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@fbabovic.bsky.social
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Now in the private sector - working at the intersection of natural catastrophes and capital markets at Moody’s RMS. All opinions my own.

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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Guys. We can’t do two pandemics back to back. I have so much I want to do.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I will be attending New York Climate Week. If you see me, pls talk to me about all things #climaterisk #nycw
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Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#climaterisk
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A super interesting sounding opportunity!
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hi, I’m here today to tell you that the movie The Sheep Detectives is actually excellent?
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Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Some friends and I have put together a map + calendar of climate events in San Diego. Happy hours, actions/activism, learning opportunities, etc. www.climatecollectivesd.com
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Climate Collective San Diego
Climate action events and organizing in San Diego
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I need to use this data set for our #rstats onboarding at work
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I cannot get cursor to run #rstats. Is there anyone out there that has an idiot proof guide that can help me?
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A huge release for the data science nerds!
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Oh finance risk and climate risk, looks like a banger of a paper
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My team is looking for a senior associate in our NYC office. A great role for someone in the #climaterisk space looking to spread their wings careers.moodys.com/sr-catastrop...
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Apply for Sr Catastrophe Risk Consulting Associate | Careers at Moody's
Apply for Sr Catastrophe Risk Consulting Associate
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A nice podcast on the catastrophe bond market. It’s been a huge year for the market and I am very much looking forward to a hibernation over the Holidays #climaterisk podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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How hurricanes became a hot investment
Podcast Episode · Planet Money · 12/05/2025 · 31m
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I’m looking to hire a summer intern that’s interested in #climateris!. If you like natural hazards, finance, and tech this is a great team to be on careers.moodys.com/insurance-ad...
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I’ve been using edit mode for my #rstats code in position over the last week. Honestly, it feels like magic.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#CLIMATERISK JOBS Moody’s RMS has opened up hiring for a bunch of entry level roles in London, NYC and Edinburgh. These are positions across our model development, customer success (my org), and data science teams. If you are a grad or soon to be grad looking for work this could be for you!
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I remembered seeing this and it came in so clutch cleaning up data that had a number of different data versions in it #rstats
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A cool job for the climate-data-finance nerds
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Looks like Apache Sedona has been democratised for smaller datasets and local analyses. Looking forward to making my #rstats code go brrrr 🔥 sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...
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Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen - Apache Sedona
Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of...
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Home Insurance as You Know It Is Doomed. You’re Not Ready.
The remedies for homeowners so far aren’t preparing them for a financially stable existence as the risk of disaster increases.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Oh my word. There is a r package for everything.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
At the Minnesota state fair today, what’s this years must eat?
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I am in Milwaukee for a wedding- no one told me it’s giving Williamsburg Brooklyn pre-2010
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I will unfortunately not be able to make this years @climateproof.news happy hour due to pre-existing commitments but you should if you are a #climaterisk professional! luma.com/p1w9klj2
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Climate Proof Adaptation Happy Hour · Luma
Join your friends at Climate Proof for an end-of-Climate Week drinks mixer! Reflect on a week of panels, tech demos, and awkward small talk with fellow readers…
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Very cool paper! Happy to see stuff like this make it to the academic journals
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
New York climate week is on the horizon. Does anyone have any good #climaterisk sessions they can recommend?
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This chat with @michaelwara.bsky.social was really great, very informative
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I’m a big fan of #rstats but I am jealous of all the tools that are built python first.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I seem to be unable to open csvs or parquets using positron directly from file explorer with the “open with” function. Anyone else having this issue #rstats
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
#rstats has anyone added a new provider to ellmer? I see that it’s doable but I’m hoping to see if someone has blazed that trail for me and I can follow in their footsteps steps.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The “orange line is a climate risk scenario, indicating a recession which would be roughly twice as bad as the euro crisis, in line with the peak-to-trough in 2008-9 and only exceeded by the COVID-19 shock”. #climaterisk www.ft.com/content/79fc...
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The ECB’s song of fire and flood keeps getting louder
But is anyone listening?
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
That’s enough posts on how to speed up r for now. More nat cat musings to come!
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Another #rstats gis hack: I’ve been trying to take a 2.5 mil spatial points, buffer them, and then union the buffers into one shape. Turns out if you just order those points by lat, lon you can cut down run time required by st_union() from 6.5 hours to just 5 minutes!! 🏎️🏎️
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
For the #rstats peeps: are there any packages/paradigms for multi agent systems? Python has things like langchain, do we have anything similar?
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It took ~1800 secs to convert my sf to raster using the raster and terra packages in #rstats. It only took 3 secs using fasterise! 🔥🔥 #gischat
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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Updated all-time costliest National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) events on record. Note: Helene now sits at #4 ($6.18B), though nearly all of those payouts have come in Florida ($5.8B). North Carolina only at ~$0.2B. Most Americans living inland from the coast have no flood insurance coverage.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Spent 20 minutes cutting down the run time of a line of #rstats code from 5 secs to 1.6 secs. This was satisfying, but honestly a really bad use of my time
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Not a function that I need to use very often but a good’un have in your back pocket. Turns delimited values in a cell into rows! #rstats tidyr.tidyverse.org/reference/se...
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Split a string into rows — separate_longer_delim
Each of these functions takes a string and splits it into multiple rows: separate_longer_delim() splits by a delimiter. separate_longer_position() splits by a fixed width.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I’m going to pack up my catastrophe models and go home. Why didn’t I think of this? Problem solved.
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USA (CONUS) smoke forecast bot (unofficial) @conus-smoke-forecast.envismo.social · 31/05/2025
Near surface smoke forecast for the CONUS area. Model run: 20250531T13:00 UTC Data from NOAA's HRRR CONUS (rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr) Note that this product comes with absolutely no guarantee of availability, accuracy or completeness. #Wildfires #Smoke #Manitoba #AirQuality
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Very cool way to give context to your LLM
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
In other #rstats musings, I thought I had cracked the data.table syntax but I am now back to the belief that it is a form of punishment. Only send me tidy code .😤
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Used o3 mini to write some #rstats code to turn data into a raster and then spatial average the raster. This is something I’ve never done before and genai made it a lot easier. LLMs aren’t perfect but if you know a bit and can prompt well, it’s really good at filling gaps in your knowledge.
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If you're interested in hard applied problems in climate/natural hazards, come have a look! We value a creative and problem-solving mindset with demonstrated experience communicating to science and non-science audiences. Hurricanes, floods, wildfire, thunderstorms, earthquakes, we do it all.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“The company is developing a digital twin of its supply chain and factory processes that will analyze the vulnerability of its supplier network in real time” www.wired.com/story/manufa....
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The Climate Crisis Threatens Supply Chains. Manufacturers Hope AI Can Help
The Covid-19 pandemic showed just how vulnerable global supply chains are. Climate shocks could pose an even greater risk.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#climaterisk www.ft.com/content/506f...
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Killer fungi to spread as climate heats up
A warming world accelerates rise of infection-causing species in echo of television series ‘The Last of Us’
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Blas M. Benito @blasbenito.com · 07/04/2025
Important bit from the article to kill the hype: "Turner ... concedes that AI models like his also rely entirely on those physics-based models for training. 'It absolutely doesn’t work if you take their training data away and just use the observational data to train off.', he says."
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The worlds first cat bond etf launched this week- via @kgreifeld.bsky.social We’ll have to see how it works but it’s a great development for the ILS market place www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Market Makers Shy Away From World’s First Catastrophe Bond ETF
From cryptocurrencies to collateralized loan obligations, there aren’t many assets the US ETF market has struggled to embrace. But the $10 trillion industry may have found its limit with Wall Street’s...
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The CEOs that cozied up to national leadership really didn’t get much in exchange
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
An interesting #climaterisk cross-peril correlation I wasn’t aware of www.wired.com/story/how-hu...
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Wildfires Are One of Hurricane Helene’s Lasting Legacies
A number of fires broke out in the Southeastern US last week. Hurricane-downed trees may have helped fuel the flames, experts say.
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fbabovic.bsky.social @fbabovic.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
“The excel of geospatial analysis” 😭😭😭
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