News - translatE | Transcending language barriers to environmental science

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

Posted at 16:47h in Uncategorised

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

Posted at 13:51h in Uncategorised

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

Posted at 13:34h in Uncategorised

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

Posted at 11:02h in Uncategorised

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

Posted at 07:49h in Uncategorised

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...

04 Aug translatE in Research Highlights at UQ Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science

Posted at 12:25h in Uncategorised

translatE is now featured as one of the Research Highlights at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, the University of Queensland. Uncovering science behind language barriers for biodiversity conservation...

29 Jul International Shorebird Twitter Conference 2020

Posted at 11:35h in Uncategorised

Tatsuya will be giving a keynote presentation titled "Flying over the Tower of Babel: Implications of language barriers on shorebird conservation" at the first ever International Shorebird Twitter Conference 2020 (7 – 8 October 2020), an online global event as part of the International Wader...

27 Jul New project member: Pablo Negret

Posted at 17:20h in Uncategorised

It is a great pleasure to welcome our new member, Pablo Negret, to the translatE project! Pablo will be working on implications of language diversity in vertebrate conservation. See People for his research interests and what he has been working on so far....

08 Jul Webinar: How to overcome language barriers in science.

Posted at 10:29h in Uncategorised

See our #ECRWednesday webinar at eLife, with Margarita Calvo, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Biswapriya Misra and Yap Boum II, on how to overcome language barriers in science. ...

08 Jun Call for collaborators and students

Posted at 16:39h in Uncategorised

We are looking for potential collaborators and students who are keen to work on language barriers in science. There are multiple scholarships (although highly competitive!) for graduate students at the University of Queensland, with the next application for the International Scholarship opening on the 27th June. If you...