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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Announcing Italian Americana Vol. 43, No. 2, with a new article, poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews. With contributions from @jtreev.bsky.social, @joeynicoletti.bsky.social, @danadelibovi.bsky.social, @andreaciribuco.bsky.social & more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/issue...

Cover of Italian Americana: Cultural and Historical Review, Volume XLIII, Issue 2, Summer 2025
Title text on a white rectangle overlaid onto two black and white photographs: one of a brick building and one of a group of people. Below the title, a green bar with issue information and to the left, a red border.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Considering how late I am for my impending manuscript deadline with Routledge - boy, was I happy to see you post that 😉 #academicwriting

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

If you're in Galway, don't miss this seminar on Migration and Childhood today, organized by our colleague @verenaplatzgummer.bsky.social We are planning to launch a wider series of "Migration Conversations" within @uniofgalway.bsky.social , let us know if you would like to get involved.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

You wonder who they mean, but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee. -Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species' #everynightapoem We flower where we flower.

AMIT MAJMUDAR
Invasive Species
The bees are Africanized. All elm disease is Dutch.
The carp is Asian, the python of the Everglades specifically Burmese. The plague bacillus sailed from India to Europe. Europe coughed khaki back at India. Everything is alien, especially star thistle with its spurs and bursts, unearthly, mapping its home galaxy
like a foundling with a fleur-de-lys foot tattoo.
Though even lilies hitchhike— every ditch lily was once a tiger lily, treasured in the garden of a Mughal. Everybody thinks the Mughals Indian, but Mughal comes from Mongol.
Invaders make themselves at home and home remakes them into natives. Everybody comes from someplace else where they were royal refugees. We flower where we flower, flinging roots like ropes from runaway hot air balloons to snag a city's skyline.
It never feels like an invasion when you're doing it. It feels like parenting, like cooking what you've always cooked, like dancing with your grandma at a noisy wedding But then you turn to see the horrified park rangers staring at you, calling in the experts-look at this, what do we do, they're everywhere. You wonder who they mean, but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.

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Catharine Cellier-Smart | Smart Translate @smart-translate.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🤖 "You don't want a #translation that makes a good guess - which is really all you get from AI - when your money or your life is on the line. You want a #translation that understands the nuances that vary between the languages" feat. @andybenzo.bsky.social cnet.com/tech/service... via @cnet.com

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AI Can Probably Do Some of Your Work Tasks. That Doesn't Mean It Can Do Your Job

Even for vulnerable jobs like translation and research, that work is more than just the tasks AI may be able to assist with.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

ultimouomo.com/come-il-neol... "Va detto che il calcio è uno strumento molto utile per insegnare la politica o capire il mondo, visto che permette di raggiungere persone che normalmente non raggiungeresti con scritti più apertamente politici, e offre esempi comprensibili a tutti."

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Come il neoliberismo sta minacciando il calcio – Ultimo Uomo

Con Cas Mudde parliamo dei diversi rapporti tra politica e calcio nel presente.

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Given the immense scarcity of qualified reviewers, this is harming all real scholars. All journals should update their 'author instructions' to state that if it can be shown that a submission is generated with AI, the author will be blacklisted for future submissions to that journal.

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

In the latest edition of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Loy Lising chats with Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her popular textbook "Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction" @edinburghup.bsky.social www.languageonthemove.com/intercultura...

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Intercultural Communication – Now in the 3rd edition

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Loy Lising speaks with Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her best-selling textbook Intercultural Communication (…

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The technology in itself is impressive, though obviously not the miracle cure that some people say. But: overhype, poor implementation, good old human greed and lack of understanding of the social context are turning this into a nightmare.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A useful (and a bit daunting) thread for people like me who are updating their syllabi right now 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A terrible decision that will affect access for students in full time work, carers and mature students. Signed as a writer and Bristol alum.

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Young Academy Ireland @yai.ie · 15/08/2025

Last chance to register for YAI Membership Application Webinar 2025. Join us to learn more about YAI and how to apply for membership in 2025. Registration closes on Monday 18 Aug at 10 am. Link to register: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal... #YoungAcademyIreland #YAI #EarlyCareerResearchers

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

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Indrani B. 🌷🐸🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦🕯 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Without a humanities degree other subjects don't really make much sense. You can gain technical skill but a humanities degree teaches you the complexities of applying that knowledge. I say that as a lawyer & sociologist. You see things differently—you see them better—in fact, you see them full stop.

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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Applications to the @yai.ie open soon. I would recommend eligible Irish-based scholars to apply, this is not only a formative experience (and you get to meet nice people!) but we are also trying to use our voices to advocate for better research practices and career development in Ireland.

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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

PSA.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ (my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)

Title:
Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad

An eight-panel cartoon showing a writer in a series of situations in a foreign country.

Panel 1: looking at historic buildings saying
"Kia bela vilaĝo!" which is translated below as "What a lovely village!"

Panel 2: in a pretty garden asking the gardener "Ĉu ĉi tiuj estas venenaj" meaning "Are any of these plants poisonous?

Panel 3: in a bar asking the server “Kie oni povas aĉeti pafilon?" meaning "
Can one purchase a firearm nearby?"

Panel 4: on a beach asking a fisherman "Ĉu la tajdo povus forporti kadavron?" meaning "Could the tide carry a dead body away?"

Panel 5: approached by a police officer and saying "Saluton, oficiro." which is translated below as "Hello officer."

Panel 6: being marched to the police station protesting "Okazis miskompreno!" meaning "There has been a misunderstanding!"

Panel 7: in the interrogation room the officer holds up a moleskine notebook, the writer explains "La murdo en mia notlibro estas fikcia." meaning "The murder planned in my notebook is fictional."

Panel 8: locked in a cell asking "Mi ŝatus telefoni al la Brita konsulejo." which means "I would like to telephone the British consulate."

Note: The foreign language used by the writer in the cartoon is Esperanto. It has not been proofread by an Esperanto speaker so there may be errors.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It's been great to present our work on community interpreting in rural Ireland (created in collaboration with Iryna Andrusiak, and earlier research developed with @pilarluzrodrigues.bsky.social ) at @estleeds25.bsky.social .

In the picture I am standing in front of the podium in a lecture hall, together with another presenter in the panel

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Bianca Cataldi @biancacataldi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Registration OPEN! Programme draft available on the registration page. @irishhumanities.bsky.social 2025 Conference “Feeding the Soul: Transnational Narratives of Food and Belonging” (UCD Humanities Institute, 4-5 September 2025) @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

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Irish Humanities Alliance 2025 Conference

FEEDING THE SOUL: TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES OF FOOD AND BELONGING| UCD Humanities Institute, Seminar Room H204 | 4–5 September 2025

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Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin @pauljmeighan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Our JEM special issue on Multilingualism, Indigenous Knowledges, and Sustainability is live and fully open access! Proud of this collection and the inspiring contributions on linguistic and epistemic justice, Indigenous knowledges, and sustainability. ➡️ jempub.com/volume-2-iss...

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Volume 2, Issue 1 – JEM

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

17 years after my Erasmus, it feels great (but also strange) to visit @universityofleeds.bsky.social , this time @lcsleeds.bsky.social for the 11th EST Congress. I started my BA project (which became my first ever published paper) in this library. Maybe it will help me finish this year's paper too 😁

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Great meeting amazing students and colleagues like @ebuonoco.bsky.social and Sabrina Francesconi at the Trento SLICE summer school 🙏🏼

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

My colleagues @philosophygalway.bsky.social have just advertised for a permanent position in Philosophy of Technology. There are some very exciting things happening in that subject in our School and University at the moment - a very good time to be coming to Galway! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNQ811/l...

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Lecturer (B) in Philosophy (Philosophy of Technology) at University of Galway

Discover Lecturer (B) in Philosophy (Philosophy of Technology) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Once more for the back seats: LLMs like #chatgpt do not "understand" a word of the answers they give you. They are literally trained to recognise patterns in the data they were given, and come up with realistic-sounding patterns of their own.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It is always more complicated to present yourself effectively as a researcher. Narrative CVs are an improvement from cold hard metrics, but they can be difficult to navigate. Very useful initiative and toolkit from my fellow @yai.ie members. Well done👏🏻 #research

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The conversation about precariousness is incredibly important within academia, and at the same time almost invisible outside of it - sometimes unknown to our students themselves. Thanks @deirdreflynn.bsky.social 🙏🏼 With @yai.ie we can continue the conversation, but action must come from all parts.

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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Cardiff University has announced it will axe its teaching of modern languages and merge four of its schools, cutting staff numbers by 50%. Please sign and share this petition in support of the wonderful School of Modern Languages at Cardiff! www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

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Sign the Petition

Save MLANG at Cardiff University!

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Please consider signing this petition against the deeply short-sighted, ill-advised decision to close yet another Languages department. Less language teachers means a sadder, smaller world🌍🌎🌏 www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

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Sign the Petition

Save MLANG at Cardiff University!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

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International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I guess it's more normal for STEM researchers, but it's still weird to see your research (with @pilarluzrodrigues.bsky.social ) come up in magazines simply as "Research from the University of..." Still, I guess that counts as impact, right?

Screenshot of an Instagram post from
district.magazine saying
"The Irish language can become a factor of integration. Migrants saw lrish as an important part of the local culture and heritage, and are interested in the language, especially when their children are learning it in school. But few have the time or opportunity to learn it."
- University of Galway

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Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

If you are doing #QualiResearch, and you are lost in the 'quality debate' (i.e., how to assess quality in the sense of applying a set of formalised criteria), I strongly recommend reading doi.org/10.1002/9781...

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In Pursuit of Quality

This chapter contains sections titled: The ‘Quality’ Debate Some Guiding Principles Quality in Practice Conclusions References

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I am often struck that optimism, pessimism, cynicism and despair are postures assuming they know the future. We don't. We are making the future in the present, and history demonstrates that surprises punctuate any sense of predictability.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

William Labov, one of the scholars who taught humankind about language discrimination, has died. His legacy is enormous and much needed in today's world. Everyone who thinks that this or that group is speaking "wrong" should go and read Labov's work on African American Vernacular English.

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

In Bordeaux for the #IALIC 2024 conference, looking forward to conversations with intercultural communication scholars from all over the world.

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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 27/11/2024

Languages don't go extinct because they are not rich enough to convey the full range of the thoughts of their speakers. They do go extinct because their speakers are not rich enough to stand up to external pressures, whether outright oppression or the kids looking for jobs in a dominant tongue.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hostile reminder that Chat GPT (and others) is still completely fabricating source citations. Tech bros keep saying this is fixed, but friend of mine just had a book made up and attributed to her yesterday.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...

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Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem – Demystifying Language Project

Students of color are always being told that they need to change the way they speak. But what if, instead, educators changed the way they listen?

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Delighted to host Prof Lynne Bowker @bowkerl.bsky.social at the University of Galway’s Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice with a talk on multilingual scholarly communication! translation.universityofgalway.ie/lynne_bowker/ Tuesday, Nov 26, from 4 PM in AMB-G067.

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Our Guest Speakers: Prof. Lynne Bowker - Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice

In this third edition of the CALM seminars for this academic year and in collaboration with the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice, Professor Lynne Bowker (Université Laval, C...

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Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Still a few days left to send your abstract to the annual Translation Studies Network of Ireland - this year coming to the West in Galway/Gaillimh. pietra.universityofgalway.ie/tsni4-galway...

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 12/01/2024

If you want a vision of the future,

Real screenshot of Amazon where products are AI-generated and their names are “I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

We have up to £120k available to appoint a researcher as an Innovation Fellow. You’d be attached to the Local Policy & Innovation Partnership within City-REDI at the University of Birmingham to contribute expertise on matters of policy, place & governance www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inno...

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Innovation Fellowships Scheme 2023-24 – Route B: Policy-Led

The Innovation Fellowships scheme is a dual-route scheme designed to enable researchers in the humanities and social sciences to partner with organisations and business in the creative and cultural, p...

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