Francisco Rowe 🚀

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.

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

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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...

The IOM report elaborates on operational implications and outlines where digital trace data can strengthen early-stage monitoring:
publications.iom.int/books/dynami...
DTM summary: dtm.iom.int/updates/new-...

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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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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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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.

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

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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...

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...

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/

@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

We are now receiving applications for our first summer school 🎓✏️

Key deadlines & details 👇

📢 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

📢 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

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

🚨 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

🚨 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

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?👇

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 👇

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

⏰ 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

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

🚨 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...

📢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

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-...

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

🚨 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...

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 👇

Spatial Inequality This paper explores the concepts and computational methods used tomeasure spatial inequality, emphasizing a reproducible approach thatsocial scientists can apply to their research. The analysis focuse...

We have an amazing line-up of authors contributing to the new digital (computational) CATMOGs. First up is

Serge Rey: doi.org/10.18335/reg...

Coming soon are Levi's (@levijohnwolf.bsky.social), Carmen's (@carmen-cabrera.bsky.social) and more!

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/

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?👇

DEBIAS project 👉🏼 de-bias.github.io/debias/

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 👇

A few hours 🕘 away for our next Imago stakeholder workshop! Looking forward to our discussions and interesting ideas on how to leverage satellite imagery for the future of the UK.