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Tatsuya and the translatE project has been announced as the British Ecological Society’s 2024 Equality and Diversity Champion! This annual award recognises an individual or group who have campaigned to highlight the importance of equality and diversity and worked to make …

Kaizen Conservation Group welcomes two more new members! Aquetzalli Nayelli Rivera-Villanueva is a new PhD student and plans to work on making a better use of non-English-language evidence for addressing global challenges including the biodiversity crisis. Nayelli is passionate about bats …

We are excited that Dr Naoki Katayama has joined Kaizen Conservation Group as an academic visitor. Naoki is a researcher seeking a better balance between food production and biodiversity conservation, especially in Asian rice ecosystems. Through his research experience in Japan, …

Pleased to announce another new paper titled “Responses of a bird community to sporadic outbreaks of woody herbivorous insects in a temperate beech forest in Japan.” led by Kazuma Yasuda at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. We reported that most …

We are excited to announce yet another new publication “Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, led by Henry Arenas-Castro, with over 30 collaborators. As gatekeepers of scientific knowledge, academic publishers play a …

We are pleased to announce a new publication “Content analysis of nature documentaries in China: Challenges and opportunities to raise public conservation awareness” in Biological Conservation, led by Haonan Wei, a former honours student in our group. In this study, we …

We are excited to announce a new publication “Language inclusion in ecological systematic reviews and maps: Barriers and perspectives” led by Kelsey Hannah, a PhD student in our group. In this paper she examined the inclusion of non-English-language literature in environmental …

See the excellent coverage of our work and others by Chemical & Engineering News here: What to do when language impedes science.

Tatsuya gave a lunchtime lecture for the Linnean Society of London, titled “One-way mirror in the room: how language barriers impede conservation“. The lecture recording is available here.

See the coverage of our latest work by Nature (third coverage this year!), discussing the pros and cons of ChatGPT and other AI tools for scientific publishing. How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing.