A new article on the ongoing impacts of #languagebarriers in science and potential solutions, with a particular focus on Africa.
Also nice to see my long-secret toilet episode finally out in the open😅
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Researchers say language barriers shape who gets published, funded and heard in global science.
But we also know that Dimensions is still far from indexing all non-English-language papers.
- How many species are there on Earth?
- How many papers are published in language X?
Which of these questions is more difficult to answer??
Read this piece discussing the opportunities and challenges of AI‑driven translation in reducing #languagebarriers in science.
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
Analysis of 56,680 applications to the Canadian federal grant scheme revealed that writing a grant proposal in French rather than in English is associated with lower chances of securing funding (35.5% vs 37.6%). Important work!
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
#languagebarriers
A great set of practical suggestions on how to overcome language barriers in science, from our project member/collaborator @henryarenas.bsky.social and @vramirezc.bsky.social, also highlighting some of our work.
#languagebarriers
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In this work led by Josh Wilson, we labelled 4824 drone-based images containing 49990 birds from 101 species and trained a bird detection and ID model. The model achieved precision = 0.91 for detection & 0.65 for species/age/sex classification.
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
