News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

21 Apr New paper out in PLOS ONE

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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 Our work featured by The Guardian

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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 New paper out in Conservation Biology

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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 January 2022 update

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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...

29 Jan Non-English-language evidence now in the Conservation Evidence database

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We are excited to see that the non-English-language studes we identified in this study are now all stored as a part of the Conservation Evidence database. This is a huge step forward towards fully incorporating scientific evidence available in non-English languages into evidence-based conservation. Many thanks again...

20 Jan New member

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A big warm welcome to another new member - Marina Corella! Marina has just started their PhD with Tatsuya and Prof Rich Fuller about international environmental agreements and legislation around migratory bird conservation. They will also work on consequences of language barriers for developing agreements among...

17 Jan New member

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Happy New Year everyone! We are very happy to start the new year with a new member - Haonan Wei! Haonan will soon start an honours project in environmental science at the University of Queensland. She has a strong interest in the role of popular science as...

06 Dec Presentations on language barriers

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Since September Tatsuya has been busy presenting the outcome of the translatE project at five seminar series/conferences. These were amazing opportunities and thanks so much for the invitations and productive discussions! 22nd Sept: Language barriers in conservation and science. (2021) Lab seminar. The Invasion Science...

06 Dec New piece out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Our new opinion piece "A solution for breaking the language barrier" has been published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. This is collaboration led by Dr. Rassim Khelifa at the University of British Columbia. As a potential solution to overcoming language barriers in science, we proposed...

19 Oct October 2021 update

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Please have a look at our October 2021 update, which includes information on our latest paper, the progress of two other sub-projects, new members at translatE, and so on. Hope you like it!...