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Fernando Calderón_Figueroa
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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 🇨🇴
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You sure that's not @utsc.utoronto.ca campus? 😅
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Amazing first time teaching @utsc-humangeo.bsky.social in the new Sam Ibrahim building @utsc.utoronto.ca Looking forward to this semester!
Spherical photo of the interior of a university building. It shows three stories of the building connected through a mix-use wooden staircase and skylights at the top.
September 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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!
Photo of the author with two students in formal dressing. They are posing in front of a research poster. Poster of the project "piccard: A graph-based approach to census data analysis". The poster includes an overview, sample workflow, QR codes for further information, next steps, and acknowledgements. More info in the documentation: https://piccard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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
Map of the Ciclovía de Domingo in Bogotá, Colombia, with the North rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. The coloured legend indicates the different sections of the 127 km of the system.
June 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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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
Map of Bogota with the names of its localidades (except Sumapaz). The map is oriented 90 degrees counter clockwise.
June 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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At #ICUA2025 in Vancouver, happy to report the recognition to the contributions of @raulpachecovega.bsky.social to dissecting the academic publishing process.
Ben Gerlofs showing a presentation slide with a link to Raúl Pacheco-Vega's website's resources for academic publishing.
April 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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How can people hate brutalist architecture when it gives you these views? Lucky to come to work here @utsc.bsky.social
Enclosed square in a brutalist building. Natural light comes through windows in a coffered ceiling. Three university students are seen walking by.
January 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Hello (bsky) world!
I'm Fernando, incoming assistant prof in urban and regional policy in the department of human #geography at @uoft.bsky.social
I defended my dissertation in #sociology yesterday, where I explored the relations bt. built environment, communities & policy 🎉.
Zoom call screenshot featuring six people: five professors and a PhD candidate. All smiling. A desk with a laptop, a second monitor, and an e-reader with notes. Woman and man holding glasses of wine. They are sitting in front of pasta dishes. Both smiling. Baby toys in the background.
October 4, 2023 at 2:04 AM