Wendy Baldwin - Linguaverse

Soon you, too, can watch me talk with my hands and listen to me chortle a lot while talking about how difficult it is to define colors!

We are entering the Staggering of Timezones, which takes a month each equinox.
North America springs forward tonight. Europe goes into summer time at the end of March. Australia (some of it) falls back to Standard time on 5 April.
Good luck everyone with international meetings! ✨📚🌏

This is just so gross on all levels. 🤢 To hell with Grammarly.

If you're interested in implementing some form of #SocialWriting practice in your institution, writing center, research group, classes or personal practice, come along to WRAP's third Annual Summit Meeting.👇

If you support academic writers from academy-adjacent positions, you're also welcome!

Warning: AI even hallucinates while translating, adding mistakes and references that are not in the source text.

In other words: just having someone proofread your AI-generated translation isn't enough. Hire a professional (who will tell you it'll take less time to translate the text themselves).

How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 AI boosters and the US military are engaged in a lethal love affair. Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein joins Emily and Alex to discuss how glitchy technology supports global imperialism — and vice ...

Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

My tireless Rep., holding uncaring, power-drunk feet to the fire. 🔥👊

Wendy Baldwin | Online structured writing retreat Looking to inject some zing into your writing project? Join my upcoming online structured writing retreat, where the writer is as important as the writing. Choose a full (2.5 days) or express (1.5 day...

...it's easier to

🔸 set boundaries re: time, energy, attention
🔸 objectively observe your practice/output
🔸 make considered choices, working proactively rather than automatically
🔸 troubleshoot in real-time
🔸 learn from others
🔸 find satisfaction in your craft

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We're a week out from my next online writing retreat.
Choose the express (1.5 days) or full retreat option (2.5 days).

Our focus will be on advancing your writing project in an environment that puts the writer, rather than the text, front and center.

When that happens...
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#WritingRetreats

🟢 Why Saturday?
–The reality of writing in an academic and research environment is that we sometimes need or choose to write on a Saturday.
–Support & community make it easier to find focus and feel satisfied come Saturday afternoon.

#StructuredWriting #SocialWriting #WritingRetreats #AcWri

Wendy Baldwin | Online structured writing retreat Looking to inject some zing into your writing project? Join my upcoming online structured writing retreat, where the writer is as important as the writing. Choose a full (2.5 days) or express (1.5 day...

📆 Save the date! Next online writing retreat: 12–14 March

✍ We focus on process and well-being; that means your text can be in any discipline, genre, language or stage of development.

🟢 Choose the full retreat (2.5 days) or the express retreat (1.5 days). >>

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MaggyIt Creates a Maggied version of a file

I've just learned from Jennifer Yankopolus (of Macro of the Month) that I can make a custom tab in the MS Word ribbon just for key-but-lesser-used macros. And in the doing I found I can change the order of tabs, too.

Exciting!

#EditorHeaven #Edibuddies

macroofthemonth.substack.com/p/macro-of-t...

researcher colleagues! have you just published a cool paper on language related stuff?
get in touch with me, I'm on a podcast and maybe we'll feature your study!
I do the show with the brilliant Daniel and Ben
@becauselanguage.com
becauselanguage.com

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found."

The risk isn’t the technology. The risk is in people who should know better getting whipped up in the hype and helping normalize tech’s narratives so we don’t pay attention to (and rein in) what they’re actually doing in the present.

😳 “le Bureau de la traduction tient compte des avancées technologiques et de la baisse de la demande en traduction”

‘Human for me, robot for thee‘ seems to violate the spirit of co-official, especially if it’s the case that most is EN into FR rather than the other direction… 🤔

What to ask when AI vendors show up on campus These procurement decisions are coming, whether or not they benefit student learning

New today in The Important Work from @kconrad.bsky.social. Questions to ask when the ed tech companies come to your campus. Wise and useful.

Brilliant, thank you!

I can’t speak to the paywalled Perel interview but Jane’s description resonates with what translators and authors’ editors know (and is part of the value we bring to a piece of writing): the friction points we find in a text and query are opportunities for authors to further clarify what they think.

(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits: paid for by cuts to reproductive health care paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid paid for by cuts to SNAP paid for by cuts to clean energy projects paid for by cuts to obesity prevention paid for by cuts to disaster response paid for by cuts to energy tax credits

“These metaphors matter because they shape how we understand our agency and responsibility...[and] because of what they leave unsaid—the harder questions about identity, stigma, power, politics and structural change that individual consumption choices, however ethical, cannot answer alone.”

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My snow experience is 7 years in Buffalo, NY and I never heard a term for that particular thing. Piled up snow generally would be a ‘bank’ for me, a Los Angeles native.

Something you might find of interest, @anacarolinaribeiro.bsky.social?

Translators!

Remember the "Bristol Translates" online summer school for literary translators last summer? Well, they've moved. To Oxford. The 2026 literary translation summer school will be in July (and held online)

#translation #LitTrans #XL8

Holy shit I am on the front of The Guardian’s Life & Arts section

🤩😍🥳👏

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Fab thread on a study on special issues with guest editors: the scope of it all and the damage from this clear conflict of interest is pretty staggering.

Hello, just to say that my website is down, so it can't be seen and I'm not getting any emails that might have been sent through it.

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Hopefully it'll be fixed very soon. Meanwhile, if you want to contact me, pls PM me here.

The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...