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Abstract
Welcome to the Spring issue of Volume 18 of Childhood in the Past, the journal of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP).2024 was another successful year for the Society.We are delighted to welcome Creighton Avery of the University of Toronto (Mississauga) as the Deputy Committee Secretary for SSCIP.Nominations for the position were open throughout November 2024 and Creighton was formally accepted onto the Committee at the SSCIP AGM in December.She will support the current Committee Secretary, Sophie Newman, until later this year when Sophie will step down and Creighton will take on the full SSCIP Committee Secretary role.The role involves supporting the President of the Society and any other Committee members, as and when needed, with organisational aspects of the Committee and the SSCIP membership.It also entails organisation of online SSCIP committee meetings, writing and circulating minutes, preparation and distribution of the SSCIP newsletter, and liaising with conference organisers.The 16th annual SSCIP conference took place on the 20-23 November and was organised by Antony Colombo (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), and his colleagues, in Bordeaux, France.The theme of the conference was 'Interdisciplinarity for the Study of Childhood in the Past'.It was organised as five sessions -'Redefining Concepts and Methods to Study the Children of the Past', 'Early Tales from Bones and Muscles', 'Goods, Games or Toys, What Makes a Child a Child?', 'Early Life Experiences and the Mother-Infant Relationships', and 'Displaced Lives, Impact of Forced or Voluntary Migrations on Children' -involving 26 oral and 10 poster presentations.The presenters hailed from France, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA.The conference commenced with a lecture for the public by Mélanie Pruvost of the University of Bordeaux entitled 'Ancient Genomes, Lost Childhoods: Tracing the Lives of Young People in Societies of the Past'.The lecture was delivered in French but the slides of the presentation were in English.Two keynote lectures were also delivered -Alex Ireland, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, gave a presentation entitled 'How Muscles Shape the Growing Skeleton', while Joëlle Provasi, CY Cergy Paris University, Saint-Denis, France, talked about 'The Influence of the Maternal Environment on Foetal Learning'.Many congratulations to Antony and his team for organising an excellent conference which was thoroughly enjoyed by all involved.We are very pleased to report that the 17th annual SSCIP conference will be hosted by Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer, Felix Riede and Helle Strandgaard Jensen (School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University) in Aarhus, Denmark, from 24-26 June 2025.The conference theme is 'Children and Climate Change'.New submissions of papers and suggestions for special issues of Childhood in the Past are always welcome and you will find details of the submission process on the SSCIP website (https://sscip.org.uk/journal/).This is also the case for SSCIP monographs which are published by Archaeopress and can be made Open Access for a fee (https://www.archaeopress.com/
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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 | 0.004 | 0.026 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.092 | 0.071 |
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".