Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a stream of popular narratives celebrated the struggles of European and American explorers who pushed out to the edges of their known worlds. Many of these adventurers travelled through Inuit homelands in the North American Arctic, recording their surroundings as inherently forbidding and desolate. These explorers are part of an arctic survival mythology that extends much further and deeper. In this environmental and cultural history, I consider lesser-known survival narratives drawn from oral histories and archival sources, namely stories of American whalers in Inuit territory, Inuit families in the United States, American and Inuit polar expedition members, and Inuit who remained in their homeland as it changed around them. I compare the strategies these individuals employed to survive physically, psychologically, and culturally when they faced hardships such as starvation, malnutrition, and disease. My four chapters are structured around different ways of marking ecological and social time, and they are centred on the rich maritime region of Cumberland Sound on Baffin Island, in what is now Nunavut, Canada. I argue that Inuit and Americans often saw each other’s latitudes as inhospitable, and that divergent cosmologies shaped their perceptions of unfamiliar sites. Together, these unconventional arctic narratives demonstrate that the definition of a harsh environment is relative, and they offer alternative ways of thinking about individual and cultural survival.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it