Kevin Morelle

Movebank

Help us improve Movebank: During 2026, we will undertake a major renewal of the Movebank system to build scalability and sustainability. What does Movebank mean for you? How could it better support your work? Your feedback will be highly appreciated! Survey: survey.academiccloud.de/f/221856?lan...

With @eebdennis.bsky.social and many great partners already involved, we believe we can do more to link movement tracking data and wildlife diseases. The Move Disease Archive (MDA) is one step in this direction. Have a look and don't hesitate to get in touch if you're interested!

🌍 Excited to share the Move Disease Archive (MDA)—co-led by me and @kmorelle.bsky.social with support from Movebank, Move BON, Euromammals, and many partners!

A global collection of wildlife movement + disease data to understand behavior, spread & spillover!
🔗 kimx3725.github.io/move-disease...

How big is enough? Movement-informed zoning for African swine fever mitigation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693251v1

🚀 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

Dresden🤩

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...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

🦅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...

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.
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Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

which countries is that?

One year to go: 14iwbs.agr.hr Come by, it's gonna be great 🐗🇭🇷

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)

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

@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @safilab.bsky.social

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

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...

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...

🚨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

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...