Author: Tatsuya Amano

Excited to welcome another new member in our group! Takehiko Shimizu is a PhD candidate at Hokkaido University, Japan. He has joined our group as a visiting PhD student for one year. His research focuses on understanding how natural wetland loss …

Very delighted to annoouce a brandnew paper led by Violeta just published in Environmental Evidence! Despite growing evidence showing the importance of non-English-langauge evidence, environmental evidence syntheses still remain predominantly monolingual (English), potentially leading to biased results and misinforming policy decisions. …

Delighted to see this new publication nicely led by Marina Corella Tor! In this paper we examined international agreements aimed at conserving migratory bird species and found:• 49 agreements across 187 countries• Covering 1,677 species (86% of all migratory birds) But …

Big congratulations to Kelsey Hannah on successfully completing her PhD! She passed her examination with no correction and will likely be the first person in the world to receive a PhD on language barriers in conservation. Four years ago she was …

We are pleased to welcome two new group members! Waner Liang has just started her PhD supervised by Rich and Tatsuya. Her research will focus on understanding how migration distance, threat exposure, and population trends interact across global waterbird flyways. Mengshuai …

Excited to announce another important paper from us showing systematic barriers in academia, published in PLOS Biology. Women, non-native English speakers and researchers from low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? In this paper we found that women …

Very glad to see this important publication based on very productive collaboration with Max Kotz and James Watson. As humans face record-breaking heatwaves, this new research led by Max shows intensified heat extremes caused a 25–38% decline in the level of …

Another great collaboration paper led by Andrew Burton-Jones! With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, in this paper we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there. We also experimented with multilingual review/publishing in this paper. …

Nature’s Changemaker podcast series features our work on language barriers in science and the role of AI: Read the coverage here, and listen to Tatsuya’s interview here.

Can we imagine a future in which everyone can use their own language to write, assess and read science with the help of AI? Read our new perspective article published in PLOS Biology to see why we believe this is the future of …