David Orrego-Carmona
@dorrego.bsky.social
Translation, Technology and Communication. Sometimes climbing.
Associate Professor at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Research Fellow at University of the Free State
Associate Professor at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Research Fellow at University of the Free State
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I (@woolzz.bsky.social) was honoured to chair "Translating Rape", the fantastic keynote speech at #IPCITI2025. Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (@drpaulinehenry.bsky.social) proposed a feminist methodology of translation that responds ethically to the complexities of translating traumatic texts. (1/4)
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I (@woolzz.bsky.social) was honoured to chair "Translating Rape", the fantastic keynote speech at #IPCITI2025. Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (@drpaulinehenry.bsky.social) proposed a feminist methodology of translation that responds ethically to the complexities of translating traumatic texts. (1/4)
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Registration for #IPCITI2025, the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, is now OPEN!! 🎉🎉🎉
🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee.
🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress.
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🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee.
🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress.
(1/3)
October 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Registration for #IPCITI2025, the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, is now OPEN!! 🎉🎉🎉
🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee.
🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress.
(1/3)
🗓️ Register before 24 October to get our special early-bird fee.
🧠 We have a packed two-day programme with plenty of opportunities to network and decompress.
(1/3)
Translation is often used as the prime example of automation. These stories by @bcmerchant.bsky.social show what a complex panorama this paints and how translators' worsening working conditions can teach us about the impact of AI.
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Translation is often used as the prime example of automation. These stories by @bcmerchant.bsky.social show what a complex panorama this paints and how translators' worsening working conditions can teach us about the impact of AI.
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This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This update from Ahmed Kamal Junina in Gaza is so grim, testament to his and his students perseverance in impossible conditions.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
A single observational study, but "The skill of health professionals performing colonoscopies was significantly undermined by having routine assistance from artificial intelligence"
www.ft.com/content/74b8...
www.ft.com/content/74b8...
Routine AI assistance hits skills of health experts performing colonoscopies
Study comes amid rapid adoption of the fast-developing technology
www.ft.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
A single observational study, but "The skill of health professionals performing colonoscopies was significantly undermined by having routine assistance from artificial intelligence"
www.ft.com/content/74b8...
www.ft.com/content/74b8...
🔊 One week left to submit your applications for our open post:
Teaching Fellow in Translation and Transcultural Studies (Maternity Cover)❗
We're looking for expertise:
🔹 Teaching translation technologies & audiovisual translation
🔹 Chinese, French, German, Italian, or Spanish
Teaching Fellow in Translation and Transcultural Studies (Maternity Cover)❗
We're looking for expertise:
🔹 Teaching translation technologies & audiovisual translation
🔹 Chinese, French, German, Italian, or Spanish
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...
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
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August 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🔊 One week left to submit your applications for our open post:
Teaching Fellow in Translation and Transcultural Studies (Maternity Cover)❗
We're looking for expertise:
🔹 Teaching translation technologies & audiovisual translation
🔹 Chinese, French, German, Italian, or Spanish
Teaching Fellow in Translation and Transcultural Studies (Maternity Cover)❗
We're looking for expertise:
🔹 Teaching translation technologies & audiovisual translation
🔹 Chinese, French, German, Italian, or Spanish
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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
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
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...
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
July 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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
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
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⏰ TOMORROW (25 July) is the deadline to submit abstracts for the International Postgraduate Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting #IPCITI2025 ‼️
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
July 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
⏰ TOMORROW (25 July) is the deadline to submit abstracts for the International Postgraduate Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting #IPCITI2025 ‼️
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
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Do you watch foreign-language content with English subtitles? A survey explores how English-speaking viewers engage with subtitles and whether optional on-screen explanations could help improve understanding. It takes about 15-20 minutes to complete: forms.office.com/e/6Hd0DtYJsx.
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Do you watch foreign-language content with English subtitles? A survey explores how English-speaking viewers engage with subtitles and whether optional on-screen explanations could help improve understanding. It takes about 15-20 minutes to complete: forms.office.com/e/6Hd0DtYJsx.
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Presented 2 papers this week at #EST2025Leeds on MT use in healthcare by migrants (w/ @anaguerberof.bsky.social) & in UK local councils (w/ @dorrego.bsky.social). Thanks Larroyed & Caldwell for the great panel on translation & human rights. Read more about the first project: doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
July 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Presented 2 papers this week at #EST2025Leeds on MT use in healthcare by migrants (w/ @anaguerberof.bsky.social) & in UK local councils (w/ @dorrego.bsky.social). Thanks Larroyed & Caldwell for the great panel on translation & human rights. Read more about the first project: doi.org/10.1075/ts.2...
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Translation & Transcultural Studies @warwick-smlc.bsky.social is exceptionally well represented at #EST2025Leeds!
Presentations from our staff & students covering feminist translation, literature, MT & human rights, digital culture, embodied practices & more...
Congrats to all! 🎉 #TranslationStudies
Presentations from our staff & students covering feminist translation, literature, MT & human rights, digital culture, embodied practices & more...
Congrats to all! 🎉 #TranslationStudies
July 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Translation & Transcultural Studies @warwick-smlc.bsky.social is exceptionally well represented at #EST2025Leeds!
Presentations from our staff & students covering feminist translation, literature, MT & human rights, digital culture, embodied practices & more...
Congrats to all! 🎉 #TranslationStudies
Presentations from our staff & students covering feminist translation, literature, MT & human rights, digital culture, embodied practices & more...
Congrats to all! 🎉 #TranslationStudies
Morning runners/walkers at #ESTCongress Leeds! 🏃♂️🏃♀️
I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day!
📍 Exhibition Centre
⏰ 6:45 AM
📅 Starting July 1st
Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅
#MorningRun #Translation
I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day!
📍 Exhibition Centre
⏰ 6:45 AM
📅 Starting July 1st
Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅
#MorningRun #Translation
June 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Morning runners/walkers at #ESTCongress Leeds! 🏃♂️🏃♀️
I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day!
📍 Exhibition Centre
⏰ 6:45 AM
📅 Starting July 1st
Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅
#MorningRun #Translation
I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day!
📍 Exhibition Centre
⏰ 6:45 AM
📅 Starting July 1st
Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅
#MorningRun #Translation
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We’re thrilled to welcome Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (Newcastle University) as our keynote speaker at #IPCITI2025, 18th International #Postgraduate #Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting
📢 Don’t forget – the deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
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📢 Don’t forget – the deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney (Newcastle University) as our keynote speaker at #IPCITI2025, 18th International #Postgraduate #Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting
📢 Don’t forget – the deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
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📢 Don’t forget – the deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...
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Check out this interview with Oscar-winning film sound designer Mark Mangini conducted by Subtle's chair, Max Deryagin. Highly recommended for all SDH authors, accessibility experts and film buffs!
www.md-subs.com/blog/celebri...
www.md-subs.com/blog/celebri...
The Intersection Between Sound Design and Subtitling — An Interview with Mark Mangini
Here comes my new must-see celebrity interview, this time with none other than Mark Mangini — an Oscar-winning film sound designer and the mastermind behind the soundtracks of such movies as Dune, Bla...
www.md-subs.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Check out this interview with Oscar-winning film sound designer Mark Mangini conducted by Subtle's chair, Max Deryagin. Highly recommended for all SDH authors, accessibility experts and film buffs!
www.md-subs.com/blog/celebri...
www.md-subs.com/blog/celebri...
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Full room today on-site and online for @javiermoreno.bsky.social's research seminar at @warwick-smlc.bsky.social. enlightening talk about language activism, #translation policies and minoritised languages.
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Full room today on-site and online for @javiermoreno.bsky.social's research seminar at @warwick-smlc.bsky.social. enlightening talk about language activism, #translation policies and minoritised languages.
Reposted by David Orrego-Carmona
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
🔗 www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
🔗 www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
🔗 www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
🔗 www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
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In today's #Translation MA #Writing #Bootcamp, our students shared strategies for academic work and research design.
It's inspiring to see their ideas evolve and how recognising shared challenges creates breakthrough moments.
We create spaces to support them and help them support each other.
It's inspiring to see their ideas evolve and how recognising shared challenges creates breakthrough moments.
We create spaces to support them and help them support each other.
May 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
In today's #Translation MA #Writing #Bootcamp, our students shared strategies for academic work and research design.
It's inspiring to see their ideas evolve and how recognising shared challenges creates breakthrough moments.
We create spaces to support them and help them support each other.
It's inspiring to see their ideas evolve and how recognising shared challenges creates breakthrough moments.
We create spaces to support them and help them support each other.
“Translated fiction becoming more popular in recent years has not necessarily led to a greater appreciation for the work of translators, or much consideration of the act of #translation itself”
Willkommen, bienvenue! New festival celebrates translated fiction from Cameroon to Slovakia as sales boom
Co-organised by translator Polly Barton, Translated By, Bristol will feature conversations between writers and their translators, plus a ‘translation duel’
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“Translated fiction becoming more popular in recent years has not necessarily led to a greater appreciation for the work of translators, or much consideration of the act of #translation itself”
Join us @warwick-smlc.bsky.social in November for @ipciti2025.bsky.social!
We are delighted to share the #CfP for the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting 🤩 The deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July. Visit our website or scan the QR code to read the call for papers! Get in touch if you have any questions.
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Join us @warwick-smlc.bsky.social in November for @ipciti2025.bsky.social!
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This week, I spoke with one of the Duolingo contractors impacted by its 'new' AI strategy, and they clarified that
1) it's not new. Duolingo has *already* fired an estimated 100 writers and translators.
2) they worked for months training an AI system that still makes egregious mistakes.
1) it's not new. Duolingo has *already* fired an estimated 100 writers and translators.
2) they worked for months training an AI system that still makes egregious mistakes.
May 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This week, I spoke with one of the Duolingo contractors impacted by its 'new' AI strategy, and they clarified that
1) it's not new. Duolingo has *already* fired an estimated 100 writers and translators.
2) they worked for months training an AI system that still makes egregious mistakes.
1) it's not new. Duolingo has *already* fired an estimated 100 writers and translators.
2) they worked for months training an AI system that still makes egregious mistakes.
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Translation Scratch Night! 🖋️ hosted by the @ftnetwork.bsky.social & The Emma Press!
Friday 9 May, 7pm (Online)
Featuring translators Anam Zafar, @eletenf.bsky.social , Georgia Wall, Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social and Seán McDonagh!
Free tickets: buff.ly/8mnp0Pw
Friday 9 May, 7pm (Online)
Featuring translators Anam Zafar, @eletenf.bsky.social , Georgia Wall, Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social and Seán McDonagh!
Free tickets: buff.ly/8mnp0Pw
April 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Translation Scratch Night! 🖋️ hosted by the @ftnetwork.bsky.social & The Emma Press!
Friday 9 May, 7pm (Online)
Featuring translators Anam Zafar, @eletenf.bsky.social , Georgia Wall, Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social and Seán McDonagh!
Free tickets: buff.ly/8mnp0Pw
Friday 9 May, 7pm (Online)
Featuring translators Anam Zafar, @eletenf.bsky.social , Georgia Wall, Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social and Seán McDonagh!
Free tickets: buff.ly/8mnp0Pw
After more than a year with no climbing holidays & injury rehab, I was happy to disconnect for two weeks to simply enjoy climbing.
What else can I ask for?
🧗♀️ Physical challenges
⛰️ Mental clarity
🔋 A recharge
🤝 Quality time with friends
🧠 New perspectives on work
Now, let's tackle those emails!
What else can I ask for?
🧗♀️ Physical challenges
⛰️ Mental clarity
🔋 A recharge
🤝 Quality time with friends
🧠 New perspectives on work
Now, let's tackle those emails!
April 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
After more than a year with no climbing holidays & injury rehab, I was happy to disconnect for two weeks to simply enjoy climbing.
What else can I ask for?
🧗♀️ Physical challenges
⛰️ Mental clarity
🔋 A recharge
🤝 Quality time with friends
🧠 New perspectives on work
Now, let's tackle those emails!
What else can I ask for?
🧗♀️ Physical challenges
⛰️ Mental clarity
🔋 A recharge
🤝 Quality time with friends
🧠 New perspectives on work
Now, let's tackle those emails!
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Hopeful me trying to frantically tie loose ends before actually packing for the holidays. You can do a week's worth of work in a day, ain't it?
#AcademicLife #HigherEducation
#AcademicLife #HigherEducation
a scene from schitts creek shows a woman crawling on top of a suitcase
ALT: a scene from schitts creek shows a woman crawling on top of a suitcase
media.tenor.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hopeful me trying to frantically tie loose ends before actually packing for the holidays. You can do a week's worth of work in a day, ain't it?
#AcademicLife #HigherEducation
#AcademicLife #HigherEducation