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Record W7155421369 · doi:10.1017/s1743921325002042

Equity and Inclusivity in Canadian Astronomy

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Brenda C. Matthews

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the International Astronomical Union · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicHistory and Developments in Astronomy
Canadian institutionsHerzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMandateEquity (law)DemographicsAgency (philosophy)Diversity (politics)Inclusion (mineral)

Abstract

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Abstract The Canadian Astronomical Society/Societe Canadienne d’Astronomie (CASCA) is the organization of professional astronomy in Canada. In 2015, CASCA created an Equity and Inclusivity Committee, with a mandate to collect data, track progress, propose initiatives and promote equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). The committee has now been active for several years and has recently completed the first climate survey of its members. The climate survey in particular highlighted the difference experiences of those identifying as women and men within the astronomical community. Attempts to revive demographics studies of the society have been met with several challenges, recognizing today the need for individuals to self-identify. We describe as well the planned emphasis on EDI within Canadian astronomy’s next decadal style survey. Finally, we note initiatives of Canada’s funding agency for astronomy, NSERC, and individual initiatives that have been undertaken. EDI is a priority for CASCA, and there is a lot of motivation and lots of ideas for improvement. Solutions will take time, cooperation and money to implement.

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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)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesOpen science
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.998
Threshold uncertainty score0.944

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.009
Science and technology studies0.0250.011
Scholarly communication0.0110.003
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.000

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.244
Teacher spread0.236 · 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 designQualitative
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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Published2024
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