Bonny Specker - Professor Emerita, Health and Nutritional Sciences – SDSU
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dr. Bonny Specker is Professor and Chair Emerita at South Dakota State University. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Cincinnati and spent fifteen years on the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In 1997, she moved to South Dakota as the E.A. Martin Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition. She has published extensively in bone, calcium, and vitamin D metabolism and in maternal and child health epidemiology. Since 2020 she has monitored the COVID-19 situation in South Dakota, posted regular blogs, and produced videos with the City of Brookings to educate the general public on basic epidemiological principles. Upon retiring in 2021, she has written a historical fiction titled “Spot On: The 1846 Faroe Islands Measles Outbreak,” inspired by the non-fictional investigation of the Danish physician and epidemiologist Peter Panum, and is currently writing her second historical fiction on the 1876-1877 Lake Winnipeg smallpox outbreak.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".