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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...

The 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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🌟📣 Check out the new publication of KLI postdoc fellow Somya Mani on modeling cell-fate decisions in tissues. Congratulations to the authors! 💐 doi.org/10.3389/fcel...

Frontiers | Linking tissue morphology and tissue healing in a cell-fate model

Multicellular tissues are immensely diverse, and yet are notably similar at the microanatomical level–most tissues are organized into distinct domains with w...

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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...

A <fc>4D</fc> geometric morphometrics workflow to quantify complex biological motion

Quantifying 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! 💐

Human evolution and the obstetrical dilemma: The pelvic floor hypothesis

Human 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...

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science@thebjps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

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

American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌@asn-amnat.bsky.social · 3w ago

🌟📣 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

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/...

🌟 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! 👏👏👏

Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF@fwf-at.bsky.social · last mo.

🌟📣 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... 👏👏👏

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...

Olesya Bondarenko@olesyabondarenko.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

A book review I recently wrote

🌟 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! 👏👏👏

Olesya Bondarenko@olesyabondarenko.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

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.

🌟📣 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! 💐

Notch coordinates self-organization of germ layers and axial polarity in sea anemone gastruloids - Nature Communications

Here 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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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...)

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

KLI@kli.ac.at · 2mo ago

🌟 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! 👏👏👏

🌟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! 👏👏👏

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌟📣 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! 💐

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!

Cover of "Towards a Biosemiotic Theoretical Biology: Sign Processes and Meaning Making in Living Systems," edited by Kalevi Kull and Donald Favareau, over a purple background.

Biological Theory @biologicaltheory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣🌟The June issue of Biological Theory, a thematic collection on “Continually Discovering Complexity: Essays in Honor of William Bechtel”, is out now! link.springer.com/journal/1375... Read the editors’ summary, with free reading links for all the articles here: www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

🌟📣 Join the book launch (in German) next Tuesday, June 23, 6 pm CET: "Trauma und Gehirn. Wie soziale Erfahrungen die Hirnentwicklung prägen" by Dr. Isabella Sarto-Jackson More information and registration: share-eu1.hsforms.com/1A-lx85wUTom...

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

Biological Theory@biologicaltheory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

➡️ 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...

🌟📣KLI Postdoctoral Fellow Enrico Petracca wrote a book review on Peter E. Earl's "Toward a Wider Vision of Behavioral Economics". Congratulations! 👏👏👏 www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

Yesterday's KLI Hike took us to the Nationalpark Donauauen. Thanks to Peter Sziemer, we learned a lot about the flora and fauna of this special habitat and also spotted some rare species, such as the little bittern, the European pond terrapin, and the violet bird's-nest orchid.

Join our KLI Colloquium: "Brave Genomes: Genome Plasticity in the Face of Environmental Challenge" Speaker: Silvia BULGHERESI (University of Vienna) 🕒 11 June 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)

🏵️ And it's a pleasure to also welcome Elisa Domínguez-Hüttinger as a new Visiting Fellow! Elisa is a theoretical systems biologist (National Autonomous University of Mexico), working on modeling epithelial homeostasis as an emergent property. www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

🏵️ A warm welcome also to our new Visiting Fellow, Tomasz Szubart, @tszubart.bsky.social! Tomasz is a philosopher of cognitive science (University of Szczecin). His KLI project investigates how musical meaning can be understood within a naturalistic framework. www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

🏵️ We are happy to welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Arun Chavan, @arunchavan.bsky.social! Arun is a developmental evolutionary biologist at Yale School of Medicine. At the KLI, he works on his project “Evolutionary Origin of Vertebrate Digestive Organs”. www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...