Maximiliano Véjares

Postdoctoral fellow @NZpolicylab. PhD, @johnshopkins, MA @uchicago. State capacity and democracy in Latin America.

[Maximiliano Véjares @maxvejares]

I'm excited to share our @NZpolicylab analysis of Mexico's industrial policy and its potential in the energy transition. The report examines pathways for green investments and sustainable development. Read the full report:

https://t.co/i3zrrGa7s0

[Maximiliano Véjares @maxvejares]

@TimH_B @PNWthistle golazo

[Mike Diplockre @MikeDiplockre]

The Americans are getting good at football

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

“To eliminate suffering entirely would mean, in the end, extinguishing love and desire as well. Those who love and desire cannot avoid passing through trial and suffering; and over the years, we carry within us lessons that leave their mark like scars, the memories of a journey shaped by freedom and failure, dreams and disappointments.

It is only thanks to the interplay of these elements that the wonders of the soul occur within us, allowing us to sense the richness of our humanity.

To renounce this adventure, both tragic and splendid, in the name of a presumed transcendence of all limits, could mean many things, but it would no longer be human.”

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (par. 120) (May 15, 2026)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[eleanorina @_eleanorina]

"Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads."

[Ember @ember_energy]

Clean power — led by solar — grew faster than global electricity demand in 2025 ☀️

Electricity demand rose by 849 TWh, while solar alone added 636 TWh. Fossil generation slightly declined for the fifth time this century.

https://t.co/oJZTWTdmTq

[Simon Stiell @simonstiell]

New data by @ember_energy shows: renewables overtook coal in the global electricity mix in 2025.

Climate impacts are hitting every economy. Fossil fuel cost chaos is hitting households & businesses everywhere.

Renewables are cheaper, and vital for national economic security.

[Ember @ember_energy]

NEW | Every @OECD country is now below its fossil peak – and the decline is going global 🌍⚡

For the first time this century, non-OECD fossil generation fell too.

🔗https://t.co/RnXD54oCzy

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[Maximiliano Véjares @maxvejares]

Bye bye Grammarly

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude for Word is now in beta.

Draft, edit, and revise documents directly from the sidebar. Claude preserves your formatting, and edits appear as tracked changes.

Available on Team and Enterprise plans.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

✍️ 'I have turned to Rome and I am not alone in wanting to be part of an ethereal reality sustained by a creator God'

@DavidGHFrost on what he calls Christianity's quiet revival:

https://t.co/GYXptP6Gca

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

What’s driving the Catholic renewal in America isn’t primarily a spirit of rebellion among the youth, but a yearning among a broad swath of American society for truth, goodness, and beauty amid the ruin of modern life.

It is above all a rejection of liberal modernity and all its broken promises, and the discovery of something real — the realest possible thing — in the Catholic Mass.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The head of Europe’s central bank just said financial markets don’t understand what they’re in for.

This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done. Most people have absolutely no idea. Here is what she actually said.

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. That chokepoint carries 20% of the world’s oil and gas. Markets shrugged. Investors assumed it would blow over. Lagarde told The Economist that technical experts are not talking about months for recovery. They are talking about years.

Helium travels through the Strait of Hormuz. Helium is not a balloon gas. It is the invisible ingredient inside every advanced microchip on earth. Qatar supplies 35% of the world’s commercial helium. Qatar’s facilities have gone dark. Spot prices have surged past $450 per thousand cubic feet. Most chip fabricators carry less than three months of inventory. The world is building AI data centers at record speed. The raw material that makes the chips possible is now scarce.

Meanwhile Brent crude has hit $99. Earlier spikes passed $120. US gasoline is up 30%. Iraq cut 1.5 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia paused its largest refinery. Europe is heading into this with gas storage at 30% capacity.
And the ECB is not cutting rates to soften the blow. It is considering hiking them to fight inflation.

Slow economy. Rising prices. Tighter money. All at once.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

Our 1st podcast is out! ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER. We are watching beginnings of a period that could be more severe than monumental oil shocks of 1973 & 1979

We talked to Haneea Isaad on how Pakistan implausibly had the fastest solar boom in world history after Ukraine war shortage

[Jorge Mario Martínez Piva @JMMartinezPiva]

“Plan México y la Transición Verde: Más Allá del T-MEC".
Gran diálogo auspiciado por,
@EGobiernoyTP (ITESM), @NZpolicylab at Johns Hopkins University, @UNAM_MX, @GDP_Center, @FuturoLabMX, and @OpenSociety. Gracias por este excelente espacio.

[Maximiliano Véjares @maxvejares]

Pleased to have been cited in this week's Latin America Brief from Foreign Policy on Chile's lithium policy.

https://t.co/SFajzusjxK

[sophie @netcapgirl]

claude cowork is going to allow consultants to create previously unimaginable amounts of slop. hundreds of pages of “market reports” and “industry trends” most of which a human never read. strategy decks with thousands of slides. if you thought it was bad already just wait a bit

[qm @quantymacro]

wow it turns out as demand increases price decreases so economists even got the demand supply thing wrong they rly can’t get anything right can they

[Maximiliano Véjares @maxvejares]

Sharing some thoughts about the role of Mexico in the energy transition:

[Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab @NZpolicylab]

What is 🇲🇽's potential in the clean energy transition?
@NZpolicylab's Senior Research Associate @maxvejares responds.

Explore the Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer: https://t.co/dUUSolC70H

#cleanenergy #green #industrialpolicy #clean #energytransition #greeninvestment #mexicoeconomy

Created with @datawheel.

[Maximiliano Véjares @maxvejares]

Thanks for sharing!

[REPSAL @redsubnacional]

🇨🇱✍🏽 @maxvejares: “Varieties of State-Building: Ecology, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Rule in Chile” en @PoPpublicsphere

https://t.co/jOvsqy9Ob7