Sara Martín
@saramartin.bsky.social
I read, I write, I teach, I learn
English Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/
BLOG The Joys of Teaching Literature
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/blog/
I co-edit Hélice, https://www.revistahelice.com
English Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/
BLOG The Joys of Teaching Literature
https://webs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/blog/
I co-edit Hélice, https://www.revistahelice.com
Hola, profesores e investigadores universitarios españoles o en lengua española (o catalana)... no os veo en #AcademicSky. ¿Dónde estáis?
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hola, profesores e investigadores universitarios españoles o en lengua española (o catalana)... no os veo en #AcademicSky. ¿Dónde estáis?
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If it annoys them to see people reading a book in public we're doing something right.
New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If it annoys them to see people reading a book in public we're doing something right.
New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
Not an email, but public praise: my colleague Felicity Hand is the best thing that has happened to Post-Colonial Studies in Spain. Great teacher, scholar, and friend!
@draupadi53.bsky.social
@dissentum.bsky.social
@draupadi53.bsky.social
@dissentum.bsky.social
Have you emailed your colleague today telling them how much you enjoyed their work? Do it! Do it now!
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Not an email, but public praise: my colleague Felicity Hand is the best thing that has happened to Post-Colonial Studies in Spain. Great teacher, scholar, and friend!
@draupadi53.bsky.social
@dissentum.bsky.social
@draupadi53.bsky.social
@dissentum.bsky.social
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🔴 YouTube has deleted the Ukrainian memorial project “Memorial of Heroes” without the right to appeal.
The channel documented stories of Ukrainians killed by Russia, hosting 18 films and over 100 profiles.
1/2
The channel documented stories of Ukrainians killed by Russia, hosting 18 films and over 100 profiles.
1/2
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🔴 YouTube has deleted the Ukrainian memorial project “Memorial of Heroes” without the right to appeal.
The channel documented stories of Ukrainians killed by Russia, hosting 18 films and over 100 profiles.
1/2
The channel documented stories of Ukrainians killed by Russia, hosting 18 films and over 100 profiles.
1/2
Cómo no contar bien una noticia @elpais.com
Son los Republicanos los que han puesto multitud de trabas para arrancar de nuevo el país, amenazando la salud de las personas, dejando a los funcionarios sin cobrar y reteniendo los muy necesarios cupones para alimentos.
elpais.com/internaciona...
Son los Republicanos los que han puesto multitud de trabas para arrancar de nuevo el país, amenazando la salud de las personas, dejando a los funcionarios sin cobrar y reteniendo los muy necesarios cupones para alimentos.
elpais.com/internaciona...
Los republicanos del Senado rompen la resistencia demócrata para poner fin al cierre del Gobierno de Estados Unidos
El pacto es el primer paso para terminar con la clausura parcial más larga de la historia y abre una crisis en la bancada liberal, que no arranca un compromiso sobre los subsidios sanitarios
elpais.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Cómo no contar bien una noticia @elpais.com
Son los Republicanos los que han puesto multitud de trabas para arrancar de nuevo el país, amenazando la salud de las personas, dejando a los funcionarios sin cobrar y reteniendo los muy necesarios cupones para alimentos.
elpais.com/internaciona...
Son los Republicanos los que han puesto multitud de trabas para arrancar de nuevo el país, amenazando la salud de las personas, dejando a los funcionarios sin cobrar y reteniendo los muy necesarios cupones para alimentos.
elpais.com/internaciona...
Book of the day
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Not all would agree this is an anti-war novel but it’s an extremely candid narrative about fear and cowardice in combat, which anticipated the literature of WWI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Not all would agree this is an anti-war novel but it’s an extremely candid narrative about fear and cowardice in combat, which anticipated the literature of WWI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Book of the day
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Not all would agree this is an anti-war novel but it’s an extremely candid narrative about fear and cowardice in combat, which anticipated the literature of WWI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Not all would agree this is an anti-war novel but it’s an extremely candid narrative about fear and cowardice in combat, which anticipated the literature of WWI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
New blog post!!
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
THE EDITOR’S JOB: SOME CONSIDERATIONS – Sara Martín Alegre
webs.uab.cat
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New blog post!!
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
Nueva entrada de blog!!
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
EL TRABAJO DEL EDITOR: ALGUNAS CONSIDERACIONES – Sara Martín Alegre
webs.uab.cat
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Nueva entrada de blog!!
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
webs.uab.cat/saramartinal...
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A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
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Acaban de hallar los restos de 23 republicanos asesinados con ensañamiento por la represión franquista en Villanueva de la Serena en Badajoz. Sus restos han sido encontrados amontonados unos encima de otros y con las manos atadas. Barbarie fascista.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Acaban de hallar los restos de 23 republicanos asesinados con ensañamiento por la represión franquista en Villanueva de la Serena en Badajoz. Sus restos han sido encontrados amontonados unos encima de otros y con las manos atadas. Barbarie fascista.
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
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November 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The U.S. university system was once the best in the world.
Trump and his hyper-conservative masters are ready to destroy America’s world-class universities unless they get to force their ideology on students.
This is yet another fascist push by the MAGAts.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump and his hyper-conservative masters are ready to destroy America’s world-class universities unless they get to force their ideology on students.
This is yet another fascist push by the MAGAts.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump’s College Czar Has a ‘Secret Weapon’ to Transform Campuses
Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent wants to overhaul the accreditation system that ties schools to government funds. Agencies are already falling in line.
www.bloomberg.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The U.S. university system was once the best in the world.
Trump and his hyper-conservative masters are ready to destroy America’s world-class universities unless they get to force their ideology on students.
This is yet another fascist push by the MAGAts.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump and his hyper-conservative masters are ready to destroy America’s world-class universities unless they get to force their ideology on students.
This is yet another fascist push by the MAGAts.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Book of the day
John Galsworthy, The Man of Property (v. 1 The Forsyte Saga) (1906)
Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett were swept under the rug by Virginia Woolf as pedestrian novelists, but both are worth reading. Give them a try!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
John Galsworthy, The Man of Property (v. 1 The Forsyte Saga) (1906)
Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett were swept under the rug by Virginia Woolf as pedestrian novelists, but both are worth reading. Give them a try!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Book of the day
John Galsworthy, The Man of Property (v. 1 The Forsyte Saga) (1906)
Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett were swept under the rug by Virginia Woolf as pedestrian novelists, but both are worth reading. Give them a try!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
John Galsworthy, The Man of Property (v. 1 The Forsyte Saga) (1906)
Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett were swept under the rug by Virginia Woolf as pedestrian novelists, but both are worth reading. Give them a try!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
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Is this in U.S. news? #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks
Student, national and local groups across US organized day of action to condemn Trump’s assault on academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Is this in U.S. news? #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I think we should not give likes to reposts but go to the original post and give it likes. It takes a second.
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I think we should not give likes to reposts but go to the original post and give it likes. It takes a second.
Book of the day
Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends (1990).
A beautiful paean to women’s friendship in 1950s Ireland.
Don’t miss the film adaptation by Pat O’Connor!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends (1990).
A beautiful paean to women’s friendship in 1950s Ireland.
Don’t miss the film adaptation by Pat O’Connor!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Book of the day
Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends (1990).
A beautiful paean to women’s friendship in 1950s Ireland.
Don’t miss the film adaptation by Pat O’Connor!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends (1990).
A beautiful paean to women’s friendship in 1950s Ireland.
Don’t miss the film adaptation by Pat O’Connor!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_...
#BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres
So, here in Spain, about 2'5% of the population needs help to eat (we don't have food stamps, we use food banks, as we call them). How come 42 million Americans need SNAP? That's 12'6% of the US population. And this cannot be directly attributed to Trump, it's structural. Very worrying...
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So, here in Spain, about 2'5% of the population needs help to eat (we don't have food stamps, we use food banks, as we call them). How come 42 million Americans need SNAP? That's 12'6% of the US population. And this cannot be directly attributed to Trump, it's structural. Very worrying...
Escuchando a #Rosalía mientras intento hacer hopescrolling - muy feliz que al fin haya vuelto la del primer disco. ¡Se la echaba mucho de menos...!
La cosa religiosa me la tengo que pensar, pero es menos de lo que se ha dicho (creo)...
La cosa religiosa me la tengo que pensar, pero es menos de lo que se ha dicho (creo)...
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Escuchando a #Rosalía mientras intento hacer hopescrolling - muy feliz que al fin haya vuelto la del primer disco. ¡Se la echaba mucho de menos...!
La cosa religiosa me la tengo que pensar, pero es menos de lo que se ha dicho (creo)...
La cosa religiosa me la tengo que pensar, pero es menos de lo que se ha dicho (creo)...
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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The shutdown of U.S.A.I.D in November has already killed six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.
The toll will continue to grow
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The toll will continue to grow
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The shutdown of U.S.A.I.D in November has already killed six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.
The toll will continue to grow
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The toll will continue to grow
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.