2024 AOS William Brewster Memorial Awards to Juan Carlos Reboreda and Renée Duckworth
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Abstract
The William Brewster Memorial Award is given each year to the author or coauthors of the most meritorious body of work (book, monograph, or series of related papers) on birds of the Western Hemisphere published during the past ten years. This year, the AOS is announcing two 2024 Brewster Awards: one to Juan Carlos Reboreda and one to Renée Duckworth. Juan Carlos Reboreda Juan Carlos Reboreda is an emeritus professor at the University of Buenos Aires and a superior researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina. He studied biology and completed his Ph.D. in biological sciences at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. After that, he conducted postdoctoral studies at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, and the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Oxford University. During the last 30-plus years his main research interest has been the behavioral ecology and conservation of southern South American birds. He has published more than 150 papers (mainly in ornithological and animal behavior journals) and supervised 20 PhD and 10 MSc students. Reboreda is a fellow of the International Ornithological Union (2006) and the American Ornithological Society (2011), and received the Alexander F. Skutch Medal from the Association of Field Ornithologists (2018). He has been Associate Editor of The Auk (now Ornithology; 2007–2013), Bird Conservation International (2007–2017), and Emu-Austral Ornithology (2011–2013). He has served as Head of Department (2004–2006), Secretary of Science (2006–2010), Vice-Dean (2010–2014), and Dean (2014–2022) of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, and has been President (1994–1996 and 2004–2008) of Aves Argentinas (BirdLife Argentina) and a Council Member of BirdLife International (1999–2004). He is currently serving as vice president of the International Ornithologists’ Union (2022–2026). Renée Duckworth Renée Duckworth is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She received her PhD at Duke University followed by two postdoctoral fellowships at University of Edinburgh and Harvard University. Her research focuses on evolution of behavior and understanding how evolutionary changes in behavior influence population dynamics, ultimately shaping macroevolutionary processes. She conducts large-scale field experiments, empirical studies of lifetime fitness, field endocrinology and molecular multi-generational pedigree reconstruction. Her work on long-term population dynamics in bluebirds has shown that phenotype-dependent dispersal influences colonization dynamics and competition between species, ultimately leading to species replacement. Duckworth’s work has been published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS), Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (Proceedings B), The American Naturalist, and Evolution. In 2008, she was awarded the Young Investigator’s Award by the American Society of Naturalists and in 2010 she received the Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award from the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU, now AOS), as well as numerous AOS travel grants during her student years. She was a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to establish the role of maternal effects in cycles of colonization of bluebird species. She was elected as an Elective Member of the AOS in 2012 and an AOS Fellow in 2017, was an associate editor for The Condor (now Ornithological Applications) from 2008 to 2011, served on the Cooper Ornithological Society (now the AOS) Board and AOS Council, and is currently an associate editor of The American Naturalist. The American Ornithological Society is honored to bestow the 2024 William Brewster Memorial Awards to Juan Carlos Reboreda and Renée Duckworth.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.308 | 0.108 |
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".