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Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social · 29d

#INCREC is looking for a new team member:

Postdoc in #Creativity, #Translation and #Technology.
Come an join the team at University of Groningen!

Applications until 12 October 11:59pm, 2025 Dutch local time (CET) .

All information 👇

www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Vacatures bij de RUG

www.rug.nl

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Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social · May 30

I need to check this out!!!!

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Giulia Rambelli @grambelli.bsky.social · Apr 30

Tomorrow at lunch, I’m giving a talk: “Discovering Linguistic Abstractions”. I’ll share @abstractionerc.bsky.social research projects (PI: @mariannabolog.bsky.social ) at the Linguistic Lunch @facultyofartsug.bsky.social. Thanks @frap98.bsky.social for the invite!

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Médicos Sin Fronteras España @msfespana.bsky.social · Apr 30

🔴 Gaza
"Las autoridades israelíes no solo están utilizando la ayuda como moneda de cambio, sino como un arma de guerra".
Claire Nicolet, responsable de Emergencias de MSF

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Gaza: "Las autoridades israelíes no solo están utilizando la ayuda como moneda de cambio, sino como un arma de guerra"

Declaraciones de Claire Nicolet, nuestra responsable de Emergencias, acerca del inicio de las audiencias de la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) sobre las obligaciones de Israel en Gaza

f.mtr.cool

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Apr 17

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government.

Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.

eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » Eiko Fried

Two days ago, four Dutch universities announced discontinuing their English-speaking psychology bachelor programs (1, 2). I will briefly explain (1) how this decision came to be, (2) why this is such ...

eiko-fried.com

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Médicos Sin Fronteras España @msfespana.bsky.social · Apr 16

⬛ Gaza, una fosa común

La Franja se ha convertido en una fosa común para la población palestina y para quienes les brindan ayuda. Las fuerzas israelíes continúan devastando sistemáticamente vidas mediante el desplazamiento forzoso y el bloqueo deliberado de la ayuda humanitaria

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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · Jan 28

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 @esist.bsky.social · Jan 28

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...

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Susana Valdez @susanavaldez.bsky.social · Feb 3

I'm happy to share that my paper, “Using the vignette technique to research health communication in linguistically and culturally discordant settings,” is now available online in Qualitative Health Communication!

It's open access. Feel free to reach out w/ thoughts.

tidsskrift.dk/qhc/article/...

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Yevgen Matusevych @yevgenm.bsky.social · Mar 7

Interested in a paid PhD position in the Netherlands? Join me, Annemarie van Dooren, and @arianna-bis.bsky.social on a project to develop computational models of modal verb acquisition. A job ad will be out soon, but here's a preview: yevgen.web.rug.nl/phd.pdf

yevgen.web.rug.nl

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Jirui Qi @jiruiqi.bsky.social · Apr 11

✨ New Paper ✨
[1/] Retrieving passages from many languages can boost retrieval augmented generation (RAG) performance, but how good are LLMs at dealing with multilingual contexts in the prompt?

📄 Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2504.00597
(w/ @arianna-bis.bsky.social @Raquel_Fernández)

#NLProc

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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · Apr 7

✨New paper ✨

Introducing 🌍MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Minimal Pairs for Subject-Verb Agreement, covering 101 languages!

We present over 125,000 minimal pairs and evaluate 17 LLMs, finding that support is still lacking for many languages.

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thrilled to announce the release of MultiBLiMP 1.0 by our team at GroNLP Lab! 🙆‍♀️

Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · Apr 8

Modern LLMs "speak" hundreds of languages... but do they really?
Multilinguality claims are often based on downstream tasks like QA & MT, while *formal* linguistic competence remains hard to gauge in lots of languages

Meet MultiBLiMP!
(joint work w/ @jumelet.bsky.social & @weissweiler.bsky.social)

Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · Apr 7

✨New paper ✨

Introducing 🌍MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Minimal Pairs for Subject-Verb Agreement, covering 101 languages!

We present over 125,000 minimal pairs and evaluate 17 LLMs, finding that support is still lacking for many languages.

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Yevgen Matusevych @yevgenm.bsky.social · Mar 26

Apply for our PhD position in language acquisition / computational linguistics in Groningen until 24 April! Job ad is here:
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl · Mar 18

Today, UG staff members strike in protest against the cuts to higher education. Staff members will put their work on hold to draw attention to the disastrous consequences.

The Board supports the message; they will wear red squares as a sign of protest. Will you join? 🟥
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

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Xabier Soto @xabiersoto.bsky.social · Mar 11

I have opened an account for promoting my current research project. If you are interested in migration and language technologies, follow @zubidasoa.bsky.social

(Most of the messages will be published in Basque. If needed, in-house MT works fine enough for translating into high resource languages.)

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Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social · Mar 11

As part of the MT Summit 2025 we are organising the 2nd Workshop on Creative-Text Translation and Technology (to be held 24/06). The deadline for submissions is March 16th. We have excellent keynote speakers! Take a plunge! ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/home

CTT 2025

The workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) aims to attract a broad range of attendees, such as researchers, educators, translators and industry stakeholders, to discuss the applica...

ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be

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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · Mar 3

Happening this week: online roundtable "Beyond #Translation: Emerging Careers in the Global #Language #Industry"
6 March, 3-4 GMT

Come to hear about the experience of #language professionals and #translators at Amnesty International, Netflix, Rhyme&Reason, and ELIA

#EUTOPIALanguagesWeek #EUTOPIA

David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · Feb 26

Join our online roundtable "Beyond #Translation: Emerging Careers in the Global #Language #Industry"
6 March, 3-4 GMT

Featuring experts from Amnesty International, Netflix, Rhyme&Reason, and ELIA sharing their insights

Register: updates.warwick.ac.uk/form/eutopia...

#EUTOPIALanguagesWeek #EUTOPIA

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Jot Down @jotdown.es · Mar 2

Ana Pérez Escoda: «Desde la universidad debemos transmitir el mensaje a los jóvenes de que necesitan formación humanística para pensar»
www.jotdown.es/?p=268060

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Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social · Mar 2

Lovely!

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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · Feb 27

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Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social · Feb 7

Aún está abierta la recepción de propuestas para el CReaTING, el congreso sobre creatividad y pensamiento crítico en traducción e interpretación. Se celebra en la Universitat d'Alacant del 16 al 17 de octubre.

web.ua.es/es/cctrans/c...

CC-TRANS

CReaTING 2025

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Sarah Timmer Harvey @sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social · Jan 24

I recently spoke to Kyo Gerritson of INCREC about my approach to translation and the threat of AI. The interview is out on Spotify now! ⬇️

Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social · Jan 24

New year, new #INCREC episode!!!!

@sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social is interviewed about her work, her focus on style and dialect in translation and the importance of human connection!

Don't miss it! open.spotify.com/episode/21NJ...

#creativity #xl8n #MT #literature @gronlp.bsky.social

S2E01: Sarah Timmer Harvey "Human connection is what separates us from the machines"

The Visible Art of Translation · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Gabriele Sarti @gsarti.com · Dec 10

Joint work w/ @zouharvi.bsky.social @grzegorz.chrupala.me @malvinanissim.bsky.social
@anaguerberof.bsky.social & Arianna Bisazza. We are grateful to Translated, Global Textware and the #InDeep consortium for their support! Stay tuned for the paper with our full results! 😄📄 8/8

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Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social · Jan 24

New year, new #INCREC episode!!!!

@sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social is interviewed about her work, her focus on style and dialect in translation and the importance of human connection!

Don't miss it! open.spotify.com/episode/21NJ...

#creativity #xl8n #MT #literature @gronlp.bsky.social

S2E01: Sarah Timmer Harvey "Human connection is what separates us from the machines"

The Visible Art of Translation · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social · Jan 24

open.spotify.com/episode/21NJ...

S2E01: Sarah Timmer Harvey "Human connection is what separates us from the machines"

The Visible Art of Translation · Episode

open.spotify.com