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𝔾𝖗𝖆𝕧𝖊 𝕊𝖑𝖆𝕪𝖊𝖗𝖘 💀🧟‍♂️👻🎃👹 @davesayers.bsky.social · 2d

📢📢Next up in the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social English seminar series!📢📢

Mon 3 Nov 2025 at 16:00 EET. Emily Harmer, @harm365.bsky.social:

'What is online abuse anyway? The case of women politicians in the UK'

See the abstract & register here. 👇 Go go go!
r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...

JYU English seminars - 2025-26

2025-26

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Dimitar Shterionov @dimitarsh1.bsky.social · 10d

🚀 First Call for Papers for EAMT 2026
We welcome submissions in four tracks:
Research - Technical, Research - Translators & users, Implementations & case studies, Products & Projects
📅 Submission deadline: 18 March 2026
Notification: 24 April 2026
Event: 15-18 June 2026
📩 More info: eamt2026.org

EAMT 2026 - European Association for Machine Translation

EAMT 2026 - European Association for Machine Translation Conference in Tilburg, Netherlands

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Dimitar Shterionov @dimitarsh1.bsky.social · 10d

🚀 Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals co-located with EAMT 2026, in Tilburg, The Netherlands.

📅 Important Dates:
_Workshops:_
Submission deadline: 05/11/2025
Notification: 01/12/2025

_Tutorials:_
Submission deadline: 18/03/2026
Notification: 24/04/2026

Events: 15/06/2026

📩 Web: eamt2026.org

EAMT 2026 - European Association for Machine Translation

EAMT 2026 - European Association for Machine Translation Conference in Tilburg, Netherlands

eamt2026.org

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Aug 24

If you want to read more about machine translation post-editing when translating video games, have a look!

ctt2025.bsky.social @ctt2025.bsky.social · Aug 24

And the wait is over! The workshop proceedings are now available on the @aclanthology.org! Check them out at aclanthology.org/volumes/2025...

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) - ACL Anthology

aclanthology.org

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ctt2025.bsky.social @ctt2025.bsky.social · Aug 24

And the wait is over! The workshop proceedings are now available on the @aclanthology.org! Check them out at aclanthology.org/volumes/2025...

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) - ACL Anthology

aclanthology.org

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Aug 16

Oh, that‘s Lynne two times! I meant to add @mtkopon.bsky.social as well.

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Aug 16

How about @bowkerl.bsky.social @marynurm.bsky.social and @bowkerl.bsky.social ?

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Aug 15

I just saw I have over 150 followers on here. Okay, wow, hei everyone 👋
I am about to try something new:
1. live in Finland
2. teach at a university
Wish me luck 🍀 please! I can surely need it.
#academiclife

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bramvanroy.bsky.social @bramvanroy.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'd like to grow my network more on this site as it is small compared to on that other site. My interests are quite broad so drop some names to follow 👇 around these topics: #machinetranslation #MT, Universal Dependencies, #LLMs in all of its aspects (technical, ethical, data), #Dutch NLP, #OSS!

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Koneen Säätiö @koneensaatio.fi · Aug 8

Kone Foundation’s annual grant call will be held 1–15 September 2025! Would you like to learn more about our grant call criteria and practicalities?

Sign up for the open info session on 27 August or book a 20-minute advice session: koneensaatio.fi/en/events/

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Alessandra T. Cignarella @cerveza-inglesa.bsky.social · Jul 21

🌈 Help with my LGBTQIA+ research! 🌈

I'm building a dataset to fight harmful LGBTQIA+ stereotypes in AI. Take my quick survey:
👉 IT: lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j
👉 NL: lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY
👉 FA: lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu
Everybody is welcome!

📤 Share if you can!

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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · Jul 25

We are looking for a new colleague to join our #Translation and Transcultural Studies team!

Open to someone with expertise in translation #technologies, #AudiovisualTranslation, or #GameLocalisation, and any of our degree languages.

Please help us spread the word 😊

Deadline: 17 August 2025

Translation at Warwick @warwicktranslation.bsky.social · Jul 25

We're hiring! Teaching Fellow in Translation and Transcultural Studies (Maternity Cover)

Seeking expertise in:
- Translation technologies & audiovisual translation
- Game localisation
- Chinese, French, German, Italian, or Spanish expertise

Apply by 17 August 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB494/t...

Teaching Fellow (Maternity Cover) (110677-0725) at University of Warwick

Recruiting now: Teaching Fellow (Maternity Cover) (110677-0725) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Vilém Zouhar @zouharvi.bsky.social · Jul 25

The 2025 MT Evaluation shared task brings together the strengths of the previous Metrics and Quality Estimation tasks under a single, unified evaluation framework.

The following tasks are now open for participants (deadline July 31st but participation has never been easier 🙂 ):

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thank you Damien!

Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thank you Alina! This means a lot!

Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 30

My very first paper is out 🥹

ctt2025.bsky.social @ctt2025.bsky.social · Jun 30

As a wrap-up for this year's CTT edition, we invite you to take a peek at our workshop's draft proceedings, in which you'll find the full papers of our wonderful speakers. The final version will be published ont he ACL Anthology, but in the meantime:
ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/proceedings

CTT 2025 - Proceedings

The draft proceedings are available at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yCOHAHTpqsyFCL2c5jj7Khy6yyKJ7BbC/view?usp=drive_link Important note: these are just the drafts, provided for your vie...

ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 27

First time I had results to share in a poster. This lead to engaging discussions with lots of ideas how to delve deeper into the data. I left full of encouragement and affirmation. Thanks for the opportunity #MTSummit2025!

mtsummit2025.bsky.social @mtsummit2025.bsky.social · Jun 27

2/2 poster boaster session done ✅ Our participants had 2 minutes to present their poster. Great work to be discovered in the poster area! Come and see and hear more! #MTSummit2025 #posterboaster

MTxGames - Video Games and Machine Translation

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 25

Won’t that be on Thursday, though? My brain feels cooked by the heat so I don’t know which day it is anymore! 🥵

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 25

It was a real pleasure connecting with all of you. Thank you for the opportunity to present my research.

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 25

We missed you, Bram! I would have loved to thank you for your support behind the scenes in person.

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 24

It was a pleasure! Thank you for the invitation to be part of the panel.

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Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 24

#MTSummit2025

Judith Brenner @judithbrenner.bsky.social · Jun 24

A dove joined the #MTSummit25 welcome desk for the second workshops day at Uni Mail in Geneva.

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mtsummit2025.bsky.social @mtsummit2025.bsky.social · Jun 19

📢 The MT Summit 2025 draft proceedings are now available on: mtsummit2025.unige.ch/proceedings....
Feel free to share and discuss.

Huge thanks to all contributors, reviewers and organizers who made it possible.

See you soon!
#ConferenceProceedings #AcademicPublishing #Research #Innovation #MT2025

Proceedings | MT Summit 2025

Proceedings

mtsummit2025.unige.ch

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Alice Ray @halray27.bsky.social · Jun 10

J'ai supprimé mon post avec un clic intempestif et machiavélique.
Le revoici:
Pour un projet scientifique sur le langage des joueurs et joueuses de jeu vidéo, nous cherchons des équipes pour enregistrer des sessions!
Le formulaire d'inscription: urlr.me/mnAx4J
N'hésitez pas à partager!

Projet scientifique: recherche joueurs et joueuses pour enregistrer sessions de jeu

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