Happy to be in the greater Seattle area for the @notisnet.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to four hours of workshops on consecutive note-taking on Saturday!

Hello! I have started a website for information about the role-space model of interpreting - www.rolespace.online Hopefully it will be of use to interpreters, students, and others! Please visit and spread the word! #xl8 #interpreting

The past two weeks have been A. Lot. (understatement.), but today I started off the long weekend by spending several hours hanging out with my five year old buddy, including making cookies and a trip to the playground. eleventy-billion/10 stars, can recommend.

After weeks of many library books on hold, but none becoming available, I suddenly have 7 available and checked out to me at once. Possibly the universe is sending me a signal.

1. quick deepl/human comparison for you. This is from my current project on state sexual violence against Greenlandic women, which is obviously pretty sensitive stuff.

It might not look like it, but translation is often a safety-critical industry. Problem is, you can't tell where the danger is unless you're an expert, and AI is stripping expertise out at a rate of knots.

CfP by Christopher D. Mellinger & Elisabet Tiselius on Evolving approaches to Cognitive Interpreting Studies: From psychological to socio-cognitive perspectives incontextjournal.org/index.php/in...

Are there social impacts of relying on AI for translations? Are AI translations neutral and inclusive? I discuss these and more in this very insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...

Inputting changes into the book draft from the handwritten comments on the hardcopy manuscript that @tulkur.bsky.social and I worked on together three weeks ago in Leeds, and having happy memories of how much fun and how hard we laughed while working on them 🥰🥰. The book's not half bad, either. 😎

Minnesota schools are waiting on $74M in funds withheld by the Trump administration, adding strain to already stretched district budgets. minnesotareformer.com/2025/07/16/h...

👉🏽 Interpreters and Vicarious Trauma: Prevention and Selfcare 🎙️Miranda Lai (RMIT University) 📅 July 10, 2025, 10:00 AM CET 📍 Hybrid: Germà Colon Graduate Hall and GMeet 🔗 Register: bit.ly/RTI-MirandaLai MA program Researching Translation and Interpreting. Don't miss it! bit.ly/MA-RTI-info #xl8 #1nt

I see the "we cured deafness" injection is making the rounds in the UK now. Let's discuss 🧵

Had an early morning walk around the University of Leeds campus, and can now find my way (hopefully reliably...) to breakfast and the #EST2025Leeds conference venues. 😎

Are you coming to the Editathon at the @estleeds25.bsky.social congress? Check out our wiki-page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies #Wikipedia

Morning runners/walkers at #ESTCongress Leeds! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day! 📍 Exhibition Centre ⏰ 6:45 AM 📅 Starting July 1st Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅 #MorningRun #Translation

The EST Congress 2025 kicked off today with the Online Pre-Congress Day, featuring 81 speakers! Great engagement and a fantastic way to begin the Congress! Huge thanks to attendees and chairs who kept the conversation flowing. #EST #ESTCongress #EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies

Full English breakfast, here I come. (Hi, I am in Leeds! Where I will spend four days writing with @tulkur.bsky.social and then attend @estleeds25.bsky.social!)

In his first interview since the shootings, Walz previewed a much larger remembrance to come. He told MPR News that he’s notified his team to prepare for the possibility of Hortman and her husband to lie in state at the Capitol.

Rep. Demuth spoke with MPR News senior politics reporter Clay Masters about how she and the rest of the Legislature is processing Hortman’s death and what comes next.

Sophie and Colin Hortman, the children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, issued a statement, asking people to do an act of kindness to honor their parents’ memory. “Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear.” minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...

Our new volume Field Research on Translation and Interpreting has now been published online (Open Access): benjamins.com/catalog/btl.165 - enjoy!

Some more from today in Saint Paul, Minnesota’s No Kings protest. chaddavis.photography/50501-protes...

Photos: Thousands marched today in the No Kings rally, despite warnings from law enforcement in the wake of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman’s assassination. Poets, musicians, and activists spoke and blessed her memory. minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/14/t...

Actually, seems like it was more like 80,000 people there (and even NPR is saying the event was cancelled, sheesh :(. )

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

I read on some national and international news websites that the No Kings rally in St Paul today was cancelled... but, having been there, I can assure you that it was not cancelled, and that there were many, many people there (MPR is currently reporting an estimate of 25 to 30 K).

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

I handed in my ID badge at the hospital after my shift today... which means that for the first time in over 20 years (with the exception of a few months when I moved to Minnesota), I am not employed as an interpreter. 😦😧

So, some things have been happening over the past few months with regard to my professional life. Since they're finally all settled and I can talk about all of them, I'll update here as well. 🧵

'Typos' - embarrassing - show a lack of care - invite ridicule 'Written Bloopers' - funny - humanizing - often better than whatever you were going to type

Great to see this out!

I have had six library holds become available in the past few days, it's full-on glorious springtime, and we bought some adirondack chairs. It's like the universe is suggesting that it's time for a break.... but first we have to get through the last week of the semester (side-eyes ungraded exams).

yes, ChatGPT is in schools; there are K-12 school districts and DOEs entering into AI contracts, too. so rather than panicking over the death of academia as a foregone conclusion—particularly when LLMs are frequently wrong—why don't we talk about the climate costs of AI? my latest @teenvogue.com

Busco participantes para un estudio piloto (1 entrevista de 1 h aprox) sobre prácticas docentes básicas en la enseñanza de la traducción. L@s participantes deben ser profesores de alguna asignatura centrada en la práctica de la traducción (pref. último curso), en grados en Traducción en España.

I logged back in to the bird site just to copy these posts from April 2024 and move them over here so I could answer this prompt :). **** I have started to occasionally have dreams involving communication in ASL, which is kinda cool. I have dreamed in Spanish for years .... (more)

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Working on a few things but yay! aslsignbank.com

Minnesota Republicans held a press conference last week claiming that a program allowing undocumented people to receive MinnesotaCare would cost MN over $600 million over four years. State data show the figure is a wild exaggeration, however.

If you are experiencing feelings of despair over the state-sanctioned kidnapping of toddlers with cancer, Disability Justice may be right for you!! (xenophobia + eugenics is why we've allowed small citizens to be expelled from the country with apparently no recourse)

People who think disabled people are new to protesting/"newly activated" need to get several grips and then learn some very basic history.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but LLMs do NOT learn language

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but LLMs do NOT learn language like infants do.

How are immigration policy changes affecting international students in Minnesota? Join Sahan Journal for a live conversation at 1 p.m. Tuesday on Instagram to ask your questions and learn more.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

We need strong Deaf presence at #ICED2025 — not just to attend, but to lead. I've been to two previous ICEDs and it was often a stressful experience. This year, organisers are making an effort to do things differently and create a more welcoming space for deaf participants. iced2025.com

Spring is here, and with it comes a new crop of #MTLiteracy infographics —in #Arabic! Many, many thanks to Raghad Alsulami for bringing these Arabic versions to life 😊 They are in #OpenAccess and can be downloaded from the project website: sites.google.com/view/machine...

RAPPEL : poste de professeur.e en traduction à l’Université Laval

For absolutely no reason other than the joy of learning, please read about instances of how ordinary people have physically delayed or blocked ICE abduction vehicles, like a Bend city councillor who parked her car in front of an ICE bus for 12 hours: