News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

29 Jan New paper in Research Synthesis Methods

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We are excited to announce a new publication “Language inclusion in ecological systematic reviews and maps: Barriers and perspectives” led by Kelsey Hannah, a PhD student at translatE. In this paper she examined the inclusion of non-English-language literature in environmental systematic literature reviews and maps, and...

21 Nov Coverage by Chemical & Engineering News

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See the excellent coverage of our work and others by Chemical & Engineering News here: What to do when language impedes science....

15 Nov The Linnean Society of London lunchtime lecture

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Tatsuya gave a lunchtime lecture for the Linnean Society of London, titled "One-way mirror in the room: how language barriers impede conservation". The lecture recording is available here....

11 Oct News coverage by Nature

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See the coverage of our latest work by Nature (third coverage this year!), discussing the pros and cons of ChatGPT and other AI tools for scientific publishing. How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing....

05 Oct October 2023 update

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We are glad to share our second project update of the year, coveraging our recent outcomes, media coverages, and some other news including a fully funded PhD opportunity. We would like to thank all the collaborators and supporters for our project, who have made all these...

05 Oct Fully funded PhD project available

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We are recruiting a candidate for a fully-funded PhD project "Tapping into non-English-language science in tackling global environmental challenges". See the project description and preferred educational background below and more details from the link above. Contact Dr Tatsuya Amano (t.amano@uq.edu.au) to discuss your interest and suitability. Project...

01 Oct Violeta started her new position

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We are excited to announce that Violeta has just started her new position at the project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in multilingual evidence synthesis. She will lead a part of our new ARC Discovery Project—Tapping into non-English-language science in tackling global challenges—through developing multilingual collaboration...

13 Sep News coverage by ABC

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See the coverage of some of our work by ABC and discussion on how language barriers can have impacts on both scientists and the planet. English is the common language of science. That comes at a cost for scientists and the planet....

23 Aug Our preprint featured in Nature

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We are delighted to see that our preprint "Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies" led by Henry Arenas-Castro, a previous member of the project, is featured in Nature. By analysing author guidelines from 736 journals in biological sciences and survey responses from the editors-in-chief of 262...

19 Jul New paper in PLOS Biology

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We are thrilled to announce our new publication "The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science" in PLOS Biology. In this paper we surveyed 908 environmental scientists from eight countries (Bangladesh, Bolivia, Japan, Nepal, Nigeria, Spain, Ukraine and the UK) with different linguistic...