Kenn Papadopoulo
@elasmopoulo.bsky.social
Marine Biologist, Spatial Ecologist 🦈 | PhD candidate at The University of Vigo, exploring the distribution, temporal patterns, and behaviour of elasmobranchs in the Ría de Vigo 🦈
https://kennpapadopoulo.com/
https://kennpapadopoulo.com/
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Kenn Papadopoulo
@elasmopoulo.bsky.social
· Jul 30
New article ❗❗
We used acoustic telemetry to get the first insights into the spatial behaviour of Octopus vulgaris in the wild 🐙 🐙
Article link:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📜 📜
Amazing video summary done by JOSE IRISARRI CASTRO:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmpM...
#trackingnotslacking
We used acoustic telemetry to get the first insights into the spatial behaviour of Octopus vulgaris in the wild 🐙 🐙
Article link:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📜 📜
Amazing video summary done by JOSE IRISARRI CASTRO:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmpM...
#trackingnotslacking
#BELAS News❗❗
A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first blue shark in the wild! 🦈
That makes it species number 8 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing one more elusive species… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿
Tagging season never stops!! 💪
youtu.be/jmmILoVI9_c
A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first blue shark in the wild! 🦈
That makes it species number 8 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing one more elusive species… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿
Tagging season never stops!! 💪
youtu.be/jmmILoVI9_c
First acoustic telemetry tagging of blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the Ría de Vigo (Galicia, Spain)
YouTube video by Elasmopoulo
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
#BELAS News❗❗
A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first blue shark in the wild! 🦈
That makes it species number 8 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing one more elusive species… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿
Tagging season never stops!! 💪
youtu.be/jmmILoVI9_c
A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first blue shark in the wild! 🦈
That makes it species number 8 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing one more elusive species… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿
Tagging season never stops!! 💪
youtu.be/jmmILoVI9_c
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
Happy that my shark data contributed to this collaborative paper brilliantly led by @gfalbery.bsky.social on animal social networks. Out in @natecoevo.nature.com
If density drives greater network connectedness, >80% of relationships are nonlinear (75% with saturating trends).
Read: rdcu.be/eD6eB
If density drives greater network connectedness, >80% of relationships are nonlinear (75% with saturating trends).
Read: rdcu.be/eD6eB
Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems
Nature Ecology & Evolution - The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density...
rdcu.be
September 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Happy that my shark data contributed to this collaborative paper brilliantly led by @gfalbery.bsky.social on animal social networks. Out in @natecoevo.nature.com
If density drives greater network connectedness, >80% of relationships are nonlinear (75% with saturating trends).
Read: rdcu.be/eD6eB
If density drives greater network connectedness, >80% of relationships are nonlinear (75% with saturating trends).
Read: rdcu.be/eD6eB
#BELAS❗❗
I hope you are going through your week like this small spotted catshark interacting with a sea lettuce 🦈 🥬
youtu.be/U35_d0I1sQM?...
#BRUVS 🦈 🐟 🦀 🦞
More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀
I hope you are going through your week like this small spotted catshark interacting with a sea lettuce 🦈 🥬
youtu.be/U35_d0I1sQM?...
#BRUVS 🦈 🐟 🦀 🦞
More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀
Small spotted catshark interacting with sea lettuce (ulva) in the Ría de Vigo
YouTube video by Elasmopoulo
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#BELAS❗❗
I hope you are going through your week like this small spotted catshark interacting with a sea lettuce 🦈 🥬
youtu.be/U35_d0I1sQM?...
#BRUVS 🦈 🐟 🦀 🦞
More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀
I hope you are going through your week like this small spotted catshark interacting with a sea lettuce 🦈 🥬
youtu.be/U35_d0I1sQM?...
#BRUVS 🦈 🐟 🦀 🦞
More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀
#BELAS news‼️
Thrilled to see our project featured in #LaVozdeGalicia! 🦈✨
The article showcases the behaviour of sharks and rays in the Ría de Vigo, with a stunning underwater montage by #JoseIrisarriCastro 👏
www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo...
#BRUVs 🦈🐟🦞🦀
Thrilled to see our project featured in #LaVozdeGalicia! 🦈✨
The article showcases the behaviour of sharks and rays in the Ría de Vigo, with a stunning underwater montage by #JoseIrisarriCastro 👏
www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo...
#BRUVs 🦈🐟🦞🦀
Científicos descubren cómo se comportan los tiburones y las rayas en la ría de Vigo
El proyecto Belas desarrolla iniciativas para preservar los elasmobranquios, que son vitales para mantener el ecosistema costero. Ya han marcado 215 ejemplares de siete familias
www.lavozdegalicia.es
August 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
#BELAS news‼️
Thrilled to see our project featured in #LaVozdeGalicia! 🦈✨
The article showcases the behaviour of sharks and rays in the Ría de Vigo, with a stunning underwater montage by #JoseIrisarriCastro 👏
www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo...
#BRUVs 🦈🐟🦞🦀
Thrilled to see our project featured in #LaVozdeGalicia! 🦈✨
The article showcases the behaviour of sharks and rays in the Ría de Vigo, with a stunning underwater montage by #JoseIrisarriCastro 👏
www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo...
#BRUVs 🦈🐟🦞🦀
#BELAS News❗❗
We’re back in the blue! 🌊
Our third BRUV season has officially kicked off, and it’s already looking promising:
63 deployments ⛵
73 hours of underwater footage 🎥
4 elasmobranch species spotted 🦈
More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀
We’re back in the blue! 🌊
Our third BRUV season has officially kicked off, and it’s already looking promising:
63 deployments ⛵
73 hours of underwater footage 🎥
4 elasmobranch species spotted 🦈
More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀
July 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#BELAS News❗❗
We’re back in the blue! 🌊
Our third BRUV season has officially kicked off, and it’s already looking promising:
63 deployments ⛵
73 hours of underwater footage 🎥
4 elasmobranch species spotted 🦈
More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀
We’re back in the blue! 🌊
Our third BRUV season has officially kicked off, and it’s already looking promising:
63 deployments ⛵
73 hours of underwater footage 🎥
4 elasmobranch species spotted 🦈
More to come in and outside the Ría de Vigo 👀
#BELAS News❗❗
We would like to extend a big thank you to Biologging Solutions Inc. for their support and collaboration on this project. Your technology makes our research possible. 👏
Stay tuned, more to come from in and out of the Ría de Vigo! 🌊 🦈
🔗biologging-solutions.com
#Biologging #LoggLawCAM
We would like to extend a big thank you to Biologging Solutions Inc. for their support and collaboration on this project. Your technology makes our research possible. 👏
Stay tuned, more to come from in and out of the Ría de Vigo! 🌊 🦈
🔗biologging-solutions.com
#Biologging #LoggLawCAM
July 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
#BELAS News❗❗
We would like to extend a big thank you to Biologging Solutions Inc. for their support and collaboration on this project. Your technology makes our research possible. 👏
Stay tuned, more to come from in and out of the Ría de Vigo! 🌊 🦈
🔗biologging-solutions.com
#Biologging #LoggLawCAM
We would like to extend a big thank you to Biologging Solutions Inc. for their support and collaboration on this project. Your technology makes our research possible. 👏
Stay tuned, more to come from in and out of the Ría de Vigo! 🌊 🦈
🔗biologging-solutions.com
#Biologging #LoggLawCAM
Always a pleasure to spend some time underwater 🦈🐙🎥
Galicia 🤿🤿
Galicia 🤿🤿
June 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Always a pleasure to spend some time underwater 🦈🐙🎥
Galicia 🤿🤿
Galicia 🤿🤿
Beautiful video about Octopus vulgaris filmed in the Cies islands! 🐙🐙
#Cephalopods #Octopus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmsm...
#Cephalopods #Octopus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmsm...
Así viven los pulpos en las Islas Cíes
YouTube video by JOSE IRISARRI
www.youtube.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Beautiful video about Octopus vulgaris filmed in the Cies islands! 🐙🐙
#Cephalopods #Octopus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmsm...
#Cephalopods #Octopus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmsm...
Nice feature of the incredible work done by Jorge Urcera on octopus arm regeneration featured in @science.org! 🐙🐙
A bifurcated limb showing signs of autonomous behaviour. Another example of octopus complexity.
#Cephalopods #Octopus @csic.es
www.science.org/content/arti...
A bifurcated limb showing signs of autonomous behaviour. Another example of octopus complexity.
#Cephalopods #Octopus @csic.es
www.science.org/content/arti...
This octopus grew a ninth arm—which soon developed a mind of its own
Study highlights just how flexible cephalopod’s bodies are after injury and during recovery
www.science.org
June 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Nice feature of the incredible work done by Jorge Urcera on octopus arm regeneration featured in @science.org! 🐙🐙
A bifurcated limb showing signs of autonomous behaviour. Another example of octopus complexity.
#Cephalopods #Octopus @csic.es
www.science.org/content/arti...
A bifurcated limb showing signs of autonomous behaviour. Another example of octopus complexity.
#Cephalopods #Octopus @csic.es
www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
mort: An R package to conservatively identify mortalities and shed tags in passive telemetry arrays. Journal of Animal Ecology, 00, 1–13. doi.org/10.1111/1365...
mort: An R package to conservatively identify mortalities and shed tags in passive telemetry arrays
Neglecting to consider mortalities can generate bias in telemetry studies. The R package mort identifies potential mortalities or expelled tags in passive telemetry arrays. Thresholds are derived fro...
doi.org
April 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
mort: An R package to conservatively identify mortalities and shed tags in passive telemetry arrays. Journal of Animal Ecology, 00, 1–13. doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
🦈 Blotched Fantail Ray (Taeniurops meyeni)
Interested in learning more about chondrichthyan research, management advances, and explore new opportunities for collaboration? Join us at the world’s largest shark, ray, and chimaera conference from 4-8 May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka!
Interested in learning more about chondrichthyan research, management advances, and explore new opportunities for collaboration? Join us at the world’s largest shark, ray, and chimaera conference from 4-8 May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka!
May 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🦈 Blotched Fantail Ray (Taeniurops meyeni)
Interested in learning more about chondrichthyan research, management advances, and explore new opportunities for collaboration? Join us at the world’s largest shark, ray, and chimaera conference from 4-8 May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka!
Interested in learning more about chondrichthyan research, management advances, and explore new opportunities for collaboration? Join us at the world’s largest shark, ray, and chimaera conference from 4-8 May 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka!
#BELAS News!! ❗❗
A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first Raja montagui in the wild! 🦈🥞
That makes it species number 7 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing two more elusive ones… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿
Tagging season is in full swing!! 💪
A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first Raja montagui in the wild! 🦈🥞
That makes it species number 7 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing two more elusive ones… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿
Tagging season is in full swing!! 💪
May 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#BELAS News!! ❗❗
A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first Raja montagui in the wild! 🦈🥞
That makes it species number 7 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing two more elusive ones… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿
Tagging season is in full swing!! 💪
A new species joins the crew. Yesterday we tagged our first Raja montagui in the wild! 🦈🥞
That makes it species number 7 in the “blue” waters of Galicia! 🌊🟢 Still chasing two more elusive ones… but we’re out there, ready! 🦈🔍🤿
Tagging season is in full swing!! 💪
We’re back at it! 🎣🦈
Tagging season is officially underway again in the Ría de Vigo 🌊🌞
Kicking things off with the same mission: understanding movement, behaviour & connections of our elasmobranch friends.
Stay tuned for more field updates, fins, and (hopefully) successful recaptures! 💪
#BELAS
Tagging season is officially underway again in the Ría de Vigo 🌊🌞
Kicking things off with the same mission: understanding movement, behaviour & connections of our elasmobranch friends.
Stay tuned for more field updates, fins, and (hopefully) successful recaptures! 💪
#BELAS
April 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We’re back at it! 🎣🦈
Tagging season is officially underway again in the Ría de Vigo 🌊🌞
Kicking things off with the same mission: understanding movement, behaviour & connections of our elasmobranch friends.
Stay tuned for more field updates, fins, and (hopefully) successful recaptures! 💪
#BELAS
Tagging season is officially underway again in the Ría de Vigo 🌊🌞
Kicking things off with the same mission: understanding movement, behaviour & connections of our elasmobranch friends.
Stay tuned for more field updates, fins, and (hopefully) successful recaptures! 💪
#BELAS
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
Do you work with skates or rays? 👀
Go and check out the freshly published review paper, led by Danielle L. Orrell, about the best practice recommendations for capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia and tag attachment!🎣✋🏼💉🪡
Go and check out the freshly published review paper, led by Danielle L. Orrell, about the best practice recommendations for capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia and tag attachment!🎣✋🏼💉🪡
April 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Do you work with skates or rays? 👀
Go and check out the freshly published review paper, led by Danielle L. Orrell, about the best practice recommendations for capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia and tag attachment!🎣✋🏼💉🪡
Go and check out the freshly published review paper, led by Danielle L. Orrell, about the best practice recommendations for capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia and tag attachment!🎣✋🏼💉🪡
Hola, fishy data lovers! 🐠💻
Quick question for all you R wizards out there:
How do you make some elegant, non-overlapping curves between two detected points in #R? Asking for a friend (aka me)… 👀🐟
I'm wrangling with #geom_path() and well it's winning.
Any tricks? Hacks? I'm all ears (and fins) 🦈🦈
Quick question for all you R wizards out there:
How do you make some elegant, non-overlapping curves between two detected points in #R? Asking for a friend (aka me)… 👀🐟
I'm wrangling with #geom_path() and well it's winning.
Any tricks? Hacks? I'm all ears (and fins) 🦈🦈
April 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Hola, fishy data lovers! 🐠💻
Quick question for all you R wizards out there:
How do you make some elegant, non-overlapping curves between two detected points in #R? Asking for a friend (aka me)… 👀🐟
I'm wrangling with #geom_path() and well it's winning.
Any tricks? Hacks? I'm all ears (and fins) 🦈🦈
Quick question for all you R wizards out there:
How do you make some elegant, non-overlapping curves between two detected points in #R? Asking for a friend (aka me)… 👀🐟
I'm wrangling with #geom_path() and well it's winning.
Any tricks? Hacks? I'm all ears (and fins) 🦈🦈
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
Retrouvez mon interview pour "Le Peau Bleu" (par Matteo Maurel) pour discuter de mon parcours, mon métier et mes projets.
A la rencontre de Johann Mourier
Pouvez vous nous expliquer votre parcours ?J’ai un parcours un peu particulier, car j’ai fait une classe préparatoire BCPST Bio pour intégrer une école d’ingénieur en agronomie à Bordeaux (je ne suis ...
www.lepeaubleu.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Retrouvez mon interview pour "Le Peau Bleu" (par Matteo Maurel) pour discuter de mon parcours, mon métier et mes projets.
#BELAS news ❗❗
From release to retrieval, data download, and redeployment, we've come full circle with the 32 Thelma Biotel AS receivers deployed in the Ría de Vigo! 🌊☀️
Now comes the exciting part... 👀🦈
youtu.be/HMkKZQuohho
@aquatictracking.bsky.social @uvigo.bsky.social
From release to retrieval, data download, and redeployment, we've come full circle with the 32 Thelma Biotel AS receivers deployed in the Ría de Vigo! 🌊☀️
Now comes the exciting part... 👀🦈
youtu.be/HMkKZQuohho
@aquatictracking.bsky.social @uvigo.bsky.social
Acoustic Telemetry release buoy in the Ría de Vigo
YouTube video by Elasmopoulo
youtu.be
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#BELAS news ❗❗
From release to retrieval, data download, and redeployment, we've come full circle with the 32 Thelma Biotel AS receivers deployed in the Ría de Vigo! 🌊☀️
Now comes the exciting part... 👀🦈
youtu.be/HMkKZQuohho
@aquatictracking.bsky.social @uvigo.bsky.social
From release to retrieval, data download, and redeployment, we've come full circle with the 32 Thelma Biotel AS receivers deployed in the Ría de Vigo! 🌊☀️
Now comes the exciting part... 👀🦈
youtu.be/HMkKZQuohho
@aquatictracking.bsky.social @uvigo.bsky.social
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
News! 🚀
The ETNewsletter has launched - check it out, and subscribe here: linktr.ee/aquatictrack...! 🐟
Our newsletter covers topics like: Cool research 🤓 | ETN in numbers | Tech developments 🤖 | Important updates ⚠️ | Upcoming events and more! 📌
It's a quick & fun read!
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The ETNewsletter has launched - check it out, and subscribe here: linktr.ee/aquatictrack...! 🐟
Our newsletter covers topics like: Cool research 🤓 | ETN in numbers | Tech developments 🤖 | Important updates ⚠️ | Upcoming events and more! 📌
It's a quick & fun read!
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April 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
News! 🚀
The ETNewsletter has launched - check it out, and subscribe here: linktr.ee/aquatictrack...! 🐟
Our newsletter covers topics like: Cool research 🤓 | ETN in numbers | Tech developments 🤖 | Important updates ⚠️ | Upcoming events and more! 📌
It's a quick & fun read!
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The ETNewsletter has launched - check it out, and subscribe here: linktr.ee/aquatictrack...! 🐟
Our newsletter covers topics like: Cool research 🤓 | ETN in numbers | Tech developments 🤖 | Important updates ⚠️ | Upcoming events and more! 📌
It's a quick & fun read!
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Always a pleasure to go diving in the cold but vibrant waters of Galicia‼️
🦈🐟🐙
🦈🐟🐙
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Always a pleasure to go diving in the cold but vibrant waters of Galicia‼️
🦈🐟🐙
🦈🐟🐙
⭐Golden science star ⭐
Honored that our paper on the spatial ecology of catshark was among the 10 most-cited papers in 2023 published in #AquaticConservationMarineandFreshwaterEcosystems 📰
Link to the article:
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#Sharks 🦈🦈
Honored that our paper on the spatial ecology of catshark was among the 10 most-cited papers in 2023 published in #AquaticConservationMarineandFreshwaterEcosystems 📰
Link to the article:
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#Sharks 🦈🦈
March 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
⭐Golden science star ⭐
Honored that our paper on the spatial ecology of catshark was among the 10 most-cited papers in 2023 published in #AquaticConservationMarineandFreshwaterEcosystems 📰
Link to the article:
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#Sharks 🦈🦈
Honored that our paper on the spatial ecology of catshark was among the 10 most-cited papers in 2023 published in #AquaticConservationMarineandFreshwaterEcosystems 📰
Link to the article:
doi.org/10.1002/aqc....
#Sharks 🦈🦈
Reposted by Kenn Papadopoulo
Video of an octopus riding a shark?
A breath of fresh air in these wild times!
🌎🦑🐙
A breath of fresh air in these wild times!
🌎🦑🐙
Video Shows an Octopus Riding a Mako Shark Near New Zealand
Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Video of an octopus riding a shark?
A breath of fresh air in these wild times!
🌎🦑🐙
A breath of fresh air in these wild times!
🌎🦑🐙