Rachel Herring
@reherring.bsky.social
Mostly teaching interpreting, interpreting, or writing about teaching interpreting. Also drinking tea, looking for someone to chat with, baking, and reading.
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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A day after an immigration raid outside an East Side home devolved into clashes with protesters, family members say they were taunted and humiliated during a standoff with federal agents.
By Shubhanjana Das
By Shubhanjana Das
Family of man swept up in St. Paul raid say agents had no warrant
A day after an immigration raid outside an East Side home devolved into clashes with protesters, family members of a second man swept up in the operation say they were taunted and humiliated during a ...
sahanjournal.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A day after an immigration raid outside an East Side home devolved into clashes with protesters, family members say they were taunted and humiliated during a standoff with federal agents.
By Shubhanjana Das
By Shubhanjana Das
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St. Paul police used tear gas and pepper spray Tuesday as hundreds of demonstrators confronted them and dozens of federal agents on the city’s East Side.
Council member criticizes St. Paul police conduct during federal arrest
Hundreds of demonstrators confronted dozens of federal agents and St. Paul police Tuesday as authorities arrested a man at a home on Rose Avenue on the East Side.
sahanjournal.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
St. Paul police used tear gas and pepper spray Tuesday as hundreds of demonstrators confronted them and dozens of federal agents on the city’s East Side.
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The PhD Program in Cognitive Science at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, invites applications for doctoral students to start in Fall 2026.
4 years of full financial coverage for enrolled students.
Application deadline Feb. 4, 2026.
cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission
4 years of full financial coverage for enrolled students.
Application deadline Feb. 4, 2026.
cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission
Applications Are Now Open for Academic Year 2026-2027 | Department of Cognitive Science
cognitivescience.ceu.edu
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The PhD Program in Cognitive Science at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, invites applications for doctoral students to start in Fall 2026.
4 years of full financial coverage for enrolled students.
Application deadline Feb. 4, 2026.
cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission
4 years of full financial coverage for enrolled students.
Application deadline Feb. 4, 2026.
cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission
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Really excellent resource for Know Your Rights materials in lots of Indigenous languages:
June 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Really excellent resource for Know Your Rights materials in lots of Indigenous languages:
Happy to be in the greater Seattle area for the @notisnet.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to four hours of workshops on consecutive note-taking on Saturday!
September 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Happy to be in the greater Seattle area for the @notisnet.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to four hours of workshops on consecutive note-taking on Saturday!
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Hello! I have started a website for information about the role-space model of interpreting - www.rolespace.online
Hopefully it will be of use to interpreters, students, and others! Please visit and spread the word! #xl8 #interpreting
Hopefully it will be of use to interpreters, students, and others! Please visit and spread the word! #xl8 #interpreting
Role-Space.online
Welcome!
Click below to access various types of resources!
www.rolespace.online
September 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hello! I have started a website for information about the role-space model of interpreting - www.rolespace.online
Hopefully it will be of use to interpreters, students, and others! Please visit and spread the word! #xl8 #interpreting
Hopefully it will be of use to interpreters, students, and others! Please visit and spread the word! #xl8 #interpreting
The past two weeks have been A. Lot. (understatement.), but today I started off the long weekend by spending several hours hanging out with my five year old buddy, including making cookies and a trip to the playground. eleventy-billion/10 stars, can recommend.
August 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The past two weeks have been A. Lot. (understatement.), but today I started off the long weekend by spending several hours hanging out with my five year old buddy, including making cookies and a trip to the playground. eleventy-billion/10 stars, can recommend.
After weeks of many library books on hold, but none becoming available, I suddenly have 7 available and checked out to me at once. Possibly the universe is sending me a signal.
August 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
After weeks of many library books on hold, but none becoming available, I suddenly have 7 available and checked out to me at once. Possibly the universe is sending me a signal.
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1. quick deepl/human comparison for you. This is from my current project on state sexual violence against Greenlandic women, which is obviously pretty sensitive stuff.
August 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. quick deepl/human comparison for you. This is from my current project on state sexual violence against Greenlandic women, which is obviously pretty sensitive stuff.
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It might not look like it, but translation is often a safety-critical industry. Problem is, you can't tell where the danger is unless you're an expert, and AI is stripping expertise out at a rate of knots.
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It might not look like it, but translation is often a safety-critical industry. Problem is, you can't tell where the danger is unless you're an expert, and AI is stripping expertise out at a rate of knots.
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CfP by Christopher D. Mellinger & Elisabet Tiselius on Evolving approaches to Cognitive Interpreting Studies: From psychological to socio-cognitive perspectives
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incontextjournal.org
August 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
CfP by Christopher D. Mellinger & Elisabet Tiselius on Evolving approaches to Cognitive Interpreting Studies: From psychological to socio-cognitive perspectives
incontextjournal.org/index.php/in...
incontextjournal.org/index.php/in...
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Are there social impacts of relying on AI for translations? Are AI translations neutral and inclusive? I discuss these and more in this very insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...
www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot, Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Catalun…
www.languageonthemove.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Are there social impacts of relying on AI for translations? Are AI translations neutral and inclusive? I discuss these and more in this very insightful new @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast with Dr. Esther Monzó-Nebot. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...
www.languageonthemove.com/the-social-i...
Inputting changes into the book draft from the handwritten comments on the hardcopy manuscript that @tulkur.bsky.social and I worked on together three weeks ago in Leeds, and having happy memories of how much fun and how hard we laughed while working on them 🥰🥰.
The book's not half bad, either. 😎
The book's not half bad, either. 😎
July 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Inputting changes into the book draft from the handwritten comments on the hardcopy manuscript that @tulkur.bsky.social and I worked on together three weeks ago in Leeds, and having happy memories of how much fun and how hard we laughed while working on them 🥰🥰.
The book's not half bad, either. 😎
The book's not half bad, either. 😎
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Minnesota schools are waiting on $74M in funds withheld by the Trump administration, adding strain to already stretched district budgets. minnesotareformer.com/2025/07/16/h...
Here's how much Minnesota school districts are each losing after Trump cuts • Minnesota Reformer
With Minnesota facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit in the next biennium, and schools already making significant cuts, districts will struggle to replace lost federal money with state and local...
minnesotareformer.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Minnesota schools are waiting on $74M in funds withheld by the Trump administration, adding strain to already stretched district budgets. minnesotareformer.com/2025/07/16/h...
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👉🏽 Interpreters and Vicarious Trauma: Prevention and Selfcare
🎙️Miranda Lai (RMIT University)
📅 July 10, 2025, 10:00 AM CET
📍 Hybrid: Germà Colon Graduate Hall and GMeet
🔗 Register: bit.ly/RTI-MirandaLai
MA program Researching Translation and Interpreting. Don't miss it! bit.ly/MA-RTI-info
#xl8 #1nt
🎙️Miranda Lai (RMIT University)
📅 July 10, 2025, 10:00 AM CET
📍 Hybrid: Germà Colon Graduate Hall and GMeet
🔗 Register: bit.ly/RTI-MirandaLai
MA program Researching Translation and Interpreting. Don't miss it! bit.ly/MA-RTI-info
#xl8 #1nt
RTI Lecture: Interpreters and Vicarious Trauma – Prevention and Selfcare - Miranda Lai | Notion
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July 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
👉🏽 Interpreters and Vicarious Trauma: Prevention and Selfcare
🎙️Miranda Lai (RMIT University)
📅 July 10, 2025, 10:00 AM CET
📍 Hybrid: Germà Colon Graduate Hall and GMeet
🔗 Register: bit.ly/RTI-MirandaLai
MA program Researching Translation and Interpreting. Don't miss it! bit.ly/MA-RTI-info
#xl8 #1nt
🎙️Miranda Lai (RMIT University)
📅 July 10, 2025, 10:00 AM CET
📍 Hybrid: Germà Colon Graduate Hall and GMeet
🔗 Register: bit.ly/RTI-MirandaLai
MA program Researching Translation and Interpreting. Don't miss it! bit.ly/MA-RTI-info
#xl8 #1nt
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I see the "we cured deafness" injection is making the rounds in the UK now. Let's discuss 🧵
July 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I see the "we cured deafness" injection is making the rounds in the UK now. Let's discuss 🧵
Had an early morning walk around the University of Leeds campus, and can now find my way (hopefully reliably...) to breakfast and the #EST2025Leeds conference venues. 😎
June 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Had an early morning walk around the University of Leeds campus, and can now find my way (hopefully reliably...) to breakfast and the #EST2025Leeds conference venues. 😎
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Are you coming to the Editathon at the @estleeds25.bsky.social congress? Check out our wiki-page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
#EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies #Wikipedia
#EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies #Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Editathon/EST2025 Translation Studies - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Are you coming to the Editathon at the @estleeds25.bsky.social congress? Check out our wiki-page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
#EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies #Wikipedia
#EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies #Wikipedia
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Morning runners/walkers at #ESTCongress Leeds! 🏃♂️🏃♀️
I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day!
📍 Exhibition Centre
⏰ 6:45 AM
📅 Starting July 1st
Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅
#MorningRun #Translation
I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day!
📍 Exhibition Centre
⏰ 6:45 AM
📅 Starting July 1st
Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅
#MorningRun #Translation
June 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Morning runners/walkers at #ESTCongress Leeds! 🏃♂️🏃♀️
I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day!
📍 Exhibition Centre
⏰ 6:45 AM
📅 Starting July 1st
Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅
#MorningRun #Translation
I'm organising informal runs/walks during the congress to start the day!
📍 Exhibition Centre
⏰ 6:45 AM
📅 Starting July 1st
Planning loops around Woodhouse Moor. Local route tips welcome! Just show up if interested 🌅
#MorningRun #Translation
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The EST Congress 2025 kicked off today with the Online Pre-Congress Day, featuring 81 speakers!
Great engagement and a fantastic way to begin the Congress!
Huge thanks to attendees and chairs who kept the conversation flowing.
#EST #ESTCongress #EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies
Great engagement and a fantastic way to begin the Congress!
Huge thanks to attendees and chairs who kept the conversation flowing.
#EST #ESTCongress #EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies
June 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The EST Congress 2025 kicked off today with the Online Pre-Congress Day, featuring 81 speakers!
Great engagement and a fantastic way to begin the Congress!
Huge thanks to attendees and chairs who kept the conversation flowing.
#EST #ESTCongress #EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies
Great engagement and a fantastic way to begin the Congress!
Huge thanks to attendees and chairs who kept the conversation flowing.
#EST #ESTCongress #EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies
Full English breakfast, here I come.
(Hi, I am in Leeds! Where I will spend four days writing with @tulkur.bsky.social and then attend @estleeds25.bsky.social!)
(Hi, I am in Leeds! Where I will spend four days writing with @tulkur.bsky.social and then attend @estleeds25.bsky.social!)
June 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Full English breakfast, here I come.
(Hi, I am in Leeds! Where I will spend four days writing with @tulkur.bsky.social and then attend @estleeds25.bsky.social!)
(Hi, I am in Leeds! Where I will spend four days writing with @tulkur.bsky.social and then attend @estleeds25.bsky.social!)
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In his first interview since the shootings, Walz previewed a much larger remembrance to come. He told MPR News that he’s notified his team to prepare for the possibility of Hortman and her husband to lie in state at the Capitol.
‘It feels different in here’: Walz returns to the Capitol after death of friend and colleague
Gov. Tim Walz called Rep. Melissa Hortman, who was fatally shot Saturday, his “closest ally” and praised her bipartisanship as a model for a divided country. Walz told MPR News he has asked his staff ...
www.mprnews.org
June 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In his first interview since the shootings, Walz previewed a much larger remembrance to come. He told MPR News that he’s notified his team to prepare for the possibility of Hortman and her husband to lie in state at the Capitol.
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Rep. Demuth spoke with MPR News senior politics reporter Clay Masters about how she and the rest of the Legislature is processing Hortman’s death and what comes next.
Demuth says this is ‘not a time for partisanship’ as the House processes loss of Hortman
The Minnesota House of Representatives is reeling from the loss of Rep. Melissa Hortman. Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth spoke with MPR News senior politics reporter Clay Masters about how she and th...
www.mprnews.org
June 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Rep. Demuth spoke with MPR News senior politics reporter Clay Masters about how she and the rest of the Legislature is processing Hortman’s death and what comes next.
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Sophie and Colin Hortman, the children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, issued a statement, asking people to do an act of kindness to honor their parents’ memory. “Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear.”
minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...
minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...
Children of Melissa and Mark Hortman release statement on their deaths • Minnesota Reformer
Sophie and Colin Hortman, the children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, issued a statement Monday calling on people to honor their parents’ legacy by doing “something, whether big or sma...
minnesotareformer.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sophie and Colin Hortman, the children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, issued a statement, asking people to do an act of kindness to honor their parents’ memory. “Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear.”
minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...
minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/c...