Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science

Tatsuya Amano^{1

2}, Clarissa Rios Rojas³, Yap Boum Ii⁴, Margarita Calvo^{5

6}, Biswapriya B Misra⁷

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. t.amano@uq.edu.au.
² Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. t.amano@uq.edu.au.
³ Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ Epicentre, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
⁵ Physiology Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁶ Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Pain (MiNuSPain), Santiago, Chile.
⁷ Independent Researcher, Namburu, India.

Tatsuya Amano et al. Nat Hum Behav. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep;5(9):1119-1122.

doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01137-1.

Tatsuya Amano^{1

2}, Clarissa Rios Rojas³, Yap Boum Ii⁴, Margarita Calvo^{5

6}, Biswapriya B Misra⁷

¹ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. t.amano@uq.edu.au.
² Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. t.amano@uq.edu.au.
³ Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ Epicentre, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
⁵ Physiology Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁶ Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Pain (MiNuSPain), Santiago, Chile.
⁷ Independent Researcher, Namburu, India.

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