Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero

@roxanagutz.bsky.social

1.1K followers 680 following 82 posts

Prof of Policy & Quantitative Methods at Queen Mary University of London. PhD Economics, University of Cambridge. Political economy, conflict, migration, gender violence, applied economics. In my free time, I run, swim, cycle, row & play tennis.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨 Updated paper on femicide laws in Mexico.

After years of work, I find no evidence these laws reduced femicides, female homicides, suicides, or disappearances using dif-in-dif, even after testing
✅ Sentence severity
✅ Parallel reforms (unilateral divorce, divorce asset compensation, abortion) 🧵

2 1 2

Reposted by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 6d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 6d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

410 2.6K 17K

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking forward to presenting 👇 at Fragile Lives 2025: Gender, Institutions, and Fragility in Berlin.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06722
Programme: zerohunger.de/fragile-live...

1 1 3

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 28

Aquí hay una breve explicación del autor, Vicente Garrido, sobre qué señales hay que buscar para detectar psicópatas integrados y las diferencias con los narcisistas. No hay que ignorar a la intuición, el gut feeling y evaluar siempre acciones no promesas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEA...

Cómo DETECTAR a un PSICÓPATA INTEGRADO: 5 Señales A Tener En Cuenta

YouTube video by Judith Tiral

www.youtube.com

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 28

Ahora voy a leer 👇Aborda cómo detectar a psicópatas integrados: personas que no cometen delitos graves de violencia, pero causan daños significativos en la vida personal y en instituciones de la sociedad, incluyendo la política.
#PEACELA
www.amazon.co.uk/psic%C3%B3pa...

1 1 1

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 21

I love the book and reactive programming! I wish I could apply that kind of programming more frequently. How do I manage? I practise a tonne with the book. Read a chapter at a time and interact with R at the same time. Try to create my own examples as well.

1 1

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is one of many reasons I’ve refused, for decades, to accept performative diversity roles. Being a brown migrant woman does not make me uniquely qualified to fix institutional failures rooted in centuries of neglect.

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 21

Minorities in academia are expected to overperform, stay silent, and endure stereotypes (e.g, you don’t know how to write, are poorly educated). This is a minority tax: taking extra unpaid labour and diversity duties that don't count towards promotion.
bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

1 1

Reposted by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero

econmaett @econmaett.github.io · Jul 19

There’s a solutions manual too 👇

mastering-shiny-solutions.netlify.app

Welcome | Mastering Shiny Solutions

Solutions manual to the exercises in Hadley Wickham’s Mastering Shiny.

mastering-shiny-solutions.netlify.app

1 1 3

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 19

Oh yes, I love it! It gets me unstuck every time. The whole package is amazing. Thanks.

1 1

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 19

Easily my favourite book on mastering Shiny: building interactive apps, reports, and dashboards using R.

And it's free
👉 mastering-shiny.org/basic-app.html
#rstats #Shiny #DataViz

1 5 27

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 18

y en español, este es un muy buen documental.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyfr...

El mejor matemático de la historia

YouTube video by Raquel de la Morena

www.youtube.com

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855)
From humble beginnings, Carl Friedrich Gauss reshaped science, from number theory, celestial mechanics to probability, statistics, and geometry.

A mind of rare depth and clarity.
🎬 Watch the full documentary:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6r...

Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855)

YouTube video by BMResearch

www.youtube.com

1 1 4

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 15

Women with names perceived as masculine are less likely to be omitted from citations than those with feminine names. Men with feminine-sounding names are more likely to be omitted than men with masculine names, suggesting citation bias based on gender perceptions.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

2 7

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 15

Summer project: reading 👇 and building new maps. A very good guide for spatial thinking in criminology and R.

#PEACELA

1 4

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 11

Astronomers had noisy observations of comet positions and needed to estimate their orbits, like ellipses or parabolas. But errors made this tricky. In 1805, Legendre introduced least squares to find the orbit that best fit the data by minimizing squared errors.

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 11

Did you know that the widely used method of least squares was born chasing comets?
Legendre published it in 1805 to estimate their orbits
Gauss claimed he’d used it privately since 1795
Legendre: I published it first
Gauss: I published why it works… in 1809.
archive.org/details/nouv...

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 10

Here the link to the database
www.muckrock.com/foi/united-s...

Consolidated Counterdrug Database (Defense Intelligence Agency)

Heather Bone made this request to Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States of America.

www.muckrock.com

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 10

The U.S. Consolidated Counterdrug Database (CCDB) is unclassified but little known or used by drug policy researchers.
Kendra McSweeney’s fab paper focuses on its cocaine module, explaining how this U.S. dataset is built, accessed, and what it reveals.
tinyurl.com/mry7a84n

1 2

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 10

Is violence learned or inherited? Is it written in our genes or shaped by experience? Can anyone become violent?

Roberto Colom and Antonio Andrés Pueyo tackle these big questions in 👇
My next weekend book. 📘
#PEACELA
www.amazon.es/C%C3%B3mo-ac...

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 10

BTW, Darwin admired Galton’s scientific work, but he did not endorse eugenics. He recognised that some traits are inherited, but he also believed that social outcomes depend heavily on factors such as education, opportunity, and habits, not just heredity.

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 10

You can find some of the correspondence between Galton and Darwin here: galton.org/letters/darw...

Long before emails and AI.

Corespondence between Francis Galton and Charles Darwin

Sir Francis Galton FRS

galton.org

1 1

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 10

In 1874, Francis Galton, father of regressions & cousin of Charles Darwin, wrote a book based on a questionnaire sent to scientists about their childhood, families and mental traits.
Praised for pioneering survey methods but criticised as paving the way to eugenics
Book: galton.org/books/men-sc...

1 1

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 9

Oh yes, I had seen it. That's in my to-read list as well.

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · Jul 9

Want to understand how probability and statistics became science?
Stephen Stigler's The History of Statistics is a brilliant, readable dive into the origins of statistical thinking before 1900.
📚 [Free online version] 👉 archive.org/details/hist...
#Statistics #HistoryOfScience #Econsky

1 1 5