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Susan Pickford

@libripotens.bsky.social
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Professor of translation, University of Geneva. Recent books: Professional Translators in 19th-c France, Translating Science in the 18th & 19th c, Translating Books for Publication. Occasional literary translator.

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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 21h
question for any Pratchetteers out there: I don't get the ref to the Lay of Barking Johnnie (The Shepherd's Crown). Can anyone clue me in?
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
is this person in a bubble that thinks everyone in the world lives in the US of A?
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Le haut Jura, on ne s'en lasse pas. Morning walk with moon
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Out cycling, found a bench with a view
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lecture du jour. Je kiffe l'histoire locale. Les familles de 22 enfants 😵😳😮
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ami.e.s universitaires et écolos, la FTI Genève invite le 9 octobre prochain Anne Baillot (Le Mans) pour une conférence sur le thème "Activité universitaire et limites planétaires : ce qu'apporte la sobriété numérique". 16h15 CET en format hybride avec inscription obligatoire tinyurl.com/3vye6wje
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Anne Baillot. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Anne Baillot. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Writing my annual self-assessment, flicking back through my diary. What the heck was going on here
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Someone was sick on stage during the carol service. I remember his name forty years on. Poor guy
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
words cannot express how much I despise the creepy-ass slop creeping into crafting spaces. FUCK OFF THAT IS NOT HOW SCISSORS WORK
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
got my royalty statement and it's hard to believe but this bad boy has sold over 2,500 copies. I am flabbergasted
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Morning cross-border run, with added bits of history
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
and while I'm in the mood, if your instinct is to translate bagnole by jalopy, you need to take a long hard look at yourself
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Established translators to newbies everywhere, for years: never👏translate 👏 a 👏 full 👏 manuscript 👏 without 👏 a 👏 contract Publisher, this morning: guess what guys! We've established a new prize! for full-length unpublished translation manuscripts! 😑
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hard copies woohoo
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
😒 interesting read for people in the arts: artreview.com/who-can-affo...
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Merci de donner à voir ces personnes, leur humanité, leurs parcours et conditions de vie, et ne plus invisibiliser les personnes qui décèdent du fait de la chaleur. www.lemonde.fr/planete/visu...
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Qui sont les morts de la canicule ? « Le Monde » raconte des vies derrière les chiffres
Selon les données publiées mercredi par Santé publique France, 8 124 personnes sont mortes à cause de la chaleur pendant les canicules entre fin mai et fin août. Personnes âgées, travailleurs... « Le ...
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Part of the translator's fee was donated to support the Bamako book festival, www.rentreelitterairedumali.org
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Rentrée Littéraire – L'Afrique se raconte à elle-même et au monde
You should choose a search result page. You can choose the page from the Theme Options > Events > Event Search Results Page option.
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The work bookshelf delivered a throwback to a purer, more innocent time this morning
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just learned the word Euergetism, and hoo boy we should bring that back
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Publication day for Moussa Konaté's Headless in Kita - AFAIK the first English translation of a West African crime novel 👉 www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/bo...
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Headless in Kita by Moussa Konaté : Our Books :: Dedalus Books, Publishers of Literary Fiction
Dedalus is an alternative, independent publisher, founded in England in 1983. The films on our page are all related to the books we publish. Our list includes contemporary English language fiction, tr...
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Morning walk 2. Spot the Geneva Jet d'Eau
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Morning walk
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For non-French-speakers, machine translation casually out there telling Amharic and Tigringya speakers to take insecticide and amputate their breasts instead of tapering off their treatment
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
😱
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People who capitalise after a colon: who hurt you?
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Slime moulds are amazing. The In Our Time episode on them a year or two back absolutely blew my tiny mind. Highly recommended
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1 voyage Genève<>Marseille, 15 emails de confirmation du prestataire de voyage
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Industrial Smoke Billows from Factory Chimneys
ALT: Industrial Smoke Billows from Factory Chimneys
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Morning walk
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Call out to my translator friends: I'm collecting recent instances of genAI mistranslations for use in class, particularly involving French, German and English. Would be glad to see any examples you've come across.
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just switched "hamming it up" for "overegging it" #amtranslating
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The average number of skeletons in the human body is more than one
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fatboy Slim and Keir Starmer were in the same class at school for 5 years and took violin lessons together
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have spent a stupid amount of time playing sautecanton.fr this week,* mainly because French village names often crack me up. Hear ye! No cheese! Fish! *outside working hours
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For #worldkidlitmonth I am once again asking Anglo publishers to reprint this BANGING feminist fable on coercive control and the mental load
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you're into this kind of thing, Alphonse Allais wrote a similar piece in 1897 (check out his monochrome paintings too)
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Morning run. Clouds and mountains
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sarcelle Félix-Potin 💅
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ce jeu me FUME
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
He's thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you done?
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Quite the purple rinse for Thierry Breton
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Morning ru- WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
spending my Sunday morning reading an MA thesis on Nac Mac Feegle linguistics. Time well spent
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Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷 @sparkleponycass.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I have been working my freelancer arse off for a games client for over 11 years, basically full-time. I never once asked for my rates to go up. I always went above and beyond. I made them SO MUCH MONEY. Last year they stopped giving me work with zero warning... unless I cut my rates by A THIRD.
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Oxfam France @oxfamfrance.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Pendant que la France brûlait 🔥 Entre le 22 juillet et le 1er août, 2 872 jets privés ont décollé d’aéroports français. Soit 261 vols par jour. ✈️
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Never not funny #iykyk
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ça pique
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
nature is amazing double whammy yesterday: as we were driving home after the eclipse, a badger crossed the road in front of us. I've not seen one around here in forty years.
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Pet peeve: triggered
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lol just started a book published in 2006 and set in Paris the same year and the main character is sweating his ass off and moaning about the heat at 21°
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Next up: Binface
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