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I handed in my ID badge at the hospital after my shift today... which means that for the first time in over 20 years (with the exception of a few months when I moved to Minnesota), I am not employed as an interpreter. 😦😧

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So, some things have been happening over the past few months with regard to my professional life. Since they're finally all settled and I can talk about all of them, I'll update here as well. 🧵

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'Typos' - embarrassing - show a lack of care - invite ridicule 'Written Bloopers' - funny - humanizing - often better than whatever you were going to type

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Great to see this out!

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I have had six library holds become available in the past few days, it's full-on glorious springtime, and we bought some adirondack chairs. It's like the universe is suggesting that it's time for a break.... but first we have to get through the last week of the semester (side-eyes ungraded exams).

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yes, ChatGPT is in schools; there are K-12 school districts and DOEs entering into AI contracts, too. so rather than panicking over the death of academia as a foregone conclusion—particularly when LLMs are frequently wrong—why don't we talk about the climate costs of AI? my latest @teenvogue.com

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Busco participantes para un estudio piloto (1 entrevista de 1 h aprox) sobre prácticas docentes básicas en la enseñanza de la traducción. L@s participantes deben ser profesores de alguna asignatura centrada en la práctica de la traducción (pref. último curso), en grados en Traducción en España.

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I logged back in to the bird site just to copy these posts from April 2024 and move them over here so I could answer this prompt :). **** I have started to occasionally have dreams involving communication in ASL, which is kinda cool. I have dreamed in Spanish for years .... (more)

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Working on a few things but yay! aslsignbank.com

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Minnesota Republicans held a press conference last week claiming that a program allowing undocumented people to receive MinnesotaCare would cost MN over $600 million over four years. State data show the figure is a wild exaggeration, however.

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If you are experiencing feelings of despair over the state-sanctioned kidnapping of toddlers with cancer, Disability Justice may be right for you!! (xenophobia + eugenics is why we've allowed small citizens to be expelled from the country with apparently no recourse)

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People who think disabled people are new to protesting/"newly activated" need to get several grips and then learn some very basic history.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but LLMs do NOT learn language like infants do.

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How are immigration policy changes affecting international students in Minnesota? Join Sahan Journal for a live conversation at 1 p.m. Tuesday on Instagram to ask your questions and learn more.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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We need strong Deaf presence at #ICED2025 — not just to attend, but to lead. I've been to two previous ICEDs and it was often a stressful experience. This year, organisers are making an effort to do things differently and create a more welcoming space for deaf participants. iced2025.com

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Spring is here, and with it comes a new crop of #MTLiteracy infographics —in #Arabic! Many, many thanks to Raghad Alsulami for bringing these Arabic versions to life 😊 They are in #OpenAccess and can be downloaded from the project website: sites.google.com/view/machine...

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RAPPEL : poste de professeur.e en traduction à l’Université Laval

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For absolutely no reason other than the joy of learning, please read about instances of how ordinary people have physically delayed or blocked ICE abduction vehicles, like a Bend city councillor who parked her car in front of an ICE bus for 12 hours:

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New publication out today: journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publi...

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Today thousands of Minnesotans joined the rest of the country in mass protests against the Trump administration. Experienced rally-goers called it the biggest Minnesota demonstration in recent memory. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/05/h...

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Lecture: Partners in research: Professional associations and academia 🎙️Melissa Wallace (University of Texas at San Antonio) 📅 May 8, 2025 ⏰ 4:00 PM CET 📍 Online (GMeet) 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/RTI2025-Wall... Hosted by bit.ly/InfoMARTI Don't miss it! #xl8 #1nt #Practisearchers

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“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest

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@jossmo.bsky.social will talk about what it might mean to utilize and evaluate technologies while giving equal weight to people, the planet, and performance @CtnHkbu in two weeks. Registration at ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/event/a-trip...

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MAZAL TOV, SENATOR BOOKER!!! YOU JUST TOOK THE RECORD AWAY FROM THE RACIST. ERASE HIS NAME FROM HISTORY, Truly, so, so deserved.

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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

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New Research 🏥 💬 @susanavaldez.bsky.social explores the use of the #vignette technique for data collection in linguistically and culturally diverse healthcare settings involving #migrants. Read more here: tidsskrift.dk/qhc/article/... #commsky #qual #AcademicSky #methods #lingsky #medsky #healthsky

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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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For the record, I don't want fake friendly, chatty, schmaltzy birthday messages from car dealerships, clinics, stores, or any other type of entity that I pay for services. Just sayin'.

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