniel O. Larson, Isabella Sarto-Jackson & Barbara Fischer Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comIntegrative Neurobiology and Cultural Context Theory: The Role of Cultural Neurobiological Inheritance Systems - Biological TheoryIn this reflection article, we present a new theoretical perspective, which we term integrative neurobiology and cultural context (INCC) theory. Traditionally, social scientists have viewed the human ...