News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

13 Jun Project update – June 2025

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Please see our project update here. We would like to thank all our collaborators and supporters for their continued, huge contribution and support for us....

15 May New paper in Conservation Biology

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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 New member – Conrad Pratt

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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,...

28 Feb CBCS newsletter features Kelsey’s best presentation prize at ESA2024

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The latest issue of the CBCS newsletter covers Kelsey Hannah, who won the student prize for best spoken presentation at ESA2024. Read the newslette here (PDF) and big congratulations again Kelsey!...

11 Feb Coverage in “Changemakers in science” in Nature

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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 New paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity

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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...

19 Dec New paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Excited to see our new review article "Language barriers in conservation: consequences and solutions" now published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution! This is an outcome based on 5 years of work at our translatE project, supported by over 130 collaborators around the world. This...

13 Dec Tatsuya’s plenary at the ASAB Winter Meeting 2024 and award ceremony at BES 2024

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Tatsuya enjoyed delivering a plenary presentation at the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Winter Meeting 2024 in Edinburgh, the UK. Watch his presentation together with all other exciting talks on the day here: During his visit to the UK, he also gave a presentation at...

12 Dec Kelsey awarded the best student presentation at ESA2024

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We are extremely pleased to hear that Kelsey Hannah has been awarded the first prize for an outstanding student spoken presentation at the 2024 Conference of the Ecological Society of Australia in Melbourne! Kelsey delivered a talk titled "Understanding the flow of information and evidence in...

04 Oct translatE awarded UQ Research Culture Award

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Another big achievement for the translatE pojrect with all project members and collaborators – we have been awarded The University of Queensland Research Culture Award for the Conduct of Research, Reproducibility & Open Research Practices! ...