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.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.athttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mzd7qc6fik2a🏵️ A warm welcome to our new Visiting Fellow, Carla Feliciano! https://www.kli.ac.at/content/en/the_kli/news/view/684 Carla is a doctoral student and teacher at the University of Lisbon (FCUL), researching "The Concept of Memory at the Intersection of Immunology and Philosophy: Immune Memory, Uniqueness, and Identity."02 Nov 2026 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzd7qc6fik2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mzcxaqauzk2aJoin our KLI Colloquium: "Kin Matters: An Intervention in the Fragile Sciences" Speaker: Robert A. WILSON (University of Western Australia) 🕒 5 Nov. 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: https://www.kli.ac.at/content/en/events/all_events/view/754)02 Nov 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzcxaqauzk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3myjuveqmhc2q📣 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! ✉️ https://www.kli.ac.at/content/en/publications/Newsletter ✏️ Join our mailing list: https://www.kli.ac.at/content/newsletter_subscription23 Oct 2026 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3myjuveqmhc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3myjrugdvxk2iThe 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.23 Oct 2026 08:42 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3myjrugdvxk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3myjpstfgss2i🌟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.23 Oct 2026 08:05 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3myjpstfgss2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mycdiyekfk24KLI 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! https://www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/news/view/68120 Oct 2026 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mycdiyekfk24https://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mxyax2tzhs2gYesterday'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 #Wienerwald16 Oct 2026 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxyax2tzhs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mxug2zhcgs2f🌟📣 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 https://www.wissenschaftsbuch.at14 Oct 2026 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxug2zhcgs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mxucsly2ks2j🌟 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! 👏👏👏14 Oct 2026 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxucsly2ks2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mxt5ivxssc2k🌟🪰 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! 💐 https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=20485114 Oct 2026 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxt5ivxssc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mxobt5eah22a🌟📣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: https://www.kli.ac.at/content/en/the_kli/news/view/67812 Oct 2026 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxobt5eah22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mxehhoqnzs2j🔔 Gentle Reminder: Join our KLI Colloquium this afternoon, 3:00 PM CEST. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2026 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxehhoqnzs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mwv6qb4rtk23Join 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: https://www.kli.ac.at/en/events/event_calendar/view/752)02 Oct 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwv6qb4rtk23https://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mwsfqmmrkk2b🔔 Gentle Reminder: Join our KLI Colloquium this afternoon, 3:00 PM CEST. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsfqmmrkk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mwqneok2ss2b💐 Congratulations to our KLI Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludo Schoenmakers, on his recent publication! 👏👏👏 "Scientific understanding and the controversy over adaptationism in evolutionary biology" https://www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/news/view/67530 Sep 2026 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqneok2ss2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mwl56cari22k🌟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!👏👏👏28 Sep 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwl56cari22khttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mw6hu7es5s25Join 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: https://www.kli.ac.at/en/events/event_calendar/view/746)23 Sep 2026 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6hu7es5s25https://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mw4gdgdd5s2b☀️🎓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: https://www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/news/view/67322 Sep 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4gdgdd5s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mvp7cjsbwc2e🗓️ 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".17 Sep 2026 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvp7cjsbwc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mvmuz7vvrc2n🌟📣 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! 💐 https://www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/news/view/67116 Sep 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvmuz7vvrc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mum5tw4cis2n💐 Congratulations to our KLI Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow, Enrico Petracca, on his recent publication! 👏👏👏 "Bounded Rationality: Making Sense of a Concept’s Plurality" https://www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/news/view/67003 Sep 2026 09:41 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mum5tw4cis2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3muhjrtmohs2n🏵️ 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. https://www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/news/view/66901 Sep 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhjrtmohs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3muer7rmmx22r🏵️ 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”. https://www.kli.ac.at/content/people/all_people/view/41031 Aug 2026 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muer7rmmx22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3muer6ucw4c2r🏵️ 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.” https://www.kli.ac.at/en/people/current_fellows/view/40931 Aug 2026 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muer6ucw4c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mrpiu3mp6s2k🌟📣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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S174413742510026X 👏👏👏28 Jul 2026 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrpiu3mp6s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mrcdpus5o22z💐 Congratulations also to our KLI Alumnus, Elis Jones, on his new publication!👏👏👏 The concept of metabolism in ocean biogeochemistry: departures, consistencies, and implications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-026-00391-823 Jul 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcdpus5o22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mr63mztut22p🌟📣 Check out the new publication of KLI postdoc fellow Somya Mani on modeling cell-fate decisions in tissues. Congratulations to the authors! 💐 https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2026.184595321 Jul 2026 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr63mztut22phttps://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mr37edlzrs24🌟📣 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 https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.7036420 Jul 2026 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr37edlzrs24https://bsky.app/profile/kli.ac.at/post/3mr33ssx4uk24🌟📣 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 https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70279 Congratulations to the authors! 💐20 Jul 2026 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:vfc4y4vd5srcasu4acbepkrc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr33ssx4uk24