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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 …

Delighted to see this paper now out: “Range size and abundance dynamics of Japanese breeding birds over 40 years suggest a potential crisis in warm areas”. In this collaboration with colleagues in Japan, we investigated changes in the range size and …

In our new paper published in Conservation Biology, we showed that non-English papers receive most of their citations from the same language and few from English, indicating that scientific evidence in biodiversity conservaiton rarely crosses language barriers. Non-English-language papers with an …

Excited to share this new paper based on our long-term collaboration with researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology! We show that all six large terrestrial mammal species in Japan (sika deer, wild boar, Japanese serow, Japanese macaque, Asiatic black …

We are delighted to welcome a new member to our group, Conrad Pratt! During his PhD he aims to mprove our understanding of language barriers to the generation, external consumption, and implementation of research in the environmental sciences in Japan. Conrad …