Juan Moreno‐Cruz

Juan Moreno-Cruz

@jmorenocruz.bsky.social

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Canada Research Chair in Energy Transitions
University of Waterloo.
https://morenocruz.org

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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 14h

110 kidnappings per 100,000.

There are 7 times more ICE kidnappings in the US than the next next country, Ecuador, with 15.15

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 19h

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18h

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 19h

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

www.huffpost.com

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, of course. I forgot to mention that proximity to Banff facilitates osmosis.

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 22h

🆕 Excited to announce our free online lecture series on Industrial Development

To mark the release of our new VoxDevLit next week, with Senior Editors Francesco Amodio & Markus Poschke, we have organised a series of lectures on the key topics related to industrialisation.

Link to register below ⤵️

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

My introduction promises a conversation the results are not entirely prepared to have

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Oliver Hanney @olihanney.bsky.social · 1d

🆕 Can AI take off in Africa?

Today on Ideas in Development, Rose Mutiso (African Tech Futures Lab) joins @deenamousa.com & I to discuss the need for an energy and digital infrastructure revolution on the continent + how to make it happen.

Listen now @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/techno...

AI in Africa: Barriers, opportunities and policy

Can AI take off in Africa? Rose Mutiso joins us to discuss the need for an energy and digital infrastructure revolution on the continent, and how to make it happen.

voxdev.org

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Ingo Rohlfing, Juan Moreno‐Cruz

Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 1d

"Academic publishing as it currently exists is dead."

This is probably overstated, but if you're an early-career academic, it's worth taking seriously that tenured Stanford professors who've been working with AI more than most are saying things like this out loud now.

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, they fired all the Spanish-speaking journalists.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.

But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.

Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?

The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.

www.washingtonpost.com

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

Hey now, we know triple axels, safety grips and run backs better than anyone who has spent a few minutes watching CBC Gem.

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

I’m surprised by how quickly I become an expert in winter sports I’ve never attempted to do and have almost never seen.

That what a PhD in Economics trained me for.

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully someone can jump in, but the way in understood it is reverse vertical means you can still rank the trait, but the sign of the ranking is not stable. The ranking goes from more is better to less is better. The instability can come from context, the outcome, or the historical period.

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

Also great to see Moscona, @nathannunn.bsky.social and Robinson in the same paper.

Three generations of the best development economists represented.

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

As always, the framework they provide is illuminating to the point that after seeing it, you cannot unsee it.

It is what my econ professor Francisco Gonzalez would call ex-post obvious. It is so clear you think you knew it before, but you didn't.

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

I think Jesus's call to love indiscriminately and without limits is kind of giving you the answer, America.

Reposted by Ben Barr, Nathan Nunn, Kris Inwood , and 1 more Ben Barr, Nathan Nunn, Kris Inwood, Peter Bergman

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone working in development economics should read this chapter.

They provide evidence that what works in development is less about finding universally good levers and more about designing interventions compatible with locally embedded social structures.

www.nber.org/papers/w3481...

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 1d

It's the Goldilocks age. Except everything hurts.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, and his profound thinking about AI and the nature of intelligence.

aiguide.substack.com/p/on-brian-c...

On Brian Cantwell Smith and the Promise of AI

Today I had the bittersweet pleasure of participating in a symposium honoring the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, a good friend whom I’d known for over 30 years.

aiguide.substack.com

Reposted by Jean Burgess, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Lisa Diedrich , and 3 more Jean Burgess, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Lisa Diedrich, Thomas Masterson, Simon Lester, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?

The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.

www.washingtonpost.com

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 2d

Thats how we Latino age.

Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 2d

Me thoughts exactly.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous