US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
[New paper!] Mobility data are incredibly powerful, but also come with a long list of well-known biases (sampling, coverage, demographics, behavioral, etc.). In the paper, we survey them all and then zoom in on one that has been surprisingly underexplored: temporal bias.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330
They’re looking for me
Announcement of the Netmob 2025 conference with a picture of the Eiffel Tower in the background
#Netmob conference is back! It will be in Paris from October 8 to October 10 this year. Mark your calendars and see you there! netmob.org/www25/
Organized by Aline Carneiro (INRIA) and team.
Especially when someone says ai can help generate ideas.
My guy are you actually rate limited by ideas of all things??! I got a whole closet full I’ll never get to. Swing by around six.
I know and $20k a month for ‘PhD level I tell intelligence’ isn’t even a good deal like dude I’ll do it for free lunch once a week
Dan O’Brien has a great new book on Microspatial Inequities that you might find interesting mitpress.mit.edu/978026255080...
My gym nemesis squats in the weighted pull-up rack
📣 New paper in Nature Human Behavior @natureportfolio.bsky.social! Using large-scale mobility data, we find how businesses, amenities, and other urban places depend on each other. It reveals connections that aren’t always visible but have substantial economic impacts.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I found this note on collaborating with “equals” in industry to be really insightful. Industry really does just provide a totally different model on collaboration. In academia you’re often training much of your team while solving problems. Maybe not the most efficient way to combat a pandemic, etc?
