News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

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...

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,...