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04 Dec 2020

Posted at 11:07h in Uncategorised

Tatsuya gave a keynote presentation “Is non-English-language literature important in science?” at the second annual meeting of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science (AIMOS).

The under-use of non-English-language literature in today’s scientific activities is often based on the three common assumptions: (i) most scientific knowledge is available in English, (ii) non-English-language literature is diminishing, and (iii) English-language science represents a random subset of non-English-language science. In this presentation, he talked about the progress of the translatE project, showing that none of the three common assumptions is actually supported by evidence, at least in ecology and conservation.

The presentation slides are available here.

17 Nov 2020

Posted at 10:40h in Uncategorised

We are happy to announce we have finally uploaded a list of non-English-language journals in ecology and conservation here: https://translatesciences.com/resources/#journals

This list of journals has been compiled by the translatE project with a huge help from our collaborators (please see Collaborators sheet for detail), as a part of our comprehensive searches for non-English-language papers that test the effectiveness of conservation interventions.

The list includes 466 academic journals in 19 languages in 38 countries/regions around the world. Did you know Бюллетень МОИП, серия биологическая has 172 years of history (founded in 1829!)?

We hope that this list will be useful for making a better use of scientific knowledge published in non-English languages.

30 Oct 2020

Posted at 11:15h in Uncategorised

A new careers article published in the journal Science explains how language barriers hinder diversity in science, excluding a wide variety of opinions and perspectives, and discuss potential solutions.

Tatsuya was interviewed by the writer and some of the work by translatE is featured in the article. Read the article here.

19 Oct 2020

Posted at 16:47h in Uncategorised

We are excited to issue our October 2020 update on the project progress. We have finally finished the screening of non-English-language articles on the effectiveness of conservation interventions for all 16 languages! You can see some preliminary results from the non-English-language literature searches, including how many journals/articles we have already screened, and how the number of the relevant papers identified have been changing over time, and are distributed geographically, as well as our progress on investigating the use of English vs non-English-language literature in national conservation reports.

Read the update here.

15 Oct 2020

Posted at 13:51h in Uncategorised

You can now see Tatsuya’s presentation “Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation” in English and Japanese. Enjoy!

07 Oct 2020

Posted at 13:34h in Uncategorised

Don’t miss Tatsuya’s keynote presentation “Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation” tomorrow at the International Shorebird Twitter Conference 2020.

His presentation will start at 7:00 UTC (17:00 in Brisbane) on 8th October but you can see it anytime later at: https://twitter.com/tatsuya_amano

Also if you are interested in shorebirds, don’t forget to follow all exciting presentations at #ISTC20.

03 Sep 2020

Posted at 11:02h in Uncategorised

We are excited to issue our August 2020 update on the project progress. You can see some preliminary results from our searches for non-English-language literature on conservation, including how many journals/articles we have already screened, and how the relevant papers identified are distributed geographically.

Read the update here.

12 Aug 2020

Posted at 07:49h in Uncategorised

We have recently started working on another component of the project, which aims to understand language barriers to the application of English-language knowledge on biodiversity conservation. This component tries to understand how decision-makers perceive language as a barrier to the use of science in their conservation decision making.

For this, we are recruiting collaborators to help us list national-level reports on biodiversity and its conservation in non-English-speaking countries, investigate the number of references cited there, and do a questionnaire survey with the authors of the reports (also see below). We have already recruited 14 country coordinators so if you are interested in becoming one please reach out for further details.

29 Jul 2020

Posted at 11:35h in Uncategorised

Tatsuya will be giving a keynote presentation titled “Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation” at the first ever International Shorebird Twitter Conference 2020 (7 – 8 October 2020), an online global event as part of the International Wader Study Group’s 50th anniversary.

The conference is still seeking submissions, so visit the website for more detail and be part of this exciting event!