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Sharon Black

@sharonblack.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation • audiovisual translation • arts & media accessibility • interpreting • President of ESIST • own views

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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Congratulations to @stavroulasokoli.bsky.social, #ESIST vice president, who has been named one of MultiLingual Media Influencers in the Language Industry for 2025! We are so proud 💙 multilingual.com/magazine/feb...
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Language Industry Influencers | MultiLingual
While their influence is sourced from different experiences, their common skills of effective communication and leadership make them industry luminaries.
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“On or off skis – and I would prefer him to sod offski – the vice-president can be judged successful in his deliberately adopted mission to become mesmerisingly awful.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There are 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – and they’re all more likable than the real thing | Marina Hyde
Angry, rude and addicted to web troll-ery, the vice-president has the Make America Awful Again portfolio. Seems a perfect fit, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Tickets now available for a riotous evening of theatrical deception in Boris Vian’s comédie musicale: Le Chasseur français by Boris Vian. Wed 26 March 3pm Thur, Fri, Sat 27-29 March 7.30 pm UEA Drama Studio. Tickets here store.uea.ac.uk
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SUBTLE - the Subtitlers' Association @subtleuk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
SUBTLE has submitted a response to the UK government's consultation on copyright and AI, which closes today: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta... (1/6)
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Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence - Intellectual Property Office - Citizen Space
Find and participate in activities run by Intelluctual Property Office
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
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Javier Pérez Alarcón, ¡traductor de profesión! @javipalarcon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Confirmamos: los subtítulos de los #Goya2025 no eran IA, era tener que apañárselas con unas circunstancias bien jodidas. elpais.com/cultura/prem...
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level." An excellent article on the threatened closure of #languages and #translation at Cardiff and on the importance and value of degree courses in languages for UK HE. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
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Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Five key impacts of Brexit five years on
The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?
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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
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Christie Margrave @christiesmbc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Please help us to save Modern Languages at Cardiff University: chng.it/Hmtvvdtptg
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Sign the Petition
Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
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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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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Have you shared your views on #subtitles yet by filling out the The UK #Subtitling #Audiences Survey? If not, now’s your chance! uksubtitlingaudiences.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/l... Please also share widely with friends, family - anyone you think may be interested. Your views are valued!
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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social A thread 🧵 elifesciences.org/articles/97731
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Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching
Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Have you been accepted to present your work at Media for All 11? Why not apply for the ESIST conference grant👇 Please also share the news with anyone you think may be interested!#M4All11
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Tiina Tuominen @tiinaktuominen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
SubComm, our community of professional subtitlers and academics, has moved to Bluesky. Please follow if you are interested in all the interesting and useful things researchers and practitioners could do together, or if you'd just like to chat with some very lovely people. Next chat, 24 January!
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Congratulations to the shortlisted candidates! 👏👏 The winner of the ESIST Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2025 will be announced in May at Media for All 11 in Hong Kong 🤩 esist.org/awards/esist... @stavroulasokoli.bsky.social @dorrego.bsky.social @serenellamassidda.bsky.social
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ESIST Outstanding PhD Thesis Award – Esist
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Opportunity alert! The project led by the wonderful Dr Sara Ramos Pinto with Dr Carol O'Sullivan 'From Lab to Screen: a response to AI’s threat to the media localisation industry' is seeking a research assistant for 6 months from March 2025: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Deadline to apply: 30 Jan
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Assistant in Impact Translation Project
Are you a PhD student or an early career researcher looking for a challenge? Do you have a background in subtitling, audiovisual translation or translation studies? Do you want to further your career ...
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
ESIST is now on Bluesky! 🤩
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monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
www.monabaker.org/2024/12/10/s... @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social @fruela.bsky.social @nvp-tdi.bsky.social @bowkerl.bsky.social @sharonblack.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social @transla-tian-ology.bsky.social @mattvaller.bsky.social @andreaciribuco.bsky.social @cmymtl.bsky.social @jossmo.bsky.social
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Study Grants for Students from Gaza, Mona Baker
The university of Bologna is offering grants to students from Gaza to study in Bologna.
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
You can tell it’s the end of term because today we threw an elf around the room as part of an interpreting vocab game 🎄
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🎞🎬 What’s your view on subtitles? We would love to hear from you! The UK #Subtitling #Audiences Survey is collecting information on viewing habits and #perceptions of subtitled media in the UK. Only 10 mins to complete: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/arts/uk-su... Please share widely-thank you!
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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think. Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!
A bright pink instructional graphic titled “How to sleigh alt text.” It includes colourful headings labelled Identify Who (in green), Expression (blue), Description (pink), Colour (red), and Interesting Features (grey). On the right side, there’s a sample alt text description in various colours that reads: “Santa Claus looking happy as he waves at the camera. He wears a traditional red suit and hat and has a long white beard and glasses. There are colourful lights twinkly behind him.” Below the text, a photo of Santa Claus is shown, waving with a big smile against a background of twinkling, colourful holiday lights
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Centre for Translation Studies UCL @centras-ucl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our first post on BluSky celebrates Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Rocío Baños, Soledad Zarate of CenTraS-UCL and Visiting Professor Frederic Chaume Varela, who developed dubbing training for Netflix. More information about this exciting collaboration here: www.ucl.ac.uk/consultants/...
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UCL helps Netflix enhance global and local dubbing, translation and adaptation practices
Academics from UCL’s Centre for Translation Studies have been working with Netflix across the world to drive higher alignment on global and local translation and adaptation practices for dubbing.
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Virginia Stonek @delcontexto.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Mis gentes traductoras y no traductoras: tengan cuidado. Hay scammers sueltos en el club de al lado. 🚨👇
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1/2 UEA’s latest planned wave of cuts to fill an additional £11m financial hole would bring the number of job losses to almost 600. No wonder staff are upset and angry and are considering industrial action. Watch my reaction here and in the next post.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
An alt text note: I’ve seen a lot of people providing alt text for a text-heavy image like “a list of different types of twitter poster” or “a picture of a road sign”. But… if you want someone to actually understand what is in the picture, you need to say *what the text in the image actually says*.
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Our article on 'Digital accessibility tools and training and the DA4You course: views and experiences of users with disabilities' is out! This research was conducted with the wonderful Carlos de Pablos-Ortega as part of the Digital Accessibility for You project link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Digital accessibility tools and training and the DA4You course: views and experiences of users with disabilities - Universal Access in the Information Society
Digital technologies are now ubiquitous in our lives and it is of critical importance that people with disabilities benefit from full and equitable access to the digital world. However, digital access...
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The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (ITT) @ittjournal.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
📢Submit an abstract by 15 July 2024 to The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (@ittjournal.bsky.social) for a special issue on Recent advances in media #accessibility education (guest editors: @sharonblack.bsky.social & Emília Perez). More info: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Call for papers for a special issue on Recent advances in media accessibility education. Guest editors: Sharon Black and Emilia Perez. Abstract submission: 15 July 2024. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer.
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