At the intersection of ethnography, geography, political science... and more. Lecturer @Univ_Lille. PhD @LettresSorbonne.
Paris, 94, CDMX, Lille
Joined March 2011
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Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
Muy doloroso reconocerlo, Pero es real. Doña Florinda anda repartiendo cachetadas por el mundo!
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
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.
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
Seguimos exigiendo justicia para Raúl Pacheco Vega.
"Este domingo se cumplen 6 semanas de su muerte y la justicia sigue aguardando."
Ha pasado mes y medio de la noticia del Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega. Les comparto una texto en donde se le recuerda y se exige justicia:
oem.com.mx/elsoldehermosillo…
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
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?
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
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.
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
L'impact concret de la fin du monopole de la SNCF sur les usagers du train.
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
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!
ALT Deadline driven Value driven Unit of work Papers Projects (long-term agendas that last 3-5 years) Source of discipline External Internal—requires willpower, creating structure for oneself What is prioritized Whatever is close to deadlines What’s most valuable; requires a theory of value Coordination mechanism Deadline as a forcing function Good project management skills Quality bar Whatever gets past peer review Independent assessment of quality Motivation Brownie points from getting papers in Making the world better Project selection Say yes promiscuously; drop things that don’t get done for the deadline or if reviews are terrible Highly selective; explicit go/no-go decision; commit to finishing things that are started Stakes Low — affects only the research community High — affects real people Endpoint Paper gets accepted/published The paper is just documentation, not the output, much less the outcome. Projects last years Feedback signal Meeting deadlines + paper acceptance. Fast, b
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
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.
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
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...
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
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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Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news: #AcademicTwitter #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut
ALT A three-panel comic with Peter Parker (Spiderman in his civilian outfit) as the protagonist. The left hand side panel has Peter with a book open with the title "How to finish a paper". The right hand side panel has two images: on the top Peter reads in the book the phrase "Write It". In the bottom right panel, the third one, Peter sheds tears.
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
I’m shocked to know about the passing of Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega. I have been following him since college days. His blogs about research and writing have helped me a lot.
Despite this immensely unjust world, his life and work will reverberate the academic world. RIP @raulpacheco
Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
We mourn the loss of Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Professor at FLACSO México, and a Methods Clinic mentor in our @OSUNForum. He shaped a generation of our fellows and helped knit our community together across continents.
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Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
Hoy, miércoles, en @FlacsoMx se llevará a cabo un, más que sentido y merecido, homenaje a Raúl.
#JusticiaParaRaúl.
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Dr. Gerardo ☮️🔻🌈🗺 retweeted
When I told my Dad I was gay in 1995 he said something that will always stay with me. He told me about his best friend in the army that was in the closet and had children and was from a deeply religious family where the “Gay was prayed away.” My father started crying (he has only ever cried twice in my presence) and said that he found his friend hanging from the rafters in the barracks. Suicide at aged 29, three kids, an oblivious wife. He said “As long as you are safe, happy and loved that is all I want for you son. I would prefer an alive gay son to one that kills himself because he is gay.” #PrideMonth2026