A Device for Restraining Bats
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Herein we describe a safe, practical, and inexpensive device for restraining bats (Order Chiroptera). With advances in molecular techniques, biopsies from the flight membranes of bats have become routine; however, tissue sampling requires that the bat be restrained and often this work is performed by two people: one to hold the animal and another to conduct the procedure. The McMaster bat restrainer permits a single user to safely, effectively, and comfortably restrain a bat — both in the field and in the laboratory — while still having full access to its forearms, flight membranes, and/or dorsum/ventrum. The restrainer is light weight, portable, simple to use, easy to modify, and minimizes handling stress on bats. Investigators should take precautions to appropriately decontaminate the restrainer when working in areas where bats could be infected with the psychrophilic fungus that causes white nose syndrome (WNS), Pseudogymnoascus destructans.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".