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Sharon Black

@sharonblack.bsky.social

Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation • audiovisual translation • arts & media accessibility • interpreting • President of ESIST • own views

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Sharon Black@sharonblack.bsky.social · last yr.

“On or off skis – and I would prefer him to sod offski – the vice-president can be judged successful in his deliberately adopted mission to become mesmerisingly awful.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There are 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – and they’re all more likable than the real thing | Marina Hyde

Angry, rude and addicted to web troll-ery, the vice-president has the Make America Awful Again portfolio. Seems a perfect fit, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

theguardian.com

Sharon Black@sharonblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level." An excellent article on the threatened closure of #languages and #translation at Cardiff and on the importance and value of degree courses in languages for UK HE. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities

The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

timeshighereducation.com

Sharon Black@sharonblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

Have you shared your views on #subtitles yet by filling out the The UK #Subtitling #Audiences Survey? If not, now’s your chance! uksubtitlingaudiences.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/l... Please also share widely with friends, family - anyone you think may be interested. Your views are valued!

Sharon Black@sharonblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎞🎬 What’s your view on subtitles? We would love to hear from you! The UK #Subtitling #Audiences Survey is collecting information on viewing habits and #perceptions of subtitled media in the UK. Only 10 mins to complete: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/arts/uk-su... Please share widely-thank you!

Jonny Smallwood@themindwanders.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social A thread 🧵 elifesciences.org/articles/97731

Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching

Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.

elifesciences.org

Sharon Black@sharonblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

Have you been accepted to present your work at Media for All 11? Why not apply for the ESIST conference grant👇 Please also share the news with anyone you think may be interested!#M4All11

@esist.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are joining forces again with #media4all11 to offer a conference grant to support one of our members in presenting their work at Media for All 11 in Hong Kong, 28-30 May: www.m4all11.org Deadline to apply is by midnight on 28 February esist.org/media-for-al...

Tiina Tuominen@tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · 2y ago

SubComm, our community of professional subtitlers and academics, has moved to Bluesky. Please follow if you are interested in all the interesting and useful things researchers and practitioners could do together, or if you'd just like to chat with some very lovely people. Next chat, 24 January!

@subcomm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello, Bluesky! We have arrived, and we hope to keep building this community of subtitling professionals and academics here. Please join us!

Sharon Black@sharonblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations to the shortlisted candidates! 👏👏 The winner of the ESIST Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2025 will be announced in May at Media for All 11 in Hong Kong 🤩 esist.org/awards/esist... @stavroulasokoli.bsky.social @dorrego.bsky.social @serenellamassidda.bsky.social

ESIST Outstanding PhD Thesis Award – Esist

esist.org

@esist.bsky.social · 2y ago

The ESIST PhD Award Committee has completed the first round of evaluation of the submissions received. We were very impressed by the quality of the applications and agreed on shortlisting the following candidates: Łukasz Dutka Alina Karakanta Sixin Liao Rita Menezes Congratulations!

Sharon Black@sharonblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

Opportunity alert! The project led by the wonderful Dr Sara Ramos Pinto with Dr Carol O'Sullivan 'From Lab to Screen: a response to AI’s threat to the media localisation industry' is seeking a research assistant for 6 months from March 2025: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Deadline to apply: 30 Jan

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Assistant in Impact Translation Project

Are you a PhD student or an early career researcher looking for a challenge? Do you have a background in subtitling, audiovisual translation or translation studies? Do you want to further your career ...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

RNIB@rnib.bsky.social · 2y ago

Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think. Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!

A bright pink instructional graphic titled “How to sleigh alt text.” It includes colourful headings labelled Identify Who (in green), Expression (blue), Description (pink), Colour (red), and Interesting Features (grey). On the right side, there’s a sample alt text description in various colours that reads: “Santa Claus looking happy as he waves at the camera. He wears a traditional red suit and hat and has a long white beard and glasses. There are colourful lights twinkly behind him.” Below the text, a photo of Santa Claus is shown, waving with a big smile against a background of twinkling, colourful holiday lights
Centre for Translation Studies UCL@centras-ucl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our first post on BluSky celebrates Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Rocío Baños, Soledad Zarate of CenTraS-UCL and Visiting Professor Frederic Chaume Varela, who developed dubbing training for Netflix. More information about this exciting collaboration here: www.ucl.ac.uk/consultants/...

UCL helps Netflix enhance global and local dubbing, translation and adaptation practices

Academics from UCL’s Centre for Translation Studies have been working with Netflix across the world to drive higher alignment on global and local translation and adaptation practices for dubbing.

ucl.ac.uk

Clive Lewis MP@labourlewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/2 UEA’s latest planned wave of cuts to fill an additional £11m financial hole would bring the number of job losses to almost 600. No wonder staff are upset and angry and are considering industrial action. Watch my reaction here and in the next post.

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 2y ago

An alt text note: I’ve seen a lot of people providing alt text for a text-heavy image like “a list of different types of twitter poster” or “a picture of a road sign”. But… if you want someone to actually understand what is in the picture, you need to say *what the text in the image actually says*.

Sharon Black@sharonblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our article on 'Digital accessibility tools and training and the DA4You course: views and experiences of users with disabilities' is out! This research was conducted with the wonderful Carlos de Pablos-Ortega as part of the Digital Accessibility for You project link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Digital accessibility tools and training and the DA4You course: views and experiences of users with disabilities - Universal Access in the Information Society

Digital technologies are now ubiquitous in our lives and it is of critical importance that people with disabilities benefit from full and equitable access to the digital world. However, digital access...

link.springer.com