Víctor Martín-Vélez
victormartinvel.bsky.social
Víctor Martín-Vélez
@victormartinvel.bsky.social

Ecology | Postdoc at ICM-CSIC | Multidisciplinary science | Movement ecology | Seabirds | 🏳️‍🌈 He/him

Environmental science 80%
Geography 20%
Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗

This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍
Basic R Course 2026 / Kenya | AniMove
animove.org
iMARES_group team is growing ✨
We welcome the new members who joined the team in 2025 and early 2026!

👀If you’d like to get to know them better, you can find them on the iMARES website along with the rest of the team --> imares.science/members/

ICM-CSIC
🚨Paper Alert!Our first publication of 2026 is here!
How do Yellow-legged gulls adapt to life in Barcelona’s rooftops?
A 12-year study reveals patterns of urban nesting & key drivers shaping gull distribution.

👉 link.springer.com/ar...

ICM-CSIC
Víctor Martín-Vélez

📖 Published📖

In our new application paper, Mestre-Tomás introduce GLOSSA, an open-source R package and Shiny application designed to make marine species distribution modelling more accessible 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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It is time to say Goodbye 🥺 Today is the last day of #Animove at #OTS #LaSelva in Costa Rica. It was two weeks of fun in the jungle with many motivated #animalmovement researchers learning different methods for analysing their data. Stay in touch!
A quick introduction to the herbarium -home to more than 10,000 plant specimens - by Orlando Vargas from the #OrganizationforTropicalStudies, was a welcome break from laptop work for the participants. Thank you ! 🌱🌿 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social #CostaRica
Weekend break was fun, now back to work 👍 Whilst the first week was teaching heavy, the second week is focusing on the learned new methods using data sets that everyone has brought along to work with.
Another day of #AnimoveCR 😀 Analysing animal movement with continuous-time models by @ecoisilva.bsky.social and Chris Fleming, ending with a fantastic plenary talk by @kamransafi.bsky.social on Kruger National Park research.
#AnimoveCR has started 🐒🦥🦇🐸🦜🦂🕷️ with a Natural History Walk. It was fantastic!

Excited to be in Costa Rica for the #AnimoveCR course in Movemenent Ecology that starts soon! Ready to meet everyone!🐸🐍🐢🦥🦜🦇🪸

Meanwhile visiting volcanos 🌋

@animove-course.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social
Countdown for #AnimoveCR at La Selva Estación Biológica, Organization of Tropical Studies 👍
We will see you tomorrow!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animove-course.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social
🚨 New Research Alert!
Urban air pollution harms wildlife too. A study in Journal of Hazardous Materials shows yellow-legged gull chicks in Barcelona act as sentinels for air quality. 🐦🌆

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.140518
#OneHealth

@icmcsic.bsky.social 
@jnavarro.bsky.social
🚨 Paper Alert!
New study reveals how waterbirds transport plastic from landfills to wetlands in Cádiz Bay. 3 species compared: white storks, yellow-legged gulls & lesser black-backed gulls. 
#PlasticBiovectors
🔗 https://short.do/V_erB3

@icmcsic.bsky.social
@victormartinvel.bsky.social
🚨 Paper Alert!
Interesting study by @icmcsic.bsky.social: 97% of bottom trawl hauls in the NW Mediterranean contained marine litter. A massive and persistent problem on fishing grounds.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.co...

#LitterToSea

@victormartinvel.bsky.social
Linking marine litter from land sources to its spatial distribution on fishing grounds in the NW Mediterranean Sea
Marine litter (ML), predominantly originating from land, tends to accumulate on the seabed, where it is often caught unintentionally by bottom trawler…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Marta Coll

Interested in spatial ecology & One Health in urban gulls?
🧪 Join us at @imares-group.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social as a #JdC postdoc in the #ALLIES project!
📅 Apply by Dec 10
📩 Contact: joan@icm.csic.es
🔗 See the call: acortar.link/yhYLRt
#Postdoc #AppliedEcology #UrbanEcology #OneHealth
Co-funded by the @fondoseuropeoses.bsky.social and the @fbiodiversidad.bsky.social through the #Pleamar programme, the #COTI project advances the conservation of deep-sea sharks in the Mediterranean.

#FEMPA #FondosEuropeos
@icmcsic.bsky.social
@ZooBarcelona
@confrariapescadorsblanes
🚀 PhD calls at the ICM-CSIC — for early-career researchers!

🐦 ALLIES: Urban ecosystem, One Health, tracking wildlife pathogens & pollutants

🌋AVATAR: Seismic + geodynamics of Atlantic margin volcano-tectonic systems

More info👉 https://www.icm.csic.es/en/job-offers
🚨 Still time to apply for this #PhD opportunity at
@icmcsic.bsky.social, Barcelona!
Join the ALLIES project.

📅 Deadline: Oct 27, 2025

📄 Send CV, motivation letter & transcript

🔗 imares.science/members/join...

📩 joan@icm.csic.es & victormartin@icm.csic.es

#PhDposition #EcosystemHealth

Si os lo mandamos!
🚀 Today kicks off the course:

"Accessible & intuitive tools for spatio-temporal Bayesian species distribution models"
Led by experts from @imares-group.bsky.social, bridging marine ecology & open science.

#BayesianModelling

@icmcsic.bsky.social
🚨 PhD opportunity (@ICMCSIC, Barcelona)!

Join the ALLIES project to study urban wildlife as indicators of ecosystem health.

Apply by Oct 27, 2025 with CV, motivation letter & transcript.

🔗 http://imares.scienc...
📩 joan@icm.csic.es & victormartin@icm.csi...

#PhD
🌊 PhD opportunity @imares-group.bsky.social (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona)!

Join the OCEANIC project to explore ecological connectivity in changing oceans.

Apply by Oct 27, 2025 with CV, motivation letter & transcript.

🔗 imares.science/membe...
📩 ramirez@icm.csic.es

@icmcsic.bsky.social

#PhD

🎓4-year PhD📍 Barcelona
🔬 Urban, animal ecology, environmental science, and public health!
🌍 Interdisciplinary team
🎁 GPS tracking + lab + modelling
📅 Deadline for applicants: 15/10/2025
📩joan@icm.csic.es, victormartin@icm.csic.es
More info: acortar.link/nNqaop
🧵 Did you know gulls can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria?

We studied whether this “silent infection” affects their movement. Do they travel less? Use different habitats? 🧬🌍

#OneHealth #UrbanEcology

@icmcsic.bsky.social 
@victormartinvel.bsky.social
PhD position available on climate change, cyanobacterial blooms, and human health @ebdonana.bsky.social We are looking for interested candidates, details attached. Please share.. @sibecol.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @aillimnologia.bsky.social @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social
BOU @bou.org.uk · Aug 4
Spatiotemporal differences in plastic biovectoring among three sympatric waterbirds | www.sciencedirect.co... | Environmental Research | #ornithology 🪶
Enhorabuena a Dayana Jarma por la defensa de su tesis doctoral, una contribución clave sobre el papel de las aves acuáticas en la dispersión de resistencias a antibioticos #ARB #ARG #OneHealth @ebdonana.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @cborrego.bsky.social