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A course on Translation at the 2025 FSCI Scholarly Communication Institute – brought to you by Translate Science!

It’s no secret that, for several decades now, the world of scientific research and publication has been dominated by the use of English as a lingua franca. Translate Science aims to promote multilingual open science. As part of this, it seeks to foster an appreciation for and to support the development of competences in translation for those who want to contribute to a more multilingual science.

In line with this, Translate Science applied to hold a course at the FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI). FORCE11 is a community of people with various roles in scholarly communication that aims “to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology.” The theme of FSCI 2025 is “Working towards Open Scholarship in the Age of Intelligent Automation”, and this year’s edition offers a variety of online courses on how digital tools can aid in scientific workflows. While translation is a field that deals with language and culture, it is also highly technologized, with a wealth of digital resources and tools to support translation processes. This makes it a perfect topic to explore as part of FCSI 2025!

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Seeking panelists to share how their multilingual open science has been affected by US Federal policy shifts

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Does your work include aspects of multilingual and open science? Have you been affected by the current policy and funding paradigm in the United States? Please note that you do not need to be based in the US or have directly received funding from a US institution to have been affected by the current policies. The core contributors at Translate Science are seeking folks who can shed light on the challenges and opportunities of our current situation so that we can all better understand how to orient our efforts towards a more just scientific enterprise. If you know of others who may be interested please share this post with them

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Panel discussion on September 3rd at 16:00 UTC

Being a part of the Translate Science community can mean many different things because the work of increasing multilingualism within the scientific enterprise by necessity engages diverse actors working in science. In our second panel discussion, the Translate Science core contributors are seeking to help our wider community understand different approaches by providing a platform for folks to share how they advance open and multilingual science in their current role. We hope that this event can shed some light on the issues that affect researchers in different regions and serve to bring together others engaging with them.

In this iteration of our Translate Science community meeting we will be featuring two researchers in biology

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Translate Science April 2024 Panel

You’re invited to a panel discussion on April 22, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

Being a part of the Translate Science community can mean many different things because the work of increasing multilingualism within the scientific enterprise by necessity engages diverse actors working in science. In our first panel discussion, the Translate Science core contributors are seeking to help our wider community understand different approaches by providing a platform for folks to share how they advance open and multilingual science in their current role. We hope that this event can shed some light on the issues that we care about and serve to bring together others engaging with them.

In this iteration of our Translate Science community meeting we will be featuring Lynne Bowker and Emma Steigerwald.

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Launch of Translate Science

Translate Science is interested in the translation of the scholarly literature. Translate Science is an open volunteer group interested in improving the translation of the scientific literature. The group has come together to support work on tools, services and advocate for translating science.

The groups members have different background and motivations. Hydrogeologist Dasapta Irawan would like scientists to be able to write in the language of the people they serve. Ben Trettel works on the breakup of turbulent water jets and regrets that so much insight from the Russian turbulence literature is ignored. Victor Venema works on observed climate trends and needs information on (historical) measurement methods, which are kept in local languages; his field needs to understand climate impacts everywhere and quality data from all countries of the world. Luke Okelo, Johanssen Obanda and Jo Havemann are working with AfricArxiv – the community-led Open Access portal to promote African research output. They are interested in seeing scientific literature in African languages transcend traditional scholarly publishing barriers that indigenous languages come up against and will soon launch a collaborative effort to translate African scholarly manuscripts into various African languages.

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