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18 Sep

Posted at 17:26h in Uncategorised

Excited to announce another important paper from us showing systematic barriers in academia, published in PLOS Biology. Women, non-native English speakers and researchers from low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? In this paper we found that women with non-English first languages from...

29 Jul

Posted at 12:10h in Uncategorised

Another great collaboration paper led by Andrew Burton-Jones! With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, in this paper we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there. We also experimented with multilingual review/publishing in this paper. Read the paper here to learn...

29 Jul

Posted at 12:03h in Uncategorised

Nature's Changemaker podcast series features our work on language barriers in science and the role of AI: Read the coverage here, and listen to Tatsuya's interview here.  ...

24 Jun

Posted at 12:07h in Uncategorised

Can we imagine a future in which everyone can use their own language to write, assess and read science with the help of AI? Read our new perspective article published in PLOS Biology to see why we believe this is the future of academic publishing. Great collaboration...

15 May

Posted at 11:23h in Uncategorised

In our new paper published in Conservation Biology, we showed that non-English papers receive most of their citations from the same language and few from English, indicating that scientific evidence in biodiversity conservaiton rarely crosses language barriers. Non-English-language papers with an English abstract receive more...

09 Apr

Posted at 11:30h in Uncategorised

We are delighted to welcome a new member to our project, Conrad Pratt! During his PhD he aims to mprove our understanding of language barriers to the generation, external consumption, and implementation of research in the environmental sciences in Japan. Conrad is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada,...

11 Feb

Posted at 15:41h in Uncategorised

Very excited to see this coverage in "Changemakers in science" series in Nature! The interview is about why Tatsuya decided to tackle language barriers, what he wants to change, and so on. Also check out the nice photo with Yee, Kelsey, and Nayelli, taken by Naoki at...

15 Jan

Posted at 16:26h in Uncategorised

A comment piece "Assessing diverse values of nature requires multilingual evidence", led by Violeta Berdejo-Espinola, has been published in the first issue of a brand-new journal Nature Reviews Biodiversity! In this piece we reiterate that global assessments, such as those by the IPBES, should be...