You may have heard Gazan students, who have all been accepted onto fully funded scholarships for third-level courses, have had their visa applications turned down. As a nation we proclaim to be supportive of Palestine and want to help them however we can. Allowing students to complete degrees 1/2

We should be livid. The article says students are asked to do everything with originals via post (no email when there's no functioning post service?!) and failed for "insufficient evidence of strong obligations to return to your home country". What would that case look like in Gaza right now?!

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last wk.

Sources within the universities say the refusal rate this year is in marked contrast to last year, when more than 80 Gazan students left Gaza in an evacuation organised by the Irish Government.

Just awful. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike

Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before Egypt played Argentina in their last 16 match

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We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Language Technologies and AI Governance Permanent post, Sept 2026 start. We want researchers working at the intersection of language, technology, and society. Languages as your home, take a look. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRY964/a...

Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance (111754-0626) at University of Warwick

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance (111754-0626) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic job...

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I've two spare tickets for Stewart Lee in Wexford tomorrow night June 5th. Stalls fifth row #ticketfairy

Now also in The Nerve: about #Palantir and #technofascism www.thenerve.news/p/palentir-a...

Palantir's social media manifesto is a blueprint for technofascism

The surveillance firm’s viral X post calls for hard power, conscription and the end of pluralism. AI expert and academic Mark Coeckelbergh on what happens when technology becomes the gateway to author...

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Our article on audio descriptive commentary (ADC) at @bfcdublin.bsky.social is online now. Lucía Pintado and I interviewed club officials, commentators and service users to document the origin, challenges and benefits of the volunteer-led ADC service at Bohs. www.jostrans.org/article/view... 1/2

We are excited to present JoSTrans Special Issue 49, “Digital Patronage and the Politics of Translation in Algorithmic Culture.” Our thanks go to Lucja Biel and the JoSTrans editorial board for their support, and to David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social for taking on the role of lead editor.

358 806 signatures for the full suspension of the EU-Israel association, more than 1/3 of what is needed and 4 of the 7 countries needed over 100%. tinyurl.com/mv8fzdhu ☑️Belgium 103% ☑️Finland 100.5% ☑️France 296% Ireland 58.7% Italy 79.8% Netherlands 31% Poland 51.4% ☑️Spain 111.9% Sweden 81.6%

"A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Centre for Demographic Studies investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza" Don't forget. Just don't.

Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy

Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account

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Andrew Rothwell, Joss Moorkens, Tomas Svoboda: Training in translation tools and technologies: Findings of the EMT survey 2023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22735 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22735 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.22735

Fresh out of the press📘 Penet, J., (Newcastle University), Moorkens, J. (Dublin City University), Yamada, M. (Rikkyo University). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI. Language Science Press Open access, tap the link: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it? Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly. If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.

Andrew Jackson@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

New open access article! The machine translator’s visibility: A postphenomenological analysis of machine translation. @jossmo.bsky.social uses concepts from postphenomenology to show how machine and human #translation differ in use. See doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... #openaccess

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Good new Guardian piece on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing with input from members of @subtleuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI

Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human to make it work

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SUBTLE - the Subtitlers' Association@subtleuk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Subtle's chair Max Deryagin and committee members Merry Cannella and Rachel Jones spoke to journalist Lucy Carter recently about the creative role of SDH authors and AI's detrimental impact on our working conditions and quality, and their interview is out in The Guardian! Link in our bio!

A lotta hype during last night’s game about the NFL coming to Ireland on Sunday. Well, I just got back from Dublin and not everyone is thrilled to see the 2025 NFL plant a flag in their country www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The NFL Is Trump’s America—and It’s Invading Ireland

The league is not coming to Dublin to plant a tree. It is coming to plant a flag.

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A free event on September 30 International Translation Day: Translating Peace and Truth in Times of Global Crisis, organised by Gökhan Fırat and Translation Village. Talks from A. Turgay Kurultay, Nancy Piñeiro and myself. Details, timings, free registration at www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...

Recently published: Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI @serenellamassidda.bsky.social investigates innovative media localisation strategies incorporating AI Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... From a forthcoming special issue edited by Frederic Chaume & Irene Ranzato

Recently published: Self-Determined Participation (SDP): A theoretical framework for explaining unpaid human participation in translation (and beyond?) Boyi Huang proposes a new framework to explain participation in unpaid translation efforts. Full article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... #onlinefirst

Recently published open access article: Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes. Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... #onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

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This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

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This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

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This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

📣 Our journal Terminology puts out a Call for Papers for a special issue on #Terminology and #AI, guest edited by Kara Warburton & Rachele Raus! More info: 👉 www.benjamins.com/series/term/... 🙌 Sharing is appreciated!

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

Beneath the Howl of Hunger

“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi

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“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars

Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over

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16 years ago today I finished teaching classes to gifted teenagers and drove to Galway, where we played a gig with @deerhoof.bsky.social. Today, I'm half-deaf and haven't drummed in years, but Deerhoof are still the best.