<em>Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology</em> | Wiley Online Library Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific conte...

Analysis of 87,577,942 articles in Dimensions showed an increase in % of non-English-language publications from 6.14% in 1990 to 14.48% in 2023, likely indicating an increase in non-English-language publications (esp Indonesian) and their growing visibility.
doi.org/10.1002/asi....
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English or Perish? The Value of Linguistic Capital in the Social Sciences and Humanities - Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie, 2026 This article examines the relationship between linguistic practices and funding success in Canadian social sciences and humanities. Through a mixed-methods appr...

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

English verbs don't change, prepositions shift, plurals confuse—daily battle. Isolation from forgetting. Share to heal. #FirstGenImmigrant #Resilience #LanguageBarriers #MentalHealth

The Unheard Voice: When Language Barriers Limit Patient Care I never had to think when I switched between speaking Tamil and English, it was second nature to me. I spoke Tamil at home and English at school, sometimes mixing the two without realising I did. I ha...

🧪In today’s article, @ox.ac.uk medical student Menagaa Sarvananthalingam reflects on how #languagebarriers affect #patientcare, from both a personal and professional perspective, highlighting how they contribute to #healthinequalities and how to address them.

www.inspirethemind.org/post/the-unh...

Read this piece discussing the opportunities and challenges of AI‑driven translation in reducing #languagebarriers in science.
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

For some reason, people decided to give some of the more interesting, deeper things in life, a lot more syllables and vowels.

love/passion

body/consciousness

fear/courage

foolish/perspicacious

gospel/philosophy

#writingcommunity #writers #words #language #languagebarriers #learning #knowledge

The good news:
Gen Z still uses "my bad"

The bad news:
I thought text emojis were back when Ryu sent me a message ending in gng

I thought it was some new version of TnT

So I sent him an OTL

...and he had no clue what that was >.>

#EnberFam #LanguageBarriers

Very pleased to see that @natecoevo.nature.com’s editorial introducing the journal’s AI policies builds on our evidence about language barriers faced by non-native English speakers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#languagebarriers

Spanish-language text classification for environmental evidence synthesis using multilingual pre-trained models - Environmental Evidence Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being explored as a tool to optimize and accelerate various stages of evidence synthesis. A persistent challenge in environmental evidence syntheses is tha...

In this paper led by Violeta Berdejo-Espinola, we trained machine learning models to identify Spanish-language papers on the effectiveness of conservation actions. The best model missed no relevant articles while excluding > 70% of irrelevant papers.
doi.org/10.1186/s137...
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I am more than happy to chat with anyonoe/present anywhere about what we did to reduce #languagebarriers at #ICCB2025, so if interested please let me know.

Discussing the challenges of translation and language barriers, emphasizing the importance of understanding and empathy. #LanguageBarriers https://fefd.link/pwkPx

How English-Centric Metrics Distort Global Scientific Productivity New research shows how language and income shape who gets credited for scientific output—and why women and non-native English speakers face persistent gaps.

How English-centric metrics distort global scientific productivity - a nice coverage of our recent paper (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) in @plosbiology.org
www.the-scientist.com/how-english-...
#languagebarriers

JMIR Formative Res: Correction: Overcoming Language Barriers in Paramedic Care With an App Designed to Improve Communication With Foreign-Language Patients: Nonrandomized Controlled Pilot Study #LanguageBarriers #ParamedicCare #PatientCommunication #HealthTech #MedicalInnovation

The Smile Support Society to host multilingual oral healthcare initiative - Mariam Abaza

WhatsApp introduces in-app message translation, allowing users to instantly translate messages and bridge language barriers across its global user base. More languages and features coming soon.

#WhatsAppTranslation #LanguageBarriers #GlobalCommunication

Who gets to do science? A demand for English is hurting marginalised researchers Everyone, no matter their background, should have an equal chance to work in science – but there are huge systemic barriers.

Read our Conversation piece on our new paper (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) here:
theconversation.com/who-gets-to-...
#languagebarriers
@aunz.theconversation.com

女性、英語非ネイティブ、そして低所得国の出身者は、科学の世界で不利な立場にありますが、その格差はどれほどでしょうか？本研究では、英語を第一言語としない低所得国出身の女性は、英語での論文発表数が最大70％少ないことが分かりました。1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Estimated disadvantages for non-native English speakers when conducting different scientific activities. The height of hurdles indicates the relative length of time taken to read an English-language paper (Reading), to write a paper in English (Writing), and to prepare an oral presentation in English (Presentation), and the relative frequency of an English-language paper being rejected (Paper rejection) or requested to revise (Paper revision) due to English writing, for non-native English speakers (Non-native), compared to native English speakers (Native).

Obviously this does not reflect the true productivity of researchers facing gender, economic and #languagebarriers, as they face tremendous hurdles when conducting various scientific activities, as we previously showed in this paper for non-native English speakers:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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www.frontiersin.org/journals/glo... #InterpretingServices #MaternityInterpreting #VideoMediatedInterpreting #LanguageBarriers #MigrantHealth #HealthcareEquity

It was a pleasure to host a workshop on #LanguageBarriers yesterday at #Behaviour2025!

Thank you to everyone who came along!

@asab.org @behaviour2025.bsky.social @christopherwmiller.bsky.social @avezyrakis.bsky.social

Workshop on Language Barriers Chris Miller, Janire Castellano and Alexandros Vezyrakis

Thank you to everyone who joined our #LanguageBarriers workshop! 🎉

We had fantastic discussions and brainstormed practical solutions. We will work on these and bring them together, so watch this space!

@christopherwmiller.bsky.social
@avezyrakis.bsky.social
#Behaviour2025

🌍 🗣️ Is language a barrier at academic conferences?

#Behaviour2025 #DEI #LanguageBarriers #JEDI

Workshop cover

And of course, don’t miss our workshop where we will be discussing #LanguageBarriers in academia! 🌍

#Behaviour2025

Multilingual Publishing: Frequently Asked Questions | R-bloggers Read it in: Español.Read it in: Français. As we’ve said before, we believe that publishing multilingual resources can lower the barrier to access to knowledge, help democratize access to quality resou...

Great to see rOpenSci’s commitment to multilingual publishing to democratize access to quality resources and increase the possibilities of contributing to software and open science projects:
www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/mult...
ropensci.org/multilingual...
#languagebarriers

Scientists may take pride in publishing in prestigious English journals, but it is equally important to consider how these findings can be shared more broadly with their peers and the general population, especially those who do not speak or read English. #languagebarriers
dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Reviewing published and grey literature in local European languages to supplement existing databases on floral resource traits We collected data on plant phenology, density of flowers and production of floral resources in European countries, using published and grey literature written in 11 local languages. The collection co...

Academic and grey literature searches in 11 European languages identified over 2,000 records of floral resource traits, complementing existing databases. #languagebarriers
doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Knowledge from non‐English‐language studies broadens contributions to conservation policy and helps to tackle bias in biodiversity data Collecting data from local sources markedly further strengthens global biodiversity databases by adding species not previously included in international datasets. Furthermore, the addition of these d...

Including data published in Brazilian journals, esp those published in Portuguese, inreased the representation of Brazilian species (x 10) and populations (x 7.6) in vertebrate population trend data. Data from Brazilian journals reduced trend variation. #languagebarriers
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365...

3/12 When they arrived:

• Her mother had only a high school diploma, no English

• Her father had a Master's in history but no teaching certificate, no English

Under today's Alberta Next panel criteria?

👉They likely wouldn't qualify for support. 👈
#LanguageBarriers #AlbertaNext