Milton Torres-Ceron

Professional profile🙍#Ecology 🌿🦎🐟. My main interest is understanding the effects of anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems. PhD candidate @tamueeb

[Milton Torres-Ceron @MiltonTCr]

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[Meni Even Israel @MeniEvenIsrael]

Rosh Hashanah asks a simple question: if I am the same person tomorrow, what makes the new year new?

Judaism’s answer is not dramatic reinvention.

Think. Speak. Act.

Change something in your mind. Give it words. Make it real through one action.

Sometimes one day is enough to begin anew.

May you have a great, sweet New Year.

[Milton Torres-Ceron @MiltonTCr]

@kotelgold Tefilat Haḥodesh, a siddur originally printed in Livorno Italy in the 1800s. It does have interesting halachic commentaries by the Ḥida.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

A newly discovered fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping the understanding of early hominoid evolution, researchers report in Science.

The fossil finding suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa, outside the traditionally studied regions of East Africa.

Learn more: https://t.co/n3wo0iBuLb

[DC Film News @DCFilmNews]

Look out!

‘SUPERGIRL’ flies into theaters in 100 days.

[Cheeky Scientist @cheekyscience]

😑

[Milton Torres-Ceron @MiltonTCr]

@LuthorCorpNews Hey Lex. How many "A's" does Superman have?

[Isaac Choua @ChouaIsaac]

The claim that Sepharad as a designation for Iberia was a “translation error” later “cemented by Rashi” does not survive chronology.

As you noted, the identification of biblical Sepharad with Aspamia or Hispania already appears in the Targum to ʿOḇadya 1:20, attributed by late antique tradition to Yonathan ben ʿUzziel, conventionally dated to around the fourth century CE. By that point, the identification belonged to the shared exegetical inheritance of the Jewish world. It did not originate in Ashkenaz and it was not a medieval guess.

By the 11th century, Andalusian Jews were already using Sepharad as a living geographic and cultural term. Shemuʾel ibn Naghrillah (993–1056), Yehuḏa haLevi (c. 1075–1141), and Aḇraham ibn ʿEzra (1089–1167) all employ Sepharad naturally in Hebrew poetry and biblical exegesis as a designation for al Andalus, not Iberia as a whole, and they do so without explanation. This usage emerges internally among educated Iberian elites and not as an Ashkenazi imposition.

That point alone matters. In a manuscript culture, new terms do not become self evident overnight. For Sepharad to function without gloss or clarification, it must already have been widely intelligible and socially anchored.

This self understanding is made explicit by Aḇraham ibn Daʾud (c. 1110–1180) in Sefer haQabbalah, composed around 1161. Sepharad is presented not as poetic flourish but as a historical and intellectual center of Tora, consciously positioned as a successor to Babylonia. Ibn Daʾud is not inventing a category. He is describing one that already exists.

This is downstream of the efforts of Hasdai ibn Shapruṭ (c. 915–970). He is the first figure in al Andalus to deliberately sponsor Hebrew culture as a civilizational project and not merely as private scholarship. His patronage of grammar, philology, poetry, diplomacy, and correspondence helped Iberian Jews begin thinking of themselves as a center and not a periphery.

HaRambam (1138–1204) reinforces this framework. Whether or not he consistently signs himself haSepharadi, he clearly treats Sepharad as a recognized legal and cultural sphere, most clearly through repeated references to traditions of Sepharad as a distinct halakhic system. Such usage presupposes a term that is already normatively meaningful. Under premodern conditions, that level of recognition requires generations and not decades.

The normalization of Sepharad coincides with Iberia’s rise between the tenth and twelfth centuries as the new cultural, intellectual, and legal center of the Jewish world, as Babylonia declined. The association with ʿOḇadya’s exiles of Yerushalayim is not accidental. Andalusian Jews, often court connected and highly educated, appropriated a biblical toponym tied to Jerusalemite exile to frame themselves not as peripheral refugees but as nobles in exile and heirs to tradition.

Against this background, the appeal to Rashi (1040–1105) collapses. Rashi lived in northern France. His commentaries circulated only in manuscript during and long after his lifetime and their reach was initially regional. They achieved mass dissemination only with print, beginning in 1475 in Reggio di Calabria. By that point, Sepharad was already entrenched and Sepharadi identity fully formed.

To claim that Rashi fixed or spread the term ignores chronology, geography, and the realities of premodern transmission.

In short, Sepharad was not a mistranslation and it was not a Rashi driven innovation. It was a late antique exegetical identification that Andalusian Jews themselves activated, normalized, and institutionalized over the 11th and 12th centuries, long before Rashi’s works achieved wide circulation.

[SitoCine @SitoCinema]

¡ES OFICIAL 🔴! #Superman recaudó 217 millones de dólares en su primer fin de semana de taquilla mundial.

El presupuesto total es de de 225 millones de dólares.

[Superman @Superman]

@MiltonTCr All eyes are on him. Be the first to see #Superman - only in theaters July 11. Get tickets now https://t.co/r4yBSzyXKs Reply #stop to opt-out.

[IPN @IPN_MX]

Nos enorgullece que nuestros científicos participen con sus proyectos de investigación en el estudio, protección y resguardo de diversas especies de tortugas y sus hábitats. 🐢 En el #IPN, investigamos, educamos y actuamos para cuidarlas y preservar su legado. #DíaMundialDeLaTortuga

[Cheeky Scientist @cheekyscience]

If you’re a PhD, you’ve been trained to write for reviewers, peers, and experts who understand the depth and nuance of your work. You assume your resume will be read the same way—with care, with attention, with curiosity.

But it won’t. Not in industry. Not today.

Hiring managers don’t study resumes. They skim. Recruiters don’t decode complex phrases. They scan for keywords. And AI systems don’t appreciate nuance. They score based on patterns. If your resume requires interpretation, it gets passed over. If it sounds too complex, too long-winded, or too technical, it gets screened out. The new rule? Assume no one understands your resume. And then rewrite it so they do.

Most PhDs write resumes like publications—dense, detailed, and packed with technical brilliance. But your job is no longer to prove how smart you are. Your job is to communicate value clearly and quickly. That means using language that hiring teams actually understand. It means stripping out the jargon, abbreviations, and passive structures. It means focusing less on what you did and more on how what you did helps them.

If someone has to read your bullet point twice, you’ve already lost them. If it doesn’t connect to a business outcome, it doesn’t belong.

Remember, the people reading your resume often don’t have a PhD. They may not have a STEM background. They probably aren’t interested in your dissertation, your experimental design, or your publication count. They care about transferable skills: project management, communication, problem-solving, collaboration, leadership. And they care about results: timelines, budgets, deliverables, growth.

You need to speak in that language. Not to dumb yourself down—but to be understood.

So instead of “developed a novel computational pipeline for high-throughput analysis of multi-omics data,” say “built a data analysis workflow that improved processing speed by 40% and helped drive faster decisions in cross-functional teams.” See the difference? One sounds like a publication. The other sounds like a solution.

As a PhD, clarity might feel too simple. It might feel beneath you. But in today’s job market, simplicity is power.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

I can't believe I have to say this: Holocaust Memorial Day is about the Holocaust.

Stop universalizing the Holocaust. Stop minimizing the horrors of the Holocaust. Stop weaponizing the Holocaust for your political agenda. Stop speaking over Jews.

It's that simple.

[Milton Torres-Ceron @MiltonTCr]

In the #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay I would like to take a second to remember Dr. Jerzy Rzedowski. A pioneer of Botany in Mexico, and survivor of the #Shoah #NeverAgain

[Milton Torres-Ceron @MiltonTCr]

Today being the #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay I would like to take some minutes to talk about Dr. Jerzy Rzedowski, the #Holocaust survivor who changed the study of Biology in Mexico forever

[Superman @Superman]

On July 11, It Begins. Superman - Only in Theaters 2025 #Superman #FilmedForIMAX @IMAX
Watch the teaser trailer now and ❤️ this post to get updates from @Superman before it hits theaters this July.

[🔮Merlin the Ballin🔮 @stevethe_guide]

@OKWildlifeDept my son, he is fish #garweek

[David Corenswet @corenswet]

Look Up.

#Superman
#FilmedForIMAX
@IMAX

[Milton Torres-Ceron @MiltonTCr]

oy vey

[Bryan Texas Utilities @BTU_BryanTX]

Crews are responding to an outage in Central Bryan impacting approximately 4,400 customers. Cause unknown at this time. #BTUAlerts.

[Milton Torres-Ceron @MiltonTCr]

@HenMazzig ה' יקום דמם

[Milton Torres-Ceron @MiltonTCr]

@HenMazzig All of this happening during the #MizrahiHeritageMonth

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Reading is progress. Collecting data is progress. Downloading papers is progress. Emailing is progress. Note-taking is progress. Writing is progress. Teaching is progress. Deleting is progress. Referencing is progress. Rewriting is progress.