News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

30 Jun Workshop – Overcoming language barriers to academic publishing

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We are happy to announce that we will be organising a workshop on language barriers to academic publishing at 9:00 - 11:00 am AEST on Wednesday the 7th July 2021. Please find more details in the flyer below and register (https://forms.gle/xNTXGCdAaeRrtbKY8; limited to 100 people max.)...

17 Jun Workshop “Why language matters in conservation and what you can do” on YouTube

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The workshop Tatsuya organised for the AERLive with the Applied Ecology Resources is now available on YouTube. Why language matters in conservation and what you can do Language barriers in science – difficulties faced when conducting and communicating science in situations involving multiple languages – have attracted...

21 May AER Live: Why language matters in conservation and what you can do

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Tatsuya will be organising a workshop on 27th May (11:00 BST / 07:00 BRT / 20:00 AEST) for AER Live by the Applied Ecology Resources. Why language matters in conservation and what you can do Language barriers in science – difficulties faced when conducting and communicating science...

16 Apr translatE awarded the UQ internal grant for mentoring and diversity in biology

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We are delighted to announce that the translatE has just been awarded the UQ internal grant for mentoring and diversity in biology. With this we plan to expand our work on identifying academic journals committed to tackling language barriers. We look forward to sharing with you...

07 Apr April 2021 update on the progress of the translatE project

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We are excited to issue our first project update of the year! It contains the progress of the project components, and links to our recent publications, presentations as well as a list of academic journals committed to addressing language barriers. Read the update here. Hope you will enjoy...

08 Mar List of academic journals committed to tackling language barriers

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Publishing in English is hard for many but some English-language journals do a great job in reducing language barriers. We have started a list of academic journals committed to tackling language barriers to acknowledge their efforts and inform non-native English speakers. We have already 15 journals listed...

15 Feb A new paper published in One Earth

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A new paper "Culturally diverse expert teams have yet to bring comprehensive linguistic diversity to intergovernmental ecosystem assessments" based on a collaboration with IPBES fellows has just been published in One Earth. We looked at how linguistic diversity is represented in eight IPBES assessment reports and...

02 Feb Presentation at AIMOS2020 “Is non-English-language Literature Important in Science?” now available

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You can now see Tatsuya's talk at the 2020 annual meeting of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS2020) here: ...

19 Jan Honours projects now available

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Two honours projects, at the University of Queensland, on language barriers in conservation science are now available and we are looking for students who are interested in joining our translatE project. The first project aims to understand the prevalence and drivers of including non-English language studies...

13 Jan Presentation “The translatE project: our aims and progress so far in overcoming language barriers in conservation science” now available

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Tatsuya gave a talk on the aims and progress of the translatE project at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, the University of Queensland, which is now available online here: ...