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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The highlight of my travels this summer was going to Copenhagen: a 19th century theme park right in the main square, gorgeous canals, squatter artist communities on islands, stunning gardens and neighborhoods built out of shipping containers add up to the coolest city I’ve been to!

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I’ve noticed that 2000s indie rock has become the soundtrack to non places: airport lounges, hotel lobbies, etc. Funny how sounds that felt so countercultural in our youth have filled the role of muzak/Kenny G in 2026.

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

So great to connect with other urban researchers from Latin America at the LACUA meeting at the @uaanews.bsky.social ICUA conference!

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Also, the talk radio host is obviously jealous of Mayor Wilson being able to live close to work and not drive. I’ve long argued that part of the hatred towards biking, transit, and urbanism stems from suburban car commuters being jealous of the lifestyle we have because driving in traffic sucks

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Now, imagine if a mayor or state legislator vowed to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on expanding a freeway they drive on daily. Would the media frame that as a scandal?

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Chicago bound! On my way to the @uaanews.bsky.social ICUA 2026 conference. Excited to present my research on digital nomads and gentrification in CDMX.

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Tfw, they are currently blasting Timbiriche at a White People Hipster Cafe in Brooklyn. Osea, ¿Cómo?

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Universal Law Of Cities — The more car-friendly a place is, the shittier it is to be there. Via #NotJustBikes. Watch his new video below.

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The new @leder.games Root expansion came in the mail. Loving the clever mechanics these new factions introduce to the game!

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

My PhD program is looking for applicants. Great, fully funded opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary urban research and scholarship!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

what this story demonstrates is that even someone "just" using LLMs like ChatGPT for writing/research etc is still vulnerable to being sucked into a whirlpool of dangerous lies and delusions. So, once again, WHY are schools and universities telling students, staff and faculty to use this?

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Cómo alguien que organizó su despedida de soltera en el Caribbean Social Club, sí me emocionó ver a Toñita en el Súper Tazón.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Of course I am using photos of the Nordelta capybaras for the Gated Communities slideshow in the LatAm Cities course I teach. I mean, why would I not? #MillennialProf

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I've been seeing a lot of Cayalá discourse on YIMBY social media from folks like @thetransitguy.com and others. As a LatAm urbanist, I just want to caution against romanticizing a place like Cayalá with a thread. (1/?)

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026

I just thought everyone should see this

Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Bien merecido. Fue la mejor cinta del año y una de las mejores películas que he visto.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/01/2026

“It was clear that Texas A&M’s new policies were going to lead to conflicts with the 1st Amendment. That the first such conflict involves telling a professor to remove from his syllabus the writings of who created what was arguably the west’s first institution of higher ed is too perfect an irony.”

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Texas A&M Bans Plato (updated) - Daily Nous

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Cautiously optimistic here. However, this should also extend to multi-family units.

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Great interview with @mcmansionhell.bsky.social on the Know Your Enemy podcast on the role of architecture and aesthetics in the modern US: open.spotify.com/episode/3ids...

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UNLOCKED: Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner)

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Oh god Google Scholar has an AI search function now. I don't fucking want it. Does anyone remember how printed citation indexes worked in case we need them again?

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Trekked from Brooklyn to Manhattan and back in the middle of a snowstorm because I won discount rush tickets to #SpellingBee. To my surprise, it was packed despite the terrible weather. Overall, a delightful, hilarious show and worth the journey.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Me after finally getting to try the pastries/food/coffee at Vato after all of Park Slope has been endlessly lining up for them:

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

For a PhD grant application? I would hope so!

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Cuando trabajaba en Roma-Condesa era posible comprar un café en un lugar fresón por 30 pesos y las cafeterías independientes eran menos caras que las de cadena. Ahora esas cafeterías son igual de caras que en Brooklyn y el café cuesta casi 100. #gentrificacion #cdmx

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Once again, I find myself meal prepping and the @foodcoop.bsky.social produce did a lot of the heavy lifting in making sure the food was flavorful and delicious!

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Francisco Aguilar @aguilarfar.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Pensándolo bien, increíble que en inglés le digan movies a las películas. Sobre todo a estas alturas del medio. Imagínate decir que vas a ver unas "moviditas".

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Evidence keeps piling up that the incredible progress in the field of ubiquitous hyper-compelling short-form video delivery has been bad for society and deleterious to most people’s interests. www.slowboring.com/p/more-strea...

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More streaming video is bad

If you’re streaming video, you’re not doing homework, reading, socializing, or sleeping.

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

TFW, the reviewer asks why you chose the linear regression

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Was quoted in a piece about touristification in CDMX. My key contribution was to give visitors the following advice: "Don’t complain about the heat of the salsas...It’s Mexico. It is what it is.” www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

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The myths and realities of gentrification in Mexico City. Should you still visit?

Mexico City is attracting food lovers and digital nomads from all over the world. But is it now gentrifying? These are the myths and realities in this booming culinary destination

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

After the SNL parody of El Chavo, can we expose the US to other "gems" of Mexican culture via SNL? What about Cuna de Lobos? the Maldita Lisiada scene? A sketch about the Paco Stannley murder?

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My dude, Claudia is culturally Jewish. AMLO is most likely a Protestant, or at least very sympathetic to Protestantism. MORENA is literally the heir to the old Revolutionary Nationalist movement which was against organized religion in public life. This is lazy analysis.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21/09/2025

Private equity wants a $3 billion casino on Coney Island, but it's a gamble residents don’t want to take. The company is allegedly handing out cash and ice cream to those willing to support their project. From James Baratta: trib.al/WbZm1BZ

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Private Equity’s $3 Billion Bet on a Casino Chimera

A casino is at the center of a fight over the soul of Coney Island, one of three downstate casino licenses being pursued in New York.

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

¿Alguien sabe si Vix se puede acceder desde EEUU? NECESITO ver el documental de Maerker sobre el PRI

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Mexico Decoded @mexicodecoded.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

What Do 20+ Years of Research Reveal About Mexico’s Organized Crime? Today, on the Mexico Decoded podcast, we explore it with professor Omar García Ponce. www.mexicodecoded.com/p/organized-...

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What 20+ Years of Research Reveal About Mexico's Organized Crime

In this episode of the Mexico Decoded podcast, I speak with Omar García Ponce, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, about what decades of...

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