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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢 QMUL AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award: 5 fully funded PhD studentships for Oct 2027 cohort. Interested in working with me on development? Get in touch: r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk 📅 Webinar: 14 Oct | Deadline: 1 Dec 2026 More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3b5a52... qmul.ac.uk/about/hss/re...

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International Development Economics Association @ideadevecon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Join us for the first IDEA Research Seminar, featuring Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University). Register here: idea.devecon.org Professor Mookherjee will be following up on his NBER invited lecture, which you can watch TOMORROW, Tuesday, July 28 at 9 AM US EDT here: www.youtube.com/@NBERvideos/...

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Ana-Maria Dimand @anadimand.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke seeks an associate or assistant professor of public administration: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #PAJobMarket

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What happens to migration and regional connectivity when violence becomes part of everyday life? My fab coauthor Michele Coscia @mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy wrote a blog about our recent article combining network analysis & IV michelecoscia.com?p=2545

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International Development Economics Association @ideadevecon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

IDEA on the World Bank's Development Impact blog. Board member Owen Ozier introduces the association — why development economics needs a global professional home, and what IDEA is building. Read it, then join us: idea.devecon.org blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Thank you! The recent workshop we co-organised on Organised Crime: Local Roots & Global Reach was inspired by a very successful event organised by @angeltguevara.bsky.social and @geraldinebustos.bsky.social a couple of years ago at @uniessexgov.bsky.social Looking forward to more collaborations

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Interested in pursuing a PhD using linked administrative data to address important policy challenges? I'm happy to support applications for the ADR PhD Studentships at Queen Mary University of London. Deadline 15 Sept👇 If interested, contact me r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk www.adruk.org/news-publica...

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Funding opportunity: ADR UK PhD Studentships

ADR UK is inviting applications from Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) to host a cohort of PhD studentsh...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Updating my coming presentation on 500+ politicians killed in Mexico, list sadly grows. Last night: incumbent mayor of San Miguel Amatitlán, Oaxaca, shot dead. He'd formally requested state protection weeks ago. Ignored. World Cup: Pan y circo. Slides: dropbox.com/scl/fi/swnsn...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Many thanks to participants of the "Organised Crime" workshop held yesterday made possible thanks to co-organiser Ángel Torres generosity of @qmul.bsky.social @uniessexgov.bsky.social At end of event we were admiring this view of London when realised had not taken the group photo, so few ppl missing

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We just started the workshop, transmitting presentations via this link essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Looking forward to hosting this workshop on Organised Crime: Local Roots and Global Reach on 10 June. If you would like to attend in person, email me at r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk Places are limited. You can also join Zoom, in this link essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #OrganisedCrime

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Looking forward to presenting today along with Monica Beeder and Angel Torres-Guevara, at FIAP Jean Monnet, Rome+Dubliln Room, 7:00-8:30pm. #LASA2026 Paris.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Interested in contributing a chapter to a book on Drug Trafficking? Meet us at: Lobby of the Paris Marriott Hotel during #LASA2026 🗓 Friday, May 29, 2026 ⏰ 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Or contact co-editors at: M.Beeder@soton.ac.uk, r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk, a.torresguevara@essex.ac.uk

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📢 Excited to be presenting at #LASA2026 in Paris! 🗓️ Thursday, May 28 | 7:00–8:30 PM CT #LatinAmericanStudies #PoliticalEconomy global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

How does violence reshape migration? Using 🇲🇽 census data 2005–2020 and network analysis across 6M+ migration links, we show violence drove displacement and reduced 🚗 highway traffic linking violent municipalities to the rest of the country www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 03/10/2025

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Looking forward to presenting 👇 at Fragile Lives 2025: Gender, Institutions, and Fragility in Berlin. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06722 Programme: zerohunger.de/fragile-live...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Ahora voy a leer 👇Aborda cómo detectar a psicópatas integrados: personas que no cometen delitos graves de violencia, pero causan daños significativos en la vida personal y en instituciones de la sociedad, incluyendo la política. #PEACELA www.amazon.co.uk/psic%C3%B3pa...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Minorities in academia are expected to overperform, stay silent, and endure stereotypes (e.g, you don’t know how to write, are poorly educated). This is a minority tax: taking extra unpaid labour and diversity duties that don't count towards promotion. bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Easily my favourite book on mastering Shiny: building interactive apps, reports, and dashboards using R. And it's free 👉 mastering-shiny.org/basic-app.html #rstats #Shiny #DataViz

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855) From humble beginnings, Carl Friedrich Gauss reshaped science, from number theory, celestial mechanics to probability, statistics, and geometry. A mind of rare depth and clarity. 🎬 Watch the full documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6r...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Women with names perceived as masculine are less likely to be omitted from citations than those with feminine names. Men with feminine-sounding names are more likely to be omitted than men with masculine names, suggesting citation bias based on gender perceptions. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Summer project: reading 👇 and building new maps. A very good guide for spatial thinking in criminology and R. #PEACELA

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Did you know that the widely used method of least squares was born chasing comets? Legendre published it in 1805 to estimate their orbits Gauss claimed he’d used it privately since 1795 Legendre: I published it first Gauss: I published why it works… in 1809. archive.org/details/nouv...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The U.S. Consolidated Counterdrug Database (CCDB) is unclassified but little known or used by drug policy researchers. Kendra McSweeney’s fab paper focuses on its cocaine module, explaining how this U.S. dataset is built, accessed, and what it reveals. tinyurl.com/mry7a84n

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Is violence learned or inherited? Is it written in our genes or shaped by experience? Can anyone become violent? Roberto Colom and Antonio Andrés Pueyo tackle these big questions in 👇 My next weekend book. 📘 #PEACELA www.amazon.es/C%C3%B3mo-ac...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

In 1874, Francis Galton, father of regressions & cousin of Charles Darwin, wrote a book based on a questionnaire sent to scientists about their childhood, families and mental traits. Praised for pioneering survey methods but criticised as paving the way to eugenics Book: galton.org/books/men-sc...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Want to understand how probability and statistics became science? Stephen Stigler's The History of Statistics is a brilliant, readable dive into the origins of statistical thinking before 1900. 📚 [Free online version] 👉 archive.org/details/hist... #Statistics #HistoryOfScience #Econsky

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🚨 Updated paper on femicide laws in Mexico. After years of work, I find no evidence these laws reduced femicides, female homicides, suicides, or disappearances using dif-in-dif, even after testing ✅ Sentence severity ✅ Parallel reforms (unilateral divorce, divorce asset compensation, abortion) 🧵

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Last week I said I’d buy those stats books 📚 Today they arrived! You also can find them for free here: 📕 Intro to the Theory of Statistics (Mood & Graybill) archive.org/details/in.e... 📗 Probability: An Introduction (Grimmett & Welsh) archive.org/details/prob...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The best book for breaking the “I’ll write when I feel like it, or when I finally find time” curse is How to Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia. No fluff. No excuses. Just a system that works. Buy it, read it, reread it. Highly recommend. tinyurl.com/5t44w8y8

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Government spending can boost long-run growth but only if it shifts toward R&D, which raises productivity, as seen in the case of military spending in the US (eg Apollo, tech diffusion, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency leading to creation of internet) pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Weekend read 👇 A brilliant sociological and political economy analysis of how mafias operate, consolidate power, and thrive. #PEACELA #organizedcrime books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Love that my MAGA neighbor flies the thirteen colonies flag. In California. From when we were Mexico.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Most asked question in mentoring groups, from students to senior academics: How to network? My rec 👇 Even if you’re shy, even if some academics are hard to talk to, this book helps. Start conversations. Be curious about others. Don’t stop trying; it's a skill. www.amazon.co.uk/Coffee-Lunch...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Reading of the week: An informed look at how criminal networks infiltrate political and financial systems around the world. Essential if care about corruption, state capture, and alternative reform paths. 💸 #OrganizedCrime #PEACELA #LavadoDeDinero www.penguinlibros.com/mx/biografia...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Probability: An Introduction Short, sharp, and well-structured. Rigorous but accessible if comfortable with basic real analysis. Good mix of theory and examples. books.google.fm/books?id=ivu...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at the 9th Workshop on the Economics of Organised Crime. Grateful to the organisers for superb event & excited to learn from such a strong lineup! #OrganisedCrime #EconCrime

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Más de 500 asesinatos políticos en México durante los últimos 20 años: Arrestos o ejecuciones del crimen organizado por Estado → más asesinatos políticos (represalia) Decomisos de droga → más amenazas a políticos, extorsión y narcomenudeo local (recuperan pérdidas) tinyurl.com/4pbz9y2j

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Violencia política y economía criminal: captura local y reconfiguración del delito

El crimen organizado se diversifica en sus actividades, y utiliza la violencia política como manera de controlar a los gobiernos locales. Esta reconfiguración refleja que los cárteles regulan la econo...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Thanks @UNUWIDER for publishing 👇on the full cycle of criminal governance. Drug traffickers bribe & kill local politicians to entrench power, expanding into oil theft, extortion & retail drug sales. The only hope? Voters boost the re-election chances of governments that crack down on cartels.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Gentle reminder: Reading, prepping, planning, and scheduling aren’t writing. The only thing that’s writing is writing. strangestloop.io/essays/thing...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Re-reading Causal Inference in Statistics as I revise my next stats course for master’s students. I love its rigour and the battery of questions at the end of each chapter, which push students to move from intuition to formal reasoning.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In many parts of Mexico, organized crime doesn’t just control illicit markets—it governs. 🚨New @UNUWIDER working paper shows how cartels shape elections, regulate economies, and retaliate against state actions. 🧵 www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul... #EconSky #CriminalGovernance #Mexico

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