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.social
🔔 Gentle Reminder: Join our KLI Colloquium this afternoon, 3:00 PM CET.
KLIJoin 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 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.
KLIJoin 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...)
🏵️ 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!👏👏👏
Genetic variance in reproductive timing contributes to trait evolvabilityAbstract. The additive genetic variance of a quantitative trait usually is interpreted as a measure of its evolvability, i.e., its capacity for adaptive evacademic.oup.com🔔 Gentle Reminder: Join our KLI Colloquium this afternoon, 3:00 PM CET.
KLIJoin 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...)
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!🐒
Ben KawamSome personal news: after spending half a year at the wonderful @kli.ac.at in Vienna, I defended my PhD thesis back in Göttingen, and just moved to Konstanz to (soon) start a postdoc at @livingingroups.bsky.social to work at the interface between theory & data analysis in behav. 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!💐
🏵️ 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.