News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

05 Sep translatE announced as equality and diversity champion

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Tatsuya and the translatE project has been announced as the British Ecological Society's 2024 Equality and Diversity Champion! This annual award recognises an individual or group who have campaigned to highlight the importance of equality and diversity and worked to make a difference or served as...

24 Jul Two new members

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The translatE project welcomes two more new members! Aquetzalli Nayelli Rivera-Villanueva is a new PhD student and plans to work on making a better use of non-English-language evidence for addressing global challenges including the biodiversity crisis. Nayelli is passionate about bats and language inclusion in science. Ayontika...

31 May New member

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We are excited that Dr Naoki Katayama has joined the translatE project as an academic visitor. Naoki is a researcher seeking a better balance between food production and biodiversity conservation, especially in Asian rice ecosystems. Through his research experience in Japan, he is working on assessing...

30 Apr Poster summarising the findings from translatE

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Don't forget to check out our poster summarising the findings from the translatE project here, or next time you visit Tatsuya's offfice (in front of it)....

26 Mar Survey on the type of support for non-native English speakers at ICCB 2025

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The 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology 2025 (ICCB 2025) will be in Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia on 15-20 June 2025. At ICCB 2025, we are committed to reducing the language barriers to encourage the participation of people of all linguistic backgrounds. We have come up with a...

13 Mar New paper in Proc R Soc B

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We are excited to announce yet another new publication "Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, led by Henry Arenas-Castro, a former translatE member, with over 30 collaborators. As gatekeepers of scientific knowledge, academic publishers play a key...

12 Mar New paper in Biological Conservation

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We are pleased to announce a new publication "Content analysis of nature documentaries in China: Challenges and opportunities to raise public conservation awareness" in Biological Conservation, led by Haonan Wei, a former honours student at translatE! In this study, we investigated the challenges and opportunities for...

05 Mar Tatsuya’s presentation for Integrative Conservation Webinar Series

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Tatsuya gave yet another presentation titled "Language barriers in conservation: consequences and solutions" for Integrative Conservation Webinar Series. Integrative Conservation is a new interdisciplinary journal encompassing a wide range of perspectives and scholarly disciplines relevant for our understanding and conservation of biodiversity. As a member of the journal's...

01 Mar Tatsuya’s presentation at the closing keynote session of Open Research Week 2024

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Tatsuya contributed to the closing keynote session "Is open science really open for everyone?" of Open Research Week 2024, organised by University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University, Edge Hill University, and the University of Essex, and gave a presentation titled "Language barriers in open...

08 Feb February 2024 update

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We are glad to share our first project update of the year! It includes our project member Kelsey Hannah's first PhD paper, recent media coverages and presentation, as well as a new call for collaborators for an exciting global project. Hope you will enjoy it and we...