Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin, by Juliana Adelman
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Juliana Adelman’s study of animals in Dublin during the nineteenth century is an engaging work that considers the history of this city through the lens of interspecies interactions. Her focus is on how ‘people created civilisation as a response to animals’ (pp. 8–9), and the book is framed by two important moments in the history of Dublin: the founding of the Zoological Society in 1830 and the release of a report in 1900 focusing on public health concerns related to animals raised for food in the city. Human–animal entanglements are always fraught with tensions, and this is, in large part, due to the different and often competing ways that non-human animals have been asked to stand in as representatives for human values and ideas. For example, Adelman notes that during the nineteenth century the presence of a working horse in the streets of Dublin could be read in multiple ways. To some the tired and worn body of the horse could signify ‘economic progress’, while for others the very same horse would be a symbol of ‘moral decline’ (p. 42).
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".