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• Research also shows that people make different decisions depending on whether they are thinking in their first or second language.
• The problem is that much of the published research about multilingualism is not conducted in the world’s most multilingual societies.
• Our recent study provides new empirical evidence of the geographic bias in multilingualism research published in high-impact scientific journals.
• The reverse is also true: the most multilingual regions are massively understudied in research on multilingualism.

A glaring mismatch

• The mismatch that emerged in our research is neatly illustrated in this map.
• The top panel presents a world map of the most common sites of multilingualism research; regions that are more commonly studied appear in darker colours.
• The map shows that North America and Western Europe are the primary locations of research on multilingualism.

Geographic bias is detrimental

• This geographic bias is not unique to multilingualism research.
• In this case, however, the underrepresentation is particularly detrimental.
• These include the unequal distribution of resources (like research infrastructure and research funding), as well as bias in the academic publishing system, which is dominated by global north institutions and publishing houses.

Tackling the problem

• In the meantime, we are pleased to see the smaller steps that are already being taken.
• One is increasing the visibility of the research that is being conducted in the global south.

• As a local brand event for tea culture, the Mengding Mountain Tea Culture Tourism Festival has been held for 18 consecutive years.
• This year's event is themed "Mengding Mountain in China - The Origin of World Tea", showcasing the long-standing history of Ya'an tea culture.
• In 2004, the 8th International Symposium on Tea Culture convened by the China International Tea Culture Institute declared that Ya'an Mengding Mountain is the birthplace of world tea culture.
• The 19th Mengding Mountain Tea Culture Tourism Festival will also launch a tea culture tourism route investigation activity, inviting guests to fully experience and appreciate the culture.

• 64 Chinese dairy enterprises published a joint action program to produce high quality milk in China.
• "China Excellent Milk Project", which focuses on raw milk upgrading, green low-carbon technology and high-quality milk consumption, has become an important measure to contribute to the action of national people nutrition program and healthy China strategy.
• The implementation of "China Excellent Milk Project" has increased the lactoferrin content of domestic quality pasteurized milk from 10.4 mg/L in 2017 to 44.8 mg/L in 2021, eight times more than that of imported products.
• Nan Zheng, leader of the implementation team of "China Excellent Milk Project" and Executive Vice President of China Excellent Milk Alliance, has formulated the first international lactoferrin detection standard together with her team and established a three-dimensional evaluation method of milk quality based on enzymes, active proteins and furosine.

• BOLOGNA, Italy, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The International Symposium on Technological Innovations in Laboratory Hematology, (ISLH 2022), was held between September 8-10 in Bologna, Italy.
• This event saw Mindray (SZSE: 300760), a global leading developer and provider of medical devices and solutions, showcase their hematology innovations and academic achievements to medical experts from Europe and around the world.
• Before ISLH, Mindray attracted over 700 participants to the HemaTalk Italy 2022 Global Live Event .
• At its booth at ISLH 2022, Mindray showcased its new MC-80 Digital Cell Morphology Analyzer and the BC-700 Series Hematology Analyzer , attracting much interest from visitors.