Essential reading for anyone interested in disinformation

We are very happy to announce that Dr John Li - a distinguished Senior UN Interpreter - has joined our interpreting teaching team.

Dr Li brings a wealth of interpreting experience at the highest levels and will teach simultaneous interpreting on our MA programmes

The EST 2025 draft programme is now live - bit.ly/3FBYRMs.

Don't forget that reduced rate ‘Early Bird’ registration is also still open until 31 March ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/ev...

There's now a dedicated account for news on the EST Congress in Leeds this summer @estleeds25.bsky.social

Everytime I get into doing a narrative analysis of material on Twitter I'm astonished by 1) just how complicated and messy narrative production really is in this environment and 2) how extraordinary it is that most users have no difficulty at all in immediately making sense of it

At COLING 2025 - a key conference in Natural Language Processing - CTILS PhD student Lama Alqurashi received a 'best paper' award for her work on using Large Language Models to study Arabic poetry. 🥳

"I want a better pay deal for our members, who deserve it. But I also understand that the likelihood of getting a better pay deal at this particular historical moment is next to zero," writes @dyfrigjones.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/stri...

I push more towards that direction, although with the focus on temporality and narrative, in this piece - publications-prairial.fr/encounters-i...

Thanks Matt. This is a narrower application of Heidegger's thought to a trad understanding of translation. I do think you could usefully think of both articulation and Articulation as translational - rather than just thinking of translation as grounded in articulation and Articulation as I do here.

A fully funded PhD studentship to work with the wonderful @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on perceptions of disinformation and trust in the context of Russian foreign influence operations in the Baltics, Afghanistan or Libya

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN069/p...

Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh Translating Arabic & Gaza www.monabaker.org/2025/01/20/h... @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social @fruela.bsky.social @ftnetwork.bsky.social @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @abolgaresc.bsky.social @cmymtl.bsky.social @rrgould.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social

My latest paper is now out!

I use Heidegger's existential hermeneutics to explore the ontological relationships between translators and their equipment and environment and argue that translation can re-disclose the world, revealing it in new ways.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications with @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social Henry Jones, Jonathan Evans, and Kyung Hye Kim www.monabaker.org/2025/01/03/i... @transla-tian-ology.bsky.social @nvp-tdi.bsky.social

I LOVE this project - super important work

www.monabaker.org/2024/12/10/s... @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social @fruela.bsky.social @nvp-tdi.bsky.social @bowkerl.bsky.social @sharonblack.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social @transla-tian-ology.bsky.social @mattvaller.bsky.social @andreaciribuco.bsky.social @cmymtl.bsky.social @jossmo.bsky.social

Another fantastic set of papers in issue 2 of Encounters in Translation. I especially enjoyed Josh Price's article on translating the thought of Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch

publications-prairial.fr/encounters-i...

Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators "The award will be biggest of its kind in Europe & aims to celebrate the work of overlooked & underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI." www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... @eivinden.bsky.social @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social

I'm back to work today after three months of parental leave.

I'm so glad to have done it a second time. It's been wonderful to spend quality time with my child but also so helpful to get proper insight into how it feels to be off for an extended period and then come back to work.

Here is a starter pack for academics and researchers in Translation Studies.

Please let me know if you want to be added to this list.

@neilsadler.bsky.social

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My wife is from Kent and had no idea what scraps were until she went to a chip shop in Leeds

My favourite think about Bluesky so far is that it's blissfully quiet. Probably says something about Twitter as well as about the importance of curating your feed.