"A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Centre for Demographic Studies investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza" Don't forget. Just don't.

Andrew Rothwell, Joss Moorkens, Tomas Svoboda: Training in translation tools and technologies: Findings of the EMT survey 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22735 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22735 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.22735

Fresh out of the press📘 Penet, J., (Newcastle University), Moorkens, J. (Dublin City University), Yamada, M. (Rikkyo University). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI. Language Science Press Open access, tap the link: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it? Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly. If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.

New open access article! The machine translator’s visibility: A postphenomenological analysis of machine translation. @jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use. See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... #openaccess

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Good new Guardian piece on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing with input from members of @subtleuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

A lotta hype during last night’s game about the NFL coming to Ireland on Sunday. Well, I just got back from Dublin and not everyone is thrilled to see the 2025 NFL plant a flag in their country www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A free event on September 30 International Translation Day: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis, organised by Gökhan Fırat and Translation Village. Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself. Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...

Recently published: Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI @serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato

Recently published: Self-Determined Participation (SDP): A theoretical framework for explaining unpaid human participation in translation (and beyond?) Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts. Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... #onlinefirst

Recently published open access article: Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes. Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... #onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

📣 Our journal Terminology puts out a Call for Papers for a special issue on #Terminology and #AI, guest edited by Kara Warburton & Rachele Raus! More info: 👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/... 🙌 Sharing is appreciated!

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

16 years ago today I finished teaching classes to gifted teenagers and drove to Galway, where we played a gig with @deerhoof.bsky.social. Today, I'm half-deaf and haven't drummed in years, but Deerhoof are still the best.

Thank you @jossmo.bsky.social for your thought provoking keynote talk: 'Ethics and MT evaluation: an exploded view'. A lot of questions for you!

ADAPT DCU’s Dr Joss Moorkens is set to deliver a keynote address this week at the @mtsummit2025.bsky.social in Switzerland, one of the most prominent gatherings for the global #MT community. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve... @researchireland.ie

Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We're calling for proposals for Guest-Edited Issue 16(1) of Translation Spaces (articles online first; print issue: July 2027). You'll find details of the journal at benjamins.com/catalog/ts and the call details are at lnkd.in/eBqpcje9 Consider sending us your proposal before September 1st 2025!

ADAPT's Dr Joss Moorkens, DCU, recently delivered a lecture on the evaluation of #machinetranslation for Harvard Medical School. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

JC Penet, Masaru Yamada and I have coedited a forthcoming book on Language Science Press entitled Teaching translation in the age of generative AI: New paradigm, new learning? We & authors would really appreciate your comments on the draft chapters before June 23rd paperhive.org/documents/it... 1/2

This video, on Meta's data center in Mansfield, Georgia, is really good public communication from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2...

The latest by Patrick Freyne from Chad, with empathy and hope springing up in the worst situations. Part of a great series.

@jossmo.bsky.social will talk about what it might mean to utilize and evaluate technologies while giving equal weight to people, the planet, and performance @CtnHkbu in two weeks. Registration at ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/event/a-trip...

As part of the MT Summit 2025 we are organising the 2nd Workshop on Creative-Text Translation and Technology (to be held 24/06). The deadline for submissions is March 16th. We have excellent keynote speakers! Take a plunge! ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/home

Have you ever thought about #football and #accessibility? Our next #Translation and Transcultural Studies Seminar on " #Audiodescribing football: A case study of Bohemians FC" will be delivered by @jossmo.bsky.social & Lucía Pintado-Gutiérrez (DCU) 5 March, 3-4 online warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...

Thrilled to share our latest paper (with Dr Qi Zhang) in Translation Spaces 💻 🎬 Narratives in film title translation: A study of films by Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke Huge thanks to the editorial board, particularly Prof Dorothy Kenny & @jossmo.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

No more excuses now! A bit more time to polish those papers and join us at MT Summit! 🌞🏁

Grim news of 300 redundancies upcoming at Newcastle University. What on earth is happening to higher education in the UK? Solidarity with friends and colleagues at @newcastleuni.bsky.social. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

ELIS SURVEY 2025! Help us help you better, by providing us with information on language market trends, challenges, expectations and concerns from your professional perspective. If you're a #translator or an #interpreter make sure you complete the #ELIS2025 survey by Jan/31! #1nt #xl8 elis-survey.org

My former PhD student and all-round good egg Gökhan Fırat is looking for some help to extend his visa in the UK. If you can help out, please click on gofund.me/de95d681

Happy belated New Year! January 1st marked a big moment for global pop culture: Popeye's entering public domain. But it has even more meaning in Japan, where the character has had an incredible impact on pop culture: blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/the-most-i...

1st International Conference on Ethics and Translation, Complutense University of Madrid, 22-24 October 2025 eventos.ucm.es/127441/detai...

Translation Studies Network of Ireland Conference (TSNI 5) Dublin City University, Ireland Thursday, May 8th and Friday, May 9th, 2025 Challenges in Translation and Interpreting ctts.ie/tsni-5/

DCU’s Masters in #Translation programmes have been re-awarded the prestigious European Master’s in Translation quality label. Congrats to Dr Sheila Castilho, & to Dr. Joss Moorkens for re-election to the EMT Network Board. More details: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve... @researchireland.bsky.social

New article! An eye-tracking study on the cognitive processing, reception, and perception of swearword translation in films Qihang Jiang & Stephen Doherty use eye-tracking to investigate how audiences cognitively process translated swearwords in films. #translation doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...

New article! Point of view and narrative in Wikipedia translation: Towards a common research framework @markshuttleworth.bsky.social proposes an initial framework based on narrative theory to theorise point of view in Wikipedia and beyond. #translation #translationstudies doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...

Through December 5 at publishersforpalestine.org

Despite taking up 21% of national capacity, the use of renewables was previously one of the few positive aspects of Ireland's 80 data centres. Now it seems that data centres' reliance on "backup and emergency generators in Ireland" led to the emission of 135,000 tonnes of CO2 over the past 5 years.

I'm in the @irishtimes.bsky.social today, writing with @eam0.bsky.social about educational AI and why it won't work (if it's going to work at all!) so well in multilingual educational systems, like the one in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

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