There are 12 mentors in 2026: 📚 Children’s Lit from a South Asian Language w. @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social 📚 Japanese w. @tnieda.bsky.social 📚 Kannada w. Deepa Bhasthi 📚 Korean Poetry w. @daybreakjung.bsky.social 📚 Korean Prose w. Janet Hong

Translators: run—don't walk— to apply. I was a mentee last year & it was fabulous. The mentors are extremely knowledgeable & generous, the mentees are inspiring, @kelsivanada.bsky.social runs the program like a symphony conductor, @littranslate.bsky.social is THE organization for translators. Apply!

Congratulations to Rucha Virmani and all the other commended poets! What an honor that she chose to respond to my translation of Felícia Fuster’s poem ‘And more II’ from the Modern Poetry in Translation archives.

Oh my gosh!!! 🪼💙🪼💙🪼💙!!!

🧪 The proposed budgets for NIH, NASA, and NSF would be at their lowest levels in over 25 years. These are not serious requests, and Congress should not treat them as such. But Congress also needs to be actively told that. Let your voice be heard: 5calls.org

I'm genuinely SO excited about the new ocean map that will be at the heart of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich when this hall reopens on June 7th. It's an unusual ocean-focussed map with so much detail, and it's just brilliant. 🌊🌊 Here's a sneak peak. www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocea...

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Join us for a vigil today at 6pm in support of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike. Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

1/3 The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social offers some support for former NEA grant recipients.

🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF

Devastating letter from our friends at the NEA Literature office

What a time to be trying to promote anything, I know. I'm trying to keep it to the barest minimum. But 1) this is how I make a living and 2) fiction still matters. Our novels still matter. Coming together as a group to talk about our art still matters.

Are you struggling with your novel? It's okay. It happens to ALL of us. My 3-week course, Getting Your Novel Unstuck, returns next month. It's designed to get your novel draft moving again with a fresh charge of energy and a solid plan to carry you forward to the end. cariluna.com/getting-your...

'We were the memory we have now. We were this image. The idols of ourselves in the submissive faith of afterward.' Gabriel Ferrater, translated by Adrian Nathan West from #Catalan

I wrote about Trump cuts at the ends of the Earth, to NSF support of science in Antarctica. 🧪 “We’re all trying to find other ways of doing our research,” says @leighstearns.bsky.social, “because they are not the stable entity.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Not an April Fools' joke: I'm partnering w/ @legroff.bsky.social & her amazing bookstore The Lynx to give away free books on fighting fascism. FL folks, just stop in and ask for a free copy of the titles below! Not in FL? Order and get 10% off. Read, share, fight the fascist fools. ❤️👊

📣NEW Sabin Center report on the Attribution Science & Climate Law Conference: scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climat... 🌎 The conference brought together researchers to discuss the status of climate attribution research and its relevance to climate law & policy Check out the 🪡⤵️

'We have coyotes with wolf blood in their veins in New York City because we tried to exterminate wolves. Tell me that doesn’t make your heart sing, just a little bit." Wonderful science-y ode to the coyote!

Such a fun conversation! Thank you @mptmagazine.bsky.social! Thank you Ron Puppo and AKaiser!

NEW PODCAST: CATALAN EDITION Featuring poetry and translation from MPT Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan, hosted by Ronald Puppo with AKaiser and Marialena Carr modernpoetryintranslation.com/mpt-podcast-... The eagle-eyed may notice that we have a brand new website 👀.

Gift article for that Atlantic story on the illegal Signal group chat.🎁

Ever wanted to go behind the scenes with The Common? Don't miss the newest episode of bestselling novelist Evelyn Skye's Creative.Inspired.Happy podcast, featuring TC Editor in Chief Jen Acker and Managing Editor Emily Everett! buff.ly/8lzhsm8

Must read. More of this please. You will NOT disappear and destroy people in our name. Safety through solidarity. zeteo.com/p/i-am-jewis...

A must read. ‘Our ability to conduct research, teach, and speak freely is under threat. This may be an existential moment for higher education.’

So far this year tax payers have spent $18 million for Trump to play golf.

Just to be clear, we are entering “Feds use antisemitism as pretext to deport Arab students” territory.

Useful infographic on the impact of the NSF!

Hello! Good morning to literature-lovers worldwide! We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with the University of Rochester, and we welcome @openletterbooks.bsky.social as the newest member of the Deep Vellum family. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Mass Layoffs Begin at NOAA, With Hundreds Said to Be Fired in One Day. Gift link: nyti.ms/3D7sHYz

🌍#riverinanocean is on its way to a #Translation classroom at Princeton U! 🌏Big thanks to all the fabulous professors who order our books to teach. (Also at U.Nantes, SOAS, UGuelph & other places) Profs- get in touch if your students need a discount.

Boycott everything, but especially tomorrow!

If you're wondering what you can do to fight this coup - check out this awesome resource. @choosedemocracy.bsky.social Coups only are successful when society bows to the orders of the autocrat. choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

We walk with shadows. We walk with ghosts. The stories of place write themselves upon our inner landscape. Sometimes we hear a good angel whisper to pause, lest we stumble and fall through a weakness in time itself. – #CLNolan

Happy Mother Language Day 2025! To celebrate, we’ve selected five poems from the pages of MPT to celebrate multilingualism. We’re focusing on translators that translate into English from their mother tongue, and in some cases, self-translate their own poetry or work ‘between languages’.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

The wise witch knows winter not as a silence, but as a crowding choir of persistent spirits. For there is no soundless part of the land, no period when the land does not offer up voices of feral magic. The witch merely needs to listen to learn this truth. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

Flight captured in light.

Katie Couric: Above is the phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard where an operator will connect you directly with the office you request. Let your members of Congress know how you feel. It matters.

ICYMI Launching MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan' MPT Managing Editor Sarah Hesketh was joined by guests Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo, for readings from the issue as well as a Q&A. Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhR...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

The Art of Reading Like a #Translator. In 'The Philosophy of Translation', Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of the translator and of the writer. www.thenation.com/article/cult... via @thenation.com #xl8 #literature #langsky

In a new podcast, powerhouse translator Julia Sanches sits down with Managing Editor Emily Everett to discuss her recent translation of "The Advice" from the Catalan, and the challenges of preserving tone and style across languages. https://www.thecommononline.org/podcast-julia-sanches-on-the-advi…

If you’re a workspace admin, this is a solved issue now (or at least was in my instance) - you can just toggle it off. Takes a minute, feels great.

On WWB, Mandana Chaffa talks to award-winning translator @antonhur.com about his new novel “Toward Eternity,” and about immortality, technology, and the eventual contraction of the universe. Read the interview: https://buff.ly/4gpopJK