A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk

Congratulations to @stavroulasokoli.bsky.social, #ESIST vice president, who has been named one of MultiLingual Media Influencers in the Language Industry for 2025! We are so proud 💙 multilingual.com/magazine/feb...

“On or off skis – and I would prefer him to sod offski – the vice-president can be judged successful in his deliberately adopted mission to become mesmerisingly awful.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tickets now available for a riotous evening of theatrical deception in Boris Vian’s comédie musicale: Le Chasseur français by Boris Vian. Wed 26 March 3pm Thur, Fri, Sat 27-29 March 7.30 pm UEA Drama Studio. Tickets here store.uea.ac.uk

SUBTLE has submitted a response to the UK government's consultation on copyright and AI, which closes today: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta... (1/6)

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

Confirmamos: los subtítulos de los #Goya2025 no eran IA, era tener que apañárselas con unas circunstancias bien jodidas. elpais.com/cultura/prem...

"The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level." An excellent article on the threatened closure of #languages and #translation at Cardiff and on the importance and value of degree courses in languages for UK HE. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

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This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

Please help us to save Modern Languages at Cardiff University: chng.it/Hmtvvdtptg

Cardiff University has announced it will axe its teaching of modern languages and merge four of its schools, cutting staff numbers by 50%. Please sign and share this petition in support of the wonderful School of Modern Languages at Cardiff! www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

Have you shared your views on #subtitles yet by filling out the The UK #Subtitling #Audiences Survey? If not, now’s your chance! uksubtitlingaudiences.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/l... Please also share widely with friends, family - anyone you think may be interested. Your views are valued!

Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social A thread 🧵 elifesciences.org/articles/97731

Have you been accepted to present your work at Media for All 11? Why not apply for the ESIST conference grant👇 Please also share the news with anyone you think may be interested!#M4All11

SubComm, our community of professional subtitlers and academics, has moved to Bluesky. Please follow if you are interested in all the interesting and useful things researchers and practitioners could do together, or if you'd just like to chat with some very lovely people. Next chat, 24 January!

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

Congratulations to the shortlisted candidates! 👏👏 The winner of the ESIST Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2025 will be announced in May at Media for All 11 in Hong Kong 🤩 esist.org/awards/esist... @stavroulasokoli.bsky.social @dorrego.bsky.social @serenellamassidda.bsky.social

Opportunity alert! The project led by the wonderful Dr Sara Ramos Pinto with Dr Carol O'Sullivan 'From Lab to Screen: a response to AI’s threat to the media localisation industry' is seeking a research assistant for 6 months from March 2025: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Deadline to apply: 30 Jan

ESIST is now on Bluesky! 🤩

www.monabaker.org/2024/12/10/s... @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social @fruela.bsky.social @nvp-tdi.bsky.social @bowkerl.bsky.social @sharonblack.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social @transla-tian-ology.bsky.social @mattvaller.bsky.social @andreaciribuco.bsky.social @cmymtl.bsky.social @jossmo.bsky.social

You can tell it’s the end of term because today we threw an elf around the room as part of an interpreting vocab game 🎄

🎞🎬 What’s your view on subtitles? We would love to hear from you! The UK #Subtitling #Audiences Survey is collecting information on viewing habits and #perceptions of subtitled media in the UK. Only 10 mins to complete: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/arts/uk-su... Please share widely-thank you!

Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think. Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!

Our first post on BluSky celebrates Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Rocío Baños, Soledad Zarate of CenTraS-UCL and Visiting Professor Frederic Chaume Varela, who developed dubbing training for Netflix. More information about this exciting collaboration here: www.ucl.ac.uk/consultants/...

Mis gentes traductoras y no traductoras: tengan cuidado. Hay scammers sueltos en el club de al lado. 🚨👇

1/2 UEA’s latest planned wave of cuts to fill an additional £11m financial hole would bring the number of job losses to almost 600. No wonder staff are upset and angry and are considering industrial action. Watch my reaction here and in the next post.

An alt text note: I’ve seen a lot of people providing alt text for a text-heavy image like “a list of different types of twitter poster” or “a picture of a road sign”. But… if you want someone to actually understand what is in the picture, you need to say *what the text in the image actually says*.

Our article on 'Digital accessibility tools and training and the DA4You course: views and experiences of users with disabilities' is out! This research was conducted with the wonderful Carlos de Pablos-Ortega as part of the Digital Accessibility for You project link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢Submit an abstract by 15 July 2024 to The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (@ittjournal.bsky.social) for a special issue on Recent advances in media #accessibility education (guest editors: @sharonblack.bsky.social & Emília Perez). More info: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...