Bibliographic record
Abstract
A VISIT TO BON PORTAGE ISLAND, NSOn July12, 2025, seventeen NSIS members and guests participated in an excursion to Bon Portage Island, off the southwest coast of Nova Scotia.Bon Portage (called Outer Island on some maps) is a 240-hectare uninhabited island now owned by Acadia University, which operates it as an ecological research and field education site.It is also protected by a Conservation Easement with the Nova Scotia Nature Trust.Bon Portage supports a tremendous richness of pristine coastal habitats and species.It is one of Nova Scotia's last remaining large, unspoiled coastal islands, with many botanical species of interest.The island also provides a critical stopover for many migrating songbirds, shorebirds, waterfowl and raptors.It is home to over fifty species of breeding birds, including the largest breeding colony of Leach's storm petrels (Hydrobates levcorhous) south of Newfoundland.Historically, it is the location of the famous book "We Keep a Light" by Evelyn Richardson.She and her husband Morrill purchased the island in 1926, moved there in 1929, and lived on it for the
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.260 | 0.036 |
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".