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Christopher Stone

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Reader in Interpreting and Translation, focus sign languages

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Deaf Unity @deafunity.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's almost time for our Deaf Café this month. Come along on Friday 14th November at 6:30pm to Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. All BSL users and learners are welcome 🤗
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
New case study of a Deaf autistic signer finds autism affects both linguistic and affective facial expressions, supporting accounts grounded in motor and maybe prosodic difficulties. Also supports effective languaging strategies beyond the neurotypical norm. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
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Tony Rosado, CI @rpstranslations.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New from my blog: The Grey Market: A Greater Threat to Conference Interpreting Than AI. | The Professional Interpreter ow.ly/GxnH50X5OPi
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The Grey Market: A Greater Threat to Conference Interpreting Than AI.
Dear Colleagues: For the past several months, the conversation around the future of conference interpreting has been dominated by Artificial Intelligence. Articles, webinars, and social media debat…
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We're hiring! UT Linguistics invites applications for a position in computational linguistics to begin next academic year 2026-27 (rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure). apply.interfolio.com/175156
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Save the date! 📣 First International DeafTech conference, May 26-27, 2026, Vienna. www.deaftech26.eu
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Deaf Technologies 2026 - International Conference on Deaf Technologies - Deaf Tech Conference 2026
Deaf Technologies 2026 - International Conference on Deaf Technologies. May 26-27, 2026 in Vienna, Austria.
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Deaf Unity @deafunity.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📣Calling all deaf bakers! 🧁 Have YOU got what it takes to bake in the famous white tent? If you or someone you know is a talented home baker then apply now at f.mtr.cool/ibkxcizyfc or email them on applyforbakeoff@loveproductions.co.uk  Closing date is 1pm on Monday 15th December 2025.
Poster with information on how to apply for the next series of Great British Bake Off. Photo of the hosts holding macarons.
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
With this questionnaire @karogebruers.bsky.social, Deborah Giustini and I are exploring the impact of AI language technologies on VGT/NGT-Dutch interpreters & notetakers in Belgium (Flanders) and the Netherlands. If you are among the target group, do participate! forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MVGHn45Pa7
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This week will be the first Professor Deaf workshop! This is a #DrDeaf event aimed at mid career academics. We will be a group of 22 deaf academics from 8 different countries. Excited about this new addition to the #DrDeaf offer!
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It should not have to be said, but actually thanks @johnbasil.bsky.social for including signed languages in this article!
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Deaf Unity @deafunity.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Happy International Translation Day! We sat down with an experienced BSL and IS translator, Adam McCormick, to discuss all about what it's like being a translator and why it's important. Full article link in bio 🔗 #InternationalTranslationDay #BSLtranslation
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Tony Rosado, CI @rpstranslations.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Meet the interpreters improving access for Deaf Indigenous people
The Indigenous Interpreters Organization works to support Indigenous ASL interpreters as a means of improving interpreting for Deaf Indigenous people.
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New paper! We tested AR glasses for Video Relay Interpreting (VRI). Interpreters preferred AR VRI over VRI; deaf users saw future potential but said current tech isn't good enough. Real-world unscripted testing gave different results than lab experiments. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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User Acceptance of Augmented Remote Sign Language Interpreting | Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
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Marah Jaraisy @marahjaraisy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence. I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people
THE LINGUISTIC LIFE OF THE KUFR QASSEM DEAF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE EMERGENCE, VARIATION, CHANGE, AND PERSISTENCE by MARAH JARAISI A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of  DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Supervised by Professor Adam Schembri and Dr. Marcus Perlman Department of Linguistics and Communication School of English, Drama, and Creative Studies  College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham September 2025Dedication  This thesis is dedicated to the resilient Palestinian people.

(poem) Because I am not like match sticks, I light up once… and die. but I am like the fires of the Magi: I burn… from my cradle to my grave and from my predecessors to my descendants. Long as the horizon is my breath, and I have mastered the craft of ants, gently for history is written the way we dictate

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Deaf Unity @deafunity.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Call for participants 📣 Are you deaf and enjoy going to museums? 🏛️ PhD student, Meredith Peruzzi, is looking for participants for research into how museums can create a sense of welcome and belonging. For more information, visit - f.mtr.cool/yclnqtcxdg
poster with details of research meet on 26th July at Wellcome Collection, London. Photo of Meredith in the corner and an illustration of a museum.
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Tony Rosado, CI @rpstranslations.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
What We Can Learn from Interpreter Fails. Dear Colleagues: If you have worked as a conference interpreter for any length of time, you have probably had at least one moment where things did not quite go as planned. Maybe your brain lagged a second too long, maybe your mic betrayed you mid-sentence,…
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What We Can Learn from Interpreter Fails.
Dear Colleagues: If you have worked as a conference interpreter for any length of time, you have probably had at least one moment where things did not quite go as planned. Maybe your brain lagged a second too long, maybe your mic betrayed you mid-sentence, or maybe, just maybe, you confidently said something… completely wrong. I have had my share of “oops” moments (and heard a few great ones from colleagues).
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires? @empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...
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Children of migrant Deaf adults
During my Master of Research (MRes) studies, whenever I met someone new, they would often enquire about what I was doing for my thesis. When I told them, I was doing research with hearing children …
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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages
Communication is harder in larger communities. Past research shows that this leads larger communities to create languages that are easier to learn and use. In particular, previous research suggests t....
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Christopher Stone @drcastone.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Christopher Stone @drcastone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Great presenting at IDGS Hamburg today about the SmartSafeSigning project (www.wlv.ac.uk/research/smart-safe-signing-/) on some of our pilot data (published open access here - wlv.openrepository.com/items/180859...)
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Joseph Murray @drjosephmurray.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
#drDeaf had its 7th writing retreat (and 14th event overall) with participants from around Europe, US, Singapore, and Australia. Evaluation comments: energized, motivated, enthusiastic, sharing, refreshed. Join us at our other 2025 events!
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World Association of Sign Language Interpreters @wasli.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
WFD-WASLI IS Accreditation now accepting applications. wasli.org/sign-languag... English: forms.gle/qjN49fiyGeGr... español: forms.gle/rg6VimFsXsyX... francés: forms.gle/jGG4A7XxSa5k...
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NPR @npr.org · 29/05/2025
The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.
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The White House is sued over lack of sign language interpreters at press briefings
The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.
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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 26/05/2025
Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
🚨New publication alert! "Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language" (w/ @stefanhartmann.bsky.social) out now in the in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Kudos to @limorraviv.bsky.social & @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for putting this great volume together!
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Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language
AbstractPragmatic-interactional aspects of present-day language use as well as historical language change have come to be regarded as an important source o
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Join us at the British Academy on Tue 24 – Wed 25 June, for a conference exploring ethical and political issues that can arise in the context of communicating about health and health care, bringing together experts in philosophical ethics and health practice. Book your ticket: buff.ly/NsoFDd6
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The #DrDeaf team is thrilled to announce the first Professor Deaf workshop! This workshop is aimed at deaf academics post-PhD, working in a university/research setting. It will be held October 2-4, 2025 in Oslo, Norway. More information will follow. For now, if you’re interested: save the date!
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LisaLiBSL (she/her) @lisalibsl.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... "
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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
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Christopher Stone @drcastone.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
BSL version: short-link.me/ZPjk
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Test of link 'DMIT_JobAdvert' for cyber security threats
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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Deaf skilled readers may monitor for phrase structure but not morphosyntax - new evidence from ERPs. Paper just out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Redirecting
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Jen Bird @jenpenbird.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I went to Kings College Hospital London and found another example of a fail to supply an interpreter to communicate with a #Deaf patient. Should have gone to @signalisecoop.bsky.social ! #deafaccess #interpreter #NHS #NHSAIS
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Christopher Stone @drcastone.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
ESRC-funded research project looking for research assistants to explore Deaf mediators, interpreters, and translators with me and Dr Patrick Rosenberg in the UK (@crathmann.bsky.social @brittadurczok.bsky.social in DE and @jeremiesegouat.bsky.social + colleagues FR) jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Research Assistant x 2 - Deaf access by Deaf people - 0.7FTE - Until 31/03/2028 | University of Wolverhampton
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/05/2025
Thinking of a trip to Barcelona this summer? Beware – here’s what you'll find | Stephen Burgen
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Thinking of a trip to Barcelona this summer? Beware – here’s what you'll find | Stephen Burgen
From locals priced out of homes to visitors shopping at global chains, all of us are cheated in a city hollowed out by tourism, says Spain-based writer Stephen Burgen
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💙 The Chronic Pain 💙 @thechronicpain.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This 👇
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Stef G-W @stefgwalsh.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#UnionPower
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It looks like the avatar and the BSL toggle have been removed since I posted. This is what it looked like. The avatar looks human and is based on real footage but what you’re seeing is a synthetic signer - with sign language generated by AI using a database of recorded signs.

Screenshot of an NHS web page titled “Video: Vaccines – are they safe for my child?” The page describes a video in which a GP reassures a parent about vaccinations. The video frame shows text stating, “World Health Organisation estimate 20.4 million deaths have been prevented worldwide since 2001.” In the bottom right corner, there is a synthetic-looking female signer presenting in British Sign Language. Below the video, there’s a note: “Media last reviewed: 29 July 2022. Media review due: 29 July 2025.” A yellow-highlighted warning reads, “Be aware of anti-vaccine stories.”
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In my recent paper "DeafinAI", I discussed the slippery slope of language and access rights in the age of AI. What starts as using AI in low-stakes situations can quickly expand into high-stakes areas such as healthcare. That slope seems even slipperier than I thought. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
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Why vaccination is important and the safest way to protect yourself
Find out how vaccines work, what they contain and the most common side effects.
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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Gif game along with 🔥 ideas no surprise there. Love "deaf liminality" coined by Anna and "white native deaf signerism" co-coined with @linasigns.bsky.social can't wait to cite the heck outta these Yay @annalim.bsky.social who keynoted for The 2nd ROLE Symposium today
Anna on zoom with the title slide next to her "the impossible multilingual""there is no good or typical ASL" text next to a gif of a signing girl signing signing Annn on zoom next to slide ""White Deaf native signerism"
The privileging in research and practice of white deaf signers of deaf signing families who use a more prestigious variety of ASL
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(definition co-constructed with Dr. Lina Hou)" with gif of light skinned woman on screen "The Case for Deaf Liminality
If I need to coin a term to describe the most common deaf experience that I have ascertained from my research and lived experience so far, I would call it "deaf liminality." The multitudinal nature of this experience accounts for the intersectional identities of deaf* (includes DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and hard-of-hearing)
people and the diversity of deaf onto-epistemologies from all over the world.
I'm challenging the monolithic connotations of
"Deaf culture" that tend to kowtow to the intimately related notions of DEAF-SAME and DEAF-FIRST.
/ 4 Anna Lim (siya/sh..." Next to zoom of Anna with gif
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!! All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
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THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Daz @drdazzy.bsky.social and I are current board members of SLLS (slls.eu/board/) and are seeking feedback about TISLR conferences Anyone who's interested in signed languages can respond even if you haven't been to TISLR. Please share widely! Thank you for your time! gu.live/RWCkP
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a picture of a bald man with the words " i would very much like to hear your thoughts "
Alt: Captain Picard of Star Trek in uniform seriously says to someone off camera "I would very much like to hear your thoughts" (which appears as white text on the bottom)
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Deaf Unity @deafunity.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Access to Work event for deaf women ✨ The National Council of Women are hosting an event discussing opportunities, challenges and barriers faced by deaf women in the world of work. When - 19th May at 12:30pm. f.mtr.cool/ymokjovlvi #DeafCommunity #AccessToWork
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Caitlin Halfacre @caitlin91.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
#linguistics
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Christopher Stone @drcastone.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Co-directed by actor and deaf activist Nyle DiMarco with Davis Guggenheim, this is the story of an eight-day student protest at Gallaudet in 1988. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
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Deaf President Now! review – passion and energy in stirring record of student protest
Documentary follows the 1988 anti-audism revolt in the US after the world’s first deaf university appointed a hearing person to head it
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Christopher Stone @drcastone.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Enjoying being in Goiânia at congressodeinterpretacao.com.br
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Diane Lillo-Martin @dclm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Very pleased that our project using acceptability judgments to better understand linguistic constraints on code-blending is now published online in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Shoutout to the terrific team who made it possible (listed in the next skeet) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core
Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments
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Dr. Zed Sehyr @zedsehyr.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Linguists & linguistically minded friends! If you are interested in how signs are organized in the mind, consider joining new seminar series "The Signing Mind" hosted by researchers at @bcbl.bsky.social + IDGS Hamburg University. The first seminar is 5/19 5pm CEST sites.google.com/view/signing...
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The Signing Mind
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/05/2025
Instead of ripping away health care from millions of people, Republicans should crack down on waste in Medicare Advantage. Tactics like "upcoding"—when for-profit insurance companies exaggerate medical problems to pad their profits—cost taxpayers billions. That’s real waste.
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Democrats push GOP toward Medicare ‘upcoding’ instead of Medicaid cuts
Democratic lawmakers are asking GOP leadership to reject Medicaid cuts in favor of going after Medicare Advantage “upcoding” as a way of saving federal dollars and addressing waste, fra…
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Tony Rosado, CI @rpstranslations.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
slator.com/us-bureau-of... This data includes professionals and paraprofessionals who work in the market
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Outlook for Translators and Interpreters Worsens
The US BLS reports that the annual median salary for interpreters and translators jumped 5% in 2024, despite a slowdown in language industry growth.
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Lorraine Leeson @leesonl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Check out all the wonderful events planned for #CreativeBrainWeek2025 at @tcddublin.bsky.social creativebrainweek.com
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Home - Creative Brain Week
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Another punch in the gut for grant funding. #HigherEd #ResearchFunding
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