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25 Jul Amano, T., Ramírez-Castañeda, C., Berdejo-Espinola, V., Borokini, I., Chowdhury, S., Golivets, M., González-Trujillo, J.D., Montaño-Centellas, F., Paudel, K., White, R.L. & Veríssimo, D. (2023) The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science. PLOS Biology 21: e3002184.

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This paper quantified disadvantages of being a non-native English speaker in conducting a range of scientific activities, from reading and writing papers to participating in international conferences....

22 Mar Amano, T., Berdejo-Espinola, V., Akasaka, M., de Andrade Junior, M.A.U., Blaise, N., Checco, J., et al. (2023) The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments. Nature Sustainability 6: 845-854.

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By investigating the use of scientific literature in biodiversity assessment reports across 37 countries/territories, we have uncovered the established role of non-English-language literature as a major source of information locally....

22 Mar Berdejo-Espinola, V. & Amano, T. (2023) AI tools can improve equity in science. Science, 379: 991.

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In response to Science's updated policy to ban the use of text generated by AI tools in papers, in this letter we argue that AI tools could help alleviate current linguistic disparities in academia and thus improve equity in science....

23 Feb Nolde-Lopez, B., Bundus, J., Arenas-Castro, H., Román, D., Chowdhury, S., Amano, T., Berdejo-Espinola, V. & Wadgymar, S.M. (2023) Language barriers in organismal biology: what can journals do better? Integrative Organismal Biology, obad003.

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This study surveyed the author guidelines of 230 journals in organismal biology for linguistically inclusive and equitable practices and policies....

09 Dec Chowdhury, S., Zalucki, M. P., Amano, T., Poch, T. J., Lin, M.-M., Ohwaki, A., Lin, D.-L., Yang, L., Choi, S.-W., Jennions, M. & Fuller, R.A. (2022) Trends and progress in studying butterfly migration. Integrative Conservation.

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This study reviewed studies on butterfly migration published in six languages (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish) and found 345 non-English-language studies, compared to 581 English-language studies, mostly on species in South America and Asia, where English-language studies were scarce. ...

06 Oct Pottier, P., Lin, H.-Y. Oh, R.R.Y., Pollo, P., Rivera-Villanueva, A.N., Valdebenito, J.O., Yang, Y., Amano, T., Burke, S., Drobniak, S.M. & Nakagawa, S. (2022) A comprehensive database of amphibian heat tolerance. Scientific Data 9: 600.

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This study systematically searched the literature in seven languages to produce the most comprehensive dataset to date on amphibian upper thermal limits, spanning 3,095 estimates across 616 species....

21 Apr Negret, P.J., Atkinson, S.C., Woodworth, B.K., Corella, Tor M., Allan, J.R., Fuller, R.A. & Amano, T. (2022) Language barriers in global bird conservation. PLOS ONE 17 (4): e0267151

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This paper showed that a surprisingly large number of languages are spoken within the distribution of bird species; over 1,500 bird species have 10 or more languages spoken within their distributions. Threatened and migratory species have especially many languages within their ranges, demonstraging the importance...

25 Mar Chowdhury, S., Gonzalez, K., Aytekin, M.Ç.K., Baek, S.-Y., Bełcik, M., Bertolino, S., Duijns, S., Han, Y., Jantke, K., Katayose, R., Lin, Mu-M, Nourani, E., Ramos, D.L., Rouyer, M.-M., Sidemo-Holm, W., Vozykova, S., Zamora-Gutierrez, V., & Amano, T. (2022) Growth of non-English-language literature on biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology.

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It is often assumed that non-English-language literature is diminishing, as science is becoming increasingly globalised. In this paper we show that the number of conservation articles published per year is actually increasing in many languages, at a rate similar to English articles....

06 Dec Khelifa, R., Amano, T. and Nuñez, M.A. (2021) A solution for breaking the language barrier. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

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We propose a potential solution to overcoming language barriers in science - developing a platform for facilitating the exchange of language skills among researchers....

08 Oct Amano, T., Berdejo-Espinola, V., Christie, A.P., Willott, K., Akasaka, M., Báldi, A., et al. (2021) Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity. PLOS Biology 19(10): e3001296.

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Can we keep ignoring non-English-language science? We found 1,234 papers in 16 languages that test what works in conservation. Including them will boost evidence availability in conservation into 12-25% more areas and 5-32% more species....

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