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Kim Sanderson
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Sanderson Translations FR/DE-EN. Architecture, planning, advertising etc. Teach xl8on + related topics. Hexham, UK. Also on LinkedIn and https://www.sandersontranslations.com
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itinortheast.bsky.social
DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 5PM ON MONDAY 17TH
itinortheast.bsky.social ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 16d
Register now for the Joint Translation Workshop (with YTI) on Poem/Song Translation!
Online workshop from 17 November on Slack + in-person plenary on 29 in York. Registration closes 15 Nov. For full details + tickets:
www.universe.com/events/joint...
A translator with a microphone and icons of musical notes and recording equipment
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
There are so many fascinating aspects about the show (including the comic's author) and I've watched it twice now (ES audio/ENG captions, and ES audio/ES captions).

One was #translation lead's decision to refer to the Malvinhas vs the Falklands for all the languages & Argentinian card game truca.
When it comes to the Malvinas Islands, a name is more than just a name to Argentinians
“This is a sensitive issue, still very present, that crosses us in the political, historical, cultural and social scopes,” says translator Daiana Estefanía Díaz.
globalvoices.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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sarasoueidan.com
Oooh this will come in handy: stopcitingai.com

h/t @stefanjudis.com
Stop Citing AI
A response to ‘But ChatGPT said…’
stopcitingai.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
sandersonkim.bsky.social
On Monday I presented at the online #APTIS25 conference alongside Kate Sotejeff-Wilson on 'Steps to bridge the divide between translation studies and professional practice', such as work placements and mentoring.
I really enjoyed listening to other contributions - lots to think about. #ITICommunity
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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itinortheast.bsky.social
Register now for the Joint Translation Workshop (with YTI) on Poem/Song Translation!
Online workshop from 17 November on Slack + in-person plenary on 29 in York. Registration closes 15 Nov. For full details + tickets:
www.universe.com/events/joint...
A translator with a microphone and icons of musical notes and recording equipment
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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onlyforfriends7.bsky.social
#Audi kann ja nur „groß“ und völlig „überteuert“. Deshalb werden sie ihre Panzer-Karren ja besonders in #China nicht mehr los.
Auch ihr „Flagschiff“ nicht:
Den „e-tron“!
Dazu haben deren unfähige „Sprach-Designer“ nicht aufgepasst:
Im Französischen heißt „étron“:
„Scheißhaufen“!
Wie passend!
🤭
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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nicknasev.bsky.social
Sign the petition to get the UK Home Office to listen to translation experts before they blindly implement automated (AI-based) translation for asylum cases.

If the Home Office is serious about protecting human rights, it must listen to those who work with language and law every day.
Sign the Petition
Home Office: before automating translation, please listen to the experts
c.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
sandersonkim.bsky.social
Another report that discusses translation and/or interpreting without consulting anyone who knows what they're talking about - ably debunked by Jonathan Downie! #xl8 #1nt
October 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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jenniferlcroft.bsky.social
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
sandersonkim.bsky.social
Attended a great workshop on Museum Translation in Glasgow at the weekend! Thanks to the ITI Arts, Media and Tourism network #ITICommunity
A rubbish clay model of a lion
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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northeastbylines.co.uk
Celebrating our 5000th article today!

Thank you to all our readers for joining us in our journey 🙏
bylinesnetwork.co.uk Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Sep 30
North East Bylines have just published their 5000th article!! 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations NEB! A very apt way to celebrate too:

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument
"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument
"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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themerl.bsky.social
yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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reformexposed.bsky.social
Exclusive: Reform’s first London councillor is a “rogue landlord” with a 33-person HMO

www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...
Exclusive: Reform’s first London councillor is a “rogue landlord” with a 33-person HMO
Mark Shooter has been fined thousands of pounds for illegally renting out crammed bedsits in Camden. One of his former tenants just became Green Party leader.
www.the-londoner.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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itinortheast.bsky.social
Next up: drinks/food at The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle from 5:45pm on Friday 26 September.
This is a joint social event with the Medical Network after their Newcastle workshop. Please comment below if you plan to come along
Photo of translators with drinks and pub food around a table at night time
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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coe.int
The European Convention on Human Rights came into force on #OnThisDay in 1953.

All 46 Council of Europe member states have signed up to the #ECHR, an international treaty to protect people’s #HumanRights and fundamental freedoms.

How does it work? ⬇️
www.coe.int/en/web/impac...
The European Convention on Human Rights
September 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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johnnynicepainter.bsky.social
I have no idea where Libraria is but it certainly seems to produce a disproportionate number of book shepherds.
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
sandersonkim.bsky.social
Today's marketing tip: if you have to advertise something as FUN in capital letters, it probably isn't. And people will be able to tell! #amtranslating
August 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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vaginamuseum.bsky.social
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly. A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".
August 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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fredheussner.bsky.social
#Must-Read

Thought-provoking, even if grim, reporting on the impact of AI on the work of translaters and Interpreters.

Thank you @bcmerchant.bsky.social for bringing their stories to our attention.
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 21
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:
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 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
sandersonkim.bsky.social
I am marking. I am currently resisting the urge to create a new 'QuickMark' shortcut saying 'Oh really?', and perhaps another one saying 'Why do you think that?' #AmMarking
August 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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northeastbylines.co.uk
You are now the ones who plant joy and a smile on my children’s faces, and you are the ones who can, with your support and standing by our side, send a message to the world that we need food to stay alive. You are now our only hope.”
Letters from the rubble of Gaza: Part four
"You are now the ones who plant joy and a smile on my children’s faces, and you are the ones who can, with your support and standing by our side, send a message to the world that we need food to stay ...
northeastbylines.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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mariannedissard.com
Beautiful film by long-time pal Beatrix Wood @trixpixmedia.bsky.social on the incredible Scottish artist Tim Stead. Watch for free link below. Sculptor, furniture maker, visionary. #scottishartist. Have a look, @neilscott.substack.com @womenslibrary.bsky.social @glasgowbell.bsky.social
wtscotsocial.bsky.social Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · Mar 13
Gorgeous film from @trixpixmedia.bsky.social about the innovative wood sculptor and furniture designer Tim Stead who helped pioneer the first community woodland in the UK 🌳

📽️ Watch the full film for free on STV Player 👉
Creative Docs — TrixPixMedia
A multi-faceted documentary elegy about the raw journey of building a home on a Hebridean island. The film combines “homes movies” with photographs, paintings & writing.
buff.ly
March 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM