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   petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:16:50 JST petersuber

   In September 2020 I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #MultilingualResearch.
   https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1307774697531113474

   Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon.

   Here's a rollup of the complete Twitter thread.
   https://resee.it/tweet/1307774697531113474

   Here's a nearly complete archived version in the @waybackmachine.
   https://web.archive.org/web/20220908060944/https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1307774697531113474

   Watch this space for updates.

   #Academia #Multilingualism
   @academicchatter

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:16:48 JST petersuber

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     • JournalofElectronicPublishing

     Update. The Journal of Electronic Publishing (@JEPub) just issued a call for papers to appear in a special issue on #Multilingual publishing.
     https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/71/
     (#paywalled)

     The special issue will accept papers in accept papers in English, Spanish, or French.

     #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #CFP

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:16:49 JST petersuber

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     Update. The cost of translating consent forms into other languages limits the participation of non-English speakers in clinical trials.
     https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06382-0

     Summary this study.
     https://www.science.org/content/article/non-english-speakers-are-being-shut-out-clinical-trials

     #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:17:12 JST petersuber

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     Update. The Confederation of #OpenAccess #Repositories (#COAR) just released an important set of recommendations on managing multilingual and non-English language content in #OA repositories.
     https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/managing-multilingual-and-non-english-language-content-in-repositories/

     #GreenOA #Metadata #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:17:14 JST petersuber

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     Update. I missed this from 2020: "Among the researchers [from seven European countries] who published at least three [#SSH] journal articles [in 2013-15] over one-third…had written their work in at least two languages…Research is international, but multilingual publishing keeps locally relevant research alive with the added potential for creating impact."
     https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24336

     #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:17:15 JST petersuber

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     Update. New study: Chinese scholars decide whether to publish in Chinese or English based on the "perceived value" of the "best-fitting" journals.
     https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1249857/full

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:17:16 JST petersuber

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     Update. All too often scholars researching global attitudes toward something will write a survey in English and only English. Because I've criticized this practice, I'm happy to spotlight and applaud this research team for writing its survey (on data sharing and re-use in the field of traumatic stress) in seven languages — and publishing its abstract in three languages.
     https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008066.2023.2254118

     #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:17:18 JST petersuber

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     Update. Can #AI solve the problem of #language #discrimination (good research by non-native speakers rejected from English-language journals on the ground of weak English)?
     https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/ai-writing-tools-will-not-fix-academias-language-discrimination-problem
     (#paywalled)

     Natalia Kucirkova argues no. The best bots may be good enough. But they are not accessible to all who need them, and "non-native researchers still have to invest extra time & more dollars to fix their papers than their native colleagues."

     #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:17:19 JST petersuber

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     Update. Good line from the previous piece (this thread, above).
     https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/english-may-be-sciences-native-language-but-its-not-native-to-all-scientists/

     "When it comes to language, we often think of Gloria Pritchett, a character in the popular American television show Modern Family. Gloria is a native Spanish speaker living in a fast-paced English-speaking family. 'Do you even know how smart I am in Spanish?' she says in one episode.”

     #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:17:20 JST petersuber

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     Update. "Despite English being the lingua franca of science, getting an excellent level of English is a privilege of few, restricted to high-income countries or those who can pay for intense language training in Global South countries. Yet, most of the hiring calls from Global North research institutes urging inclusion conflate being a good scientist with being good (or excellent) at English. This isn’t true."
     https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/english-may-be-sciences-native-language-but-its-not-native-to-all-scientists/

     #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

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     petersuber (petersuber@fediscience.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:17:21 JST petersuber

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     Update. New study: "Most journals [in #biology] offer minimal support for scientists whose first language is not English…Only 8% of the journals made their complete guidelines to authors available in at least one language other than English; less than 7% allowed authors to publish articles in languages other than English; and a mere 10% explicitly approved the use of references published in a language other than English."
     https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02529-1

     #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch