News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

07 Jan A correspondence article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

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A correspondence article "Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews" has just been published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. This is a collaboration with Martin Nuñez, who is also committed to tackling language barriers in science, and in response to a perspective...

18 Dec December 2020 update on the progress of the translatE project

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We are excited to issue our final project update of the year! You can see some more preliminary results from our searches for non-English-language literature on conservation, including how study designs adopted differ among languages, how many species are covered in each language, and how those...

04 Dec Keynote presentation at AIMOS 2020

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Tatsuya gave a keynote presentation "Is non-English-language literature important in science?" at the second annual meeting of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science (AIMOS). The under-use of non-English-language literature in today's scientific activities is often based on the three common assumptions: (i) most scientific...

17 Nov List of non-English-language journals in ecology and conservation uploaded

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We are happy to announce we have finally uploaded a list of non-English-language journals in ecology and conservation here: https://translatesciences.com/resources/#journals This list of journals has been compiled by the translatE project with a huge help from our collaborators (please see Collaborators sheet for detail), as a...

30 Oct translatE featured in the journal Science

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A new careers article published in the journal Science explains how language barriers hinder diversity in science, excluding a wide variety of opinions and perspectives, and discuss potential solutions. Tatsuya was interviewed by the writer and some of the work by translatE is featured in the...

19 Oct October 2020 update on the progress of the translatE project

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We are excited to issue our October 2020 update on the project progress. We have finally finished the screening of non-English-language articles on the effectiveness of conservation interventions for all 16 languages! You can see some preliminary results from the non-English-language literature searches, including how...

15 Oct Tatsuya’s keynote presentation at the International Shorebirds Twitter Conference 2020 now available

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You can now see Tatsuya's presentation "Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation" in English and Japanese. Enjoy! https://twitter.com/tatsuya_amano/status/1314098224190300160 https://twitter.com/tatsuya_amano/status/1314121742982422528...

07 Oct Tatsuya’s keynote presentation on language barriers at #ISTC20

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Don't miss Tatsuya's keynote presentation "Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation" tomorrow at the International Shorebird Twitter Conference 2020. His presentation will start at 7:00 UTC (17:00 in Brisbane) on 8th October but you can see it anytime later...

03 Sep August 2020 update on the progress of the translatE project

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We are excited to issue our August 2020 update on the project progress. You can see some preliminary results from our searches for non-English-language literature on conservation, including how many journals/articles we have already screened, and how the relevant papers identified are distributed geographically. Read the...

12 Aug Recruiting collaborators – national-level reports on biodiversity conservation

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We have recently started working on another component of the project, which aims to understand language barriers to the application of English-language knowledge on biodiversity conservation. This component tries to understand how decision-makers perceive language as a barrier to the use of science in their...