Attended a great workshop on Museum Translation in Glasgow at the weekend! Thanks to the ITI Arts, Media and Tourism network #ITICommunity

Celebrating our 5000th article today! Thank you to all our readers for joining us in our journey 🙏

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

Exclusive: Reform’s first London councillor is a “rogue landlord” with a 33-person HMO www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...

Living in the green Green Citadel Magdeburg Hundertwasser House from above #UrbanGaze #SachsenAnhalt #germany #ThePhotoHour #cityscape #photography #gmsfotos #EastCoastKin #G+Circle

Next up: drinks/food at The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle from 5:45pm on Friday 26 September. This is a joint social event with the Medical Network after their Newcastle workshop. Please comment below if you plan to come along

The European Convention on Human Rights came into force on #OnThisDay in 1953. All 46 Council of Europe member states have signed up to the #ECHR, an international treaty to protect people’s #HumanRights and fundamental freedoms. How does it work? ⬇️ www.coe.int/en/web/impac...

I have no idea where Libraria is but it certainly seems to produce a disproportionate number of book shepherds.

Today's marketing tip: if you have to advertise something as FUN in capital letters, it probably isn't. And people will be able to tell! #amtranslating

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

#Must-Read Thought-provoking, even if grim, reporting on the impact of AI on the work of translaters and Interpreters. Thank you @bcmerchant.bsky.social for bringing their stories to our attention.

I am marking. I am currently resisting the urge to create a new 'QuickMark' shortcut saying 'Oh really?', and perhaps another one saying 'Why do you think that?' #AmMarking

You are now the ones who plant joy and a smile on my children’s faces, and you are the ones who can, with your support and standing by our side, send a message to the world that we need food to stay alive. You are now our only hope.”

Beautiful film by long-time pal Beatrix Wood @trixpixmedia.bsky.social on the incredible Scottish artist Tim Stead. Watch for free link below. Sculptor, furniture maker, visionary. #scottishartist. Have a look, @neilscott.substack.com @womenslibrary.bsky.social @glasgowbell.bsky.social

Hmm. English that only makes sense to French speakers?

Due to late cancellations, five singing residential tickets have become available for our July events at Mowden Hall, Northumberland. 3 are for the weekend of July 11th and 2 or weekend of July 18th. Grab them now at www.the-unthanks.com/product-cate...

Crowdfunder-prize-draw towards the cost of @trixpixmedia.bsky.social distributing the film Tim Stead: Magician with Wood (sneak preview on the crowdfunder page) www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tim-stead-...

Dragon of the day: Parisian Brent. Is that more or less valuable as a commodity than 'Parisian rent'? #amediting

Love this idea at a Spanish market! Toy animals indicate the milk type in the different cheeses. #cheese

Riveting. Compelling. You could hear a pin drop. And the penny dropping. @kshams.bsky.social

Update: Fatou has been whisked away at night again, this time without being given any flight details. This is not only inhumane, it is unlawful. We now believe she may be removed on a Turkish Airlines flight, possibly at 16:40 today 17 June #FreeFatou @northeastbylines.co.uk

For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.

It's picnic season for translators and interpreters! *Saturday 28 June, Hexham* Bring food to share and any outdoor game. Connect with family, friends and colleagues. Sele Park, near bandstand, 12-2pm *Saturday 5 July, Newcastle* The same ‘bring-and-share’ format. Leazes Park, 12-2pm #ITICommunity

Lego cat 😂 #CatsOfBlueSky

Translators and interpreters! Come along on Thursday 19 June: *PEN Lecture 2025, 6pm* delivered by Kamila Shamsie (We're not organising this). Venue: NCLA, NE1 7RU To book: englishpen.beaconforms.com/form/4c1eb2d9 *Meet-up from 7:45pm* – an informal catch up at the Trent House, NE1 4QT #ITICommunity

Alert to greenwashing after a great day's @itiscotnet.bsky.social summer workshop! Looking forward to the ceilidh...

Starting tomorrow, we will be hosting another New Books in German feature week. A series of readings translated from German, all books seeking a publisher, with funding available. Stay tuned for some great readings from some very talented translators! @newgermanbooks.bsky.social

Local expert JC Penet is offering a series of workshops on peer support through the national @iti-uk.bsky.social. 12 June, 11 July, 18 Sept, 9 Oct, 6 Nov 2025, 12-1:30pm. Coaching-style conversations for workplace wellbeing and productivity. Details here www.iti.org.uk/training/eve... #ITICommunity

Congratulations to Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq, winners of this year’s International Booker Prize. We’re hugely honoured to publish HEART LAMP. Our deepest thanks to the judges and, indeed, to all of you who have read and loved this extraordinary collection.

Today's typo.: 'Stand out from the crows'

Setting off bright and early for a Yorkshire Translators and Interpreters workshop on creating a website #ITICommunity

Today's typo.: accusastory #amchecking

When you look up a tricky phrase, and find it cited by a French dictionary website (yay!)... in a quotation from... the author you're translating (boo!) #xl8

Just got a bit lost in the York C20 website www.yorkc20.york.ac.uk

So, yesterday I asked what 'Caravans in action' actually means, as part of a German marketing text. The client rewrote the 'in action' part, and 'Caravans' are camper vans. Of course. #xl8

Fatou Tamba - a 55-year-old woman originally from The Gambia - faces deportation today. Over 25 000 people have signed the petition asking for Fatou's deportation to be stopped northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Durham for exam prep classes... in the sunshine... #xl8

So, translators, you know what you have to do to combat AI 'translation' ;-) #xl8

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

Appel à @royalairmaroc.bsky.social, refusez de déporter Fatou Tamba depuis Londres demain ! Elle risque la mort dans son pays d'origine www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...

A crisis of justice faces all of us. We counter that with solidarity. One of us, Fatou, is now in immigration detention, facing deportation after 18 years in the UK. Stand with Fatou, and stand with us. Add your name now. ⬇️ www.change.org/p/stop-the-d... #NoOneIsIllegal

A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

Lots of buzz at the moment about Emily Wilson and her performance-readings from her translations of Homer's #Odyssey. You can watch those readings (and so many more!) on our channel: check us out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1at...

What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine, everything else in mine, unless I don’t want it, then it’s also mine in case I change my mind.

Some great railway staff asked about my placard and wished us luck! #DoTheWriteThing @societyofauthors.bsky.social

#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves #xl8

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing #MakeItFair www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...