A spinner of yarns: Conversations with Auntie Mady
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article reflects on an oral history interview about expatriate life and transcultural belonging with lifelong traveller and multiple immigrant Mady Gerrard and reads Gerrard’s own rich and illuminating life writing, a memoir entitled Full Circle (). Having survived the Holocaust as a teenage girl, Gerrard returned to Hungary only to realize that the Soviet-enforced Communist regime was just another dictatorship. She left the country with her 3-year-old daughter, along with many other political refugees, in 1956 and settled in Wales, which she exchanged later (mostly in response to professional challenges) for Canada and the United States but returned to her adopted home, Wales, for her mature years. Our conversations were cut short by the COVID-19 lockdowns and then Mady’s death in the autumn of 2021, but the article attempts to channel her vivacious spirit and life-affirming wisdom and contextualize her legacy as important both to the memory of the Holocaust and as a contemporary woman’s material/tangible and intangible legacy (encompassing her handicraft work, writing and public appearances). The contribution consists of a framing piece of academic writing and a more creative and somewhat (auto-)ethnographic vignette capturing our encounters.
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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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.002 | 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