The shape of a burger is reinforced in our mental linguistic definitions every time we see a burger but there isn’t a straight-forward definition.

🚨Special issue on Global Politics of Cultural Heritage edited by @elifkalay.bsky.social and yours truly for @risjnl.bsky.social is now fully out! The project is about placing cultural heritage at the core of IR. Here is the intro, individual articles in thread👇

**Gesture in simultaneous interpreting** 🎙️Celia Martín de León (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) 📅 September 19, 2025 ⏰ 1:00 PM CET 📍 Online 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/RTI-Martin-d... Hosted by the MA program in Researching Translation and Interpreting. bit.ly/InfoMARTI #xl8 #1nt

As #EST2025 kicks off today, I also become part of @lcsleeds.bsky.social as one of the visiting research fellows for the coming year. How nice.

Eventually, our abstract is accepted by the EST Congress 2025. See you all at Leeds this summer! @lcsleeds.bsky.social

Palestine is not a symbol. Not a metaphor. Not a trending topic. It is a land with a people who sing, grieve, love, and fight for a future they are told they do not deserve. And yet, they exist. And yet, they resist. And yet, they will win.

"Qu’est-ce qui ressemble à un cauchemar, dans ce rêve ? [...]La logique de ce rêve est aussi une logique patriarcale : offrir du travail aux femmes dans la sphère publique, mais en le transformant en un ghetto qui est une extension de la famille, de la sphère privée." www.jstor.org/stable/1495299

Our paper is out in JoSTrans! Co-authored with Guanpeng, a xiangsheng performer in North America, it explores how xiangsheng grows as translation against political correctness in various political environments while still connected to its roots. Grateful to Lisa, David, Sarah, and all interviewees!

I did my PhD at Cardiff’s School of Modern Languages. It’s full of clever, committed people producing wonderful research. It runs a terrific MFL outreach programme. It’s a friendly & inclusive space for students. It’s also currently the only place I get to teach. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

News | Wales spends less on culture than almost all European nations, report finds – nation risks being left behind unless cultural investment increases, says @senedd.wales committee

Launched my book at Queen’s — the place I call home. Thanks to Piotr for inviting me back and it was great to see everyone.

Aren’t they beautiful 🤩

International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications with @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social Henry Jones, Jonathan Evans, and Kyung Hye Kim www.monabaker.org/2025/01/03/i... @transla-tian-ology.bsky.social @nvp-tdi.bsky.social

Here it is! My monograph Translating Nations is out! www.routledge.com/Translating-...

My new article looks at Chinese Hui, Uyghur, and Salar Muslims adapting to the dynamics of urban social life in the early years of Xi Jinping. Being Muslim doesn't guarantee social or spatial affinity over class, experience, labor, personal history differences... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TE97U...

Language Lounge #podcast: Art and Language: A Perfect Match with Gina Gallo podcasts.apple.com/u...

Great initiative!

Also #NowReading

Glad to be back to Manchester and hold the Masterclass at #IPCITI2024 together with the editorial team of the #NewVoicesinTranslationStudies. Thank you to everyone who participated and special thanks to the organising committee!

Finally out!

Yes! I used the exact example on my class last year!

Now available for order, John Guillory's ON CLOSE READING considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques.

#LangSky #multilingual www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Happy to have a copy of this in print! Congrats to Defeng Li & John Corbett. My chapter with @tonymcenery.bsky.social on the past, present & future of the field reflects on the different concpetual approaches needed to work across texts, languages & cultures. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...

I'll be in Cambridge for a roundtable this Thursday to celebrate Waiyee's monumental new translation of #桃花扇 The Peach Blossom Fan - alongside Canaan Morse, Ariel Fox, Tom Kelly, Ellen Widmer, Catherine Yeh, Wiebke Denecke, and Steve Owen. Join us if you are in town #Sinology 🀄️📚

Calling interpreters here on BlueSky! Tuesday next week (3 Dec) the CIOL Interpreting Division holds an online session on neutrality in interpreting. Book you place today to take part! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-interp... #Interpreting #Interpreters #Neutrality #CIOL #InterpretingDivision #CIOLID

Calling all translators! We're building a Bluesky starter pack for emerging and established translators—so that we can follow each other and be in community together on the World Wide Web. If you want to be included, add yourself to this thread, and share this post far and wide with your networks :)

Got reserve listed for EST Congress 2025🤔

Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators "The award will be biggest of its kind in Europe & aims to celebrate the work of overlooked & underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI." www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... @eivinden.bsky.social @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social

Teaching discourse analysis? Need seminar material? Try this video of Jeremy Clarkson being interviewed by Victoria Derbyshire. Seminar follow up: get the students to look at how this interview is transformed on different media websites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGV...

Well, this is convenient. In Finnish, kakisto is literally a collective derivative from the word kakka ’shit’. Kak-isto Shit-collective We have a lot of these derivatives with trees: kuusi ’spruce’ > kuusisto ’set of spruces’ etc. #linguistics #Finnish

Now that a lot of you are migrating here, I take the opportunity to say that the #INCREC project has a monthly podcast about #xl8n #creativity #technology. You will 💜 it! open.spotify.com/show/2Xk77k6...

#CambridgeDictionary announce "Manifest" as their #WordOfTheYear2024. Previously meaning "easily noticed or obvious", the term has also come to mean "to imagine achieving something you want, in the belief doing so will make it more likely to happen". Read more: tinyurl.com/3aj2437b #Langsky

My book Professional Translators in Nineteenth-Century France is due out in from Routledge a little over a month. If anyone is interested in reviewing / featuring it on a podcast / having me speak at a seminar / anything else, please do reach out!

In this collection, you will find a chapter on 'mediality vs. materiality', drafting a #multimodal perspective on the notion of #media as procedures - by me. doi.org/10.1075/pbns...

A multilingual glossary helps improve home-school communications in Queensland - find out more in the latest Language-on-the-Move podcast episode @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, where @agib.bsky.social speaks with Margaret Kettle #EduSky #LangSky www.languageonthemove.com/supporting-m...

"The Centre, which is supported by UK Research Innovation (UKRI), will create opportunities for humanities researchers, practitioners, as well as a wide range of research, cultural and community organisations" Really exciting to see this new Centre at @sasnews.bsky.social! bit.ly/4fTWKR1

"The latest findings present both warning and opportunity: while secondary language learning faces significant challenges, Wales’s natural advantages in bilingual education and primary pupils’ enthusiasm for languages provide strong foundations for change"

I have put together the makings of a starter pack for people with a research presence in Translation Studies, with plenty of scope for growth - let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/2WocwkU . I will do a separate one for practising translators.

The Humanities in Translation ( HiT!) Prize is open for submissions! @nupress.bsky.social @buffettinstitute.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-i...

I am helping my friend to circulate a call for book chapter on translation and interpreting process research, which will be published by KU Lueven Press: cetra.blog/2024/11/16/c...

Here is a starter pack for academics and researchers in Translation Studies. Please let me know if you want to be added to this list. @neilsadler.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Mto2Yuo

So here's a starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies, very broadly defined. If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2

Publication day for our new textbook! Automating translation tries to be critical but instructive, explaining the origins of machine translation, its training data, how neural MT and large language models work, how to measure their quality 1/2

I’m keeping a similar record for job applications: Now 76 rejections + 5 interview-and-then-rejections, and 2 applications submitted.

📑 Excited to share some great news: The first articles of our special issue in #Perspectives are out! I had the pleasure of guest-editing the issue "Pivot AudiovisualTranslation: A Burning Issue for Research and Training" with Hanna Pieta, Rita Menezes and Stavroula Sokoli.

"The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s multimillion-pound funding “Translating Cultures” programme and “Open World Research Initiative” have encouraged the development of ambitious research projects based on the principle of co-production with the public."