At the intersection of ethnography, geography, political science... and more. Lecturer @Univ_Lille. PhD @LettresSorbonne.

Paris, 94, CDMX, Lille
Joined March 2011
Consumers want their "cultural" and "artistic" tourism experience without concerning themselves with the real situation of the place they are supposed to be visiting. They seem to want an adult version of Disneyland.
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Muy interesante la encuesta @INEGI_INFORMA de egresados de la @Secihti_Mx pero me da mucha risa que piensen que tener tostador de pan eléctrico es indicador de bienestar social 😂 será algo de gente de CDMX? Alguien sabe por qué incluyeron ese aparato que es un gadget?
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Replying to @EdgardoRovira
Muy doloroso reconocerlo, Pero es real. Doña Florinda anda repartiendo cachetadas por el mundo!
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Uno de los grandes triunfos del neoliberalismo no es económico. Los datos de desigualdad, marginación y precarización que deja cada vez que gobierna demuestran lo contrario. Su verdadero logro está en lo emocional, en haber convencido a un montón de gente de que odiar a alguien les llena el vacío de una vida que no les funciona. El odio es barato y es instantáneo, no requiere organización, ni paciencia, ni construir nada con nadie, y no consume recursos porque está ahí, disponible, reproduciéndose solo. Organizarse, en cambio, es difícil, y acordar con el vecino, con el compañero de laburo, con el que piensa distinto, es un laburo de todos los días. Odiar es un acto solitario que te da pertenencia inmediata, te conecta con otros que odian lo mismo que vos y esa conexión precaria te hace sentir parte de algo. Las redes sociales potenciaron esa relación a través de algoritmos y cámaras de eco hasta niveles delirantes. Es la comunidad más fácil de todas, la que se arma contra alguien.
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Seguimos exigiendo justicia para Raúl Pacheco Vega. "Este domingo se cumplen 6 semanas de su muerte y la justicia sigue aguardando."
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This paper gives a fancy name to a problem you can already feel in your bones "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons." Checking AI output requires deep expertise. Deep expertise comes from doing grunt work for years. And grunt work is the first thing AI eats So we're building systems that need expert supervision while dismantling the only known process for making experts The paper calls the shared pool of human expertise the "cognitive commons." Every profession drinks from it. Nobody's refilling it. By eliminating junior roles, each company is acting totally rationally, and the collective result: a profession that can't catch AI's mistakes anymore because it never learned to do the work in the first place Who checks AI's homework in 15 years?
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WTF AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp. The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell. What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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L'impact concret de la fin du monopole de la SNCF sur les usagers du train.
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At the start of my research career I operated in a deadline-driven mode because that's what most researchers seemed to do. Gradually I discovered the value-driven way of working. I'm glad I had a supportive advisor who didn't make me chase deadlines. It took me 20 years to fully embrace the switch — it requires developing a long-term vision, willpower to create structure without deadline pressure, a theory of value, project management skills, good taste, the willingness to turn projects down, brutal honesty about whether our work is any good (even if it gets published), and a lot more. But there is no going back!
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One of the best pieces of advice I got during my PhD was that there are no repeatable paths in academia. This might sound daunting because of the lack of certainty. But once you internalize it, it is actually incredibly freeing! You don't need to participate in career games that don't interest you. You can choose to work on projects that are aligned with *your* values rather than your institution's. And because you're working on things you deeply believe in, there's much more likelihood that you'll do impactful things. Like so many other things I learned, this was advice by @random_walker. I would even extend it beyond academia: there are no repeatable paths when transformative technologies like AI are being deployed; even career paths otherwise considered "safe" will undergo massive structural changes. Might as well lean into it.
unsolicited advice to college students and recent grads, after lots of recent coffees w/ people entering the job market: the most accomplished person you know may not have the most relevant career advice for you. they can offer immense wisdom ofc, but you should also seek out successful people in their late 20s / 30s who’ve been successful in the current job market. for example, students often tell me that their parents or an older, tenured professor have encouraged them to pursue academia because they’re bookish, intellectually curious, etc. and that may be sincere advice! — but it’s coming from someone who hasn’t confronted the relevant job market in decades. you can’t look at someone’s linkedin trajectory and assume trying to replicate it would pan out the same way now. ok good luck and godspeed.
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Replying to @CelesteSenadora
Debe responder penalmente por sus insultos racistas, que son delitos en Paraguay y en Francia. Qué baja usted que discrimina a pesar de provenir de un país diverso, multicultural, luchador. Las paraguayas y los paraguayos no se merecen tener una representante tan despreciable...
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Estimado Presidente Santiago Peña (@SantiPenap): Le escribo como periodista acreditada en la Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026, como latinoamericana y como una persona que cree profundamente que el deporte debe unir a los pueblos, no dividirlos. Las declaraciones de la senadora Celeste Amarilla (@CelesteSenadora) contra Kylian Mbappé no solo son ofensivas; proyectan una imagen de intolerancia que no representa los valores que muchos admiramos del pueblo paraguayo. Cuando una figura pública utiliza expresiones que pueden interpretarse como racistas o discriminatorias, el daño trasciende una opinión personal. Sus palabras terminan representando a un país entero y deterioran su imagen ante el mundo. Que Kylian Mbappé, uno de los futbolistas más importantes del planeta, haya sentido la necesidad de responder públicamente demuestra la magnitud de lo ocurrido. Paraguay merece ser noticia por el talento, la pasión y la calidad de su fútbol, no por este tipo de episodios. Por ello, considero que corresponde un pronunciamiento claro de las instituciones y, de ser procedente, las acciones disciplinarias que establezcan las normas paraguayas. No por censurar opiniones, sino porque quienes ocupan cargos de representación tienen una responsabilidad mayor sobre el impacto de sus palabras. Estoy convencida de que la inmensa mayoría de los paraguayos no comparte este tipo de expresiones. El fútbol despierta emociones intensas, pero nunca debe convertirse en una excusa para la discriminación. Ojalá este episodio sirva para reafirmar que el respeto siempre debe estar por encima de cualquier rivalidad deportiva Noelia Izarza – at Washington, DC
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Hellish queues at @ParisAeroport , more than 30 minutes waiting at the security gates, working at less than half capacity in the middle of the summer holidays.
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OR "It's increasingly clear Claude can do in minutes what a tenured research supervisor did in years or never did at all. What will happen to these professors? I'm not saying they should be discarded, but academic mentorship is broken "
I just don't know what's going to happen to MA and PhD students in terms of research assistance. It's increasingly charity at this point. Claude can do in minutes what a student assistant might have done in a week with lots of back and forth. To be clear I'm not saying we shouldn't advise students. I'm just saying the old model of symbiosis between supervisor and supervisee feels, like so many things, broken. Fewer students will get mentorship which means fewer students will be given a helping hand to become the managers of AI research.
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Heartbroken for my Venezuelan brothers and sisters
Replying to @Juliococo
Efectivamente lo dijiste aquí dejo pruebas de una doctora en Instagram pidiendo lo mismo que tú
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À la BnF, plusieurs personnes qui doivent mal dormir à cause de la chaleur font leur sieste sur les fauteuils, leur place de travail, ou même par terre. Le lieu est devenu un refuge climatique.
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a tribute to my dear friend, I'm hoping to make some progress on an article today. #AcWri
Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news: #AcademicTwitter #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut
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