Calling all #Canadian #creators and #multilingual users on socials: my research team has a participant call for a survey - for more info: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

I'm back on Bluesky after a bit of a hiatus (been posting primarily on #LinkedIn). #TranslationStudies, are we still in the building? #HigherEd #Canada #Translation #AcademicChatter

Had the pleasure of participating in roundtable discussion on how to recruit/retain students in #translation programs at the @act-cats.bsky.social unconference at #Congressh. Lots of great ideas shared including more collab with social work programs & nursing programs. Thoughts? #OfficialLanguages

Read and considering signing this letter to the federal government from university researchers, advocating for increased research funding: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

National Letter

Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Prime Minister Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney We, the unde...

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I'm so ecstatic that people are using AI to generate asinine content while #Manitoba burns...Don't get me wrong, I love a little #BrainRot myself, but remember no planet, no memes-just sayin'. We're fully capable of creating memes & creative content without planet-killing, job-killing tech. #MBpoli

Jim Whittington🔥@jimwhittington.bsky.social · last yr.

Canada is already in it with big fires and evacs in the thousands. The country looks poised to have large fires on the landscape from now until the snows come. That means Canadian resources will be overextended and not available to help others. Also, probably leads to smoke drifting into the US.

@academic-chatter.bsky.social I'm curious to know whether any #HigherEd institutions have 'baked in' #SocialMedia #outreach in the collective agreements or in performance appraisal forms/templates (and not only as this relates to speech and academic freedom, but also in terms of #OpenResearch). TIA!

#TranslationStudies community: final call for the CFP for #IATIS 8 in Oman! To submit to our panel on #translation and the #CreatorEconomy, please click here: shorturl.at/gkdPp You can also DM or email if you have more questions. #creators #research #SSHRC #influencers #multilingual

I've been looking forward to the day when I could connect all my interests and make #translation visible in places where it's usually taken for granted (or ignored!). Thank you to #Manitoba running star Mallory Richard for inviting me to talk translation, #AI, and #running: shorturl.at/kDnpM

Doing my weekly round-up of tech news and am catching up on the unveiling of Altman's/World's Orb. Apparently, influencers attended the event and @kevinroose.com & @caseynewton.bsky.social described them as "orbfluencers" on the latest Hard Fork. Had a soblaugh. More here: shorturl.at/h8o6N

Sam Altman's World unveils a mobile verification device | TechCrunch

Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project, unveiled a mobile verification device and expanded to the US.

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Welp. Couldn't help myself: I wrote a few words on "woke research" on LinkedIn. I hope to have demonstrated that linguistic justice & demolinguistic data can be helpful for more than "the libs" (however you want to define the latter). Curious to read? Head on over: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Good news: The deadline HAS BEEN EXTENDED. Papers are now accepted until May 15, 2025. If you have questions or have troubles submitting to EasyChair, DM me and I'll assist. Anyone researching the #multilingual social internet is welcome to submit as well (Panel 8)! #TranslationStudies

@rdesjard204.bsky.social · last yr.

#TranslationStudies community: CFP for #IATIS 2025 is open until 4/30. If you're interested in submitting to my panel alongside @jlmdolmaya.bsky.social @clarachuanyu.bsky.social & Émilie Gobeil-Roberge, please submit asap - details here: shorturl.at/nRQLz

I am heartened to see that Canadians voted in favour of a party that isn't looking to arbitrarily defund academic research in areas where this country may need it most. Onwards. #HigherEd #CdnPoli #innovation

#TranslationStudies community: CFP for #IATIS 2025 is open until 4/30. If you're interested in submitting to my panel alongside @jlmdolmaya.bsky.social @clarachuanyu.bsky.social & Émilie Gobeil-Roberge, please submit asap - details here: shorturl.at/nRQLz

What are your thoughts on the absence of robust AI policy/costing in the Conservatives' costed platform? Intentional omission? If so, hypotheses? I wrote about my thoughts with a link to a G&M article on LinkedIn (will share) and would love to hear others'? shorturl.at/NrUch #CdnPoli

🚨CFP (deadline 04/30): Attn researchers interested in multilingual content creation/creators. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social claims we're in the "global influencer era" and that's one of the key topics we'll be addressing in our panel. Interested? More info here: www.iatis.org/index.php/8t...

#TranslationStudies community: very excited to be co-hosting this panel and looking forward to receiving your submissions. Anyone in the @aoir.bsky.social is also more than welcome to submit - we're hoping to make this as interdisciplinary as possible! #SocialMedia #research NEW DEADLINE: April 30.

Julie McDonough Dolmaya@jlmdolmaya.bsky.social · 2y ago

Renée Desjardins, @clarachuanyu.bsky.social, and Émilie Gobeil-Roberge and I are organizing a panel on "Translation and the Content Creation Economy/Ecology" at the 2025 IATIS conference. More details here: www.iatis.org/index.php/8t... Deadline for proposals: April 10 2025

Hello Blue Sky - took me awhile, but finally decided to come on over. If you're into #multilingualism, #SocialMedia, #SocialTech, and the #creator economy, get in touch. Also into #politics, #culture, and all things #trailrunning.