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Record W4395034517 · doi:10.56687/9781529231212-006

Narrative Politics

2024· book-chapter· en· W4395034517 on OpenAlex
Ryan T. MacNeil

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBristol University Press eBooks · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Science Research and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativePoliticsPolitical scienceHistorySociologyLiteratureArtLaw

Abstract

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When we look to the past from a present-day neoliberal standpoint, we end up writing stories about market-dominant evolutionary processes. In contrast, this chapter presents the stories of three public research organizations and the politics around their establishment: the Canadian Naval Research Establishment, the BIO, and Dalhousie University's Oceanography Department. In these organizational settings, private companies are enrolled in political missions of military defence, Canadian sovereignty, and scientific one-upmanship. The stories characterize public organizations as active political agents. Meanwhile, the private companies around them can be characterized as 'quartermasters' – like the individuals responsible for providing supplies to units in an army (or the Q Branch in James Bond). They were producing the scientific instrumentalities needed for multiple 'cold wars'. But this relationship is also more nuanced than simple provision of equipment and services – it was often a close two-way partnership. The technical expertise provided by scientific instrument companies helps to set the course for science, and vice versa. Telling the past in this way makes the boundary between public and private organizations messier than it appears in neoliberal ideology.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.928
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.058
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it