#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...

I need to check this out!!!!

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!

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

🔴 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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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 ...

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...

Gaza, una fosa común

⬛ 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

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

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/...

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

✨ 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

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

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...

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...

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.)

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...

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

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

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

Lovely!

@warwick-smlc.bsky.social

CC-TRANS CReaTING 2025

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...

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! ⬇️

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

S2E01: Sarah Timmer Harvey "Human connection is what separates us from the machines" The Visible Art of Translation · Episode

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/episode/21NJ...

View of Geneva lakeside. Written: Final Call for paper deadline extended: 3 fevruary 2025

📢 𝗠𝗧 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
📅 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗔𝗢𝗘
🔗 Further details: mtsummit2025.unige.ch
📝 𝗚𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗧!
#CfP #date

a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of branches . ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of branches .

Hello world! 👋 We're coming out of hibernation to bring you this happy news:
1) We're organising the 3rd edition of GITT at #MTSummit! Working on #gender & #translation #technology? We'll see you there!
2) We're moving away from Twitter, so share the news and help us find old and new GITT friends!

ELIS 2023 LANGUAGE INDUSTRY SURVEY ELIS focuses on the industry trends, expectations and concerns of a wide range of language industry stakeholders, including language service companies, independent language professionals and others.

Are you a freelance #translator or #interpreter?
Make sure you take part in the #ELIS2025 survey!
We at #FITEurope will analyse all data on freelance translators and interpreters and will report on the findings on March 18 at the #TEW on ELIS2025.
Deadline: January 31.
elis-survey.org
#xl8 #1nt

CTT 2025 - Calls 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...

🚨Call for papers: "Second Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology", co-located with the MT Summit 2025
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ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/calls
Follow us for updates: @ctt2025.bsky.social
Organized with @bramvanroy.bsky.social @anaguerberof.bsky.social Lieve Macken, Damien Hansen & Paola Ruffo

Morgen actie. Als de plannen niet worden ingetrokken gaan we richting stakingen. Nog nooit was de actiebereidheid zo groot.