🌍 Happy Earth Day 🌍 Across oceans, forests, and skies, Earth is alive with conversations we are only beginning to hear. The field of Animal Language Processing is deeply interdisciplinary, and there is a lot of incredible work unfolding. What’s inspiring you today this #EarthDay?

Excited to share the CfP for our AHRC-funded conference “Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation” #conference which will take place 1-2 October 2026 at Lancaster Uni. Deadline for abstracts 20th of April. #academicsky #envhum 🌍 #conservation wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra...

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CfP Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation Lancaster University, UK 1-2 October 2026 Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID Abstract subm…

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With heartfelt thanks to Leverhulme Trust for supporting this 'discipline-hopping' project - from translation studies to marine bioacoustics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social

Translation rights of the more-than-human: thoughts on whale bioacoustics

Eco-translation has opened up translation studies to multiple forms of communication that take place in the more-than-human world, challenging the barriers that persist between humanities and life ...

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Glad to share with you my latest article, on translation and the communication systems of whales! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @projectceti.bsky.social @earthspecies.bsky.social @seagrant.whoi.edu @tommustill.bsky.social @eehnetwork.bsky.social

Translation rights of the more-than-human: thoughts on whale bioacoustics

Eco-translation has opened up translation studies to multiple forms of communication that take place in the more-than-human world, challenging the barriers that persist between humanities and life ...

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Claire Richards will lead the Korean Workshop at BCLT Summer School 2026 ✨ Claire is an award-winning translator of Korean literature 📚 ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026 🌞 Find out more, apply and download an example programme: www.uea.ac.uk/.../british-...

Hooray! It’s publication day! 📖 “Plain Language for Translators” is now available from Routledge. You can use the code below for a 20% discount, and please ask your library to acquire a copy too. #PlainLanguage www.routledge.com/Plain-Langua...

✨ Join Srinath Perur for the Multilingual Prose Fiction – South Asian languages workshop at BCLT Summer School ✨ This year's Summer Summer School will take place ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026 🌞 Find out more, apply and download an example programme: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...

Just finished what I think might be the most useful article I've written in 25 years

Free online, for anyone interested in translation policy analysis: How should we study interactions between translation policies, practices, and beliefs? Reine Meylaerts, Rachel Macreadie, Kadija Bouyzourn, &Anthony Pym doi.org/10.1080/0907...

How should we study interactions between translation policies, practices, and beliefs? Comparing case studies from a time of crisis

This article is a methodological reflection based on a particular research experience around the following question: if effective translation policy must align with translation practices and belief...

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📣 Literary translators. 1 week left to submit. Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is open for submissions for the Stevns Translation Prize (this year we're looking for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees. Deadline Feb. 1. www.catranslation.org/books/stevns...

The Stevns Translation Prize | Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press

The Center’s publications, events, and educational programming enrich the library of vital literary works, nurture and promote the work of translators, build

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Le 12 décembre, nous aurons le plaisir d'accueillir dans le cadre du séminaire TRAiL (TRAnslation in Lille) Caroline Rossi pour une présentation intitulée : "Raconte-moi l'IA au futur : une tâche créative pour comprendre les usages et perceptions de l'automatisation chez les apprentis traductaires"

The judges have also highly commended ‘Too Great A Sky’ by Liliana Corobca, translater from Romanian (Romania) by Monica Cure and published by @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social. Read the full announcement here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 is ‘And the Walls Became the World All Around’ by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing and published by @grantabooks.bsky.social !

How is this even vaguely sustainable

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Google’s AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, recently presented slides to employees indicating the company needs to scale “the next 1000x in 4-5 years.”

Happy publication day! 🌟 "Translation and Infrastructure: Concepts and Applications", co-authored by Anne O'Connor and myself in Translation Studies, is now available in #OpenAccess. #translation #infrastructuralthinking www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Translation and infrastructure: concepts and applications

Engagement with infrastructural thinking, prominent in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology, has received little attention in translation studies. This article argues that tr...

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📣 Publicado: Las democracias en el Decenio Internacional de las Lenguas Indígenas. Derechos lingüísticos, traducción e IA. Prólogo de Diana M. Jembuel Morales, comunicadora misak, y portada de Cristina V. Kleinert #IA #LenguasIndígenas #DerechosLingüísticos #1nt #xl8 www.comares.com/libro/las-de...

LAS DEMOCRACIAS EN EL DECENIO INTERNACIONAL DE LAS LENGUAS INDÍGENAS

Las democracias en el Decenio Internacional de las Lenguas Indígenas. Derechos lingüísticos, traducción e IA explora las posibilidades del Decenio Internacional de las Lenguas Indígenas (2022-2032) co...

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I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.

‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands

A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat

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🎬 SubSign – Subtitling Sign Languages Course 📆 10–16 December 2025 | 📍 Istituto dei Sordi di Torino (Turin, Italy) 🎥 Teaser: youtube.com/watch?v=W3Fn... 📅 Deadline to apply: Monday 17 November 👉 How to apply Fill in the Google Form docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS... gabriele.uzzo@sudtitles.com

SubSign - Subtitling Sign Languages Course (December 2025)

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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

Working on my Language Show presentation on translation and dyslexia for Saturday. Neurodiversity inclusion FTW ✊ languageshowlive.co.uk

A reminder of this event on 20th November:

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EEHN will be hosting a joint reading group with @critiquecentre.bsky.social about Richard Healey and Angie Pepper's article 'Pets, Power and Legitimacy' on 20 November critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/pets-power-a...

Reminder: there's just under a week left to register for this online talk next Monday 👇 (in French and LSF)

Official launch of the journal Feminist Translation Studies (www.tandfonline.com/journals/rft...) on 4 December. Join us for a lively discussion with some of the contributors so far. Please register here tinyurl.com/FTSLaunchEvent to receive a Zoom link. Everybody welcome! @tandfresearch.bsky.social

In a Brazilian tax-fraud case, the judge stitches voices from prosecutor, defense, defendant, witness, and federal police, and the ruling ends in acquittal. Rodrigues & Azevedo analyze how polyphony drives this judgment. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...

Are you a legal interpreter, translator or DPSI Law candidate? Join lawyer/linguist Sue Leschen for an in-depth webinar, drawing on her extensive experience of the complex world of family law. Register here: register.gotowebinar.com/register/731... #Law #Interpreter #Translator #Families #CPD #DPSI

✨ Less than one month to go! ✨ We’re excited to welcome award-winning British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak for this year’s Sebald Lecture at the @britishlibrary on Monday 1 December — and you can also join us online! Find out more and register: events.bl.uk/events/the-w...

The PhD Program in Cognitive Science at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, invites applications for doctoral students to start in Fall 2026. 4 years of full financial coverage for enrolled students. Application deadline Feb. 4, 2026. cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission

And check out our introduction 'Making the leap: embracing the more-than-human in feminist and queer translation' available for free access at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @olgacastro80.bsky.social @ftnetwork.bsky.social @womenintranslation.bsky.social @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social

Making the leap: embracing the more-than-human in feminist and queer translation

Intersections between gender, feminism, and ecological issues have been explored for more than fifty years. Scholars have demonstrated that ecosystems and life forms are oppressed by the same syste...

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So glad to share with you the inaugural special issue of Feminist Translation Studies 'Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/2/1 @olgacastro80.bsky.social @ftnetwork.bsky.social @womenintranslation.bsky.social @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social

Feminist Translation Studies

Special Issue: Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation. Guest Editors: Şebnem Susam-Saraeva and Carolyn Shread. Volume 2, Issue 1 of Feminist Translation Studies

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