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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!💐

Tom Van Dooren and I are organising a symposium on "Advances in theoretical evo-devo" at the next Euro Evo Devo meeting in Glasgow. Invited speakers: @n-martin.bsky.social, Nayely Vélez-Cruz, Thomas Hansen & Günter Wagner. Consider submitting an abstract, now open! www.evodevoconference26.com

🏵️ A warm welcome to our new Postdoctoral Fellow David Cortés García! www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu...
David is a philosopher of biology and will work on his project “Expanding Biological Reproduction: Towards an Organismal and Relational Framework” at the KLI.

The neural basis of imagination: An evolutionary perspective The study of imagination has progressed due to its operationalization through a variety of behavioural tasks, initially designed for human participant…

💐 Congratulations to our Writing-up Fellow Oryan Zacks on her new publication! 👏👏👏

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟 KLI visiting fellow Carrie Figdor delivered an impromptu Brown Bag Seminar titled "Phylogenetic Psychology: Why and What." Thank you, Carrie, for this inspiring presentation that sparked an engaging discussion! 👏👏👏

The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory Biological Theory -

I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!

doi.org/10.1007/s137...

Fig. 4. of Kraus 2026. Normal mammalian cardiogenesis and ambiogenic events hypothesized to be required for proper outflow tract development during placentation, along with associated developmental and phylogenetic phenotypes.

💐 Congratulations to our 2025 KLI fellow, Nina Kraus @ninakraus.bsky.social, on her new publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology on
"Environmentally dependent developmental induction as a potential driver of heart evolution"!
👏👏👏

📃 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

🌟 Many thanks to Jan Baedke for an inspiring talk, and to our on-site and online audience for the engaged discussion! 👏👏👏

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

Join our KLI Colloquium:
"O Theory Where Art Thou? The Changing Role of Theory in Theoretical Biology in the 20th Century and Beyond"
Speaker: Jan BAEDKE (Ruhr University Bochum)
🕒 26 Jan 2026, 3:00 PM CET
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☀️🎓 8th European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS)🌍
Theme: “Philosophy of Biology for a Healthy Planet”
Apply by 31 January 2026!
Find more information on: www.kli.ac.at/en/events/ev...

💐Congratulations to Adam on his new publication!👏👏👏

💐 Congratulations to our Writing-up Fellow Liberty Severs on her new publication! 👏👏👏

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

🏵️We are happy to welcome our new Visiting Fellow Carrie Figdor! www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu... Carrie is a professor of philosophy (University of Iowa, University of Edinburgh) and will work on her project, “Biological Modality and the Mind/Body Problem” at the KLI.

🏵️ A warm welcome to our new Writing-up Fellow Sanjay Narayanaswamy! www.kli.ac.at/en/people/cu... Sanjay is pursuing his PhD at the University of Vienna, working on “Notch Coordinates Concurrent Germ Layer and Axial Polarity Self-Organization in Cnidarian Gastruloids.”

Join our KLI Colloquium:
"On Experimental Models of Developmental Plasticity and Evolutionary Novelty"
Speaker: Patricia BELDADE (Lisbon University)
🕒 15 Jan 2026, 3:00 PM CET
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Join our first KLI Colloquium in 2026!
Title: Embodied Rationality: Normative and Evolutionary Foundations
Speaker: Enrico Petracca
🕒 8 Jan 2026, 3:00 PM CET
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