Creating a Better Bee: Sociohistorical Approach of the Buckfast bees'
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, we tell the story of the long and slow process of creating a new and super bee, the Buckfast bee, which has become one of the most used bees by beekeepers around the world. This success story is the result of a meticulous and laborious work of selection, crossbreeding, observations and travels, carried out throughout the 20th century by a monk from Buckfast Abbey in the south of England, called Brother Adam. Strain and brand, nature and cultivation, the Buckfast bee embodies the two simultaneously, a nature-cultivational bee. And yet it is this farm animal, regardless of the strain, which has become a guardian and emblem of our biodiversity.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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