Fernando Calderón_Figueroa
@ferderon.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @uoft.bsky.social @utsc-humangeo.bsky.social 丨neighbourhoods, social capital & policy丨papá de Lúa🌛丨 ENG ESP丨👨💻🗺📷丨he/él丨Piura 🇵🇪
📌Between Toronto 🇨🇦 & Bogotá 🇨🇴
🔗 fernandocalderonfigueroa.com
📌Between Toronto 🇨🇦 & Bogotá 🇨🇴
🔗 fernandocalderonfigueroa.com
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The Spatial Dimensions of Social Capital: Examining the Relation between Built Environment, Communities, and Policy in Canadian and Peruvian Cities | TSpace Repository
tspace.library.utoronto.ca
[checks mic] It's been a while, 🦋! Here to share that my doctoral dissertation 📕 is (finally) available online. Hope it's a good intro to my work on how communities and urban policymakers define each other through modifying the built environment around us.
tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/...
tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/...
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Updated Urban Greenness data out from StatCan is out today, quantifying the "average greenness" on a 250m grid. Data is annual and goes back to 2000 and allows for some comparison (although some caution is advised).
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Updated Urban Greenness data out from StatCan is out today, quantifying the "average greenness" on a 250m grid. Data is annual and goes back to 2000 and allows for some comparison (although some caution is advised).
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🏛️ ¿Por qué seguimos obsesionados con resucitar ciudades que ya no existen? Lima necesita futuro, no nostalgia. No te pierdas la reflexión de Natalia Sobrevilla.
🧃Clic aquí: tinyurl.com/3vrbyyk4
🧃Clic aquí: tinyurl.com/3vrbyyk4
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🏛️ ¿Por qué seguimos obsesionados con resucitar ciudades que ya no existen? Lima necesita futuro, no nostalgia. No te pierdas la reflexión de Natalia Sobrevilla.
🧃Clic aquí: tinyurl.com/3vrbyyk4
🧃Clic aquí: tinyurl.com/3vrbyyk4
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
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The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
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The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live.
Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
September 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live.
Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
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JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in
Calgary,
AB,
...
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in
Calgary,
AB,
...
careers.ucalgary.ca
September 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
Amazing first time teaching @utsc-humangeo.bsky.social in the new Sam Ibrahim building @utsc.utoronto.ca Looking forward to this semester!
September 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Amazing first time teaching @utsc-humangeo.bsky.social in the new Sam Ibrahim building @utsc.utoronto.ca Looking forward to this semester!
"I recommend SUDS as the perfect opportunity to gain research experience, experience life in the #DataScience workforce, and possibly even get published!”–Elise Corbin
@uoftdsi.bsky.social
datasciences.utoronto.ca/data-science...
@uoftdsi.bsky.social
datasciences.utoronto.ca/data-science...
August 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"I recommend SUDS as the perfect opportunity to gain research experience, experience life in the #DataScience workforce, and possibly even get published!”–Elise Corbin
@uoftdsi.bsky.social
datasciences.utoronto.ca/data-science...
@uoftdsi.bsky.social
datasciences.utoronto.ca/data-science...
A highlight of this summer: supervising Elise Corbin (UofT) and Abdulmohseen Al Ali (KAUST) during their Summer Undergraduate Data Sciences program at @uoftdsi.bsky.social. They did amazing expanding `piccard`—a Python package we've been developing—and prepared a fantastic presentation and poster!
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A highlight of this summer: supervising Elise Corbin (UofT) and Abdulmohseen Al Ali (KAUST) during their Summer Undergraduate Data Sciences program at @uoftdsi.bsky.social. They did amazing expanding `piccard`—a Python package we've been developing—and prepared a fantastic presentation and poster!
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“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
August 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
💯 We need this kind of courage and initiative in Toronto as well. Right on red should be banned outright in any dense urban area. #topoli
I witnessed the aftermath of a cyclist getting hit by a car turning right yesterday, just a couple of blocks from where Saloni Aitawadekar was killed while crossing the street near City Hall.
It’s time to seriously consider banning right turns on red in Ottawa’s downtown core.
It’s time to seriously consider banning right turns on red in Ottawa’s downtown core.
Red-light right turns: Ottawa councillor wants to ban them downtown
Downtown drivers may get less leeway at red lights. A councillor is applying pressure after witnessing an accident steps from City Hall.
ottawacitizen.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
💯 We need this kind of courage and initiative in Toronto as well. Right on red should be banned outright in any dense urban area. #topoli
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Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall.
I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Assistant Professor - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
jobs.utoronto.ca
August 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall.
I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
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my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
boomer opinion i have is that there are way more young adults out there who legit don’t know how to take care of themselves in very basic ways than we’d probably be comfortable with knowing
July 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
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The idea that "thinking is writing and writing is thinking" would have probably appalled Socrates. I suppose he might have thought that "thinking is talking and talking is thinking." But probably better is: thinking is thinking and thinking is thinking.
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
What would Plato do?
Plato met writing with invention, not despair or anger. We may need to do the same for the essay.
open.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The idea that "thinking is writing and writing is thinking" would have probably appalled Socrates. I suppose he might have thought that "thinking is talking and talking is thinking." But probably better is: thinking is thinking and thinking is thinking.
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
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🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
July 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky
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A lot of how we think about AI comes from disciplines that study the individual mind. AIs are already social and plural, however, and only becoming increasingly so. Can sociology provide models for Artificial Social Intelligence ?
#sociology #ASI
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
#sociology #ASI
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
Draft description of my seminar on Artificial Social Intelligence
What can sociology add to the creation of novel forms of intelligence? If intelligence is inherently social, the answer is: a lot.
open.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A lot of how we think about AI comes from disciplines that study the individual mind. AIs are already social and plural, however, and only becoming increasingly so. Can sociology provide models for Artificial Social Intelligence ?
#sociology #ASI
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
#sociology #ASI
open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...
Made this map of the #Ciclovia in #Bogota using the #RStats function I wrote to rotate maps using ad-hoc oblique Mercator projections.
#GIS
#Cartography
#GIS
#Cartography
June 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Made this map of the #Ciclovia in #Bogota using the #RStats function I wrote to rotate maps using ad-hoc oblique Mercator projections.
#GIS
#Cartography
#GIS
#Cartography
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Thrilled to see this piece from my former student Mike Glass and @brentcebul.bsky.social in the JAH.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Mortgaging Out: Fha Credit Policy, Segregated Rental Housing, and the Remaking of Metropolitan America
On a hot afternoon in July 1954, Fred C. Trump sat as a witness before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. He had been subpoenaed for an investig
nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Thrilled to see this piece from my former student Mike Glass and @brentcebul.bsky.social in the JAH.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Created a quick function to rotate maps in #RStats. Helpful for mapping cities that are usually represented with an angled North--e.g., Toronto maps are usually tilted 15ish degrees to align the map borders with the grid.
github.com/fcalderonfig...
#geosky
#AcademicSky
#GIS
github.com/fcalderonfig...
#geosky
#AcademicSky
#GIS
June 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Created a quick function to rotate maps in #RStats. Helpful for mapping cities that are usually represented with an angled North--e.g., Toronto maps are usually tilted 15ish degrees to align the map borders with the grid.
github.com/fcalderonfig...
#geosky
#AcademicSky
#GIS
github.com/fcalderonfig...
#geosky
#AcademicSky
#GIS
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It's shocking that Stalin eliminated his adversaries from official photos, but how does it feel to know that a whole country was completely erased from our education?
Marilen Llancaqueo tells the story of Mapuche Country in her latest book.
Wrote an essay about it 👇
elpais.com/america-futu...
Marilen Llancaqueo tells the story of Mapuche Country in her latest book.
Wrote an essay about it 👇
elpais.com/america-futu...
Marilen Llancaqueo, la escritora que quiere llevar la historia del País Mapuche a la escuela en Chile
El libro ‘Una pequeña historia mapuche’ cuenta el belicoso siglo XIX latinoamericano, una herramienta para introducir un relato silenciado
elpais.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It's shocking that Stalin eliminated his adversaries from official photos, but how does it feel to know that a whole country was completely erased from our education?
Marilen Llancaqueo tells the story of Mapuche Country in her latest book.
Wrote an essay about it 👇
elpais.com/america-futu...
Marilen Llancaqueo tells the story of Mapuche Country in her latest book.
Wrote an essay about it 👇
elpais.com/america-futu...
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Inbox pitch: "As a person who has done a TON of research - without AI - it drained what felt like years from my life—time, Alex. Time that could be spent on more fun stuff…"
Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.
Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.
May 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Inbox pitch: "As a person who has done a TON of research - without AI - it drained what felt like years from my life—time, Alex. Time that could be spent on more fun stuff…"
Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.
Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.
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A new Texas ruling (Little v. Llano County) says the public can’t sue if libraries pull books for political reasons.
It confirms what we found in our new study: most Americans don’t want book bans.
It’s political elites—like in Texas—who are cutting off public access. ⬇️
It confirms what we found in our new study: most Americans don’t want book bans.
It’s political elites—like in Texas—who are cutting off public access. ⬇️
Book bans are rising, but everyday Americans dont want them.
We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization.
The public doesn't echo elite battles.
📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh)
🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1
We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization.
The public doesn't echo elite battles.
📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh)
🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1
May 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A new Texas ruling (Little v. Llano County) says the public can’t sue if libraries pull books for political reasons.
It confirms what we found in our new study: most Americans don’t want book bans.
It’s political elites—like in Texas—who are cutting off public access. ⬇️
It confirms what we found in our new study: most Americans don’t want book bans.
It’s political elites—like in Texas—who are cutting off public access. ⬇️
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A couple of days ago I gave a guest lecture on an Introduction to Bayesian Demography. The materials are here if people are interested! Includes a few examples using R and Stan: mjalexander.github.io/bayesian-dem...
Hello!
mjalexander.github.io
April 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A couple of days ago I gave a guest lecture on an Introduction to Bayesian Demography. The materials are here if people are interested! Includes a few examples using R and Stan: mjalexander.github.io/bayesian-dem...