Kevin Morelle
kmorelle.bsky.social
Kevin Morelle
@kmorelle.bsky.social
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🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Please RT!

📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦
Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m
September 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
One year to go: 14iwbs.agr.hr Come by, it's gonna be great 🐗🇭🇷
14th IWBS – 14th International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids
14iwbs.agr.hr
September 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)
September 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗬?
The conference is only a few days away, and we can’t wait for it to begin ✨

Pack your bags and let's go!

📝 Registration Desk Opening Hours

Sunday: 15:00 – 21:00/22:00
August 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱
February 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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How @animaltracking.bsky.social plans to track animals with Icarus to create the Internet of Animals and be able to study not just how/if they react to geological phenomena, but also monitor disease spread and find out many other cool things from their movement: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Can goats predict earthquakes? Can dogs forecast volcanic eruptions? These scientists think so
Tracking the behaviour of tagged animals from space could transform the research into a host of natural phenomena
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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🚨New paper out 🚨

We put together a how-to guide on analyzing diel activity patterns using hierarchical models while accounting for site-to-site variability and sampling effort.

Check out the paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
and tutorial: hms-activity.netlify.app
A ‘how‐to’ guide for estimating animal diel activity using hierarchical models
We illustrate how hierarchical models can be used to estimate animal diel activity whilst accounting for variability in activity levels and sampling effort. These models also allow researchers to mor...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Join us on December 5th! 🌎🧪The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Dr. Diego Montecino and Dr. Martin Wikelski of the ICARUS initiative will discuss tools and technologies for monitoring wildlife health and the early detection of disease threats: alliance-health-wildlife.org/event/specia...
November 13, 2024 at 11:43 AM