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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

6 months

🚨Check out our new article in the @apsrjournal @BrownPhDGirl & @ProfJanelleWong Amid the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter uprising, higher ed institutions, departments, & scientific societies issued statements in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd. 1/

An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder...

An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd

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3 years

We should not be burdened with proving that police abolition works by folks who cannot prove that police reform works.

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4 years

Please stop with the "3rd world" analogies 🤦‍♂️

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4 years

The collapse of the Arecibo Observatory is a metaphor for the state of science and education in Puerto Rico under US colonial rule.

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Amigos es con profundo pesar comunicarles que acaba de colapsar la plataforma del Observatorio de Arecibo.

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4 years

Puerto Rico has no confirmed cases of Coronavirus because there are no testing capabilities locally. Folks are calling this #Coloniavirus

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9 months

This takes a great deal of courage. Garment workers are routinely beaten, imprisoned, and killed.

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Tens of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh who make products for brands like Zara, H&M and GAP are on strike. Their minimum wage is $75 a month, and they're demanding it rise to $208. The bosses are only offering $90. They've shut down over 300 factories so far.

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2 years

Claramente Telemundo decidió pedir perdón en vez de pedir permiso 😂

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4 years

Friends, it seems surreal to announce, in the midst of this crisis, that I have the immense privilege of staying at @UMBC and converting into an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science this Fall.

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3 years

Si la piscina de Rincón fuese en Llorens hace rato que la policía la hubiese desmantelado.

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I was told to avoid being a Puerto Rican who studied PR. I made sure to study other things before turning my attention back home. But hurricane María changed things, & here we are, Puerto Ricans studying energy inequality in Puerto Rico cited in @USATODAY

Puerto Rico's Hurricane Fiona recovery efforts may be repeating same failures from Hurricane Maria,...

Weeks after Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, experts say, the inequities in aid response they saw after Hurricane Maria may be happening again.

www.usatoday.com

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2 years

A powerful sector of Puerto Rico statehood supporters loves going to DC to demand civil rights and equality while denying those rights to those who dare to protest the way they govern PR. They engage in well-documented illegal policing tactics & dismiss any claims as Cuban-funded

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Seeing right wingers on this site saying they don’t want their children taught by this professor. They will never understand what a privilege it is to learn from this eminent scholar.

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A woman who said she is a professor in the global studies dept was detained alongside UC Irvine students When asked if she was concerned about possibly jeopardizing her job, she responded, "What job do I have if the students don't have a future?"

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2 years

I got a new job. I will be joining @PittTweets as an assistant professor of sociology.

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3 years

La lista de artefactos, yacimientos, edificios, colecciones, estructuras, recintos, museos, archivos, bibliotecas con valor histórico, arquitectónico, y arqueológico que el PNP/PPD ha dejado perder es tan larga. ¿Con qué cara se hacen pasar por defensores del arte y la historia?

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4 years

Not all students have broadband at home. Not all can work from home. Not all have a home away from campus.

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4 years

Thank you for acknowledging this. This is correct. The denial of the disaster, the death toll, shifting responsibility for survival to the individual while neglecting institutional responsibilities. These were all in display in Puerto Rico, and now tragically, throughout the US.

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4 years

Yep, Puerto Rico was the preview.

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2 years

¿Alguien sabe a dónde hay que llamar para pedirle donaciones a JR Asphalt? 😂😂😂

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2 years

The unelected Puerto Rico Fiscal Oversight Board funded by PR taxpayers is asking SCOTUS to shield them from transparency provisions in the PR constitution 🙃

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2 years

Frustrante ver cómo corren universidades como negocios, tratan a estudiantes como clientes, profesores y administradores como proveedores de bienes de consumo. La enseñanza, la preparación, y el pensamiento crítico sufren mucho cuando se adopta este modelo educativo.

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5 years

Folks close to the epicenter of the #PuertoRicoEarthquakes broke into a storage facility & found tons of supplies that government failed to distribute after hurricane María. This is not the first time this happens. People are calling on the governor to resign #WandaRenuncia

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2 years

Friendly reminder that citizenship should not determine who is worthy of aid. Please remember this before you say that Puerto Ricans deserve aid because they are your fellow Americans.

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1 year

APSA Latino Caucus withdraws from the annual conference in solidarity with @UNITEHERE11 ’s struggle despite plans to celebrate 25yr anniversary and will reimburse all fees. Strong statement from leaders. 👇🏼

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3 years

Dr. Taison Bell

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3 years

We just paused an entire vaccine rollout because of a complication with a risk of 1 in 1 million. For Black men, the lifetime risk of being killed by police is 1 in 1000. Where is our pause?

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11 months

Acabo de ver las expresiones de Jay Fonseca sobre el asunto del calor extremo en las escuelas. Wow. Con tanta gente experta en salud pública y cambio climático y Wapa le da foro a Jay Fonseca a que invoque a la generación de sus abuelos para decirle débil a la juventud. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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2 years

¿Por qué si LUMA venía a despolitizar la AEE y lograr mayor eficiencia le teme tanto a la transparencia? Publiquen los desplazamientos de brigadas diarios con coordenadas como hacia la AEE después de María. Estos datos son claves para saber a quién se le está dando prioridad.

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11 months

The idea that conservatives are marginalized relative to minorities or scholars of race, let alone CRT, is laughable & not based on fact. Poli sci is ~70% white. Imagine being among 5%-Black or 6%-Latinx political scientists. How do editors take op-ed’s like these seriously?

Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

11 months

Lol. “When I mention this lack of representation, older APSA members admit it is a problem. For younger members, raised under the spell of critical theory, responses are mixed.” How many people have a critical race theorist (or a theorist) in their political science department?

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2 years

My recommendation to boricuas writing about PR right now: don't hold back your emotions. say what you want to say. not everything should be sterile analyses. we have opinions, not just analyses.

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2 years

@alixabeth My institution cancelled our graduation because we went on strike to fight a tuition hike and the elimination of tuition fee waivers. We had an activist graduation on the street and it was beautiful.

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@fernandotormos

5 years

Excited to announce that I will be joining @UMBCPubPolicy and @UMBCpolisci as a postdoctoral fellow in the Fall. I’m looking forward to advancing my research and to supporting @UMBC ’s commitments to diversity, inclusion, academic excellence, civic engagement, and social justice.

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2 years

Aquí recordándoles cómo @AEEONLINE publicaba los desplazamientos de brigadas. ¿Por qué @GovPierluisi no le exige a LUMA que haga lo mismo? ¿Cuál es el temor a la transparencia? ¿Cuáles son los criterios de la probatoria de LUMA?

Notiséis WIPR

@notiseiswipr

7 years

¿Dónde están las brigadas de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica hoy? @AEEONLINE

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3 years

Excited to announce that I've been awarded an @NSF -sponsored grant through @NCAR_Science to continue my research on the political drivers, dynamics, & consequences of social vulnerability to disasters, with a particular focus on the hurricane María & Irma disasters in Puerto Rico

The School of Public Policy at UMBC

@UMBCPubPolicy

3 years

Public Policy Prof. @fernandotormos has won a grant through @NCAR_Science to examine political drivers, dynamics, & consequences of social vulnerability to weather disasters. Artwork by @AgitArte “11 - Pagan Justos por Explotadores”

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3 years

El contrato de LUMA es la mayor traición a la gente que lo dio todo por restaurar la electricidad tras María.

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3 years

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3 years

Do social vulnerabilities & ruling party support shape government responsiveness in times of disasters? We find that they do. Read about it in our new study "Energy inequality and clientelism in the wake of disasters" See our thread below🧵 @ElsevierEnergy

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2 years

Recordemos que los abusos de derechos civiles en PR no son casos aislados. Esto es un problema sistemático bien documentado.

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4 years

White supremacist stormed the capitol because their allies in government lent them discourse and substantive support, gave them a sense of legitimacy, and signaled a favorable political climate for their mobilization.

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4 years

The PR student movement cautioned against the impact of privatization, austerity measures, stifling & sidelining of science, school closures, and other attacks against science and education. A building had to collapse for many to see the collapse of infrastructure.

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2 years

El PNP se pasa quejando de cómo los tratan en los medios y resulta que acostumbran a comprarlos 😬

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2 years

They deploy riot police, politicians, & supporters to attack journalists openly in the streets & on air in various outlets. They claim that news outlets are separatists, despite keeping a heavy presence in these outlets, which at times, they’ve illegally paid to sustain.

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2 years

Thoughts on zoom interviews for research: Zoom is not a great equalizer. While some people zoom in through their broadband connection from the comfort of their vacation homes, others turn the camera off to save power while running on a generator due to outages.

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3 years

Power outages cost lives. It is a fact. Instead of rising up to occasion, local elected authorities in Puerto Rico are claiming that the power authority that they privatized is being sabotaged. They have yet to provide any proof.

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4 years

Thank you @purduepolsci ! Excited for this journey at @UMBC .

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4 years

Congrats #Purdue PoliSci PhD @fernandotormos on his recent promotion to a tenure track position @UMBC !

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manuel rueda

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4 years

Hi there @jaketapper . I'm a correspondent in #Bogota . (Colombia) Sorry to say we haven't had any mobs storming the congress here for several decades. But I'll let you know if anything happens.

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2 years

By some inexplicable* coincidence, LUMA, the inexperienced contractor brought in to manage & depoliticize Puerto Rico’s formerly public energy transmission & distribution infrastructure, found a ton of talent among supporters of the party that upholds & defends their contract. 🤔

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5 years

Excited to share that Mayra Vélez and I just received the @APSAtweets Second Century Fund grant, which will fund a program that will help place Puerto Rican undergraduates in graduate political science programs. Thankful for the support we got from colleagues and collaborators.

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3 years

There’s an order to stop & demolish an illegal pool construction project in Rincón, PR built on the beach, so much so that turtles have been nesting in the construction site. The police, instead of enforcing the order, are there to keep protesters from disrupting the construction

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

3 years

Feeling fortunate to receive this @NCAR_Science Early Career award, which will enable new and sustain ongoing collaborations with brilliant thinkers. Thankful for this support and excited to share our work on the politics of social vulnerability to disasters.

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@NCAR_Science

3 years

#NCARSpotlight Sending a warm welcome to the newest Early Career Faculty Innovator Program cohort, including 12 faculty members from U.S. universities. The program partners NCAR scientists w/ a broad range of researchers to address complex problems w/ societal importance. 1/

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3 years

Excited to announce that our @migapprogram received funding from the @APSAtweets Centennial Center to continue our work to develop a national network of graduate studies placement programs for undergraduates from underrepresented minoritized groups in the social sciences.

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@fernandotormos

5 months

Opposition to DEI is not based on rigorous science nor evidence. There is no piece of evidence that will convince opponents to support DEI. Did good climate science convince climate change deniers? No. Opposition to DEI is ideological. It’s about power. It is not scientific.

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5 months

I’ll support DEI policies, once advocates demonstrate: 1. A reasonable basis for their racial, ethnic and gender categories. 2. Evidence DEI programs work. 3. A dollar spent on DEI does more good than if spent on research, educators or student scholarships. Good luck!

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11 months

Political scientists meeting in air conditioned conference rooms that silence the echoes of minoritized workers on the streets chanting for justice is quite the analogy for the gap between higher ed and communities in our times. 😬

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

3 years

Got two R&Rs yesterday :) Excited to share results soon!! Big writing plans this summer.

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11 months

Increíble ver gente mayor criticando jóvenes que reclaman acción ante falta de infraestructura para enfrentar el calor extremo. Los envejecientes son el grupo de mayor riesgo ante el calor extremo. Esos salones serán sus refugios tras huracanes. Sus destinos están entrelazados.

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2 years

Puerto Rican political elites are determined to privatize utilities without regard to the extent to which it's a good policy, its likely outcomes, and whether they help utility consumers.

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@fernandotormos

4 years

I'd like to bring your attention to two wonderful scholars who will be sharing their insights on @JoeBiden 's VP pick @KamalaHarris : @BrownPhDGirl and @D_Lemi . Follow them, read their work, cite them, interview them, fund their work, share their work. @POCalsoknow @womenalsoknow

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@fernandotormos

4 years

Just submitted an article to a high impact journal. Three years in the making. Had a not so good experience on the first try with a different journal, but took the good aspects of the reviews and improved the manuscript. Fingers crossed.

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1 year

Activismo y periodismo investigativo lograron el cierre del zoológico de Mayagüez, no el repentino buen juicio de agencias gubernamentales, que por años se negaron a enfrentar el problema de crueldad animal que se da en el zoológico.

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@fernandotormos

2 years

Friends, checkout my new piece for @jacobin on how the neoliberal logics of disaster management obstructed disaster preparedness in PR prior to Fiona, and how communities are resisting them.

Jacobin

@jacobin

2 years

Hurricane Fiona's aftermath has shown that US colonialism and neoliberal governance make living in Puerto Rico a constant emergency for the poor and working class. But collective, bottom-up initiatives offer hope for a better future.

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2 years

Politicians in PR touted the virtues of privatization and its ability to take politics out of the electric utility that they had politicized for decades, only to end up installing political operatives in the newly formed firm managing electricity distribution and transmission.

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2 years

@alixabeth And now I’m writing a manuscript titled the pedagogy of the strike. Excited to present it in Coimbra later this month.

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@fernandotormos

3 years

En PR amábamos a los celadores tras María. Ahora que pierden sus trabajos por LUMA lo único que se escucha es 🐸. Antes de María se redujo la fuerza laboral de celadores significativamente. Eso nos dejó bien vulnerables ante María. Imagínense poner a novatos a restaurar. Fatal

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@fernandotormos

11 months

En Baltimore cancelan clases cuando hay calor extremo. ¿Por qué esto es tan difícil entender? Cambio climático señores. No es el mismo clima que cuando la generación boomer estaba en la escuela. No es comparable. La falta de solidaridad con la juventud es repugnante.

Eduardo Bhatia-Gautier🇵🇷

@eduardobhatia

11 months

Díganme un sólo estado o un sólo país donde el Secretario / Ministro de Educación esté a cargo de los aires acondicionados en las escuelas... --- Educación suspende las clases el 8 de septiembre para desarrollar planes de contingencia ante el calor

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2 years

Can politicians use disaster recovery resources to win elections? We argue that they do & that they help corrupt elites remain in power, enabling grand corruption. Checkout our @CentroPR Journal article: Clientelism & Corruption in the Wake of Disasters 🧵

Clientelism and Corruption in the Wake of Disasters

Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Wendy Prudencio, Mary Angelica Painter, Brevin Franklin Puerto Rico’s history of crises provides an opportune context for analyzing corruption in times of disaster.

centropr.hunter.cuny.edu

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4 years

The assertion that Puerto Ricans gave the New Progressive Party an unequivocal mandate to seek statehood is dishonest. There is no such mandate.

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3 years

Pretty fortunate to get to work with the brilliant @BrownPhDGirl and @ProfJanelleWong .

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@fernandotormos

1 year

All important things. I would add privilege. In fact, I think that privilege is the most important determinant of success in academia. The underrepresentation of minorities in higher education doesn't just happen because they are disproportionately unlucky, lazy, and untalented.

Andrew Perrin

@AndrewJPerrin

1 year

Success in academia, as in many other areas, is a function of luck, talent, and hard work. Very few people achieve success without significant amounts of all three, though the admixture varies. That’s why great academic environments are full of hard working, talented [1/]

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5 years

And so it begins. Demonstrators start making their way to the governor's mansion to show their outrage after discovering one out of 8 warehouses full of relief supplies that government failed to deliver. #PuertoRicoEarthquakes #WandaRenuncia #WandaVazquezRenuncia

Juan Carlos Pedreira

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5 years

AHORA: Comienzan a llegar manifestantes a La Fortaleza

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2 years

Excited and honored to be in the first cohort of this important initiative.

APSA

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2 years

Six Scholars Win the Inaugural Minority-Serving Institution Virtual Book Workshop Award

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1 year

La derecha en Puerto Rico es una calcomanía de la derecha estadounidense.

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1 year

¿Por qué LUMA esconde sus datos justo cuando toma decisiones sobre a quién le va a suplir energía y quién se afectará por los relevos de carga? ¿A quién favorecen estos relevos de carga? Estas preguntas son de interés público y, por ende, la data tiene que ser pública.

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@fernandotormos

4 years

My @UMBC @UMBCPubPolicy graduate mixed method course students are SOOOO GOOOOOOD! How did I get this lucky?

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3 years

We need more scholars willing to mobilize. Good takes can only take us so far.

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6 years

Very excited to announce that I will be a visiting scholar at @Cambridge_Uni this summer at the generous invitation of my friend and collaborator José Ciro Martínez. Looking forward to continuing our work on inequality, colonialism, and resistance in Puerto Rico.

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Very excited to join @UMBC ! Thankful for the support I got through @SSNScholars and looking forward to continue to mobilize our academic community in aims of improving policy, strengthening democracy, science advocacy, and diversifying higher education.

Autumn Reed

@DrAutumnMReed

5 years

#UMBC welcomes Drs. Tormos-Aponte, Francis, and Perez to Cohort V of the UMBC Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity @fernandotormos

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Si al PNP le gusta tanto las encuestas de opinión pública, ¿por qué no le asigna fondos a la UPR para que se hagan encuestas científicamente rigurosas? Así no se tienen que recostar de las encuestas de Primera Hora y Jugando Pelota Dura para justificar sus políticas públicas.

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Working on an R&R right now & I'm pretty sure that more than one editor sent this manuscript to reviewers who do not understand its methods. I wish that peer review was a more interactive process. Reviewers & editors often make pretty consequential decisions with very little info

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5 years

After decades of pushing electric utility privatization down the throats of Puerto Ricans & shifting large shares of generation to private hands, it is the private utility companies who cannot operate their largest generators & do not want to offer the public details on damage.

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3 years

🚨Tomorrow @BrownPhDGirl , #ValeriaSinclairChapman , & I will be hosting the @APSAtweets Mini Conference on Intersectionality & Social Movements. 6 panels on this topic! See the mini conference program below 👇& welcome video here:

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2 years

The responses from statehood supporters to this tweet show the power that elites have and how their rhetoric motivates violence among their followers.

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@fernandotormos

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Just submitted a big grant proposal. Fingers crossed!

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

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5 years

Puerto Rico has thousands of vacant homes and thousands homeless. Disasters are not just natural, they are also political. #PuertoRicoEarthquakes

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

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3 years

about to resubmit a manuscript that has been 3.5yrs in the making

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

11 months

APSA friends going virtual: Do not post zoom links on social media. Almost every time this happens it gets zoombombed.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

4 years

Cruise lines are pressuring countries to allow them to dock and disembark. They are literally introducing the virus in the Caribbean. Puerto Rico and Colombia’s first reported cases disembarked from a cruise. Another case of the #Coloniavirus

David Begnaud

@DavidBegnaud

4 years

3 cruise-ships arrive in Puerto Rico tomorrow: •Freedom of the Seas •Norwegian Epic •Carnival Fascination The PR govt will NOT take the temperature of passengers disembarking. It will reply on the ships' doctors to tell them if anyone is sick. ••Seems like a bad decision••

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

4 years

Academic conference travel funds are finite and scarce resources for most academics. The longer academic associations put off cancelling meetings, the harder it is to recover these funds.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

5 years

Excited to share my first @SSNScholars brief, based on my @PGI_WPSA article "Intersectional Solidarity."I discuss the implications of intersectionality for social movements and develop recommendations for adopting an intersectional organizing approach. 1/2

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

4 years

I’ve had more meeting in the last 4 months than I’ve had in years.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

4 years

The #raceandjusticeconvo is a master class. I think about the potential impact of making sessions like these commonplace and broadly accessible. We need more of this. We need more people involved in this; to break the dichotomy of learners and the learned.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

4 years

Excited to share that @APSAtweets funded @BrownPhDGirl , @ProfJanelleWong , and I to collect and analyze political science department #BlackLivesMatter solidarity statements published in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

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@APSAtweets

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Funding Political Science Research: Recipients of Centennial Center Research Grants and Small Research Grants Announced

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

1 year

So it seems like political scientists can no longer use word limits as an excuse not to cite scholars of color 😅 enjoy catching up with the reading 😂

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

5 years

Our DISMS research team got this little gift yesterday. Our article “Active Solidarity: Intersectional Solidarity in Action” is out online at Social Politics. We offer guidelines on how social movements can adopt an intersectional organizing approach.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

11 months

Cite, review, engage with the ideas of junior scholars. These are great ways to support their work. Thinking of those who wrote amazing things and are not celebrating and engaging with peers and mentors in solidarity with workers.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

3 years

Getting emotional listening to @BrownPhDGirl introducing @GuillesHere for his dissertation defense. What a beautiful moment.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

3 years

Grateful for the support that my colleagues and I received from @UMBC , @NCAR_Science , and @wtgrantfdn . Seguimos.

The School of Public Policy at UMBC

@UMBCPubPolicy

3 years

Public Policy's @fernandotormos is named an Early Career Faculty Innovator for research on energy inequality, 1 of 12 to receive this honor and support from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). #UMBCProud Read more in @UMBC News:

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

3 years

Note to self: If you're going to sit through & help organize 6 panels in one day, let them be with people whose work you admire & on #IntersectionalActivism . Thank you to all of those who supported our @APSAtweets Mini Conference on Intersectionality & Social Movements.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

4 years

Article submitted🕺

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

3 years

@dacolon Por esto es que hay que apoyar las ciencias sociales con el mismo ahínco que tratamos las otras ramas de la ciencia.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

5 years

Happy to see my @ps_polisci article w/ @Mayra_UPR published. We discuss how to build pathways for diversifying poli sci & our work to create @migapprogram w/ support from @APSAtweets and great colleagues. Thank you @BrownPhDGirl and @NazitaLajevardi for editing this special issue!

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

7 months

Got a big pub with amazing collaborators and a mentor saw it and reached out to congratulate me. Told him how much his mentoring meant to me. 🥲

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

3 years

As students go on strike at the University of Puerto Rico, I'm excited to share my new article on student movement pedagogies with my longtime friend and compañera Kamil Gerónimo, with whom I participated in the student movement.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte

@fernandotormos

1 year

Hard to take seriously the claims that APSA attendance is about justice, equity, and solidarity in a field that consistently fails to change its demographics.

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