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Bridget Chase
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Queer settler linguist working in technology for language revitalization 🌿 (they/them) #langsky

https://bchasemadethis.com/
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The Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator invites students—especially from Digitally Disadvantaged Language communities—to explore typography in a supportive online program. Successful Applicants receive 100% Scholarship coverage! Learn more: kbitype.org @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It's happening! Join @e-l-p.bsky.social for the #ELPLaunch right now! bit.ly/ELP-launch #langsky #language #events
September 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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e-l-p.bsky.social
Join us for a week of celebration at ELP! 🎉

From Sept. 11-18, we're hosting a share-a-thon. Each day, we'll post a challenge for ways you can get involved and contribute - and you could win an ELP t-shirt!

On Sept. 19, join us for an online launch celebration! Register at bit.ly/ELP-launch
Colorful flyer with text: "Participate in the share-a-thon! We invite everyone to get involved with the new ELP platform. For the next 7 days leading up to our launch event, we’re posting daily challenges for you to engage with the new website. Win an ELP t-shirt - one raffle winner daily!" At the top is a screenshot of the revitalization map from the new ELP website. At the bottom is an image of a green ELP t-shirt with an abstract design of two people, filled with leaves and flowers, speaking in front of trees and mountains. Colorful flyer with text: "Join us to celebrate - free online launch event! Join the Endangered Languages Project (ELP) as we celebrate the launch of our new website: a global space to connect, learn, collaborate, and share around language revitalization. Register here: http://bit.ly/ELP-launch" At the top is a screenshot of the homepage map from the new ELP website. At the bottom is an illustration of a wolf, a laptop, and a leaf.
September 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
bchasemadethis.bsky.social
Beyond excited to announce that I will be teaching two courses this fall, one with the University of British Columbia & one with the University of Victoria

More info on these programs can be found here:
📍UBC FNEL: cis.arts.ubc.ca
📍UVic ILD: tinyurl.com/LING183B

@arts.ubc.ca @uvic.ca #langsky
FNEL_V 180: Introduction to Endangered Language Documentation and Revitalization, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program September 2 - December 20, 2025 Foundational concepts in the critical study of cultural, historical, social, and political factors that impact language loss, retention, and revival. Introducing strategies and practical methodologies for collaborative, interdisciplinary, community-based documentation and revitalization projects for First Nations and Indigenous languages. LING 183B: Indigenous Language Documentation Capstone Designing and conducting a project to support community language revitalization efforts by creating either new language documentation, or a new language resource based on existing documentation. Implements throughout: strategies for community involvement; project planning; protocols; consideration of ethical and intellectual property issues. Indigenous Language Documentation Micro-Certificate Program November 19, 2025 – February 25, 2026
August 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I’ll be attending as many talks and presentations as I can at #WAVES2025 over the next couple of days, and I’ll use this thread 🧵 to share some of the insights from the great speakers and knowledge keepers here. Today, the theme is #Langauge & #Technology! 💻💬

#langsky
Graphic promoting WAVES 2025, Global Indigenous Languages Summit in Ottawa Canada
August 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Thrilled to be at WAVES 2025, the Global Indigenous Languages Summit by @ocil-ila.bsky.social to share the work of the Indigenous North American Type project @typotheque.com

Come visit our booth — the exhibit hall floor 3 & come to our collab session at 2 PM today in room 206! #WAVES2025 #langsky
August 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
bchasemadethis.bsky.social
#ATypI invites proposals for its two 2026 conferences:

Homescreen references the unfinished journey of creating a truly global digital age ... as homescreens feel like “home” for a remarkably small number of language communities

tinyurl.com/AtypI-call
ATypI 2026 Call for Proposals - ATypI
ATypI invites proposals for talks, workshops, panels, and experimental presentations for its two 2026 conferences. Stanford, California — HomescreenSharjah, UAE — Between For 2026, ATypI not only retu...
atypi.org
August 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
bchasemadethis.bsky.social
"Ensuring #linguistic equality within #technology is one piece of a much larger puzzle to advance the bigger goals of #language vitality ... and #Unicode plays a massive role in that work"

multilingual-news.castos.com/episodes/uni...

Honoured to speak on "Localization Today" by MultiLingual Media:
The Unicode Consortium: Inside the Global Mission
We sit down with three Unicode Consortium contributors—Stephen Loomis (Chair, Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Working Group), Elango Cheran (Vice-Chair, Community Engagement, Google internatio...
multilingual-news.castos.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
bchasemadethis.bsky.social
"Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies ... and determined 78% of them connected #Indigenous #language vitality with improved health.

... Language revitalization plays into identity and feelings of belonging and connection."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #langsky
Indigenous people's health tightly tied to speaking their own languages, review finds | CBC News
Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and determined 78 per cent of them connected Indigenous language vitality with ...
www.cbc.ca
July 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
bchasemadethis.bsky.social
Delighted to guest lecture this afternoon in @uvic.ca's IED 199: Special Studies in Indigenous Education: Technology for SENĆOŦEN Learning. I shared my experiences and advice around working in #language #technology, and it was so fun to speak in a course taught by my dear friend+colleague Ben Chung.
Slide that says "Working in language revitalization technology - careers within the field and practical advice for job hunting" by Bridget Chase, IED 99: Special Studies in Indigenous Education: Technology for SENĆOŦEN Learning Slide that says: Pursuing an Indigenous language technology role in the private sector? Here are some starting questions: What sorts of ethical considerations are you taking into account when doing this work? (If the answer is vague or generic, 🚩🚩🚩). How is the community involved? How much of the work is community-directed, and how is that direction being shared with the team? What are the data sovereignty practices in place? Is there AI/LLM/ML work happening here? What is the scope of this work, and how will Indigenous language rights be protected? If you’re building a piece of technology (an app, website, etc.) what are the long term maintenance plans? Who owns the product, who updates it? Who owns the code?
June 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
i have been hesitant to participate in the “AI for Good” Summit, that takes place in Geneva annually. but this year, i have been given a keynote (not a panel or similar participation) so, i said yes. here’s the first draft of my talk
The growing enthusiasm for applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to humanitarian and development goals has sparked a surge in "AI for Social Good" (AI4SG) initiatives from humanitarian and philanthropic institutions and tech monopolies alike. While these initiatives aspire to address global challenges such as poverty, gender inequality, and climate change, they often conceal deeper issues: AI systems that 1) simply fail to live up to their claims 2) encode Eurocentrism, systemic inequities, and injustices, and 3) built under capitalist, extractive, and borderline illegal practices. In this talk, I argue that that many AI4SG efforts are less about meaningful social transformation and more about techsolutionism—where complex political, historical, and social issues are reduced to technical problems assumed to be solvable through “innovation”. By critically examining who defines “good,” who benefits, and what structural issues remain unaddressed, this talk challenges the dominant narratives around AI4SG and calls for a more accountable, human-centric, and context-aware approach to “social good”.
May 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
bchasemadethis.bsky.social
Thrilled to be presenting this morning with my fantastic colleague Leo Vicenti at Multilingüe 2025, an event about the revitalization of the Indigenous languages ​​of the Americas through #typography, #research, and #technology.

#multilingue2025 #langsky
May 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The Endangered Languages Project (@e-l-p.bsky.social), in partnership with the First People's Cultural Council, recently released a guide for journalists who are writing about Indigenous and minority languages. It's great. Let me show you.
fpcc.ca/resource/say...
Say it with Respect: A Journalists' Guide - First Peoples Cultural Council
Say it with Respect: A Journalists' Guide to Reporting on Indigenous & Minoritized Languages by ELP and FPCC.
fpcc.ca
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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conab.bsky.social
Do you know someone who writes about #Indigenous, #minoritized and/or #endangered languages and #languagerevitalization? This new publication might be useful! ⤵️
e-l-p.bsky.social Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · May 2
In advance of World Press Freedom Day tomorrow, ELP and @fpcc.ca are excited to launch a new #journalism resource:

“Say it With Respect: A Journalists’ Guide to Reporting on Indigenous & Minoritized Languages, Language Endangerment, and Language Revitalization" 🗞️

⅙ #langsky 🐦🐦
Say it with Respect: A Journalists' Guide - First Peoples Cultural Council
Say it with Respect: A Journalists' Guide to Reporting on Indigenous & Minoritized Languages by ELP and FPCC.
fpcc.ca
May 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
bchasemadethis.bsky.social
Thrilled to launch a #journalism resource written by myself, @nabelew.bsky.social & Amanda Holmes:
tinyurl.com/languagejour...

We appreciate the growing attention the #media is giving to #language endangerment & revitalization, but issues are often covered in ways cause unintentional harm. How? 🗞️
Reporting on language endangerment often falls into deficit narratives, like: "This ancient, dying language with only 5 speakers needs saving." This kind of framing spreads false assumptions while obscuring the roots of the problem. How does this resource help?
May 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This *NEW* Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship supports PhD students who are engaged in the documentation of Indigenous languages and the archiving of linguistic data as part of their PhD graduate studies.
Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship
Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship
www.endangeredlanguagefund.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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We have a new font release. Hard-to-categorise, designed to bring an informal, warm personality to both Thai and Latin scripts. www.typotheque.com/blog/pristine
April 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
bchasemadethis.bsky.social
I don’t usually share non-language-related news stories on here, but I can’t help myself with this one. There was LITERALLY an entire episode of Parks and Rec about this!
Screen captures with captions of a Parks and Rec episode. The local political (and dentist who wants to make more money off of Pawnee citizens) says: “Councilwoman Knope wants to put fluoride, which is a chemical, into your drinking water. You know what else is a chemical? Strychnine and cyanide.” The news anchor says: “And dirt, and rust, and even broken glass.” And the politician replies: “Exactly. You definitely understand what chemicals are, Perd.”
March 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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e-l-p.bsky.social
On March 28, come learn from and support ELP's 2024-25 interns as they share about their languages, communities, and their work at ELP!

Elwin Huaman (Quechua), Maison Ole Nkurrunah (Maasai) and Riathung Kyong (Kyong/Naga) will be sharing about all they've done this year: bit.ly/ELPinterns2025
A purple and blue graphic with text at top: "ELP Intern Showcase". Below are photos of the three interns: Elwin Huaman, a young Quechua wearing a black t-shirt; Maison Ole Nkurrunah, a young Maasai man wearing a red shawl, beaded necklaces, and sunglasses; and Riathung Ngullie, a young Naga man wearing a white shirt. Below is text: "Friday, March 28, 9:00 am Pacific (UTC-7), https://bit.ly/ELPinterns2025" and the ELP logo and a QR code to register.
March 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I enjoyed presenting to technology stakeholders today at #ICANN82: "Business Experiences in Updating Systems for the Evolving TLD Landscape"

Ensuring accurate & predictable access to digital spaces for all languages, across all devices, is a cornerstone of language justice. #langsky @typotheque.com
Screenshot of a slide that says "What are the core types of issues communities face?" with three boxes underneath that say: 1. Access to full Unicode representation of one's orthography, 2. Access to functional and thoughtfully designed keyboards, and 3. Access to typefaces that accurately and respectfully render orthographies A photo of Bridget Chase and others sitting on a panel at ICANN 82
March 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Excited to be presenting about digital access for Indigenous languages at #ICANN82 on behalf of @typotheque.com, supporting a #multilingual internet.

ICANN “recognizes the need for a Universal Acceptance ready world, where all valid names work regardless of language, length and script.”

#langsky
Picture of a presenter at the opening ceremony of ICANN 82, saying: “The board thanks the entire ICANN community for the effort to promote the implementation of a multilingual Internet. Your involvement recognizes the need for a UA (Universal Acceptance) ready world where all a valid names works, regardless of language, length and script.” Graphic promotional advertisement for panel presentation: “Promoting Consumer Choice: Business Experiences in Updating Systems for the Evolving TLD Landscape”.
March 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A great piece on computer-assisted #language learning courses:

"Decisions around #orthography, dialectal variation, and terminology in designing an #Indigenous language course, particularly one that is delivered online ... must be treated with a great deal of care"

tinyurl.com/2urkafrf #langsky 💻💬
Screenshot of the first page of the article: "Orthography Choice in Indigenous Language CALL Courses", authors are: Jackie Dormer University of Victoria, Kari A. B. Chew Independent Scholar, Colette Child Hase' Language Revitalization Society, Sara Child Hase' Language Revitalization Society/North Island College, Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson) Chickasaw Nation, Juliet Morgan Chickasaw Nation, Olivia N. Sammons Carleton University, Heather Souter Prairies to Woodlands Indigenous Language Revitalization Circle /University of Winnipeg. Abstract: For many Indigenous Nations and organizations, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) courses have become an effective means to support Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation (ILR) efforts. Engaging a methodology of storywork and highlighting relationships between relevant fields of ILR, CALL, and applied linguistics, this article focuses on orthography choice and use in Indigenous language CALL courses. As contributors to three North American Indigenous language courses⁠—Chikashshanompa' (Chickasaw) on Rosetta Stone, Kwak̓wala on 7000 Languages, and Southern Michif for Beginners on 7000 Languages, we offer reflections on community-led processes which addressed tensions and challenges in representing written language in CALL courses. Through reflections, we illuminate the complexity of orthography choice and use in Indigenous language CALL courses and share strategies with others creating their own Indigenous language courses.
March 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
On Nov. 7th, I told my sociolinguistics students this was going to happen. They did an activity on language policy and one of the lessons was that repressive regimes always try to criminalize languages that are not ideologically associated with nationalism. I’m sorry I was right.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Feb 28
BREAKING: President Trump expected to sign an executive order to make English the official U.S. language for the first time in history, according to a White House official. nbcnews.to/43gRPGH
February 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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krisknisely.bsky.social
ISO Trans/nonbinary people to hire as (non-English) language experts

Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials.

Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert

Please share!
ISO Trans/Nonbinary (Non-English) Language Experts. Want to help make free trans-inclusive resources for language learning and get paid for your expertise? I’m looking for people to participate in an online professional learning network April 1-May 6 who are in-community and can bring their language and cultural knowledge to help us collaboratively develop free language education materials. Do you qualify? 1. Are you trans/nonbinary (in the broadest sense of these terms)? 2. Are you at least 18 years of age or older? 3. Do you know a language other than English? 4. Would you like to work with a language teacher to create trans-inclusive open educational resources? April 1-May 6, 2025 10 hours Flexible Scheduling. If matched with a teacher, you will receive $250 compensation for co-creating an educational resource. Fill out a short interest form or ask questions: https://bit.ly/TLangExpert
February 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social
Depending on where you live in the world, it can be difficult to source books in one's native language to read to children. This is a (free!) fill-in-the-blanks book that allows caregivers to use their language of choice! Great for bi- or multilingual families and a wonderful resource all around.
bchasemadethis.bsky.social Bridget Chase @bchasemadethis.bsky.social · Feb 21
Happy #MotherLanguageDay, a celebration of linguistic diversity championed by @unesco.org! Since today's a fun day to launch a new #language project:

languagestarbook.com

"You Are a Language Star" is a free children's book where you can fill in the blanks with words in any language 📖 1/11 #langsky
The cover of "You Are a Language Star", which shows a bear looking through a telescope into a sky full of stars that have different letters / alphabet characters in them. The subtitle says "A 'fill in the blanks' book about YOUR language", "Written by Bridget Chase"
February 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM