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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Applications are now open for the DEBIAS Workshop and Symposium, taking place on 7–8 July 2026 at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social The event is centred on a methodological question: how digital mobility data can be used more credibly when issues of bias/representativeness remain unresolved.

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Who is missing from the map? Our first DEBIAS paper with @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social finds that more mobile data don’t guarantee better representation. Assess before you infer. (doi.org/10.1098/rsos...) (de-bias.github.io/debias/stori...)

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Making hidden biases visible in population location data from mobile phones

Abstract. Traditional sources of population data, such as censuses and surveys, are costly, infrequent and often unavailable in crisis-affected regions. Mo

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new paper shows that british universities face a potential funding crisis by 2030, as the number of international undergraduate students is expected to stagnate or decline. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/UKstuMobility Ruth Neville Emilio Zagheni Geographic Data Science Lab UCL University of Liverpool

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Registration is free, with applications open until 15 April. We also welcome expressions of interest for lightning presentations, and a limited number of travel bursaries are available for Early Career Researchers. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/9eWNt3GcK0

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Day 1 will focus on practical bias-adjustment workflows developed through the DEBIAS project. Day 2 will examine the governance, ethical and methodological challenges of producing bias-adjusted mobility indicators across research and policy settings.

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Population Studies Group, LSHTM @psglshtm.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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The first London Universities Population Seminar of 2026 is tomorrow! Francisco Rowe (@fcorowe.bsky.social) is joining us to present his work "Correcting Distorted Human Population Data from Mobile Phone Location Data" Tomorrow 13.00 at LSE, CON.1.01.

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Estimating internal displacement in Ukraine from high-frequency GPS mobile phone data - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

1/ Internal displacement is hard to measure, esp. in the early phase of a crisis when operational decisions must be made with limited info. Our recent work explores whether privacy-preserving GPS mobility data can contribute to short-term displacement estimation. Paper: doi.org/10.1057/s415...

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4/ Performance varies substantially with market coverage, crisis conditions, and the behavioural responses of affected populations. These constraints make representativeness a methodological as well as an ethical question — a direct link to our DEBIAS work. de-bias.github.io/debias/

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3/ This produced a policy-driven, multi-source framework: mobile traces supply temporal sensitivity; DTM assessments introduce contextual grounding; and census denominators anchor scale. The framework is designed to complement existing systems rather than replace them.

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2/ The central idea is not to treat mobile phone data as a standalone proxy, but to examine how its mobility signatures behave when triangulated with @iom.int’s Displacement Tracking Matrix assessments and official population baselines.

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Estimating internal displacement in Ukraine from high-frequency GPS mobile phone data - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In “Impacts of COVID-19 on Internal Population Movements,” M Gonzalez-Leonardo, @fcorowe.bsky.social et al. used Facebook mobility data to show that contrary to the Global North, “Mexico did not see an urban exodus during the pandemic." @geodatascience.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Back from a great trip to Australia 🇦🇺. Presented at the #IPC2025, shared our DEBIAS work on human mobility📱and revisited my PhD home at UQ. Delivered seminars at UQ and Griffith University—fantastic discussions on mobility, data science & climate change. More on DEBIAS 👉 de-bias.github.io/debias/

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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

@sdruk.bsky.social announced the formation of a new taskforce to address challenges researchers face in accessing data from digital platforms. Find out how you can get involved: bit.ly/3I0PPtU

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Geographic Data Science Lab @geodatascience.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We are now receiving applications for our first summer school 🎓✏️ Key deadlines & details 👇

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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

📢 Announcing the first-ever @geodatascience.bsky.social Summer School!🌍📊 Boost your skills in Data Science, Geography, ML/AI with our dream team: Elisabetta, @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, Gabriele, Mark, Zi, Olga & Ron 🗓️Apply now! Early Bird: June 30. 🔗 lnkd.in/eW976945

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Geographic Data Science Lab @geodatascience.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

We have an exciting new PhD project. If you would like to work with @fcorowe.bsky.social and @ofstednews.bsky.social, apply 👇

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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨 New PhD Opportunity! Join our exciting project with @Ofsted at the @geodatascience on early childhood education & labour force participation. Work with novel geospatial data & methods with real-world impact. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 June 2025 📥 Apply: lnkd.in/egTWyUT8

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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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Quantitative Methods Research Group @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

ERSA REGION has pioneered the publication of computational notebooks as a way to reproducible & portable research that can be reuse for research & teaching. In association with @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social, we have revived & published the first digital version of CATMOG. What is CATMOG?👇

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Make sure to join this exciting workshop on estimating displacement in disaster regions organised by @geodatascience.bsky.social QMRG committee members @mattgmasn.bsky.social, @fcorowe.bsky.social and Elisabetta Pietrostefani in partnership with @iom.int 🌏. Details below 👇

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Ruth Neville @ruthneville20.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

⏰ Submit your abstract for @bspsuk.bsky.social 2025! I am co-organising a session on 'Innovative Data and Methods for Population Science' with @fcorowe.bsky.social and @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social! We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts by this Friday (9th May)! ➡️ tinyurl.com/mzrsmpxz

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The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🚨 Call for papers! @ruthneville20.bsky.social ,@carmen-cabrera.bsky.social & I are hosting a #BSPS2025 strand: Innovative Data & Methods for Pop. Sc.🤖 We welcome work on digital trace data & AI, inc. bias, representation & ethics challenges. 📅 Deadline: 9 May 2025 www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

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The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📢New Issue of The GJ📢 The March Issue of The Geographical Journal is out now, with 9 of 13 papers #OpenAccess The GJ publishes work relating to 'public geographies' - get in touch with your ideas and submissions! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959... #geo #geosky

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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Come and join me in Sept at the 5th conference on approaches to migration, language and identify I'll talk about the use of LLMs for migration research showcasing some of our recent work! Thanks @inesvano.bsky.social for spreading the word! Event details: store.hope.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity Conference 2025 | Liverpool Hope University Online Store

The fifth conference on Approaches to Migration, Language, and Identity (AMLI 2025) takes place at Liverpool Hope University on September 8th to 9th, 2025.

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Francisco Rowe 🚀 @fcorowe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

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V happy to see our project DEBIAS with @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social featured by @UKRI_News @SmartDataRes. Mobile phone data have transformed how we understand cities & populations. But they are biased. DEBIAS aims to correct biases in mobility patterns derived from these data. More on DEBIAS 👇

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CATMOG is a classic series of guides that introduce key concepts and techniques in modern quantitative geography. Here is the original series which documents methodological advances the mid-1970s upto the early 1990s qmrg.github.io/CATMOG/

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