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Record W4416203009 · doi:10.1080/23299460.2025.2582306

Frankenwords or, responsible innovation for the humanities

2025· article· en· W4416203009 on OpenAlexaff
Marc Saner

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Responsible Innovation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicScience Education and Perceptions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsResponsible Research and InnovationNeologismNormativeArgument (complex analysis)Perspective (graphical)DutyMythologyHarm

Abstract

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This perspective is an exercise in reflexivity. The field of Responsible Research and Innovation commonly provides normative analyses of the STEM disciplines. I am asking here: can an argument be made to pay more attention to innovation in the humanities, for example neologisms, metaphors and slogans? I use the history of the neologism Frankenfood to link the responsibilities of STEM and non-STEM disciplines. The history of this word in combination with the history of its inspiration, Mary Shelley’s novel (Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus), provides a rich tapestry linking the verbal with the physical. Two ethical themes already seem present in the original Promethean myths (Prometheus plasticator and Prometheus pyrphoros), the responsibility of designing creations well, and the follow-up duty of care for the creations. I hope the focus on the persistence and potential harm of memes will promote a discussion of responsible innovation in the humanities.

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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)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.995
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.019
Scholarly communication0.0080.013
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0060.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

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 head0.157
GPT teacher head0.462
Teacher spread0.305 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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