Bibliographic record
Abstract
This issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science contains a thematic section on “Information and Reality,” with contributions from the Science and Religion Forum held in Birmingham in May 2022. For an introduction to this section, I refer the reader to the introduction that has been written by guest editor Finley Lawson. The “Articles” section contains five articles. In the first article, Libby Osgood, an engineering professor and a religious sister, investigates how saints can inspire hope and action in support of the environment; specifically, she applies a “green gaze” to Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys, a seventeenth-century educator in what would become Montreal. In the second article, Yuanlin Guo provides an intriguing reading of Fengshui as neither science (although it focuses on this world) nor religion (although it is mystical); according to him, Fengshui goes beyond magic and is also “a mystical trade that centers on secular benefits.” In the third article, Tim Lomas and Brendan Case survey humankind's ongoing encounters with celestial phenomena that remain genuinely unknown but are considered deeply significant; they witness a shift from angels to aliens against a contemporary secular background with efforts to “debunk” any of these events. In the fourth article, Margaret Boone Rappaport, Christopher Corbally, and Riccardo Campa extend the concept of “rescue and recovery” from an earthly setting (specifically focusing on international law on the high seas) to extraterrestrial species; they show how a fundamental meaning of this concept can be derived from theological analysis. Finally, in the fifth article, Adam Chin reflects on the aims of typologies in the field of science-and-religion and offers a new kind of typology, which categorizes the methods used by scholars in the field. The issue ends with one book review: Derek Gatherer reviews William Phillips's The Cooperative Neuron: Cellular Foundations of Mental Life. Since October 1, 2020, when Deb Van der Molen retired, we have been making use of Wiley's services for copy editing and I myself have volunteered as proofreader (which also often involved quite a bit of retroactive copy editing…). Since this had doubled my investment of time in the journal and that situation was supposed to be temporary, the Joint Publication Board of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science agreed last fall to fund a part-time Editorial Assistant for me at University College London. I am extremely happy to announce that after an open recruitment, with 56 applicants, we were able to select Sarah Jost, a top-quality candidate with extensive copy editing experience, most recently at Australian National University. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre Arts (summa cum laude) from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has family links with Chicago (Zygon’s home city), and lives and works in London. I very much look forward to working with her, including during the present transition toward publishing diamond open access with the Open Library of Humanities from January 1, 2024 (please visit zygonjournal.org for our new one-stop website), and onward.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.025 | 0.018 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.129 | 0.033 |
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".