2023 AOS Elliott Coues Award to Gregory F. Ball and Jacques Balthazart
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jacques Balthazart (left) and Gregory F. Ball (right). The Elliott Coues Award recognizes outstanding and innovative contributions to ornithological research with no limitation to geographic area, sub-discipline(s) of ornithology, or the time course over which the work was done. This award was established in honor of Elliott Coues, a pioneering ornithologist of the western United States and a founding member of the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU). The award consists of the Elliott Coues Medal and an honorarium. In 2023, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) is presented jointly to Gregory F. Ball and Jacques Balthazart. Gregory F. Ball is the Vice President for Research and professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, USA. Jacques Balthazart is the Director Emeritus of the Behavioral Neurobiology Research Group, GIGA Neurosciences, at the University of Liège, Belgium. Gregory F. Ball and Jacques Balthazart have enjoyed a highly productive long-term collaboration since they published their first paper together in 1989. They are well known for their innovative work on avian endocrinology and neurobiology. This includes work on the steroid hormone regulation of sexual behavior in quail and seasonal neuroplasticity in songbirds. They have also investigated sex differences in the avian brain in relation to the control of courtship and other reproductive behaviors. Their basic work on the chemical neuroanatomy of the avian brain has contributed to revised views of avian and mammalian brain homologies. They have published more than 150 papers together among their 300 (Ball) and 500 (Balthazart) total research papers and have co-organized numerous symposia at the International Symposium on Avian Endocrinology meetings and the International Ornithological Congress. Ball and Balthazart have both served as president of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, and both are Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Balthazart received the Farner Medal for distinguished work in avian endocrinology (2016) and has been an Honorary Fellow of the AOS since 1985. Ball has been an AOS Elective Member since 1992 and an AOS Fellow since 2005. The American Ornithological Society is honored to bestow the 2023 AOS Elliott Coues Award jointly to Gregory F. Ball and Jacques Balthazart.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.833 | 0.723 |
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".