News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

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!...

08 Oct New paper out in PLOS Biology, with 62 collaborators

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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...

06 Oct New members

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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...

19 Jul July 2021 update

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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!...

19 Jul Workshop on language barriers to academic publishing now available on YouTube

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We successfully organised a workshop on language barriers to academic publishing on 7th July. The workshop had two major objectives. In the first half, Editors-in-Chief from three journals (Evolution, Biotropica, and Ornitología Neotropical) discussed how their journals try to address language barriers to publishing and how...

09 Jul A new opinion piece out in Nature Human Behaviour

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Our new opinion piece "Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science" has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour. Based on collaboration with scientists working in diverse disciplines (we met at eLife #ECRWednesday Webinar back in 2020), we have listed ten tips to help everyone...

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...