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12 Dec December 2022 update

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It is our great pleasure to give you our December 2022 project update. It includes recent publications and presentations from the project, media coverage, a brief update on two of our sub-projects, and exciting news on having secured a new grant. We would like to thank...

09 Dec Contribution to a new book: Transforming Conservation: A practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

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We are very excited to see the release of a new open access book: Transforming Conservation: A practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making which is edited by Prof William Sutherland, and authored by 76 experts from around the world. The overarching aim of the book is to...

09 Dec New paper in Integrative Conservation

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Our new paper “Trends and progress in studying butterfly migration” led by Shawan Chowdhury, previously at the UQ and now at iDiv, has been published in Integrative Conservation. This study reviewed studies on butterfly migration published in six languages (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean,...

25 Nov New funding from the Australian Research Council

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We are absolutely delighted to announce that we have been awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant for the next three years! This is going to be another global collaboration with many including Prof William Sutherland at the University of Cambridge and Assistant Prof Fangyuan...

18 Nov Seminar delivered by Henry Arenas-Castro on language barriers in academic publishing

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Henry Arenas-Castro has delivered an inspiring seminar titled "Overcoming language barriers in academic publishing" at the UQ School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series. Based on the outcome of a recent collaborative project, supported by the 2021 Grant for Mentoring and Diversity in Biology of the UQ...

05 Oct New paper out in Scientific Data

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Our new paper "A comprehensive database of amphibian heat tolerance" led by Patrice Pottier at the University of New South Wales has been published in Scientific Data. In this paper, a multi-lingual team led by Patrice systematically searched the literature on amphibian heat tolerance in seven...

21 Sep Coverage by Ensia

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We are pleased to see our work, among others including Eliza Grames' amazing work, is featured in a recent article by Ensia "Language barriers in conservation research could be hurting biodiversity efforts. What can be done about it?". Read the article here....

16 Aug Keynote for the ESA-SCBO 2022

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We are very happy to announce that Tatsuya will be giving a keynote presentation at the 2022 joint conference of the Ecological Society of Australia and the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania, to be held in Wollongong, NSW from 28 November to 2 December 2022. https://www.esascbo2022.org.au/index.php/keynote-speakers/ Tatsuya...

29 Apr April 2022 update

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It is our pleasure to give you the second project update of the year, especially on our two new papers and important media coverages. Hope you enjoy it and look forward to continuing and developing collaboration with you for the rest of the year. Many thanks for...

29 Apr Coverage by the Royal Society of Chemistry

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Tatsuya was interviewed by the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine, Chemistry World, for an article on the dominance of English in science and its consequences. The article nicely covers views from a variety of experts on this issue and is well worth a read (and a...