I am incredibly excited that we are hosting this event. The symposium is intended to bring together practitioners and academics to discuss audiovisual translation research and how it could benefit practitioners. Please join us and consider submitting an abstract!

Today, we celebrate translators and interpreters and their invaluable contributions to society. A special shout-out to subtitlers, whose work helps us enjoy global audiovisual culture. If you want to celebrate some more, join our subtitle chat tomorrow! Happy International Translation Day! #ITD2025

Happy Friday! We wrote a blog post to share some updates from the past few months and to remind you of the upcoming Subtitle Chat. If you'd like to read about our recent publications and past and future SubComm activities, click below! subcomm.co.uk/uncategorize...

I really enjoy hosting Subtitle Chats, because I always learn something and make new connections, and they are a lot of fun. If you are a professional, academic or student interested in subtitling, please consider joining us on 1 October!

Let’s mock them still

Job opportunity: Two PhD Positions at Stockholm University, Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Sweden. Deadline for application: October 15. Link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Dorothea Baur at the FIT World Congress. If you want to catch more conversations about AI, language, translation and interpreting, you can still register for streaming access and also watch the recording of this keynote and the rest of the streamed content until Sunday. More info: fit2025.org

Several sessions on AVT at the upcoming FIT World Congress in Geneva next week, including a panel on AVT and AI on Friday, 5th September with our chairwoman Bettina Arlt among other people.🥳 For those of you attending/streaming, pop by! Here's the progamme ⬇️ fitift.eventsair.com/fit2025/prog...

Mainio esimerkki herkullisesta suomen kielen verbistä ja sen kääntämisen vaikeudesta!

starting to suspect my neighbor is a large language model

Today is August 1. Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

The historical and cultural context of language is also very significant in translation. Knowing the background of terms, expressions, allusions etc. and what cultural, historical and intertextual connections and connotations they carry in the source & target is a major issue

Stanley Unwin, The Bookseller, 1927. Plus ça change #translatorhistory

Again: Viewers, critics, cinephiles, BE LOUD!! Demand quality! Yours is probably the only voice that matters to those corporations (besides their shareholders'...) #HumanNotMachines

Once again pointing out that you can look up bad apples in the translation agency world at Tri-Trab's website - where you also can anonymously report a bad apple if you happen to come across one. tri-trab.com #nodumpingrates #humansnotmachines #respectyourAVTranslator

Disney greift für die Übersetzung ihrer Produktionen mehr und mehr auf Machine Translation zurück. Qualität ade.😡 Was für ein elendes Trauerspiel. Film- und Serienfans, Filmschaffende, Kritiker*innen, Kolleg*innen, make some noise!! Hier die Reaktion unseres Dachverbands AVTE. #HumansNotMachines

Dear translators, please remember not to accept a job from Localize Direct (this is their usual modus operandi). Dear devs, please remember not to hire Localize Direct (unless you're willing to spend lots of time & energy fighting in order to credit the actual people who worked on your game).

Our President Bettina Arlt will be part of Tiinas panel, together with representatives of AVTE ✨

The full programme of the FIT World Congress has now been published, and to celebrate, you can register at a reduced rate until 27 July! I will be there to moderate a panel on audiovisual translation, and looking forward to seeing many interesting talks. See you in Geneva! fit2025.org

📰 The new issue of #Translatio is now available online in #English, #Spanish and #French with two articles written by the European associations AIT and AITI. Happy reading! en: en.translatio.fit-ift.org es: es.translatio.fit-ift.org fr: fr.translatio.fit-ift.org #xl8 #1nt #FITEuropeAssociations

If you're impacted by late payments or exploitative working conditions, remember you can report companies anonymously using the Translation Industry Transparency Board, TRI-TRAB (tri-trab.com).

Translation isn't expensive. In fact, it's frequently the biggest return on investment: For the top 100 grossing movies of all time, 50% of their profits were made outside of English, and they spent less than 1% of their budget on localization.

I'm pleased to share that my article on user-centered subtitling has been published by the Journal of Audiovisual Translation. The aim of the article is to explore how the ideas of usability and user-centeredness could help us create audience-friendly subtitles. jatjournal.org/index.php/ja...

I will be at the FIT World Congress on 4-6 September to chair a panel on audiovisual translation. I'm looking forward to seeing lots of interesting talks on AI and other important topics. There's still time to register, I hope to see some of you there! fitift.eventsair.com/fit2025/

Bor du i Sverige eller Finland och har kontakt med både svenska och finska? Då kan du bidra till forskningen om svenskans användning i dessa länder genom att fylla i enkäten nedan! Den tar ungefär 10 minuter att besvara och är anonym. Delta gärna! @steffenhoeder.de, @jullala.bsky.social

Happy International Workers’ Day, translators! Always stand for fair contracts, fair remuneration and good working conditions. And remember that we are stronger together!

Come chat with us on 24 April!

What a great initiative by SUBTLE – the Subtitlers'​ Association - @subtleuk.bsky.social, and SubComm - @subcomm.bsky.social 🤩 Don’t miss out – join for an informal chat and a fantastic networking opportunity with fellow AVT practitioners and researchers! 🎤🎞️✨

Warm thanks to @dorrego.bsky.social for signal-boosting! The survey is still running and we'd be delighted if you could fill it in.

I cannot understand how it would even occur to someone to give awards on "localization excellence" and overlook the professionals who have actually done the localising. What exactly would these companies be able to produce without their professional localisers?

I'm very much looking forward to this chat with our friends @subtleuk.bsky.social. If you are an AVT practitioner or academic, please join us. We would love to be able to build more bridges between academia and practitioners.

Submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 are now open! Publishers, submit here: tinyurl.com/46j57f54 There is no limit on number of entries per publisher and no fee to enter - send all your eligible titles! @thebookseller.com @rsliterature.bsky.social @wwborders.bsky.social

Registration for the XXIII FIT World Congress is now open. Join the International Federation of Translators, @wipo.int and the global industry at the XXIII FIT World Congress, 4-6 September 2025! fitift.eventsair.com/fit2025/regi... #xl8 #1nt #event #congress #Switzerland #Geneva

🕵 If you work in the #translation industry, here is a quick survey for you on your use of #social #media! So, if you're a translation professional (no students, please), please answer the 2025 survey which is available here: bit.ly/4kMC9BG This will take only 5 minutes; do not hesitate to share 🙏

Looking forward to discussing audiovisual translation here!

We are looking for responses to this survey on viewing media. Anyone over 18 who has English as their first or second language is welcome to respond. Please share! keelepsych.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📌 FIT Europe urges @bludigitalgroup.bsky.social to pay their freelance translators the money they are owed. #Amazon #Disney #HBOMax #BluDigitalGroup #translators #freelancers #xl8 lc.cx/zWKvqQ

Hello everyone! If you missed our recent Subtitle Chat, you can now read a recap on our blog to find out what we talked about. Thank you to everyone who was there, and see you next time! subcomm.co.uk/subtitle-cha...

#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

Hello #translation world! Created in 2020 by @cmctranslations.bsky.social & @tinakover.bsky.social, we showcase the world's best #books in translation, read by their talented #translators. #Fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, & more. #Submissions always open. Check us out! www.youtube.com/@Translators...

We're excited to announce our new yearly initiative, SUBTLE's AVT Heroes of the Year! These people and efforts had a particularly positive impact on our industry in 2024. Thank you for your tireless work! It doesn't go unnoticed. Read all about them in our blog (link in bio). (1/7) #AVTHeroes

We are among @subtleuk.bsky.social's AVT heroes of the year! I'm very happy if we have been able to have a positive impact, and looking forward to continuing the work this year.

Thank you, @subtleuk.bsky.social! This is a huge honour for us, we are touched that our work is being noticed. It's been such a pleasure to work, and have fun, with all of you, and we hope there is much more to come this year. ❤️

Hae meille töihin! Turun yliopistossa on haettavana englannin kielen yliopistonlehtorin toistaiseksi täytettävä tehtävä, johon kuuluu englannin kielen ja monikielisen käännösviestinnän opetusta. ats.talentadore.com/apply/yliopi...

Hallo zusammen! Turun yliopiston Kieli- ja käännöstieteiden laitoksessa avoinna saksan kielen yliopisto-opettajan tehtävä. Hakuaika päättyy 19.2.2025. Ks. hakuilmoitus: ats.talentadore.com/apply/yliopi...

This article is a real passion project, and I'm thrilled to see it published.

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!