Simon Hugh Piper Maddrell - Bibliography from SIMON HUGH PIPER MADDRELL. 11 December 1937 — 10 September 2020
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Simon Maddrell transformed our understanding of how insects regulate their internal environments, a major determinant of their extraordinary success. Raised during wartime on his family's farm, Simon was a grammar school scholar at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he obtained the top first of his year in zoology. A keen sportsman, he combined his studies with half-Blues in table tennis and athletics. After a PhD under the supervision of Sir Vincent Wigglesworth FRS, he took a fellowship at Dalhousie University in Canada. He returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and took up a post in the AFRC Unit housed in the Department of Zoology. His academic work focused on the insect kidney, or Malpighian tubule. He unravelled details both of the mechanisms of secretion of fluids, ions and toxins, and of their control by the nervous system. His favoured organism was the blood-sucking ‘kissing bug’, Rhodnius prolixus, which demonstrated remarkable adaptations to handle massive (but irregular) blood meals. Later he also studied the classic genetic model insect Drosophila melanogaster, helping to lay the framework for combined physiological and genetic approaches in the same organism. Outside the lab, his massive energy and financial skills were potent influences on the Company of Biologists, a charity publishing scientific journals. Living increasingly in the family seat on the Isle of Man, he also brought his perfectionism to bear on daffodil shows and woodland tree planting. He is survived by his wife and four children.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.421 | 0.291 |
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".