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KLI @kli.ac.at · 02/10/2026

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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 02/10/2026

🌟 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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 30/09/2026

💐 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...

Cerion watlingense fossil land snail; Foto by James St. John (flickr) CC BY 2.0

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 28/09/2026

🌟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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 23/09/2026

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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 22/09/2026

☀️🎓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...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 17/09/2026

🗓️ 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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 16/09/2026

🌟📣 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...

Fig. 6 from the publication. Reconstruction of the palaeobiology of eusciurid rodents, with their phylogenetic relationships (tree with arbitrary branch lengths) and visualizations of the inner ear of selected taxa. CC-BY 4.0

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 03/09/2026

💐 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...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 01/09/2026

🏵️ 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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 31/08/2026

🏵️ 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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 31/08/2026

🏵️ 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 @kli.ac.at · 17/07/2026

🌟📣 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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 16/07/2026

🌟 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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 02/07/2026

🌟 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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 29/06/2026

🌟 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 @kli.ac.at · 25/06/2026

🌟 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 @kli.ac.at · 24/06/2026

🌟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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 19/06/2026

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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 18/06/2026

🌟📣 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...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 12/06/2026

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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KLI @kli.ac.at · 03/06/2026

🌟📣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...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 03/06/2026

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.

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 03/06/2026

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...)

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 01/06/2026

🏵️ 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...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 01/06/2026

🏵️ 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...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 01/06/2026

🏵️ 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...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 29/05/2026

🏵️ A warm welcome to our Visiting Fellow, Juan Vila! www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n... Juan is a philosopher (National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina). At the KLI, he works on his project “One of a Kind: Biological, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions of Population Thinking”.

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 29/05/2026

🌟 Thank you, James, for an inspiring talk on the interaction of genetic and mechanical factors in morphogenesis, and thanks to our on-site and online audiences for their participation! 👏👏👏

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 22/05/2026

Join our KLI Colloquium: "The Interplay of Tissue Mechanics and Gene Regulatory Networks in the Evolution of Morphogenesis" Speaker: James DIFRISCO (Francis Crick Institute, London) 🕒 28 May 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 22/05/2026

🌟📣 Check out the new publication of KLI senior postdoc fellow Anne Le Maître and colleagues on "µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step workflow for archaeological petrous portions". www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n... Congratulations to the authors! 💐

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 21/05/2026

🌟 Thank you, Somya, for a great talk and sparking discussion on cell differentiation, and thanks to our on-site and online audiences for their participation! 👏👏👏

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 20/05/2026

📣 The 2026 Spring-Summer 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...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 13/05/2026

Join our KLI Colloquium: "Why Directionality Emerged in Multicellular Differentiation" Speaker: Somya MANI (KLI) 🕒 21 May 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 08/05/2026

🌟 Thank you, Daniel, for an inspiring talk and discussion on the evolution of hippocampal connections and memory, and thanks to our on-site and online audiences for their participation! 👏👏👏

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 04/05/2026

Join our KLI Colloquium: "The Evolutionary Trajectory of Human Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions" Speaker: Daniel REZNIK (Max Planck Society) @reznikdan.bsky.social 🕒 7 May 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 04/05/2026

🏵️ We are happy to welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Daniel Reznik, @reznikdan.bsky.social! Daniel will be working on his KLI project titled “The Evolution of Episodic Construction” and will also give a KLI colloquium talk on May 7, 2026. www.kli.ac.at/content/en/t...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 04/05/2026

🏵️ We warmly welcome our Visiting Fellow, Nina Kraus (@ninakraus.bsky.social)! www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu... Nina is a biologist and will work on her project “Constructed Environments and the Evolution of the Heart: An Evo-Devo Account of Environmentally Regulated Development”.

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 02/05/2026

🌟KLI Visiting Fellow Pierrick Bourrat delivered a Brown Bag Talk titled "Three Kinds of Equivalence for Levels of Selection". Thank you, Pierrick, for sharing your knowledge and sparking lively discussions! 👏👏👏

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 02/05/2026

🌟 Thank you, Isabella, for a stimulating talk and discussion on sensitive periods in development, and thanks to our on-site and online audiences for their participation! 👏👏👏

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 24/04/2026

Join our KLI Colloquium: "What's in a Trait? Reconceptualizing Neurodevelopmental Timing by Seizing Insights From Philosophy" Speaker: Isabella SARTO-JACKSON (KLI) 🕒 30 April 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 23/04/2026

🌟KLI Fellow Mauricio González-Forero (@mauriciogforero.bsky.social) delivered a Brown Bag Talk titled "A mathematical synthesis of genetics, development, and evolution". Thank you, Mauricio, for sharing your knowledge and sparking lively discussions! 👏👏👏

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 20/04/2026

🏵️ We warmly welcome our new Visiting Fellow Pierrick Bourrat! www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu... Pierrick is a philosopher of biology at Macquarie University, Sydney. At the KLI, he works on his project “Linking Fitness and Evolvability Across Levels of Description”.

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 17/04/2026

💐 Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Fellow Marcelo Domingos de Santis on his new publication! 👏👏👏 "On 'Hennig’s Dilemma' and the Post-Systematics Wars" www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 17/04/2026

🌟📣We are happy to announce a new publication, co-authored by KLI group leader Barbara Fischer: "Exploring Pelvic Changes: Do Pregnancy and Birth Leave Scars?" www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n... Congratulations to the authors! 💐

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 17/04/2026

🌟 Thank you, Denis, for an inspiring talk and discussion on dialectical biology, and thanks to our on-site and online audiences for their participation! 👏👏👏

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 10/04/2026

Join our KLI Colloquium: "A Metaphysics for Dialectical Biology" Speaker: Denis WALSH (University of Toronto) 🕒 16 April 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 09/04/2026

🌟 Many thanks to Rebekka (@doktorhu.bsky.social) for an inspiring talk, and to our on-site and online audience for the engaged discussion! 👏👏👏

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 07/04/2026

🏵️ We are very happy to welcome our new Senior Postdoc Fellow Katya Stansfield! kli.ac.at/content/peop... Katya is an evolutionary biologist with a background in physics and data science. At the KLI, she will work on her project "Evaluating Sprint Performance Through Musculoskeletal Modelling".

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 07/04/2026

Join our KLI Colloquium: "Hierarchies and Power in Primatology and Their Populist Appropriations" Speaker: Rebekka HUFENDIEK (Ulm University) 🕒 9 April 2026, 3:00 PM CET 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

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