News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

23 Aug Our preprint featured in Nature

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We are delighted to see that our preprint "Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies" led by Henry Arenas-Castro, a previous member of the project, is featured in Nature. By analysing author guidelines from 736 journals in biological sciences and survey responses from the editors-in-chief of 262...

19 Jul New paper in PLOS Biology

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We are thrilled to announce our new publication "The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science" in PLOS Biology. In this paper we surveyed 908 environmental scientists from eight countries (Bangladesh, Bolivia, Japan, Nepal, Nigeria, Spain, Ukraine and the UK) with different linguistic...

06 Jun Tatsuya’s presentation at Helsinki Initiative webinar on multilingualism in scholarly communication

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Tatsuya’s presentation on language barriers in conservation science, together with two other exciting presentations on multilingualism in science, at the Helsinki Initiative webinar on multilingualism in scholarly communication, is now available here....

12 May April 2023 update

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We are pleased to share our first project update of the year, packed with information on new papers and other good news. The first phase of the translatE project has come to an end last month. Thanks to all your enormous contribution and support, we have...

27 Mar Interview on ABC radio Tasmania

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It's great to see some media coverage of our new publication: "The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments", this time in Tasmania! Listen to Tatsuya talking about it at ABC radio Tasmania Afternoons with Joel Rheinberger here (from 2:04:32)....

16 Mar New paper in Nature Sustainability

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We are pleased to see the publication of our latest paper "The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments" in Nature Sustainability. In this paper we surveyed 37 countries where English is not an official language, and found that 65% of the references cited...

09 Mar New letter in Science

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After Science updated its editorial policy to ban the use of text generated by AI tools in scientific papers, we wrote a letter to the Editor raising our concern about the decision made. We argue that AI tools like ChatGPT and DeepL could help alleviate current...

06 Mar Survey: New marine interventions for ecosystems in rapid transition

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Prof Tiffany Morrison at James Cook University, Australia and her team are now looking for participants in their survey: new marine interventions for ecosystems in rapid transition. Please find below the details and a link to the online survey in English, and the same survey translated...

06 Feb Call for contribution to special issue “Emotional burdens of imposed monolingualism in education and science”

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Our close collaborator Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda at UC Berkeley is calling for contribution to a special issue "Emotional burdens of imposed monolingualism in education and science" for journal Forum for Linguistic Studies. Suitable topics include (but are not limited to): Mental health issues for foreign or second-language...

17 Jan Tatsuya’s plenary at ESA-SCBO2022 is now available online

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Tatsuya's plenary on why language barriers matter in conservation and how we can tackle the issue, at the joint conference of the Ecological Society of Australia and the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania 2022, is now available online here (under "Morning Plenary - Thursday 1...