Translation is solved; long live translation! #Automation has made producing a #translation easier than ever, and that's exactly why it's essential to talk about what language professionals actually bring to the table and why expertise matters more now, not less. orrego-carmona.com/post/transla...

Translation is "solved," long live translation! | David Orrego-Carmona

Over the last couple of years, I have regularly heard versions of the claim that “translation is solved” at industry events, most recently at SlatorCon in San Francisco. LILT’s presentation refined th...

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A book launch for our new #OpenAccess title, LITERATURE FOR CHANGE, will take place at Senate House, hosted by the @ilcs.bsky.social at @sas-news.bsky.social. 27 Oct 2026 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm GMT Featuring Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Helen Patuck. Read more and book: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Registration for this year’s Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and @sas-news.bsky.social, is now open. Join us in London on 26 Nov to hear Prof Jennifer Edmond talk about ‘From collection to collective: what is an archive now?’ Free to attend! #DigitalHumanities

From Collection to Collective: what is an archive now?

Explore how digital platforms are reshaping cultural memory at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

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NEW POST | 'Teaching Back to the University' Author @walshbr.bsky.social writes about his new book 'Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching & the Infrastructure of Change', a roadmap for university workers balancing institutional pressures & their teaching ambitions: buff.ly/sE77CgB

Teaching Back to the University

Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change offers a roadmap for university workers caught between the powers that shape the work that they do and the teaching…

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🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association! From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups. 🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities

The series will demonstrate the contribution of the discipline to addressing questions of current global concern (including AI, climate change, technology and decolonisation) while encouraging cross-language, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research.

Published in association with the @ilcs.bsky.social, the series explores the contribution of languages, cultures and societies research to urgent contemporary global challenges. @paulakennedy.bsky.social // @drjoeford.bsky.social // @naswells.bsky.social // @theapitman.bsky.social

Delighted to see the first 2 books in our new @uolpress.bsky.social and @ilcs.bsky.social Understanding Languages, Cultures and Societies series published, both available open access here: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...

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We are excited to announce that a new @uolpress.bsky.social series, Understanding Languages, Cultures and Societies, has launched today with the publication of its first two open access titles, Literature for Change and Artificial Intelligence, Art and Indigeneity.

Sign our petition to stop compulsory redundancies of five Translation & Interpreting colleagues at the University of Birmingham. Stand with staff and defend Modern Languages.

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Stop redundancies at the University of Birmingham

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We've got a few big updates as we look ahead to 2027! The Annual Event is going on hiatus as we support colleagues attending DH2027 in Galway (@adho-org.bsky.social). We’re also launching a new event series! To find out more, check out our website: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/04/r... #DH

WEBINAR | Distributing knowledge for equity: two new books and an evolving concept for Open Science WHEN: Monday 14 September, 2pm UTC (8am Mexico City, 3pm London and Abuja, 4pm Berlin, 5pm Kyiv) REGISTER (FREE): buff.ly/0LDJaey FIND OUT MORE: buff.ly/siHgezR

Can acts of solidarity – including protest and political organising – shape, influence, and alter our understanding and definition of literature itself? Join Wasafiri and @englishpen.bsky.social at @ibraaz.bsky.social on 23 September for the launch of our latest issue. buff.ly/NZ7gy8v

Our Manifesto for #multilingual #digitalhumanities is finally available on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/2143... Our @dariaheu.bsky.social Multilingual DH Working Group is a proud sponsor of & contributor to this endeavor, so you can also find it on our Hypotheses site: multilingual.hypotheses.org/502

Extraordinary piece by the renowned Argentinian investigative journalist and author Uki Goñi on how his country’s president is going all in on the tech bro dream of an AI network state www.thenerve.news/p/uki-goni-a...

Peter Thiel, precogs and ‘non-human corporations’ – welcome to the wild world of AI Argentina

President Milei’s plans to turn my country into an anarchic tech paradise makes him just the latest character in the nation’s long history of chancers and dictators, writes Uki Goñi

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Covers for the 1st books in our #OpenAccess series, Understanding Languages, Cultures & Societies, are now up on our website 😍 1st is Literature for Change: The Case for Literary Research Across Languages and Cultures, published w/ funding from @acls1919.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/literat...

In perhaps our most devastating briefing we find early career staff in the humanities as a whole have declined by 20% since 2016/17. Between 23/24 and 24/25 early career staff across all SHAPE subject areas fell by 6%, (from 52,795 to 49,410 FPE). That is the pipeline for our disciplines

This Friday, the Jamaican poet and writer @jallenpaisant.bsky.social will deliver a keynote performance titled SNOW as part of our two-part event, Bodies of Knowledge. 🗓️Friday, 10 July, 7–8pm BST 🏫BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London 🎟️£10 for keynote only

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A multidisciplinary event, featuring a performance lecture by Jason Allen-Paisant and a roundtable conversation on who creates knowledge.

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We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Translation and Multilingual Communication 3-year fixed-term, teaching-focused, Sept 2026 start. We want colleagues whose work engages with communication across languages, modes, and communities. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSA855/a...

Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed - Translation and Multilingual Communication) (111755-0626) at University of Warwick

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed - Translation and Multilingual Communication) (111755-0626) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity ...

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Colleagues at the University of Exeter need your support! ✍️ Sign the petition: c.org/yKcx6Zr29H The University of Exeter is to cut about 150 staff. The proposed reduction is almost exclusively focused on roles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, among them Modern Languages and English.

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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It looks like what I predicted is exactly what is happening—the bias against writing deemed to be non-native has now shifted to bias against writing deemed to be AI generated with the same disproportional impacts on scholars from the Global South. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

AI promised to democratise academic publishing – the evidence says otherwise - LSE Impact

It was thought AI would level the playing field in academic publishing for non-native English speakers. A growing body of evidence to reveals the opposite.

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Indigenous Mexican poet Irma Pineda writes in Didxazá, one of the variants in the Zapotec language family. Read four of her poems in Didxazá and Spanish on our website, translated by @wendycall.bsky.social. They are accompanied by an additional translator's note.

Blue Longing: Four Poems by Irma Pineda, trans. by Wendy Call

Indigenous Mexican poet Irma Pineda writes both in Spanish and Didxazá, one of the variants in the Zapotec language family.

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Cool post at the British Library! Barker Postdoctoral Fellow in Born-Digital Archives: 'Co-design a research project for a 12-month funded-fellowship, embedded in our expert curatorial and research teams'. LLMs for Personal Digital Archives ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

Where does a degree in Languages and Cultures Across Borders take you? 🌍✨ Whether you're passionate about migration, environmental humanities, or global justice, this programme equips you with a versatile toolkit for a global career. 🔗 Explore career pathways and apply today: sas.ac.uk/lcab

How do seemingly race-neutral policies shape access to the teaching profession? Lisa Panford examines the impact of recent bursary changes on Black African international language teachers in the UK. Read full article here: www.lspjournal.com/post/bursary...

Bursary withdrawal as evidence of interest convergence: Race and the recruitment of Black African international language teachers

In this opinion piece, Lisa Panford argues that recent policy changes reveal the conditional nature of inclusion in teacher recruitment. African international trainees are welcomed to address shortage...

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NEW TITLE | The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices, edited by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager and Renée Ridgway Read freely or buy a copy: buff.ly/vI0ZShM #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructures #OpenAccess

New issue of the European Journal of Language Policy, now open access for 2026 via #S2O 🎉 Explore cutting-edge work on multilingualism, power, policy & AI across global contexts. Read it freely: bit.ly/EJLP-18-1 #Multilingualism #AIandLanguage @conchurog.bsky.social

The 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize closes for entries in 3 weeks! In the spirit of the prize being open to work in translation, and to help spread the word, we have gathered some translations of the reminder message from our team — we speak 10 languages between us! buff.ly/lCtABV0

🗣️ Accessibility Conversations: @uolpress.bsky.social .@emmagallon.bsky.social shares the main drivers on their #Accessibility journey Legal compliance with the European Accessibility Act? OR ... Commitment to ensure their books are as accessible to as many as possible 🔗

Accessibility Conversations: University of London Press - Copim

Joanne and Jordy met with Emma from the University of London Press to discuss their accessibility work

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Announcing our new #OpenAccess #DigitalCulturalHeritage series - thanks @sas-news.bsky.social! And thanks to the authors of the inaugural volume: @amsichani.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & Eirini Goudarouli @uknatarcsector.bsky.social. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

University of London Press launches new open access ‘Digital Cultural Heritage’ series

The University of London Press has published the inaugural volume in its new Digital Cultural Heritage series, co-authored by researchers from SAS and The National Archives, UK.

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Languages are not in decline - access is. Our colleagues Marcela Andrea Cazzoli and Ana Medeiros show that the problem is not student aspriation, but structured access. Don't miss this very important read: wonkhe.com/blogs/modern...

Modern languages has a future – and it’s all about access

Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to loo...

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