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Beading Witness: Notes on (S)kin

2025· article· en· W4413149209 on OpenAlexaffabout
Marissa Magneson

Bibliographic record

VenuePawaatamihk A Journal of Métis Thinkers · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLaw in Society and Culture
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWitnessNext of kinPsychologyHistoryPolitical scienceLawArchaeology

Abstract

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In “Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation,” Métis scholar and artist David Garneau reflects on two paintings that document gatherings through comic-style images with speech bubbles, but no text. These works, as Garneau explains, serve as mnemonic devices that capture the relationships, exchanges, and emotions in the room without revealing the content, relying on a coded visual language that requires deeper understanding (Garneau, 2012). This act of omission can also be seen as a form of refusal, acknowledging that some things are not meant to be shared (Simpson, 2007). Inspired by Garneau’s approach, I translated my reflections from the 2024 Mawachihitotaak conference into autoethnographic field notes through beadwork on home-tanned fish skin leather. Each design, color, and symbol carries personal meaning, allowing me to decide what to reveal and what to conceal. While those present at the conference may interpret the beadwork with deeper insight, outsiders have a more limited understanding. Drawing from Michelle Porter’s exploration of memory mapping and oral storytelling (Porter, 2024), I pair beadwork photographs with select conference quotes, offering potential context without translating the full narrative. This work enacts refusal by not sharing every embedded story, as they are not mine to fully tell.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.044

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0220.015
Scholarly communication0.0080.011
Open science0.0020.008
Research integrity0.0050.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.317
Teacher spread0.300 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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