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Carol O'Sullivan

@carolosullivan.bsky.social
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Academic, translation researcher, film nerd, zero waste obsessive. Opinions expressed in a personal capacity. #filmtranslationhistory

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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 23h
I like this: In regulated industries, [properly resources linguistic and cultural consultancy] can support compliance. In competitive markets, it supports brand consistency. In community-facing communication, it builds confidence.
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Creative Europe Desk Ireland @creativeeuireland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Creative Europe MEDIA has opened a new round of funding calls for 2027! Includes funding for Slate Development, Co-development (single project), Video Games & Immersive Content, TV & Online Content, and more. #film #TV #VideoGames #Animation #Documentary
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New MEDIA funding calls for 2027 are now open! | Creative Europe Desk Ireland
Creative Europe MEDIA has opened a new round of calls from 30 September 2026. All the open calls can be viewed at a glance on our MEDIA strand funding page. See below for a list of calls ordered by...
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Funding call opens for applications for research visits to the @bdcmuseum.bsky.social in Exeter! www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/new-sti... #film #filmhistory #filmephemera #researchfunding
bdcmuseum.org.uk
New Stipends Call to Research at the Museum
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter, UK, www.bdcmuseum.org.uk is both a public museum and a rich research resource for scholars of moving image history. It was recently designat...
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excellent news!!
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Job posting for a Research Associate in Fan Cultures at the University of Bristol (with a focus on music fandom): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTA850/r...
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Research Associate in Fan Cultures at University of Bristol
Recruiting now: Research Associate in Fan Cultures on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Job posting for a digital archivist (fixed term) at University of Galway (deadline 8 Oct 2026): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW995/d...
jobs.ac.uk
Digital Archivist at University of Galway
Discover Digital Archivist jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cumbria Deaf Association are running a ‘Deaf Awareness Course for Small Businesses and Volunteers’. There are two courses left, on 7th October and 4th November. Drop them an email if you are interested. #Cumbria #Volunteering @cumbriacvs.bsky.social @wcmbarrow.bsky.social
Poster for Deaf Awareness Course in Barrow
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To understand and counter disinformation, language skills, area studies expertise, historical knowledge and a wide range of arts, humanities & social science disciplines are requisite. SHAPE subjects are strategically vital for national interests. Is it strategic to let 'the market' shrink them?
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Mapping SHAPE provision in UK higher education
This new project from the British Academy maps changing provision of SHAPE subjects in UK higher education institutions. It uses data to visually depict contractions and expansions in provision by a v...
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"While shrinking provision in Russian language?" An excellent question!
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This. I'm also getting PhD and postdoc proposals that show signs of having been written with AI. Deeply depressing, and how can we expect funders to cope with the deluge?
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AI saves scientists time but adds ‘verification tax’, paper finds. Google study also finds AI pushes researchers towards “safer, more incremental projects”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
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AI saves scientists time but adds ‘verification tax’, paper finds - Research Professional News
Google study also finds AI pushes researchers towards “safer, more incremental projects”
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A recurring theme in the gutting of higher ed is eliminating anything distinctive or regionally or nationally unique. Turning a hearth of the Scottish Enlightenment into just another place you can get a degree in “AI prompt generation for maximizing shareholder value and right thinking.”
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 18/09/2026
The University of Edinburgh is a world-class institution and our members are determined to protect it. With an estimated 1,800 jobs at risk, staff are ready to strike for 25 days to defend jobs and the future of the university. Management can end this dispute: rule out compulsory redundancies.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“If we don’t address the way we, as the scientific community, think about ourselves, we will never again get trust.” (Peter Gluckman) Will the scientific community think of itself as including area studies specialists, experts on languages, literatures, law, politics and history, for example?
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in the humanities and social sciences can still apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The deadline is 4 Nov for institutional applicants and 28 Oct for independent scholars. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwQQtI
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, deadline of 4 November 2026. Independent scholars deadline 28 October 2026
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh, this is bitter news. Because of course who would ever need to study contemporary history? /sarcasm/ Solidarity with colleagues at Edinburgh University. Let us know what we can do do help push back.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 17/09/2026
New research & toolkit: Professionals often miss or misunderstand autistic motor difficulties, so people do not always get the help they need. Part of the [problem] is that the types of tests we use can be uncomfortable or confusing for autistic people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #autism
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Valid when Valued: A Community-Engaged Framework and Toolkit to Improve Identification of Autistic People’s Motor Difficulties in Research and Practice - Haylie L. Miller, Priscila M. Tamplain, Miri T...
Many autistic people experience clinically significant motor differences that pose lifelong physical health risks including physical inactivity, cardiometabolic...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Staff at the University of Essex are set to strike next week over cuts to 400 full-time jobs. The union, Unison, said admissions advisors, IT technicians, admin workers and other professional services staff would walk out on Monday over the proposals.'
bbc.co.uk
Essex University staff to strike over plans to cut 400 jobs
Staff will walk out over a plan to cut 400 jobs, which the university says will protect its future
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This film is a Wild. Ride. and one of my guilty pleasures...
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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Have you got your tickets yet for our special #FilmNoir Alfred Hitchcock double bill in November?! #SilentFilm The Lodger (1927) and the 4K of Vertigo (1958) both on the biggest and loudest screen in the south west! More info here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bri...
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is why distributors should make sure that there are two sets of subtitles - one for people watching against the dub track, and one for people watching with the original soundtrack #opinionsaboutsubtitles
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
one for my occasional #opinionsaboutsubtitles series :)
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This made me happy today. #filmtranslationhistory #tvtranslationhistory #wonkysubtitles
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This looks like a fantastic resource! Looking forward to getting stuck into it!
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A beautiful, reflective, informative, essay about teaching under austerity by @johannawinant.bsky.social
bostonreview.net
The Claims of Close Reading
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I found this very moving indeed.
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Glad to see this trend apparently continuing! One of the most fun parts of my MA module on translation and film distribution is the 'obsolete media' bit, where we look at VHS tapes, laserdiscs, reels of film etc. I get the sense that even DVDs are decidedly retro for some of my students...
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Right, that's my Christmas list sorted!
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Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE GRIFTERS boxd.it/ge7QGL Chum in the water... Caught in an Oedipal triangle, Huston, Cusack, & Bening prove some people are sharks, others fish food. Down-&-dirty, both hard-boiled & quite playful. A few leaps of logic, but cast sells it! #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 1246
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A ★★★★ review of The Grifters (1990)
We all know it... Anjelica Huston is one bad bitch! As the platinum-blonde Lily Dillon in Stephen Frears' clever neo-noir THE GRIFTERS, a great actress finds an iconic character. Try not to be mesmeri...
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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Please, again, stop using AI to construct your outreach email. Please. They stand out like a fart in a car.
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I met a lot of lovely lovely people two years ago when I was rummaging in the movie scripts at the NYSA archives. And now apparently there's a job opening there :)
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Archives Gig @archivesgig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Albany, NY: Archivist – NYSA Archival Services, New York State Archives
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Albany, NY: Archivist – NYSA Archival Services, New York State Archives
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ooh, I didn't know that @archive.org did this! Nifty!
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Bloomsbury Film & Media @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Enjoy an unmissable Sunday of classic cinema in Bristol! With @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social introducing A Hard Day's Night and signing copies of her new BFI Film Classic book. 📅Sunday 13 Sept, 12pm 🎟️Tickets: hdfst.uk/e157636 @swsilents.bsky.social #silentfilm #thebeatles
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Cinema Museum in London is a fantastic place which contributes to UK film culture in all sorts of ways. Check out their phenomenal events list: cinemamuseum.org.uk/schedule/cat... and donate this weekend to have your funding matched! #film #cinema #filmculture #silentfilm #silentcinema
cinemamuseum.org.uk
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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Cinema Museum still needs help to secure their premises; there's a donor who, all this bank holiday weekend, is going to match donations, so if you haven't given yet, throw in a bit now, and claim gift aid so it can do the most good!
crowdfunder.co.uk
The Cinema Museum: HELP US BUY OUR HOME
After 40 years of uncertainty, we have a chance to secure our home. We need £500,000 to purchase our home and we have five months to do it!
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I note that changing the name of Lake Ontario turns the acronym I learned at school for the Great Lakes (HOMES) into HAMES. ...as in the Irish expression 'He's making a total hames of it'.
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fascinating thread on VCR technology, the US Supreme Court Betamax case and the enshittification of tech...
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Are you a researcher looking to fund projects that engage the public with the humanities and social sciences? Apply for the SHAPE Involve and Engage 2027-28 programme. Find out more: bit.ly/43JR4oA
SHAPE Involve and Engage
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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hey #FilmNoir Fans, we'll be announcing the first load of titles for #FilmNoirFest 2026 via our newsletter this evening. Plus... we have two extra strands to announce! Making 2026 the biggest edition of the festival yet! Get yourselves signed up here: www.southwestsilents.com/subscribe
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 14/08/2026
Translators seldom have access to the dev builds of the games they work on. About 95% of the time, we get (at best) a couple of screenshots and a few paragraphs explaining the concept. The rest is just rawdogging Excel files and a million queries
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Creased.
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Today's subtitling snafu brought to you by the Netflix show Legends (otherwise well subtitled). The Italian subtitle says 'Football hooligans. Pieces of shit.' but the English was '[a] piece of piss' (= 'very straightforward'). #subtitling #subtitleerrors
Screenshot of the incorrect Italian subtitle
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#WITmonth display preparation to kick off August 1st in style
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There are lots of barely-promoted and/or undistributed domestic and foreign films out there that are just as worthy of attention as the ones that win awards at big festivals, get a distro deal & are widely covered. What sites or critics specialize in such movies? I want to expand my field of vision.
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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This would be another big blow for UK science. It's also a threat to a #WorldHeritage site which was only listed by the UK in 2019 after nearly a decade of work by scientists, advocates & government. Now it should go on the World Heritage "in danger" list. @unesco.bsky.social @icomos.bsky.social 🧪🌏
theguardian.com
Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support
Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Coming up soon: The fourth annual Silent Movie Week at MoMA, brainchild of the mighty @davekehr.bsky.social. Opening night brings one of Lillian Gish's greatest performances in D.W. Griffith's WAY DOWN EAST (1920) — with a 10-piece orchestra. 7/29 at 7 pm www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
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Way Down East. 1920. Directed by D. W. Griffith | MoMA
Way Down East. 1920. USA. Directed by D. W. Griffith. Screenplay by Anthony Paul Kelly, Griffith, based on the play by Lottie Blair Parker. With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr...
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Please sign this petition against mass redundancies at the University of Exeter, affecting a large number of posts in the Humanities and Social Sciences. These cuts are unnecessary and unjustified. Sign to support alternative solutions: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... #ucu #solidarity
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Loving Cinema Rediscovered, aka @cineredis.bsky.social, at @wshed.bsky.social! Favourite films so far have been In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...), subtitled by Day to Night & WW2 propaganda feature Pastor Hall, rereleased by @indicator.bsky.social.
bbc.co.uk
In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones: Indian writer Arundhati Roy's cult classic college film returns to spotlight
Nearly 40 years on, the Booker prize-winning writer's debut campus satire is set to be screened in Berlin.
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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
High-stakes copyediting question: do superscript numbers for footnotes precede punctuation, or follow it? #copyediting #academicwriting
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