Dr Nadiah Kristensen
@nadiah.bsky.social
modeller of ecology, evolution, and cooperation | she/her | 🤘 | 🐘 fediscience.org/@nadiah | nadiah.org
This is so unjust.
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is so unjust.
Congratulations!
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
November 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Congratulations!
Though funnily enough, we got a really thorough review at Sci Rep. The reviewer was so careful they picked up a right author but wrong paper mis-citation. I think they even found typos in the supplement, from memory (20 pages of mostly maths). But we could have got somewhere else.
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Though funnily enough, we got a really thorough review at Sci Rep. The reviewer was so careful they picked up a right author but wrong paper mis-citation. I think they even found typos in the supplement, from memory (20 pages of mostly maths). But we could have got somewhere else.
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.
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.
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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.
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.
… this could just be me being optimistic, but I think this could be a blessing in disguise.
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
… this could just be me being optimistic, but I think this could be a blessing in disguise.
Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.
I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.
I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Oh awesome, that’s two journals now that I’ve published in that have since let through egregious AI slop.
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Oh awesome, that’s two journals now that I’ve published in that have since let through egregious AI slop.
Almost certainly not a kin selection model. That was a very my-own-field-biased thing to say.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Almost certainly not a kin selection model. That was a very my-own-field-biased thing to say.
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.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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.
I understand they need to suppress the individual-level model for clarity and tractability, so they need to assume some mechanism like niche-construction/intergenerational kin selection that makes individuals care for group interests in the future.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I understand they need to suppress the individual-level model for clarity and tractability, so they need to assume some mechanism like niche-construction/intergenerational kin selection that makes individuals care for group interests in the future.
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.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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.
The institution-voting is modelled as a dynamic game (Markov Voting Equilibria approach). There is a discounting factor which allows groups to take into account the effect of future institutions on their payoffs.
It's exciting it captures so much about their historical case studies.
It's exciting it captures so much about their historical case studies.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The institution-voting is modelled as a dynamic game (Markov Voting Equilibria approach). There is a discounting factor which allows groups to take into account the effect of future institutions on their payoffs.
It's exciting it captures so much about their historical case studies.
It's exciting it captures so much about their historical case studies.
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.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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.
Clicking <3 so others notice that I noticed you noticing the noticing of your noticing.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Clicking <3 so others notice that I noticed you noticing the noticing of your noticing.
The Nadiah blog is the Maria blog now :)
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Nadiah blog is the Maria blog now :)
Guess I should tag the authors again here @kleshnina.bsky.social @chilbe.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Guess I should tag the authors again here @kleshnina.bsky.social @chilbe.bsky.social