Dr Nadiah Kristensen

Amanda does incredibly detailed & valuable & brave work, but doesn’t get anywhere near the recognition she deserves for it. And then sometimes people steal her work. She’s rightly upset about all of that. You’ve somehow both managed to hit each other’s sore spots in entirely justified ways.

I get you feel under siege because the pile-on of abuse you’ve been copping is ridiculous and frankly terrifying, and I’m amazed you keep going at all, but you’re mistaken in this case.

That’s not what she said.

Some aspects were pretty unintuitive to me. Did I interpret the model correctly?

Tagging the coauthors on bluesky @kleshnina.bsky.social @chilbe.bsky.social

The post is backdated to when the draft was written (delayed because of teaching).

Cooperation among unequals In an unpublished paper, Staab et al. (2002) studied the effects of heterogeneity in endowments and productivities on cooperation. They were particularly interested in the effect of allowing players t...

I wrote a blog post about an unpublished paper with a surprising result -- unequal sharing can promote cooperation.

nadiah.org/2025/06/01/c...

Super-additive cooperation - Nature Models show that human cooperation cannot evolve reliably under repeated interactions or under intergroup competitions, but combining the two mechanisms predicts a distinctive strategy, observed exper...

Quite the opening sentence from the Discussion:-

"Repeated interactions alone cannot explain the evolution of one-shot cooperation because they cannot explain the evolution of repeated cooperation."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is it the transcript of a recording/video available somewhere?

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Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation - Nature Ecology & Evolution A horizon scan of international respondents identifies and discusses ten developing challenges in Antarctic conservation, revealing an increased emphasis on challenges related to governance, geopolitics and economics compared to a similar scan from 2012.

Zach's paper identified ten emerging conservation challenges to Antarctica

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to my office-mate, Zach Carter, for making the cover of Nature Ecology & Evolution 🎉

People are only going to realise this would have been reasonable after the fact (modest, even).

It’s on YouTube if you want to check it out, about queerness in other animals (and fungi).

A screen showing a movie. It’s an underwater shot of two Orcas.

Watching “Animal Pride” hosted by Queer FoS at QUT

What was “it” in this context? Or did they leave that bit unexplained?

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This sounds really interesting. I’ve bookmarked to read later.

That sounds really interesting. I've added a bookmark for myself.

This sounds interesting. I’m putting a 📌 here to remind me to read it later

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jfc

Yep. I ended up printing out some photos of idealistic science/maths people and sticky taping them to my wall next to my monitor. It’s my Live, Laugh, Love, and now I can’t ever read those people’s biographies lol

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Good pofnt

It seems we’re in the sweet spot— paper mills have discovered gen AI, but still not good enough to cite well. Maybe a sweep of everything in Ecological Indicators in the past few months, seeing as they seem to have been overrun.

It seems the LLMs/paper mill employees struggle finding relevant citations. Funnily enough, checking citation relevance is something a good quality LLM can do. This could be a way to filter and ID suss papers. It’d cost, but it could be done, I’ve done similar work with AI before.

“In order for a material to be used as an energy storage device, its phase transition must occur at a temperature that is equal to or higher than the thermal input sources [80].”

Can find no such statement, seems unrelated.

…They are useful for studies and strategic planning because they give a theoretical framework to determine the resilience of processes or systems [84].”

Paper cited mentions neither.