The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory
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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!
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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.
๐ 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"!
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"O Theory Where Art Thou? The Changing Role of Theory in Theoretical Biology in the 20th Century and Beyond"
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๐ต๏ธ 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 โNotch Coordinates Concurrent Germ Layer and Axial Polarity Self-Organization in Cnidarian Gastruloids.โ
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Evolution; animal behaviour; animal culture; human cognitive evolution; niche construction; anti-racism. Editor-in-Chief of Biological Theory
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Biophysicist | genotype-phenotype maps, fitness landscapes and evolution | Independent Fellow leading a group at @barcelonacollaboratorium.com @crg.eu
Philosopher of cognitive science. Interested in mind, music, and language.
Institute of Philosophy&Cog. Sci., University of Szczecin.
PhD in Philosophy & SET Studies from JU in Krakรณw.
Currently, completing work on my first book on musical meaning.
Postdoc at IST Austria studying zebrafish development ๐ฆ๐, wondering how a "ball-shaped egg" โฝ๐ฅ becomes a "fish-shaped fish" ๐ ?
Dev Bio, Biophysics, Soft Matter, Image Analysis๐ฌ ๐ฆ ๐งซ PhD in ChemE (Uni. Minnesota)
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Postdoc @IAST.fr โข PhD @univie.ac.at โข #DISI alumna โข SciComm ๐ข Proud #FirstGen & STEMinist ๐
cognition, self-organization, philosophy of mind
DFG-Emmy Noether Research Group "The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical, and Social Dimensions" at Ruhr University Bochum โข https://rotorub.wordpress.com/ โข #PhilSci #HPBio #HistSTM #HistSci
The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
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EvoDevo & cnidarians.
Postdoc in the Sebรฉ Pedrรณs lab at CRG. Previously PhD student in the Genikhovich group at Uni Vienna.
Tiptoeing around the squishy penumbra of scientific practice.
PhD Student at Department of Evolutionary Biology, Theoretical Biology Unit, University of Vienna
Integrating the History, Philosophy, & Theory of Biology
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Professor of paleontology and Earth systems at Vilnius University. My interests are: theoretical paleontology, evolution, geology, stratigraphy, philosophy of biology and geology, climate at scales great and small.
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Philosopher of Biology interested in Human Evolution ๐๐งฌ๐บโข FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuvenโข PhD from DiBio ๐งช, University of Padova โข Science Writer and Communicator.
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Associate Research Professor at the IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind and Society of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain.
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leonardo-Bich
PhD student at University of Copenhagen
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PhD student at MPI Tรผbingen, interested in evolution of morphological and functional robustness ๐ชฐ
PhD candidate working with Martha Muรฑoz at Yale E&EB. Currently a Writing-Up Fellow at Konrad Lorenz Institute. Studying the morphology, biomechanics, and evolution of lungless salamanders.
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