📣 The 2026/27 Fall-Winter KLife Newsletter is out! Check out upcoming events, new KLI fellows, recent publications, and get reading access to articles of the new issues of Biological Theory! ✉️ www.kli.ac.at/content/en/p... ✏️ Join our mailing list: www.kli.ac.at/content/news...

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.

🌟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.

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...

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

🌟📣 Isabella Sarto-Jackson's book „Trauma und Gehirn. Wie soziale Entwicklungen die Hirnentwicklung prägen“ made the longlist for Austria's "Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres 2027" (science book of the year 2027) in the medicine/biology category. Congratulations! 💐 www.wissenschaftsbuch.at

Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres

Die Wahl zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres

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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! 👏👏👏

🌟🪰 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...

A 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...

🔔 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...)

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...)

📣🌟The September issue of Biological Theory is out now! link.springer.com/journal/1375... Read the editors’ summary, with free reading links for all the articles: www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

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

KLI@kli.ac.at · last mo.

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...)

💐 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...

🌟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!👏👏👏

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...)

☀️🎓The 8th European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS) on “Philosophy of Biology for a Healthy Planet”, organized by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and @thomasreydon.bsky.social, took place at the KLI in September. Read the event report: www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

🗓️ 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".

🌟📣 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...

💐 Congratulations to our KLI Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow, Enrico Petracca, on his recent publication! 👏👏👏 "Bounded Rationality: Making Sense of a Concept’s Plurality" www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

🏵️ 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...

🏵️ 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...

🏵️ 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...

🌟📣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... 👏👏👏

Norms are relational: cognitive institutions, practices, and the ‘where’ question | Journal of Institutional Economics | Cambridge Core

Norms 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...

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...

💐 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 · 5mo ago

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