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05 Oct

Posted at 16:02h in Uncategorised

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

Posted at 15:51h in Uncategorised

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

Posted at 18:33h in Uncategorised

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

Posted at 12:45h in Uncategorised

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

Posted at 11:17h in Uncategorised

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...

21 Apr

Posted at 17:59h in Uncategorised

Our new paper "Language barriers in global bird conservation" led by Pablo Negret has been published in PLOS ONE. By combining global datasets of distributions of 10,863 bird species and 119 official languages in 252 countries/territoris in the world, we showed that a surprisingly large number...

04 Apr

Posted at 15:08h in Uncategorised

We are pleased to see our work is featured in The Guardian's series "The age of extinction". Read the article here: Lost in translation: is research into species being missed because of a language barrier?...

25 Mar

Posted at 18:56h in Uncategorised

Our new paper "Growth of non-English-language literature on biodiversity conservation" led by Shawan Chowdhury has been published in Conservation Biology. We show that, contrary to a common perception, the number of non-English-language articles on conservation published per year has been increasing over the past 39 years,...

29 Jan

Posted at 11:40h in Uncategorised

It is our great pleasure to release the first project update of the year - non-English literature database in Conservation Evidence, new preprint, new members, and so on. Hope you enjoy it and look forward to continuing/developing collaboration in the year 2022. Many thanks for your...