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Translation Studies/Technology at Dublin City University & The ADAPT Centre. Perpetual dabbler.
Our article on audio descriptive commentary (ADC) at
@bfcdublin.bsky.social
is online now. LucĂa Pintado and I interviewed club officials, commentators and service users to document the origin, challenges and benefits of the volunteer-led ADC service at Bohs.
www.jostrans.org/article/view...
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Minlin Yu
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We are excited to present JoSTrans Special Issue 49, âDigital Patronage and the Politics of Translation in Algorithmic Culture.â Our thanks go to Lucja Biel and the JoSTrans editorial board for their support, and to David Orrego-Carmona
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for taking on the role of lead editor.
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Guy Pradel
about 1 month ago
358 806 signatures for the full suspension of the EU-Israel association, more than 1/3 of what is needed and 4 of the 7 countries needed over 100%.
tinyurl.com/mv8fzdhu
âïžBelgium 103% âïžFinland 100.5% âïžFrance 296% Ireland 58.7% Italy 79.8% Netherlands 31% Poland 51.4% âïžSpain 111.9% Sweden 81.6%
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Ralph Janik
about 2 months ago
"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.
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Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy
Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account
https://www.mpg.de/25778228/1125-defo-gaza-study-reveals-unprecedented-losses-of-life-and-life-expectancy-154642-x
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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society
11 months ago
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
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Fresh out of the pressđ 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...
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Elaine Burke
3 months ago
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.
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Translation Spaces
5 months ago
New open access article! The machine translatorâs visibility: A postphenomenological analysis of machine translation.
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uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human
#translation
differ in use. See
doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
#openaccess
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The Guardian
5 months ago
Israelâs ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldnât live here | George Monbiot
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Israelâs ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldnât live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide â and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/27/israel-ecocide-gaza-bombs-agricultural-land-genocide?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1758950889
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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...
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Dave Zirin
5 months ago
A lotta hype during last nightâs 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...
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The NFL Is Trumpâs Americaâand Itâs Invading Ireland
The league is not coming to Dublin to plant a tree. It is coming to plant a flag.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nfl-trump-dublin-ireland-steelers-vikings/
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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...
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Translation Spaces
5 months ago
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
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Translation Spaces
5 months ago
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
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Translation Spaces
5 months ago
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
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Brian Merchant
6 months ago
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:
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AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-my-job-translators
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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...
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âToo hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips awayâ: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/19/too-hungry-to-think-too-weak-to-sit-upright-concentration-slips-away-the-struggle-to-stay-focussed-as-an-academic-in-gaza
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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...
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âToo hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips awayâ: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/19/too-hungry-to-think-too-weak-to-sit-upright-concentration-slips-away-the-struggle-to-stay-focussed-as-an-academic-in-gaza
6 months ago
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News Eye
7 months ago
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting Iâve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News.
#Gaza
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
7 months ago
đŁ 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: đ
www.benjamins.com/series/term/...
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Adi Magazine
7 months ago
"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." âAlaa Alqaisi for
@arablit.bsky.social
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arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...
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Beneath the Howl of Hunger
âAnd though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.â â Alaa Alqaisi
https://arablit.org/2025/07/21/beneath-the-howl-of-hunger/
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Sally Hayden
7 months ago
âAll 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 theyâre doing is actually dismantling a society.â
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities â and will leave generational scars
Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/starvation-in-gaza-is-destroying-communities-and-will-leave-generational-scars?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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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.
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Thank you
@jossmo.bsky.social
for your thought provoking keynote talk: 'Ethics and MT evaluation: an exploded view'. A lot of questions for you!
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The ADAPT Centre
8 months ago
ADAPT DCUâs 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
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Sarah Creighton
9 months ago
Wrote for
@theguardian.com
about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women âŹïž
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with âprotecting womenâ. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton
Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/14/ballymena-violence-women-racism-northern-ireland?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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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!
9 months ago
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The ADAPT Centre
9 months ago
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...
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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...
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Alex Hanna
10 months ago
This video, on Meta's data center in Mansfield, Georgia, is really good public communication from
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2...
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Zuckerberg Doesnât Want You to See This
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
https://youtube.com/shorts/cKUR2GEa1pA?si=_gV-BrcbnTUA86yq
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The latest by Patrick Freyne from Chad, with empathy and hope springing up in the worst situations. Part of a great series.
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10 months ago
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Clara Chuan Yu
11 months ago
@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...
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Ana Guerberof
12 months ago
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
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CTT 2025
The workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) aims to attract a broad range of attendees, such as researchers, educators, translators and industry stakeholders, to discuss the applica...
https://ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/home
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David Orrego-Carmona
12 months ago
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
& LucĂa Pintado-GutiĂ©rrez (DCU) 5 March, 3-4 online
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
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Thrilled to share our latest paper (with Dr Qi Zhang) in Translation Spaces đ» đŹ 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
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Narratives in film title translation | John Benjamins
Abstract This study sets out to investigate whether and to what extent the narratives contained in film titles and their translations can differ from each other. Ten dramas selected from the work of t...
https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ts.24005.zha
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Joke Daems
about 1 year ago
No more excuses now! A bit more time to polish those papers and join us at MT Summit! đđ
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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
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www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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about 1 year ago
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FIT Europe
about 1 year ago
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
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ELIS 2023 LANGUAGE INDUSTRY SURVEY
ELIS focuses on the industry trends, expectations and concerns of a wide range of language industry stakeholders, including language service companies, independent language professionals and others.
https://elis-survey.org
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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
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Donate to Help Me Stay in the UK to Continue My Research and Work, organized by GOKHAN FIRAT
Dear friends, hevals and colleagues, Iâm writing this letter ⊠GOKHAN FIRAT needs your support for Help Me Stay in the UK to Continue My Research and Work
https://gofund.me/de95d681
about 1 year ago
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Matt Alt
about 1 year ago
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...
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The most influential manga in Japan isnât Japanese
Without Popeye, manga, anime, and video games wouldnât exist as we know them.
https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/the-most-influential-manga-in-japan
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The Irish Times
about 1 year ago
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Ireland is part of a globalised world yet clings to lazy, colonialist attitudes to languages
Much of what Irish emigrants prize in Australia can be found in continental Europe. The only thing getting in our way is whatâs euphemistically called âthe language barrierâ
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/12/21/derek-scally-ireland-is-part-of-a-globalised-world-yet-clings-to-lazy-colonialist-attitudes-to-languages/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=HP-SubDesc
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Ćebnem Susam-Saraeva
about 1 year ago
1st International Conference on Ethics and Translation, Complutense University of Madrid, 22-24 October 2025
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I Congreso Internacional en Ătica y TraducciĂłn: compromiso social y deontologĂa ante las dinĂĄmicas de la globalizaciĂłn
El I Congreso Internacional en Ătica y TraducciĂłn, que se celebrarĂĄ en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid entre el 22 y 24 de octubre de 2025, se plantea como un espacio clave para analizar los desa...
https://eventos.ucm.es/127441/detail/the-1st-international-conference-on-ethics-and-translation.html
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Ćebnem Susam-Saraeva
about 1 year ago
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/
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The ADAPT Centre
about 1 year ago
DCUâs Masters in
#Translation
programmes have been re-awarded the prestigious European Masterâs 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
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Translation Spaces
about 1 year ago
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...
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Translation Spaces
about 1 year ago
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
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
about 1 year ago
Through December 5 at
publishersforpalestine.org
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