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👩‍🏫 Prof Statistics at KAUST 📚 Author Geospatial Health Data http://bit.ly/bookgeo & Spatial Statistics for Data Science http://bit.ly/bookspatial #rstats #rspatial #geohealth #HBTransform 🚢🐧 🌐 https://www.paulamoraga.com/

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hi BlueSky! 👋 I am a spatial statistician & university professor working on methods & #rstats packages for disease surveillance 🌍💻📊 I wrote books on #Geospatial Health Data & Spatial Statistics for #DataScience 📚

👉 bit.ly/bookspatial

Excited to connect, share, and learn with you all here! 💜 ✨

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection 'Geospatial Intelligence in Public Health' in npj Digital Public Health. I'm honored to be serving as the collection's Guest Editor and eager to read your submission! 🌍💻📊

👉 go.nature.com/43oBUFG

@natureportfolio.nature.com

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · 23d

Back from the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague! A week of inspiring talks and connecting with amazing statisticians and data scientists! Thanks to everyone who made it such a great experience! 🌍📊

👉 www.paulamoraga.com/ISI/

#Statistics #DataScience

Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to be at the ISI World Statistics Congress! Inspired by the amazing speakers and all the cool stats and data science talks! #Statistics #DataScience @isi-official.bsky.social 📊 💻 ✨

Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Sep 7

Honored to return to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for the Letten Prize Day. Grateful for this recognition and the opportunity to advance my work on health surveillance. ✨🙏

Congrats to Prof. Danielle Wood for her inspiring work! 🎉

🔗 www.youtube.com/live/aIi4gBk...

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looking forward to the Letten Prize Day 2025 this Thursday! 😊🎉 I will be sharing my work on #geospatial data & #health #surveillance and celebrating the 2025 Letten Prize laureate, Prof. Danielle Wood!

You can watch live here: lettenprize.com/letten-prize...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Aug 20

The storm that inspired weather forecasting

climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-storm-...

The storm that inspired weather forecasting

The Royal Charter Storm in 1859 led to the first weather forecasts

climatelabbook.substack.com

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 NEW PAPER! In response to 2024 dengue epidemic we built Dengue-tracker 🦟📈 to improve nowcasts in Brazil by combining surveillance data + Google Trends

🔗 diseasesurveillance.github.io/dengue-tracker
📄 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🙌 With Guilherme Soares,Rafael Izbicki,Yang [email protected]

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Jul 7

Many thanks @leosbastos.bsky.social and everyone at Fiocruz for the warm welcome! I really enjoyed hearing about all the exciting work happening here and visiting the beautiful Rio de Janeiro! 💚💛💙

#rstats #GISchat #diseasesurveillance

Leo Bastos @leosbastos.bsky.social · Jun 26

We had a very special visitor today, @paulamoraga.bsky.social gave us a great lecturer on Spatial data science in R.

Thanks Paula!

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Apr 29

🔈 Tomorrow I will be giving a webinar on Geospatial Data Science for Public Health Surveillance at the University of Crete.

Join us if you want to learn more about our latest work on dengue nowcasting & forecasting in Brazil! 🦟

🔗 economics.soc.uoc.gr/en/seminar/3...

#health #datascience #rstats

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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com · Apr 15

The website rspatialdata is a collection of data, tutorials, and more to help you learn to work with geospatial data. Put together by @paulamoraga.bsky.social and Laurie Baker, the website is a goldmine.

rspatialdata.github.io/index.html

rspatialdata

rspatialdata.github.io

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Geospatial Research Institute @geospatialresearch.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Geospatial Research Institute (GRI) #scholarship. This PhD scholarship has been implemented with the aim to increase the amount of novel #geospatial research in all areas across the University of Canterbury. geospatial.ac.nz/jobs-and-sch...

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Apr 9

Looking forward to this #ENAR_ibs webinar where I will be talking about building interactive geospatial visualizations for health surveillance using #rstats

ENAR @enar-ibs.bsky.social · Apr 1

Join #ENAR_ibs Friday, 4/11 at 9:30 am, when we host the WebENAR: "Enhancing Learning and Communication with Interactive Tools in Statistics and Health Surveillance.” More details at www.enar.org/education/in... #statistics #healthsurveillance

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · Mar 26

Somewhere in Berlin, fitting in with the atmosphere, there is now a little R hexsticker graffiti #rstats #DAGStat_2025

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Leo Bastos @leosbastos.bsky.social · Mar 22

On the verge: outbreak risk after two years of record-breaking dengue epidemics in Brazil - The Lancet Regional Health – Americas www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

On the verge: outbreak risk after two years of record-breaking dengue epidemics in Brazil

Over the last seasons of dengue, the disease has reached record-breaking numbers of confirmed cases both globally and in the Americas.1 That is speculated to be a consequence of two-fold climate drive...

www.thelancet.com

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Antonio Gasparrini @gasparrini.bsky.social · Mar 20

New commentary in LancetPlanHealth on how climate change is shifting the balance heat vs cold health impact, leading to a huge net increase in temperature-related mortality in the near future.
Full-text: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#ClimateChange #PublicHealth #HeatRisk #ColdRisk

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · Mar 20

I'm taking clients from May for data analytics, modelling, code review, R pkg dev, targets pipelines, teaching, mentoring and R coaching.

If you've got a project, need help with R, or want to chat about what I might be able to help with, I'd love to connect! More about me at www.njtierney.com

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www.njtierney.com

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Mar 12

📢 Postdoc position in the GeoHealth group at KAUST

Spatio-temporal models for disease mapping, forecasting & early detection of outbreaks 🌍📊💻

PhD #statistics, #maths, #epidemiology. Experience in spatial stats/machine learning & #rstats

👉 www.paulamoraga.com/opportunitie...

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Alex Leith @ausp.io · Mar 11

The @foss4g.org 2025 conference website is live!

And I'm leading sponsorship, so if you'd like your company's logo up there on that website showcasing your support for the open geospatial community, then please get in touch!

Check it out: 2025.foss4g.org

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Mar 11

⚡️ Conformal prediction for uncertainty quantification with #rstats ⚡️

Tutorial by my PhD student Jesus Diaz Martinez on how to obtain conformal intervals in regression problems

🔷 Data splits {rsample}
🔷 Linear & GAM {parsnip}
🔷 Conformal intervals {probably}

uriel278.github.io/tutorials-cp...

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · Feb 21

Just when you think the drama is over. 🧪 #GreenSky

Global sea ice extent chart detail showing mainly February where 2025 has returned to the lowest extent for the date.

Full global sea ice extent chart with 2025 being the lowest recorded since 1979 dipping down again.

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Feb 13

Congratulations! Hugely deserved! 🎉

Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Feb 8

Some photos from these past days in beautiful #Antarctica 🇦🇶

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Feb 5

Visiting US Palmer Station in #Antarctica! Thanks for hosting us and sharing your research! 🇦🇶

Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Feb 5

Todo un honor ser invitada como conferenciante plenaria a la XX Conferencia Española de Bioestadística! 📊💻 Muy agradecida y con muchas ganas de veros a todos en Elche! 🇪🇸

#biostatistics #datascience #health #rstats

XX Conferencia Española de Bioestadística @ceb2025umh.bsky.social · Jan 27

🔹XX Conferencia Española de Bioestadística🔹
📢 Hoy os presentamos a la primera ponente de las conferencias Plenarias
Ella es Paula Moraga, lee el post para conocer más sobre ella
🗓️16 al 19 de septiembre
📍Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
Más información en la web: ceb2025.umh.es.

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Paula Moraga @paulamoraga.bsky.social · Feb 4

Muchas gracias, Eva Maria!