Catharine Cellier-Smart | Smart Translate @smart-translate.bsky.social French 🇫🇷 to English 🇬🇧 sworn translator.
Brit-born resident of 🇷🇪, traveller, scuba diver, tea drinker.
Blog: http://asmarttranslatorsreunion.wordpress.com/
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Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Ana Flecha Marco @anaflesh.bsky.social Traductora humana profesional que escribe libros chiquitos.
Editora de autoras listas y majas en vía postal 💌🐦
Amiga, compañera y fan.
🌐 www.anaflecha.com
Olivier Sylvain @oliviersylvain.bsky.social Professor, Fordham Law School
https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclaiming-the-internet
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1084259
Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social Historian, former Chair of Oz Kiwi, and student of Hokkien/Taiwanese.
A Melbournian living in Wellington.
Julia C. Gómez Sáez, la @juliacgs de siempre @juliacgs.bsky.social Julia C. Gómez Sáez. Traductora EN, FR, DE - ES, profe complutense de traducción y madre claudio-máxima. Ella/She. Opiniones mías y solo mías.
APTIC @apticassociacio.bsky.social Associació de Traductors i Intèrprets de Catalunya
@redvertice.org @redvertice.org
der Freitag @freitag.de Die Wochenzeitung für Politik ✊, Kultur 📖 und Wirtschaft 💰
Wir wollen bloß die Welt verändern.
Ruth Martin @dances-with-voles.bsky.social German to English translator and general book botherer (she/her)
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social General + breast surgeon, MedEd, DiversityAndInclusion, #KnittingLady (IT'S CROCHET). Bond University Clinical Curriculum Lead. Posts own opinion.
ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social Scottish Network of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, offering CPD, networking events and support to our members, mainly translators and interpreters based in Scotland. Our directory helps clients find professionals working in 25 languages.
Beth Fowler - Translator @bethfowler.bsky.social Translator (Portuguese/Spanish to English) | Literary translation | Art, Museum & Cultural Tourism translation
Marie-Alice Belle @mariealicebelle.bsky.social Prof. Translation Studies (Université de Montréal)
Ed. Meta: Journal des traducteurs/ Meta: Translators' Journal
Translation and print in 17th c. Britain: crosscurrentscatalogue.ca
Material, feminist, decolonial history of translation in early modern era
Sylvia Sierra 🏔️ @sociolinguista.bsky.social Interactional sociolinguist. Author of Millennials Talking Media. Interested in language, culture, identity, media, music, art, literature, history.
sylviasierra.com
Onondaga land
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
M Lynx Qualey @mlynxqualey.bsky.social e.g. Author, translator, critic, founding editor of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly.
ATRAE @atrae.bsky.social Asociación de Traducción y Adaptación Audiovisual de España. #traducción #adaptación #subtitulación #localización #TAV #accesibilidad
🔗 www.atrae.org
𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social Woods. Words. Birds. Birch. Beech. Bach.
Reviewer of translated fiction for
@irishtimes.bsky.social
Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square.
@circlingpoetry.bsky.social
Tradurietas @tradurietas.bsky.social Tradurietas es la comunidad de gente interesada en la traducción de viñetas.
tradurietas@gmail.com
#TraducidoPor #QuiénTraduceCómics
Attracta Mooney @attractamooney.bsky.social Climate correspondent at the Financial Times. Used to write about the investment industry. Irish.
Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social Author & Literary Translator | Deputy Editor, Sydney Review of Books.
I am not very active here!
http://tiffanytsao.com
Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
@olgacastro80.bsky.social @olgacastro80.bsky.social
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social writer, translator, cat
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com 🇸🇬 Writer and activist. Author of 'The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope'. Editor-in-Chief of @mekongreview.com. Everything Elf at https://wethecitizens.net. Member of @transformjusticesg.bsky.social and @adpan.bsky.social.
Hannah J Draper @hjdraper8.bsky.social Internet in the public interest |
Director PayneRoutledge.com | 🇵🇸
Monica Cure @monicacure.bsky.social Romanian-American poet, writer, translator, and dialogue specialist.
Latest translation: THE SUMMER MY MOTHER HAD GREEN EYES by Tatiana Tibuleac, Deep Vellum
Upcoming translation: Deep Fakes: Collected Poems by Dan Sociu, World Poetry Books 2026
Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Strangers Press @strangerspress.bsky.social Literary translation is a cultural exchange. Part of the UEA Publishing Project based at the University of East Anglia.
https://www.strangers.press/
Olivia Snaije @oliviasnaije.bsky.social Paris-based journalist interested in books, Middle East, African continent | work in The Africa Report, New Lines Magazine, Livres Hebdo and others | oliviasnaije.com
IPCITI 2025 @ipciti2025.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, 13-14 November 2025,📍University of Warwick, UK. 🗓️ CfP deadline: 25 July https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/events/ipciti2025/
Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social translator of Ia Genberg, Hanna Johansson, Judith Kiros and others // writing about the US for Aftonbladet &c // that's Karin Broos in the header
Jenna Tang @jennathesoup.bsky.social Taiwanese Literary translator from Mandarin & Spanish/ Travel Writer/ Translator of Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (HarperVia)/ Educator/ 2025 TEDx Middlebury Speaker
The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
https://stingingfly.org/product/summer-2026/
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) @cefc-fr.bsky.social Created in 1991, the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, based in Hong Kong and Taipei, is devoted to the study of contemporary China, in the field of social sciences and humanities. It publishes the scientific journal China Perspectives.
Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor / author of Light Year (Nine Arches Press), Letters Home (Nine Arches Press), Time Difference (Verve) & Writing Identity, Home & Elsewhere (Bloomsbury)
linktr.ee/jennywcreative
Vivian Kong @viviankonghk.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at University of Bristol; Hong Kong History Centre Co-Director @hongkonghistory.bsky.social; Multiracial Britishness, migration, marginal subjects. Foodie.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social Religion, gender, politics in transnational Asia @utoronto.ca| @shichapodcast.bsky.social 時差 cohost |🐻JAAR @aarweb.bsky.social Book Review Editor |🐻 AAS @asianstudies.org DEC rep. https://ting902.com/
T. Greer @scholarsstage.bsky.social • Director https://www.strategictranslation.org/
• Essayist http://scholars-stage.org
• Long takes on 🇨🇳 politics, 🇺🇸 conservatism, ancient history
Chris Song @chrissonghk.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Associate Chair @UTSCLanguage @UTSC East Asian Studies @UofT; Editor @Babel_FIT @vvpoetryhk; Poet; Translator.
Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent. Design law scholar.
Experience teaching Civil Procedure, Property & all core IP courses (Patents, Copyright, Trademarks).
Full bio: https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/sarah-fackrell
Malwina Gudowska @malwinagudowska.bsky.social Author & Linguist. MOTHER TONGUE TIED: On Language, Motherhood & Multilingualism (Footnote Press, 2024); PhD researcher: emotions of mothers raising multilingual children; language & emotion. Motherlingual on Substack & Instagram. malwinagudowska.com
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social Linguist at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴
#SignLanguages, #Linguistics, #RStats & #DataViz
Translation Spaces @transpaces.bsky.social Translation Spaces is a peer-reviewed, indexed journal published biannually by John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/ts
Ted @tedzu.bsky.social
Joshua L. Freeman @jlfreeman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown. Author, The Poetry of Power: Uyghur National Culture in Twentieth-Century China (forthcoming, Columbia UP). Translator, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night (Tahir Hamut Izgil, Penguin Press).
Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social Associate Professor @univgroningen Translation Technology. Creativity & Translation. Writing. Views my own.
Translation at Warwick @warwicktranslation.bsky.social Translation and Transcultural Studies at University of Warwick
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social Translator with the EU (into 🇬🇧 from 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦, learning 🇬🇷). Runner, climber, cyclist, cross-country skier. Ex-hack. Lancastrian, Notlobber in Brussels. FRGS, BWFC.
Luis Pérez-González @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social Professor | Translation | Media | Digital Culture | Multimodality | Corpora | Own views | luisperezgonzalez.org
Denise Kripper @denisekripper.bsky.social Writer & translator
denisekripper.com
📍 Chicago / Buenos Aires
Rafael Schögler @rafaelschoegler.bsky.social translation studies scholar & sociologist, interested in the translation of knowledges past and present
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social 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.
CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social New account (migrated from @ctismanchester) for the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies @ University of Manchester.
Follow us for news about CTIS students & staff, research seminars, and all things translation and intercultural studies!
Stacey Vanek Smith @svaneksmith.bsky.social New Yorker, Idahoan, Story-Seeker, Radio-Maker @Bloomberg @Marketplace formerly @NPR Author: Machiavelli for Women
🎁 🔗 https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/08/13/u-s-debt-just-hit-35-trillion-is-it-putting-the-global-economy-at-risk
Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social Award-winning literary translator. US/UK citizen. Coloradan. Democrat. Wearer of red lipstick. Co-founder, @translatorsaloud.bsky.social.
Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social Writer, PT-EN literary translator | 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award | Translations in Words Without Borders, Michigan Quarterly Review, LALT, Asymptote Journal | Author-Member at Betty Books | ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com
Charlotte Matoussowsky @matousky.bsky.social Translator EN, IT→FR specialized in social sciences and humanities. Free knowledge and women's rights advocate. Member of ATESS, Aprotrad, ATLF and STAA. Screw GenAI. She/her.
🦣matousky.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Centre for Translation, Interpreting and Localisation, Leeds @ctilsleeds.bsky.social Centre for teaching and research in the theory and practice of Translation, Interpreting and Localisation Studies at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds
The Queen's Translation Exchange @translationexch.bsky.social Welcome to QTE, an outreach and research centre @queenscollegeox.bsky.social offering translation and international literature initiatives for schools, students and the public.
Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social Assoc prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social Translator of Polish literature
Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social FITI, Literary & creative translator, German & French to English: children's/YA and crime fiction, history; proofreader, bookworm; food, crafts, history; cats; climbing; cycling; she/her; Twitter: @FwdTranslations Mastodon: @FwdTranslations@zirk.us
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social Ugly graphs, insights and outbursts. NZ.
Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social Literary translator from German to English, occasional publisher, Berlin lover, appreciator of wallets on chains. She/her.
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Rudy Loock @rudyloock.bsky.social University Professor, Linguistics/Translation Studies University of Lille, CNRS STL research center
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Erik Hansson @erikhansson.bsky.social German-Swedish translator since 1995. Occasional keynote speaker. Language nerd. Member of SFÖ-SAT (SE), founding & honorary member of DVÜD (DE). 3rd last Curator of Sweden back in 2018. That guy who founded Things Translators Never Say on FB. #xl8
Annelies Kusters @annelieskusters.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguistics at Heriot-Watt University. Deaf. She/her. Ethnographic filmmaker. Mother of two. Plant aficionado. Loves books and board games. Drinks lots and lots of tea! Currently writing book "The Paradox of International Sign”.
Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social phenomenal woman 🦹🏻♀️| deaf 🤟🏼| cyborg 🤖| friendly troublemaker 😈| <Dr/ 👩🏻💻| she/her 👩🏻🌾| | language, disability, and tech | views my own
@robertskinner.bsky.social @robertskinner.bsky.social
Robert Adam @rejadam.bsky.social Deaf 🏳️🌈 born in Naarm, live in Scotland, Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Chair of the British Deaf Assocation. Views my own.
Lorraine Leeson @leesonl.bsky.social Linguist, interpreter, swimmer, lover of the sea & stained glass windows. First gen university student/academic. Associate Vice Provost for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Trinity College Dublin.
Joseph Murray @drjosephmurray.bsky.social
Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social #signlanguage #asl #deafed #AI #education language acquisition, #cogsci
Robert G Lee @robertglee.bsky.social American Sign Language/English interpreter/researcher/teacher in multiple contexts. Co-creator of #rolespace (www.rolespace.online) in many ways. Views my own; repost ≠ endorsement.
Christian Rathmann @crathmann.bsky.social Professor with focus on Sign Language Linguistics, Acquisition & Learning, Interpreting Studies, Deaf Studies and Cognitive Sciences
Colin Allen AM 🌈 🇦🇺 @colinallenam.bsky.social Director, International Organizational Leadership & Management Training Projects in Cambodia and Rwanda under @kuurojenliito / @RITNTID
Alan Wendt @alanwendt.bsky.social Samoan | raised in Aotearoa NZ |🧑🏽💻conference/community interpreter | 🎹 accompanist
Debra Russell @debrarussell.bsky.social ISO - SCC Mirror Committee Chair; WASLI Honorary President; interests: interpreting, teaching, researching, yoga, travelling
Maya de Wit, PhD @mayadewit.bsky.social Trainer 👋 Researcher 🙌 Consultant 🤟 Interpreter #InternationalSign #ASL #NGT↔English/Dutch/German 🤗 AIIC member
Kate Rowley @katerowley.bsky.social Deaf academic based at UCL & Deputy Director of DCAL.
Erin Moriarty @emoriartyh.bsky.social
Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social Formerly teaching interpreting, interpreting, or writing about teaching interpreting; now administrating in higher ed, while still teaching and writing about interpreting. Also drinking tea, looking for someone to chat with, baking, and reading.
Esther Monzó-Nebot @monzoneta.bsky.social 1G grad, PhD & Prof. People over capital. #LanguageRightsMinorities 9% of my demographic attend university. #TranslationInterpretingStudies Work against class & gender inequality & discrimination
If at first you don’t succeed, so much for skydiving
SIGNS@HWU (aka Heriot-Watt BSL team) @signshwu.bsky.social Academics specialising in sign language, multilingualism, interpreting & Deaf Studies, based in the School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.