Kaleda Denton

@KaledaDenton

Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, interested in major evolutionary transitions, cooperation, and conformity. Canadian 🇨🇦 she/her

Joined June 2016

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Kaleda Denton @KaledaDenton Jul 8

My @TEDxNewEngland talk is now live, and I'm so honored that it was selected for Editor's Pick!

youtube.com/watch?v=X1_mMt…

Kaleda Denton @KaledaDenton Jul 8

Check out our latest work, applying our conformity model to empirical data! (Also my first publication with my husband @jonjohh) 😄
link.growkudos.com/1e5wuy8mww0

www.growkudos.com Conformity to popular, not average, opinions: Models, data, and evolution A continuous trait contains infinitely many variants on a spectrum, such as a spectrum of behaviors or ideologies. "Conformity" to such traits has been defined as the preference for the mean variant,...

Kaleda Denton @KaledaDenton Oct 23, 2025

Honoured to have done my first ever podcast on The @Armen Show! Besides science & math, we talked about:

-LLMs hyping up bad ideas
-My 5 foster cats, but whether I'm secretly a dog person
-How it would be nice to "skip" & "mute" people in real life 😛

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Kaleda Denton @KaledaDenton Oct 13, 2025

I’ve just made a Bluesky account, kaledadenton.bsky.social if you’d like to connect there instead! 😊

Kaleda Denton @KaledaDenton Feb 8, 2025

I'll be speaking at the Winter Q-Bio Conference 2025 on Feb 16 - 20, 2025. I would love to see you there!🎉
Register here: whova.com/portal/registr…
- via #Whova Event Platform
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