We have teamed up again with Languages & The Media to offer ESIST members a discounted registration fee for the 16th International Conference and Exhibition on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media taking place in London, Senate House 4-6 2026. www.languages-media.com Watch this space! 😉

A new report published by @iti-uk.bsky.social summarises recent surveys on translators' work-related quality of life, led by Akiko Sakamoto Kansai. www.iti.org.uk/resource/twr...

Translator Work-Related Quality of Life report published

New research led by Akiko Sakamoto MITI shares insights into members' job satisfaction, career motivation and working conditions

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APTIS Conference “Living with AI: From disruption to direction in translation and interpreting” 15–17 April 2026 Cardiff University and Swansea University. Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 12 January 2026

We paired up with another appealing conference 🔝 📅 23-24 April 2026, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy 📅 (EXTENDED) Deadline for abstract submission: 7 January 2026 #ESISTmembers attending as speakers will benefit from a reduced registration fee ✅ More info at: www.unipa.it/Artificial-I...

CfP: Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons Università degli Studi di Palermo, 23–24 April 2026 Deadline for abstract submission: 22 December 2025 Notification of acceptance: 01 February 2026 www.unipa.it/dipartimenti...

CfP 🔊International Translation Conference: Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons, University of Palermo @unipa.it, 23–24 April 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: 22/12/2025 Full CfP here: www.unipa.it/dipartimenti... www.unipa.it/dipartimenti...

New article out ✨ Simonetta Falchi and Serenella Massidda: Subtitling The Handmaid’s Tale for an Italian Audience (2025) More at: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.intralinea.org/archive/arti...

Visiting Professor at the University of Palermo for a full immersion in the world of Audiovisual Translation. What a wonderful time to be in Sicily 🩷 From Palermo with love. #palermo #subtitling #audiovisualtranslation #sicily

Just received my printed copy of Damnu-Mediated Communication and Audiovisual Translation in the Digital Age. ♥️

Super happy to share that "Audiovisual Translation and Audience Participation in the Digital Age" is out now! My chapter is included in "Danmu-mediated Communication and Audiovisual Translation in the Digital Age" (Routledge) and edited by Lu, S., Lu, S., & Liang, L. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

The 7th edition of the international symposium on Translation is happening now! @jorgediazcintas.bsky.social @serenellamassidda.bsky.social at the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo, Language Centre Palermo.

AVTpro is growing exponentially. Thanks to the support of the HKU School of Chinese 香港大學中文學院 Dingkun Wang at The University of Hong Kong, #cantonese and #traditionalchinese will be added to the certification, bringing the total number of language pairs to 15 overall.

OpenAI makes AI video generator Sora publicly available in US

OpenAI makes AI video generator Sora publicly available in US

Firm announces tool that can create AI video clip based on user’s written prompts will be available to anyone in the US Anyone in the US can now use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, which the company announced on Monday would…

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The 7th edition of the International Symposium on Translation, "New Technologies in Audiovisual Translation and Accessible Tourism: Transforming Training for the Future" (12-13 December 2024) will be held in the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo. www.unipa.it/dipartimenti...

“Every #proton and #neutron in every #atom from the tip of your toes to the top of your head is shifting, shuttling, and vibrating in a collective purr within which the entire history of the universe is implicated,” Adam Frank wrote last year. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Scientists Found Ripples in Space and Time. And You Have to Buy Groceries.

We’ve just learned that the whole universe is humming around us. Now what?

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#AI could diminish humanity by sapping the ability of human beings to do human things. The fear is that chat models may experience an intelligence explosion: #LLMs might proceed rapidly from AI to #ASI both smarter & more powerful than the smartest human beings. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Big AI Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing

Beware technology that makes us less human.

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Languages & The Media 2024, what an intense week with the best academics, professionals (and great friends ♥️) in #AVT I am so grateful as I learned a lot about #artificialintelligence and #chatgpt4 #llm and the state of the art of the AVT industry.