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📌 Inclusive global publishing: PKP Documentation and #Multilingualism Specialist Emma Uhl

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/27/inclusive-publishing-interview-emma/

📌 Advancing #OpenPublishing: Feature highlights from three years of @craftoa

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/27/craft-oa-3-years/

📌 Sustaining open infrastructure together: A warm thanks to @tibhannover

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/27/sustaining-open-infrastructure-together-a-warm-thanks-to-tib/

📌 PKP update on #OpenInfrastructure #accessibility work

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/27/accessibility-update-2025/

What do you do when the sun forgets to come out
in the longest darkness of winter months?
Bueno I go out into the frosted forest
all things twinkling with ice like tiny eyes with a lust for life…

—Juana Adcock, “What do you do…”
published in SPLIT (Blue Diode, 2019)

https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/split-by-juana-adcock

#Scottish #literature #Mexico #poem #poetry #winter #Scots #Scotslanguage #multilingualism

Democratizing Global Science: Multilingualism, Research Assessment Reform, and Open Science as Drivers of Inclusive Knowledge Creation in BRICS Countries

https://youtu.be/jyZTMe4sX2U?si=JN6dxrZ_GGuKltRv

#BRICSScience #OpenScience #Multilingualism #ResearchAssessmentReform #EpistemicJustice #Equity #BRICS+

The project ‘Ausbildung digitalisieren – Betriebe stärken’ by @plushumanite promotes #digitalisation of in-house training and further education in #Saxony—against #SkillsShortages and for a more inclusive #VocationalTrainingSystem.

Goals: Introduction of #LunaLMS in model companies, further development through on-site customisation, documentation of successes for other companies, and improved integration of trainees with special needs for #accessibility or #multilingualism.

📣 Join us for a talk by Dr Jan Kühne, visiting professor at #UT2J: “Polyglot Pen Pals: Translingual Literary Exchanges with Kafka, Pagis & Darwish” 📍 Maison de la Recherche (D30) 🗓️ Tue, Dec 2, 5:00–6:30 pm (hybrid) 🔗 link on request: dirk.weissmann@univ-tlse2.fr #literature #multilingualism

How #multilingualism can protect against brain ageing https://theconversation.com/how-multilingualism-can-protect-against-brain-ageing-270213 #health #science #STEM

Leider nicht genug, um den Text nochmal prüfen zu lassen. #multilingualism #mehrsprachigkeit #arabisch

Gute Initiative aber.

Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-01000-2 via @waeiski #multilingualism

Another reason why understanding how #multilingualism and socio-economic opportunities are distributed across urban space. A lot of my research has been about exploring these aspects from a geographical perspective.

The link is in Finnish, but the title roughly says "Large-scale study: Linguistic competencies are linked to slowing down the aging of the brain."

Keeping my fingers crossed for positive funding decisions 🤞🎓🔎

#UrbanStudies #Geography #Sociolinguistics
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000011627100.html

12-Nov-2025
Research study suggests speaking more #languages might keep you younger
#Multilingualism protects against accelerated #aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries

^^ I like the sound of that, feeling younger already :)

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1105677

#science #publicHealth #ageing #foreverYoung

I had a lovely exchange with Stephan on the topic of multilingualism on the web today. He's written about it on his website:
https://stephanmax.com/little-bit-german/#multilingualism-is-beautiful

Exchanges like these are why I really love the small web. This was the first time in ages that I've read a few longer texts in German and to my surprise, I could easily understand most of it! (I'm Dutch, so cheating a bit)

I liked reading in German so much that I'm now looking for more. Please let me know if you have recommendations for personal blogs or even your favourite books in German.

#smallweb #indieweb #multilingualism

After years of thinking about multilingual programming, I finally built something concrete to explore the idea: ouverture.py

LLMs have amplified a subtle problem - code becomes more "readable" to English-trained models, less accessible to programmers who think in other languages.

So I built a proof-of-concept: content-addressed storage where functions in different languages with identical logic produce the same hash.

A French dev can write calculer_moyenne(), a Spanish dev calcular_promedio() - they hash together, stored as linguistic variants of the same logic.

It's early, messy research code with known bugs. But I'm learning in public and would love input from:

• Non-English only speakers

• Anyone curious about linguistic diversity in programming

• Critics: is this solving a real problem or creating new ones?

https://github.com/amirouche/ouverture.py

Linguistic diversity = cognitive diversity

#OpenSource #Python #multilingualism #diversity #chatbots #llm #cognition

🎉🎤 "Omnilingual ASR" claims it can recognize 1600 languages, but let's be real—who even knew there were that many? 🙄 With so many languages covered, it's only a matter of time before it becomes the world's first tool to mispronounce every language equally! 🌎🤦‍♂️
https://ai.meta.com/blog/omnilingual-asr-advancing-automatic-speech-recognition/?_fb_noscript=1 #OmnilingualASR #languageRecognition #techInnovation #multilingualism #HackerNews #ngated

Update. New from #COAR (@coar_repositories): "This paper explores the concept of #semantic #multilingual #search: an emerging approach that retrieves information by meaning rather than by exact wording, enabling users to search in any supported language and discover relevant work across all languages…When you ask a question in your language, the entire world should have a chance to understand and respond."

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

Coming up in December!

'Rays of Language: Linguistic Perspectives on Non-Literary Papyri and Related Sources' brings together studies on #multilingualism, scribal practices, syntactic structures, and socio-pragmatic features of #ancient texts. Edited by Klaas Bentein and Marja Vierros, the volume explores the #linguistic dimensions of non-literary #papyri, highlighting recent advances in #digitalhumanities and linguistic #research.

#openaccess #linguistics #Greek #Latin #Coptic #Arabic

For me, there was lots to take away from the reading that follows my own from Menna, which I am sure will be fascinating for #Gaelic speakers in a wider #CelticLanguages context, and anyone who loves poetry - just because of the joy of #multilingualism.

Whatever your language competence, I hope this underscores that multilingualism is your gift to explore and get #creative with.

Update. "Multilingualism in science…expands the participation and dialogue among diverse communities of scientists and influences stakeholders who use science to address urgent global issues. [But] systematic and sustained implementation of multilingual scholarly communication and peer-reviewed publishing is cumbersome for journal management platforms, research teams, and editorial boards…This Research Note…proposes the first statement of the _Journal of Disaster Studies_ (JDS) on inclusive multilingualism."
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971123

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

👋 Let's connect at @craftoa Conference - Crafting the Future of #DiamondOpenAccess: Technical, Social & Political Perspectives of #ScholarlyPublishing

Urooj Nizami & @markhusk are there with many friends! Urooj will be on a panel re sustainable #OpenAccess & will co-present on Canadian OA policy.

Lots going on! #OpenJournalSystems, Diamond plugins, #Metadata, #Multilingualism, sustainability & much more.

Program: https://www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-conference-program/

Streaming: https://www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-conference-program/#Livestreaming

#CRAFT_OA2025

Fantastic Friday news from rainy Vienna! Our co-authored article "Who are the users in multilingual digital humanities?" is now available in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities! Beside conceptual considerations about the multilingual DH user community, the article also offers actionable steps towards stronger language inclusivity. https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/llc/fqaf091/8263225?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=dsh&utm_medium=email

#DigitalHumanities #multilingualdh #multilingualism #ux #userexperience

@ElenLeFoll Yes, the music was awesome!

It was also nice to hear from Eva Martha Eckkrammer that #DigitalHumanities has a well-etablished and innovative role within the #Romanistik, a strength to maintain into the future.

I agree that the voice of Romance Studies, with their experience of #multilingualism, #diversity, #contextualization and #comparison, is vital for the future development also of #DigitalHumanities methods, including but not limited to #LLMs.