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

🌟📣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...

🏵️ 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”.

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

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...)

🌟📣 Congratulations to KLI fellow Anne Le Maître, Editor-in-Chief of the journal BMSAP, on the successful publication of the latest issue! 💐

🌟📣 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! 💐

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

📣 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...

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...)

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

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...)

🏵️ 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...

🏵️ 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”.

🌟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! 👏👏👏

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

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...)

🌟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! 👏👏👏

Barbara Fischer (KLI Group Leader for Evolutionary Biology) was interviewed for an episode of a podcast by Springer Medicine Vienna with the title “Evolutionärer Pfusch? Die enge Passform bei der menschlichen Geburt” 🎧 Listen (in German): springermedizin-hoergang.podigee.io/316-evolutio...

🌟📣We are very pleased to share a new publication by Philipp Mitteroecker. Congratulations! 💐

🏵️ 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”.

💐 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...

🌟📣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! 💐

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

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

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...)

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

🏵️ 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".

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...)

🏵️ We warmly welcome our new Visiting Fellow Rebekka Hufendiek! www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu... Rebekka is a professor of philosophy at Ulm University. At the KLI, she will be working on her project "Hierarchies and Power in Primatology and Their Populist Appropriations".

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

🌟KLI Fellow Erica Calabretta @ericacalabretta.bsky.social delivered a Brown Bag Talk titled "Birds in Two Worlds: Carry-Over Effects of Non-Breeding Conditions on Spring Migration Ecology". Thank you, Erica, for the great presentation that sparked a lively discussion! 👏👏👏

🏵️ We warmly welcome our Visiting Fellow Tim Waring! www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu... Tim is an associate professor of applied cultural evolution (University of Maine), working on human evolutionary transition. He will give a talk in the KLI colloquium this Thursday: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...

Join our KLI Colloquium: "The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans" Speaker: Tim WARING (University of Maine) 🕒 26 March 2026, 3:00 PM CET 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)

🌟📣 In a recent publication, Philipp Mitteroecker shows how genetic variance in the timing of development and reproduction increases the speed of adaptive evolution, with implications for the evolution of aging. academic.oup.com/jeb/article/... Congratulations to the author!👏👏👏

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

A group of KLI fellows visited the Research Station Haidlhof (haidlhof.org) to learn more about comparative studies of animal intelligence. Kea, ravens, and crows are studied there to better understand their cognition and communication, social behaviour, and interactions with humans.

Join our KLI Colloquium: "What Is Biological Modality, and What Has It Got to Do With Psychology?" Speaker: Carrie FIGDOR (University of Iowa) 🕒 12 March 2026, 3:00 PM CET 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...)

🌟2025 KLI Fellow Nina Kraus @ninakraus.bsky.social presented her PhD work on "Environmental Regulation of Cardiac Development and Evolution" in a Brown Bag Talk. Thanks, Nina, for this excellent presentation that led to a lively discussion! 👏👏👏 Check out her latest paper: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

🏵️ We are happy to welcome our new Visiting Fellow Denis Walsh! www.kli.ac.at/content/peop... Denis is a philosopher of science/biology (University of Toronto) and will work on his project “‘The Being of Living Beings’: A metaphysics for agency” at the KLI.

🌟KLI Fellow, Liberty Severs @libertysevers.bsky.social, gave a Brown Bag Talk on "Reinforcement learning and the organisation of agency" and sparked great discussion on agency and adaptation, representation in strange agents, etc. 👏👏👏 Check out her new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

💐Thank you, Ben, for sharing these impressions! It was wonderful and very inspiring having you as a fellow at the KLI. We wish you all the best for your postdoc and look forward to hearing about your research in behavioral ecology!🐒

🗓️ Save the dates! Join our Spring-Summer 2026 KLI Colloquium series! www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e... We kick off the series on March 12, with Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa) on biological modality and its role in psychology.

🌟📣We are happy to announce another new publication on the obstetrical dilemma, co-authored by Barbara Fischer and Philipp Mitteroecker: "Over the edge: Empirical evidence for the cliff-edge model of obstetric selection" www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n... Congratulations to the authors! 👏👏👏

🌟📣Check out the recent publication of Katya Stansfield, Philipp Mitteroecker, and colleagues: "Did energy costs of walking limit the evolution of a larger human birth canal?" www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n... Congratulations to the authors!💐