Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article demonstrates how human–animal interactions are uniquely important to the negotiation of group identity and its boundaries. I use ethnographic, interview, and archival historical data to examine Alberta, Canada’s province-wide rat control program and its decades-old claim to ‘rat-free’ status. Using an approach to culture as systems of shared meaning, I investigate the significance of this institutional rat control effort and why being ‘rat-free’ is a meaningful distinction in Alberta. I argue that this rat control program is one element of an overarching project of border policing and ‘boundary work’ that continually works to define the limits of Albertan collective identity. Rat control contributes to this project both by clarifying the actual geographic borders of the province and by narratively constructing a notion of Albertan identity. This analysis provides useful and widely applicable insight into the unique capacity of animals to participate in boundary work, owing to their dual identities as cultural objects and elements of the biophysical landscape, which makes them instrumental in negotiating both spatial and symbolic boundaries.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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