An unfractured line: an academic tale of self-reflective social movement learning in the Nova Scotia anti-fracking movement
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Abstract
Introduction ‘My friends, we are unfractured. And thereby hangs a tale. It's a tale in which we all are – each one of us is – a starring character and a co-author. We are the maker of this story that has been shaped by our unceasing, unrelenting efforts – all of which mattered and made a difference.’ (Sandra Steingraber, New York State anti-fracking organiser, 22 January 2015) ‘Frack Off, Gasholes!’ screams a T-shirt in block letters. It is worn by an attendee at the third public consultation of the Nova Scotia Independent Review Panel on Hydraulic Fracturing, held in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada on 21 July 2014. The 11-member Nova Scotia Independent Review Panel on Hydraulic Fracturing was commissioned by the New Democratic (socialist) provincial government in Nova Scotia in August 2013 after it put in place a two-year moratorium on fracking in 2012. The review panel submitted its report in August 2014, and in November a legislated ban was brought in by the Liberal government that succeeded the New Democrats. Several of us who drove up from Antigonish, where St Francis Xavier University is located, are wearing T-shirts that we have just purchased in the lobby downstairs. Our shirts are less direct, more tongue-in-cheek. Mine says, ‘peas-full protest against fracking; protect local food from oil and gas drilling’. It has a drawing on it of peas on the march. With the exception of one vocal audience member, the room is full of anti-frackers – with T-shirts, buttons and signs opposing fracking on display. Still, even though we all oppose the process, people are in the room for different reasons. Some of these differences are clearly visible from the tone and approach of the T-shirts we wear, while others are less visible. For instance, there are several people in the room who would dispute that we are in Nova Scotia, instead insisting we are in Mi’kma’ki, the traditional territory of the Mi’kmaq First Nation – territory that was never ceded over the almost 300 years since the British and Mi’kmaq first signed a treaty. The Mi’kmaq are the main First Nation people in the Canadian Maritimes, with a traditional territory that encompasses all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, the majority of New Brunswick, the Gaspesie in Quebec and parts of Newfoundland, and in the US, the state of Maine.
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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 | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.019 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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".