"The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World" by Brandon Keim, 2017. [book review]
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ment of large, permanent study plots which, despite all the debate about the source and status of tropical diversity, no one had previously thought to establish.This eventually led to the creation of a global, interlinked network, which is proving useful to current research on the effects of climate change.As well as detailing the development and evolution of the research station, and almost as an aside, the book objectively and without comment describes the parallel evolution of growing gender parity on the island over the decades.In the early years women were not permitted on the island, for fear of proving a distraction, and children and families were discouraged.Eventually female scientists came into their own, initially assisting with their husbands' research, often as unpaid research assistants, and later as fully independent and autonomous research scientists.Author Jan Sapp is a Professor of Biology and History at Toronto's York University, but, not surprisingly, this book on tropical ecology has few references to Canada.References I noted related to the Welland Canal, which allowed Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) into the upper Great Lakes, an example of ecological implications with parallels to what was proposed in Panama, and a reference to a McGill biologist's reviewing of Stephen Hubbell's book on neutral theory.Coexistence provides a fascinating and comprehensive overview of the evolution of tropical forest and marine ecology and their rapidly expanding research sphere.For the most part it is tightly researched and
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.030 | 0.014 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".