Hector Cordero

President of the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY). CUNY Professor (Baruch-MSPIA). These are my personal views\opinions

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

Download our book on #poverty in #PuertoRico at this link https://t.co/42IBiVisnN & see clip https://t.co/isyvNohu92

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

Smart analysis of key diasporic dimensions of fascinating #NY13 congressional primary. The various neighborhoods & populations that make up the district present an interesting political chessboard. Turnout will be key as ever & upcoming Spanish language debate can play a key role

[Josué FIALLO🇩🇴保守英 @JosueFiallo]

NY-13 · Diaspora & Power - 1 of 3
A New York congressional primary is being fought on Dominican TV/Radio/Social Media in Santo Domingo, 1,500 miles from the district. Not a metaphor. A method. How @RepEspaillat's reelection runs through the homeland's living rooms. 🧵 #NY13

[The Chicago Maroon @ChicagoMaroon]

UChicago announced today that it had partnered with AI company Anthropic to give students, faculty, and staff access to Claude Enterprise services on a rolling basis starting in July. All University community members will have access by fall quarter. Story to come.

[Paul Staniland @pstanpolitics]

"The Decline of the Liberal Arts at Chicago, by the Numbers"
https://t.co/HxAwATz24H

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

American science is at extraordinary risk.

NIH has awarded less than half as many grants as it has compared to the past five fiscal years averaged together.

'I thought we were at rock bottom', the official said. 'We are below rock bottom now.'"

[Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud @IDJ_PR]

Para muchas jefas de familia en Puerto Rico, los horarios variables y no tradicionales se han convertido en una barrera que limita su capacidad de insertarse y mantenerse en el empleo.

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

Descanse en paz Don Santos Negrón @NegrnDaz un profesional riguroso, comprometido con el análisis serio de la realidad social y económica, y un referente para colegas, estudiantes y generaciones que encontramos en él conocimiento, generosidad intelectual y vocación de servicio 🇵🇷

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

@pinkfloyd Brilliant! Thank you for this gift … 🙏🏾

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

Hoy #twitterPR como que huele a 2015-16 #FOMBPR …

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

NEW: The NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take roles on panels that make final decisions on grant funding.

NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and to expect placements by political appointees.

https://t.co/CqSkqfuIM4

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

People think that the share of immigrants in their country is higher than it actually is. In most countries, the overestimation is more than 10 percentage points.

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

Hoy se selecciona a la persona que va a ocupar la Presidencia de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (#UPR). Esperando que comience la reunión de la Junta de Gobierno UPR pautada para las 10:00 am. Deseándole lo mejor a la persona seleccionada y a la comunidad académica #PresidenciaUPR

[El Nuevo Día @ElNuevoDia]

Adultos mayores en Puerto Rico: forzados a elegir entre comer bien o pagar sus obligaciones | Haz clic aquí ⬇️ https://t.co/g8X8IUldas

[Workers Justice Project ✊🏾❤️ @workersjusticep]

Support @AjcheGustavo, a Deliverista & worker leader with @LosDeliveristas, who was injured and can’t work for 6 weeks.

We’ve launched a fund to support him as he heals. Please chip in & share!
💪❤️
🔗 https://t.co/9enIREXGlT
#Solidarity #SupportWorkers #DeliveristasUnidos

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

@ElUrbanistaPR Las tendencias continúan … Muy interesante lo que se reporta del estudio de @TropicalEPID y los comentarios de @rafigueroa …

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

@carveloforteza @zobrinovich @rafigueroa Estamos un poquito más alto de lo esperado si. Hay que estudiarlo con detenimiento. Pero los cambios en la estructura de población y lo que se espera tiene un patrón relativamente claro. Ciertamente puede cambiar dependiendo de varios factores económicos, sociales y políticos ...

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

Que canción van a tocar cuando llegue el turno de #PuertoRico?

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

They say elections are about the future … The future … Our future … 🫥

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

“Never hear so much malarkey in my life …” sounds about right … 😟😧🫥 fun fact: approximately 342 million people live in the USA …

[Hector Cordero @HCorderoGuzman]

The collective anguish 😟 is palpable … 🫥

[Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang]

BREAKING: The #2030Census and federal surveys are getting new checkboxes for “Middle Eastern or North African” & “Hispanic or Latino” after White House’s @OMBPress approved the first changes to U.S. government standards on racial & ethnic data since 1997
https://t.co/m9rdcwnyBz

[Jon Hartley @Jon_Hartley_]

Levitt on Kevin Murphy and Gary Becker: “Gary Becker was an amazing human being, a brilliant economist. The time that I got to spend with him and Kevin Murphy, there's no thinker on the planet like Kevin Murphy. Kevin is just a phenomenon. It almost I don't even know how to describe Kevin's insight and his, I'll tell you one story about Kevin. So, I was working on a paper with Paul Heaton and Roland Fryer and we were trying, so Kevin wasn't doing very much. Kevin never does very much. Kevin's just in the background doing his thing and you go tap him on the shoulder when you have a problem. So, we had a problem. We couldn't figure out how to do one particular thing. And so, we went and we sat with Kevin. We explained the problem to him, and Kevin said, "I don't know what to do. "I don't know how to answer that problem. "I don't know how to solve that." And I looked and said, "What?" "What, Kevin, what are you talking about? "I've never heard you say that before. "How about you just go to the board "and let's just see what happens?" So, Kevin went to the board and from scratch, it turns out, ended up deriving principal components analysis from the very basics, from the very basic principles. It was interesting because Paul Heaton, who was a graduate student at the time, now at Penn, he went back and he looked at it and he said, "Well, it's so strange." He actually went back in the textbooks and they don't teach that in the textbooks. What Kevin just derived was the initial way that the first people who came up with principal components, how they derived it, but he couldn't possibly have ever read that. He literally just invented it from scratch at the board. And that was what it was like being around Kevin. No matter what question you asked him, he could figure it out. And if he didn't know it, a lot of times he just knew it somehow, but then he could just figure it out. And if you're like me and you enjoy being around genius, it was just so amazing to spend time with Kevin."