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08 Dec Presentation at the 5th Helsinki Initiative Webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication

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Tatsuya delivered his presentation "Language, economic and gender disparities widen the scientific productivity gap" at the 5th Helsinki Initiative Webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication. Watch the recording here....

27 Nov Presentation at a UQ library event “The Promises, Perils and Possibilities: AI in Research and Scholarly Publishing”

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Tatsuya delivered his presentation "How can we leverage AI to overcome language barriers in Science?" and contributed to panel discussion with other speakers at a UQ library event "The Promises, Perils and Possibilities: AI in Research and Scholarly Publishing". See the library page here and watch...

12 Nov New paper in Environmental Evidence

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Very delighted to annoouce a brandnew paper led by Violeta just published in Environmental Evidence! Despite growing evidence showing the importance of non-English-langauge evidence, environmental evidence syntheses still remain predominantly monolingual (English), potentially leading to biased results and misinforming policy decisions. In this paper we trained...

30 Oct Big congratulaions to Kelsey for passing her PhD examination!

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Big congratulations to Kelsey Hannah on successfully completing her PhD! She passed her examination with no correction and will likely be the first person in the world to receive a PhD on language barriers in conservation. Four years ago she was brave enough to join a...

18 Sep New paper in PLOS Biology

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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 New paper in Australasian Journal of Information Systems

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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 Nature Career Podcast

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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 New perspective article in PLOS Biology

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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...

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...