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Record W4415402494 · doi:10.1093/biosci/biaf163

<i>BioScience</i>, a Global Biodiversity Journal, Seeks a Globally Diverse Editorial Board

2025· article· en· W4415402494 on OpenAlex

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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

VenueBioScience · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiodiversityEditorial boardOn boardGlobal biodiversityDiversity (politics)

Abstract

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Editor in Chief This month’s BioScience issue has a typically globally diverse authorship. About half of the authors come from various European countries and the other half from North America, mostly the United States. We often have research groups reporting from Oceania, South America, and less so from Africa and Asia. Although it is reassuring that, month in and month out, we publish studies on the status of biodiversity from around the world, we also know that the journal mirrors the Global South’s underrepresentation in terms of the assessment of species conservation status and research in both fundamental and applied areas of the biodiversity sciences, including education, to more effectively inform the public of the importance of biodiversity for human well-being. Although we do have incredibly thoughtful members of the Editorial Board from the underrepresented regions, we need more from these areas. The Kunming–Montreal Global Diversity Framework has 196 countries as signatories. Therefore, it is also clear to us that we need a more globally diverse Editorial Board to provide the nuanced perspectives of biodiversity issues and related policies where so much of the world’s biota can still be found. I am happy to report that we have nearly equitable gender representation on the Editorial Board, and we would like to maintain this proportion as we expand our Editorial Board to the Global South. We realize that much competent science on biodiversity issues related to the Global Science comes from people who reside elsewhere, and we welcome that. If you are a serious reader of BioScience, have reviewed for the journal on multiple occasions, or have contributed to a BioScience article, we welcome your expression of interest or nomination of someone else to serve on the Editorial Board. Thank you!

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.092
Threshold uncertainty score0.626

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.269 · 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