Dr Nadiah Kristensen

This matches my experience that Claude is only useful for modelling work when its outputs pass first through my own understanding, which is also one way to catch its mishallucinations From: www.bostonreview.net/articles/kno...

My goal here though is not to speed up but to make richer. If anything it slows me down (more to check and learn), so I don’t think that counts as what people usually mean by a “productivity gain”.

Nationally, 11-12% of Australian workers are in a very high-risk psychosocial safety climate. In universities, that jumps to 44%.

Proportions of respondents by employment status: Ongoing/Continuing (78%), Fixed Term (15%), Casual (6%), and Honorary appointment (1%).

I got an email celebrating a Faculty wellbeing initiative. Some lovely colleagues have been volunteering to do things like deliver flowers and citrus fruits to the tearooms to lift our spirits.

Sorry, this is a little vague. I can’t refer back to the email for details because I had some big feelings about it and immediately deleted it.

You'd think requiring everyone to agree to the fishing level would protect fish better, but this new paper shows consensus-based voting can lead to worse conservation outcomes when the fishery was already highly exploited. Congratulations to Irina Lerner on her first paper 🎉

Claude (Opus 4.5) has started citing Grokipedia in its results.

Apparently Claude has been using Grokipedia for at least a month bsky.app/profile/dana...

Claude (Opus 4.5) has started citing Grokipedia in its results.

Some context for why this is not great www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Awesome, this is the second journal I’ve published in that has since let through egregious AI slop.

A blessing for the system, not me. I really regret not going with my gut and saying “no” to submitting that paper to Scientific Reports. The Ecol. Model. ones can’t be helped because that was a respectable journal at the time, but Sci Rep has always felt dodgy. That’s a lesson learned for me.

Awesome, this is the second journal I’ve published in that has since let through egregious AI slop.

The first one I posted about 3 months ago here (still up, btw) bsky.app/profile/nadi...

Recently read a superstar outside my field, summarising their previous work modelling institutional change. A quite simple model, but it can capture, e.g., "strategic stability", where groups vote against a change that will benefit them bc it will open the door to future change that harms them.

Or maybe there's some other way they think about it - I'm not an economist. I guess I'll have to go find out.

Recently read a superstar outside my field, summarising their previous work modelling institutional change. A quite simple model, but it can capture, e.g., "strategic stability", where groups vote against a change that will benefit them bc it will open the door to future change that harms them.

The thing that gave me pause was the assumption that groups can care about their future. Their case studies were large-scale and long-term, like the persistence of the US Constitution.

Recently read a superstar outside my field, summarising their previous work modelling institutional change. A quite simple model, but it can capture, e.g., "strategic stability", where groups vote against a change that will benefit them bc it will open the door to future change that harms them.

This was the overview, so I might have the details of the model wrong, but it seems to have two layers: (1) given the institution, the policy is determined by the median voter, and (2) voting on institutions themselves, which determine shares and which groups are enfranchised.

Analytic solution for the stationary distribution of actions taken in iterated games with implementation errors, and code to automate the solution in SymPy. nadiah.org/2025/11/18/a...

Guess I should tag the authors again here @kleshnina.bsky.social @chilbe.bsky.social

Analytic solution for the stationary distribution of actions taken in iterated games with implementation errors, and code to automate the solution in SymPy. nadiah.org/2025/11/18/a...

I wrote a blog post about an unpublished paper with a surprising result -- unequal sharing can promote cooperation. nadiah.org/2025/06/01/c...

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

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

Watching “Animal Pride” hosted by Queer FoS at QUT