Bridge Chase

12 books in 2025: reviews from my year of maintaining balance Last year, I rediscovered my love of reading following a long period of intense burn-out. I’m pleased to report that after healing my brain…

We're already nearing the end of February, which means I'm long overdue to share last year's annual reading review round-up. But better late than never! I read 12 books in 2025, exploring fresh genres and trusted authors alike.

#booksky #reviews #reading

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I'm thrilled that ELP's first new language technology initiative is in collaboration with the Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media (@stanfordsilicon.bsky.social). More on this coming soon...! #langsky #langtech 💻 💬

We’re honored and excited to welcome @bchasemadethis.bsky.social as ELP’s new Director of Technology! They bring a decade of experience supporting Indigenous communities in developing ethical, effective technologies to meet their language goals. Welcome, Bridge!

As the newly appointed Director of Technology, I want to improve community access to digital tools, and support the adoption of ethical frameworks by language technology providers. Let's continue working together to strengthen language vitality around the world! 🙌🏻

If you know me, you know that I only partner with organizations where I feel there is deep mission alignment and proper ethical foundation. ELP has been talking the talk and walking the walk for over 13 years, and it's hard not to be impressed by what this small but mighty team has achieved.

Announcement graphic: Meet ELP's new Director of Technology, Bridge Chase.

I'm honoured to share that I am the new Director of Technology for the Endangered Languages Project (@e-l-p.bsky.social). With a network of over 22,000 language champions from 87+ countries & a line-up of free world-class programming, ELP has a proven track record of language revitalization success.

Hi folks, happy 2026! 🎉 Just a brief announcement to say that after a long period of consideration, I’ve decided to formally change my first name to “Bridge” — a hopefully simple change for everyone to remember! I appreciate everyone’s support in making the shift. Thanks very much!

Raise to Revitalize Support Global Indigenous Language Revitalization

This season, I am fundraising for a program called Ready to Revitalize: a unique course run through @e-l-p.bsky.social for grassroots #language champions around the world.

It only costs $500 to sponsor a participant. Help us support language revitalization! #langsky

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The Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator invites students—especially from Digitally Disadvantaged Language communities—to explore typography in a supportive online program. Successful Applicants receive 100% Scholarship coverage! Learn more: kbitype.org @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social

It's happening! Join @e-l-p.bsky.social for the #ELPLaunch right now! bit.ly/ELP-launch #langsky #language #events

Join us for a week of celebration at ELP! 🎉

From Sept. 11-18, we're hosting a share-a-thon. Each day, we'll post a challenge for ways you can get involved and contribute - and you could win an ELP t-shirt!

On Sept. 19, join us for an online launch celebration! Register at bit.ly/ELP-launch

FNEL_V 180: Introduction to Endangered Language Documentation and Revitalization, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program September 2 - December 20, 2025 Foundational concepts in the critical study of cultural, historical, social, and political factors that impact language loss, retention, and revival. Introducing strategies and practical methodologies for collaborative, interdisciplinary, community-based documentation and revitalization projects for First Nations and Indigenous languages. LING 183B: Indigenous Language Documentation Capstone Designing and conducting a project to support community language revitalization efforts by creating either new language documentation, or a new language resource based on existing documentation. Implements throughout: strategies for community involvement; project planning; protocols; consideration of ethical and intellectual property issues. Indigenous Language Documentation Micro-Certificate Program November 19, 2025 – February 25, 2026

Beyond excited to announce that I will be teaching two courses this fall, one with the University of British Columbia & one with the University of Victoria

More info on these programs can be found here:
📍UBC FNEL: cis.arts.ubc.ca
📍UVic ILD: tinyurl.com/LING183B

@arts.ubc.ca @uvic.ca #langsky

Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it

“When developing technology, cultural intelligence is just as important as developing artificial intelligence” — Peter-Lucas Jones

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Te Hiku is a champion of ethical language technology grounded in data sovereignty best practices.

www.wired.com/story/maori-... #WAVES2025 #langsky

Photo of Peter-Lucas Jones on stage speaking at WAVES 2025

First off this morning, blessed to hear Peter-Lucas Jones (Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto, Ngāti Kahu) speak about the amazing work of Te Hiku Media.

“We don’t just want to be the users of technology, we want to be the creators of it too.“

#WAVES2025 #langsky

Graphic promoting WAVES 2025, Global Indigenous Languages Summit in Ottawa Canada

I’ll be attending as many talks and presentations as I can at #WAVES2025 over the next couple of days, and I’ll use this thread 🧵 to share some of the insights from the great speakers and knowledge keepers here. Today, the theme is #Langauge & #Technology! 💻💬

#langsky

Thrilled to be at WAVES 2025, the Global Indigenous Languages Summit by @ocil-ila.bsky.social to share the work of the Indigenous North American Type project @typotheque.com

Come visit our booth — the exhibit hall floor 3 & come to our collab session at 2 PM today in room 206! #WAVES2025 #langsky

ATypI 2026 Call for Proposals - ATypI ATypI invites proposals for talks, workshops, panels, and experimental presentations for its two 2026 conferences. Stanford, California — HomescreenSharjah, UAE — Between For 2026, ATypI not only retu...

#ATypI invites proposals for its two 2026 conferences:

Homescreen references the unfinished journey of creating a truly global digital age ... as homescreens feel like “home” for a remarkably small number of language communities

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The Unicode Consortium: Inside the Global Mission We sit down with three Unicode Consortium contributors—Stephen Loomis (Chair, Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Working Group), Elango Cheran (Vice-Chair, Community Engagement, Google internatio...

"Ensuring #linguistic equality within #technology is one piece of a much larger puzzle to advance the bigger goals of #language vitality ... and #Unicode plays a massive role in that work"

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Honoured to speak on "Localization Today" by MultiLingual Media:

Indigenous people's health tightly tied to speaking their own languages, review finds | CBC News Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and determined 78 per cent of them connected Indigenous language vitality with ...

"Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies ... and determined 78% of them connected #Indigenous #language vitality with improved health.

... Language revitalization plays into identity and feelings of belonging and connection."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #langsky

Slide that says "Working in language revitalization technology - careers within the field and practical advice for job hunting" by Bridget Chase, IED 99: Special Studies in Indigenous Education: Technology for SENĆOŦEN Learning

Slide that says: Pursuing an Indigenous language technology role in the private sector? Here are some starting questions: What sorts of ethical considerations are you taking into account when doing this work? (If the answer is vague or generic, 🚩🚩🚩). How is the community involved? How much of the work is community-directed, and how is that direction being shared with the team? What are the data sovereignty practices in place? Is there AI/LLM/ML work happening here? What is the scope of this work, and how will Indigenous language rights be protected? If you’re building a piece of technology (an app, website, etc.) what are the long term maintenance plans? Who owns the product, who updates it? Who owns the code?

Delighted to guest lecture this afternoon in @uvic.ca's IED 199: Special Studies in Indigenous Education: Technology for SENĆOŦEN Learning. I shared my experiences and advice around working in #language #technology, and it was so fun to speak in a course taught by my dear friend+colleague Ben Chung.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 absolutely fantastic, I hope to be able to read more or watch this

The growing enthusiasm for applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to humanitarian and development goals has sparked a surge in "AI for Social Good" (AI4SG) initiatives from humanitarian and philanthropic institutions and tech monopolies alike. While these initiatives aspire to address global challenges such as poverty, gender inequality, and climate change, they often conceal deeper issues: AI systems that 1) simply fail to live up to their claims 2) encode Eurocentrism, systemic inequities, and injustices, and 3) built under capitalist, extractive, and borderline illegal practices. In this talk, I argue that that many AI4SG efforts are less about meaningful social transformation and more about techsolutionism—where complex political, historical, and social issues are reduced to technical problems assumed to be solvable through “innovation”. By critically examining who defines “good,” who benefits, and what structural issues remain unaddressed, this talk challenges the dominant narratives around AI4SG and calls for a more accountable, human-centric, and context-aware approach to “social good”.

i have been hesitant to participate in the “AI for Good” Summit, that takes place in Geneva annually. but this year, i have been given a keynote (not a panel or similar participation) so, i said yes. here’s the first draft of my talk

Thrilled to be presenting this morning with my fantastic colleague Leo Vicenti at Multilingüe 2025, an event about the revitalization of the Indigenous languages ​​of the Americas through #typography, #research, and #technology.

#multilingue2025 #langsky

Say it with Respect: A Journalists' Guide - First Peoples Cultural Council Say it with Respect: A Journalists' Guide to Reporting on Indigenous & Minoritized Languages by ELP and FPCC.

The Endangered Languages Project (@e-l-p.bsky.social), in partnership with the First People's Cultural Council, recently released a guide for journalists who are writing about Indigenous and minority languages. It's great. Let me show you.
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Do you know someone who writes about #Indigenous, #minoritized and/or #endangered languages and #languagerevitalization? This new publication might be useful! ⤵️

We warmly invite journalists and editors to use this resource, and share it with their colleagues. We hope it can help you tell these important stories, and "say it with respect". Find the guide at (a QR code)! (Note for alt text readers, the link is also embedded into the first post in this thread)

Anna, Amanda and I collaborated with language community members, #linguists & scholars on this resource. If you're a #journalist #reporter, #editor or #writer who may engage with topics of Indigenous / minoritized languages, #language endangerment or language revitalization, please use + share this!

This guide has three main sections centered around using respectful language when telling stories about language-related topics: red flags, disrespectful; yellow flags, use with caution; green flags, respectful. Each flag has an explanation and - where appropriate - a suggested alternative.

In particular, working in #language #technology, I cringe seeing article after article claiming that some new fancy app or AI is "saving a dying language". These sorts of stories perpetrate false narratives. We wanted to develop a resource to help tell these stories with respect. #langsky #langtech

Thrilled to launch a #journalism resource written by myself, @nabelew.bsky.social & Amanda Holmes:
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We appreciate the growing attention the #media is giving to #language endangerment & revitalization, but issues are often covered in ways cause unintentional harm. How? 🗞️

Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship

This *NEW* Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship supports PhD students who are engaged in the documentation of Indigenous languages and the archiving of linguistic data as part of their PhD graduate studies.

We have a new font release. Hard-to-categorise, designed to bring an informal, warm personality to both Thai and Latin scripts. www.typotheque.com/blog/pristine