We can annex Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal, & force Ukraine to let Russia annex its land, but… we can’t tell our pal Bukele in tiny El Salvador to send back an innocent man who we have already admitted we shouldn’t have sent there. Oh the lies! Oh the gaslighting!

Art Candee 🍿🥤 I didn’t get a picture but one of my favorites said “Eggs are expensive because all the chickens are in Congress.”

Abdel-Wahab Khalifa Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi Neil Sadler 🇵🇸Elisa Barbero-Valderrama Piotr Blumczyński Rafael Schögler Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terran Luis Perez-Gonzalez @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social Joss Moorkens Cristina Marinetti Corine Tachtiris Kasia Szymanska (@kaszyma.bsky.social) ProfessorZoeval 🌿💚🌳 CTIS Manchester Dr Carol O'Sullivan Dr Anna Strowe Dr. Ashley Riggs

Key deadlines for #IATIS8, taking place from 10–13 December 2025 in #Muscat.

📢Just a friendly reminder that there's still time to send in an abstract for Panel 4 of #IATIS8 in Muscat, Oman, "Sustainability and translation in the news media"! Extended deadline 30 April. iatis.org/index.php/8th-…

Now that it's official, I'm delighted to share that I've become co-editor of the prestigious #online #translationstudies journal #inTRAlinea! Indexed in Scopus among others; Ranked Class A by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research.

Where do people think top STEM researchers are trained?

Not only because of tax cuts. Also because of censorship due to ideology. #CancerResearch

The last public act of Papa Leone XIV Pope Francis was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza

Today is (usually) St. George’s Day, so here’s a thread of English phrases (mostly individual inventions rather than common idioms), starting with this… The best variant of “they’re all talk and no action” that I’ve ever heard in English is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia”

Update: After Columbia | SIPA canceled my class on Race, Journalism, and International Affairs, More than 2,200 people have signed up to take it online. Blown away. Let's GOOO. You can sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Deadline extended until 15 May! 👍👍

A new paper published in Nature — one of the most respected science journals — finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for 67% of global warming. The rich are burning our planet.

A reminder that there are dozens of English-only schools all over Latin America so that British “expats” can raise their kids in the British way and not assimilate. In fact, local elites seeking to stay away from poor people use them too, leading to culturally alienated elites

Just announced 📣The Routledge Handbook of Translating and Interpreting Conflict - coming out in November 2025. Check the content and stay tuned for a cover reveal soon. routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

Cover reveal! Scheduled for publication in November 2025. Routledge Books

This! 🎯

Just sent off the reviewed proofs for #ConstructiveNews Across #Languages and #Cultures (co-edited with Lucile Davier). A little daunting! Keep a look out for it in the autumn!