Raúl Zepeda Gil 🌈🌹🇲🇽
@rgzepeda.bsky.social
Associate Professor UNAM | Criminal violence, political economy, education, climate change, policy ideas | All opinions personal | Spanglish |
How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse? theconversation.com/how-do-scien...
How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
A National Academy of Sciences report examined the latest advances in extreme event attribution science. As four of the authors explain, the type of disaster makes a difference.
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Un comentario a los resultados del examen de ingreso a la UNAM. open.substack.com/pub/rgzepeda...
Si no fue IA, ¿qué fue?
Los resultados del examen de ingreso a la UNAM
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Tuve el privilegio de conocer el Puerto de Manzanillo. Es extraordinaria la enorme capacidad del puerto. 4 de cada 10 contenedores que llegan a México pasan por aquí, casi 4 millones de contenedores al año que nos conecta con Asia Pacífico.
We think of them in separate categories, but police officers and soldiers share something essential with cartel members: 'They are all specialists in violence,' the sociologist @rgzepeda writes. In this incisive Essay, Gil explores what drives young men to pursue a career in violence
Organised violence is a trade, whether legal or illegal | Aeon Essays
Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?
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Today @aeon.co published me an essay I wrote with the main insight of my research: The violence specialists. They are workers workers in a trade, regardless of it’s legality. They can be gangsters or soldiers. And there are aspects that makes this occupation attractive. aeon.co/essays/organ...
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Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya ✍️ written by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/l8Tqh9j
Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya - Carbon Brief
A major ocean conference has ended in Mombasa, Kenya, with just a handful of countries committing to high-level political declarations
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One billion additional people face at least one day of “extreme heat stress” every year compared to the 1970s. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I was interviewed by @washingtonpost.com about the current US tactics on the Latin America war on drugs www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
In killing gang leader, Trump brings war-on-terror tactics to Latin America
The strike on Tren de Aragua's leader in Venezuela was more like the targeted killing of a jihadist than the approach traditionally taken against alleged criminals.
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I will deeply miss Colbert on air. I watch him all these years. What a way to end with Paul McCartney! youtu.be/zG0HFw0edXY?...
"Jump Up / Hello Goodbye" Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, Louis Cato & Stephen Colbert
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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My new book chapter “The Populist Reframing of Idle Youth in Mexican Violent Crime Prevention Policy” has been published at the Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South. You can take a look here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
un pequeño texto de cómo se reporta la violencia en México
Un grano de incertidumbre ante la alarma
Comentario sobre cinco ideas exageradas de seguridad y violencia en México
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Elections like yesterday reinforce my belief that researching the political and economic conditions under which democratic mobilization is unleashed (in the world of energy and climate, and beyond) are crucial to the current moment, and do not need to be only depressing
The views from the Schönbrunn Palace are impressive.
Where democracy started and decline, the Athens Agora.
The Broken Chair in front of the UN in Geneva, to remember the pain caused by land mines.
The UN in Geneva has peacocks living freely on the gardens.
As WMO unveils the Global #StateOfClimate 2025, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres calls for urgent action grounded in science. 📕Read the report: bit.ly/StateOfClimate2025 📽️UNSG's full message: https://youtu.be/iijVBQbm3jg
This might be the oil shock where the world learns that you can have Nixon style queues at gas stations without price controls. Blaming shortages on price controls in a massive supply shock is like blaming the rain on the umbrella. I still recommend using an umbrella.
Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.
What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence
Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.
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