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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!...

Our latest paper based on a big global collaboration "Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity" has just been published in PLOS Biology. By screening over 400 thousand peer-reviewed papers in 326 journals published in 16 languages, we showed the untapped, enormous potentials...

A big warm welcome to our two new members - Henry Arenas-Castro and Kelsey Hannah! Henry is a Senior Research Technician, assessing the commitment of journals in organismal biology to overcoming language barriers in academic publishing. Kelsey is a new PhD student, focusing on understanding how language...

We are happy to issue our July 2021 project update, which includes information on our recent preprints and papers as well as two workshops we organised to discuss language barriers. Hope you will enjoy it!...