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🏵️ 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”.
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🏵️ 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.
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🏵️ 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.
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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...)
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.
🌟📣KLI Postdoctoral Fellow Enrico Petracca wrote a book review on Peter E. Earl's "Toward a Wider Vision of Behavioral Economics". Congratulations! 👏👏👏
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🌟📣We are very happy to share a new publication co-authored by KLI group leaders Isabella Sarto-Jackson and Barbara Fischer. Congratulations! 💐
🏵️ A warm welcome to our Visiting Fellow, Juan Vila!
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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”.
🌟 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! 👏👏👏
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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➡️ New article out! ⬅️
Integrative Neurobiology and Cultural Context Theory: The Role of Cultural Neurobiological Inheritance Systems
by Daniel O. Larson, Isabella Sarto-Jackson & Barbara Fischer
Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Biological Theory
In this reflection article, we present a new theoretical perspective, which we term integrative neurobiology and cultural context (INCC) theory. Traditionally, social scientists have viewed the human ...
