A new careers article published in the journal Science explains how language barriers hinder diversity in science, excluding a wide variety of opinions and perspectives, and discuss potential solutions.
Tatsuya was interviewed by the writer and some of the work by translatE is featured in the article. Read the article here.
We are excited to issue our October 2020 update on the project progress. We have finally finished the screening of non-English-language articles on the effectiveness of conservation interventions for all 16 languages! You can see some preliminary results from the non-English-language literature searches, including how many journals/articles we have already screened, and how the number of the relevant papers identified have been changing over time, and are distributed geographically, as well as our progress on investigating the use of English vs non-English-language literature in national conservation reports.
Read the update here.
You can now see Tatsuya’s presentation “Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation” in English and Japanese. Enjoy!
1 #ISTC20 #Sesh7 OK here’s a thread on #languagebarriers. Yes you are in the right conference. This is still about shorebirds. What I mean is I will explain how language barriers can affect the conservation of shorebirds (or any other species). So don’t leave! #ornithology pic.twitter.com/CUTxjoeXs5
— Tatsuya Amano (@tatsuya_amano) October 8, 2020
1 #ISTC20 #Sesh7 この発表の主題は #言語の障壁 です。シギ・チドリの国際会議なので意外に思われるかもしれませんが、言語の障壁がシギ・チドリ類の保全に及ぼす影響について発表したいと思います。今回はシギ・チドリに注目した発表ですが、内容は他の種にも適用できるはずです。#ornithology pic.twitter.com/0YKlkaDPCF
— Tatsuya Amano (@tatsuya_amano) October 8, 2020
Don’t miss Tatsuya’s keynote presentation “Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation” tomorrow at the International Shorebird Twitter Conference 2020.
His presentation will start at 7:00 UTC (17:00 in Brisbane) on 8th October but you can see it anytime later at: https://twitter.com/tatsuya_amano
Also if you are interested in shorebirds, don’t forget to follow all exciting presentations at #ISTC20.
We are excited to issue our August 2020 update on the project progress. You can see some preliminary results from our searches for non-English-language literature on conservation, including how many journals/articles we have already screened, and how the relevant papers identified are distributed geographically.
Read the update here.
We have recently started working on another component of the project, which aims to understand language barriers to the application of English-language knowledge on biodiversity conservation. This component tries to understand how decision-makers perceive language as a barrier to the use of science in their conservation decision making.
For this, we are recruiting collaborators to help us list national-level reports on biodiversity and its conservation in non-English-speaking countries, investigate the number of references cited there, and do a questionnaire survey with the authors of the reports (also see below). We have already recruited 14 country coordinators so if you are interested in becoming one please reach out for further details.
translatE is now featured as one of the Research Highlights at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, the University of Queensland.
Uncovering science behind language barriers for biodiversity conservation
Tatsuya will be giving a keynote presentation titled “Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation” at the first ever International Shorebird Twitter Conference 2020 (7 – 8 October 2020), an online global event as part of the International Wader Study Group’s 50th anniversary.
The conference is still seeking submissions, so visit the website for more detail and be part of this exciting event!
It is a great pleasure to welcome our new member, Pablo Negret, to the translatE project!
Pablo will be working on implications of language diversity in vertebrate conservation. See People for his research interests and what he has been working on so far.
See our #ECRWednesday webinar at eLife, with Margarita Calvo, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Biswapriya Misra and Yap Boum II, on how to overcome language barriers in science.