Bibliographic record
Abstract
Banton's Banner YearMore auspicious?Sure!For all its dangers, toils, and snares, 2019-2020 turned out to be a banner year for Associate Professor Caree Banton.She won teaching honors for a second year in a row, piloted one of the Department's most important initiatives, and published a book with one of the world's most distinguished presses.More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic (Cambridge University Press) examines the hundreds of Afro-Barbadians who left the post-emancipation Caribbean to settle in Africa's independent black republic.On the one hand, they looked to promote a pan-Africanist agenda but, on the other, saw theirs as a "civilizing" and "Christianizing" mission.As Banton concludes, these erstwhile British subjects "were Pan-Africanists whose ideas tended towards pro-royalist Anglophilia." This imperial identity "COVID-19 and the History of Pandemics, " that explores the connections between COVID-19 and the experience of and response to pandemics past.The line-up includes Freddy Dominguez on the bubonic plague, Jim Gigantino on smallpox, Elliott West and Anne Marie Martin on yellow fever, Ren Pepitone on cholera, Trish Starks on the 1918 flu, Todd Cleveland on HIV/AIDS, and Kelly Hammond on the first emergence of COVID-19 in China.The course is available to the general public in six self-paced modules.Each module costs $25 to access; a sixpack can be bundled for $125.Professor Starks begins each module with a lesson on the evolution of governments' interest in managing the health of their citizens.Further detail is offered elsewhere in this newsletter.Faculty returned this fall after a spring and summer of canceled conferences, postponed workshops, aborted research trips, broken dreams, and a whole lot of family time."I must say, " one colleague reported, "that I loved my children more before Owed a Party and a ParadeAs usual, History's graduate students and undergraduates clothed themselves in glory.But the Department wasn't able to accouter them appropriately.Last spring's awards ceremonies and commencement having been canceled, the sashes, roses, and laurel wreaths still languish in big boxes in Old Main 416.But we recognized their excellence as best we could, sending them sanitized certificates and a little bit of tease in the mail.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".