Víctor Martín-Vélez

🚨 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.

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#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.

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#PhD

@icmcsic.bsky.social @imares-group.bsky.social @salutpublicabcn.bsky.social @csic.es @csiccat.bsky.social @isglobal.bsky.social

🎓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

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

Our gratitude to @csic.es for this prize to the Art and Science FECYT project #Plastisfera about #plastic impact in birds. #IsoPlastic (PID 2022-140057NB-100) MICIU @juliancap.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @catarinalopes90.bsky.social @casacienciasevcsic.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

Last week I got the chance to talk in @aeetmov.bsky.social about #spatialconnectivity between #landfills and #gulls at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social in Pontevedra! Thanks for the opportunity!

Output map from Generalized Additive Model (GAM) predicting the spatial distribution of marine litter density in the Catalan continental margin.

🚨 New paper alert 🚨
Our study on the link between land-based sources and the distribution of seabed #MarineLitter in NW Mediterranean fishing grounds is now available. Check it out! 👇
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Movement ecology session, next week in Pontevedra (Spain) at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social 🙌🏼✨

#movementecology
#animalbehavior
#animalecology
#animalconservation

Ayer disfruté mucho hablando de gaviotas y del proyecto #BCNGULLS en @pintofscience.es

Muchas gracias por la oportunidad! #Pint25ES #Pint25BCN

🌍 Con la temática Planeta Tierra conoceremos mejor nuestro planeta con charlas sobre el reino animal y vegetal, el medio ambiente y el impacto del ser humano en este

☕Estas charlas podrás disfrutarlas en Bocca di Bonifacio Tetuán y Mescladís Borrell, a las 19:00

#PINT25 #PINT25ES #PINT25BCN

Opportunistic Gulls Infected by Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Show Contrasting Movement Behaviour | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology

@icmcsic.bsky.social @salutpublicabcn.bsky.social @jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social @imares-group.bsky.social @ctforestal.bsky.social

Opportunistic Gulls Infected by Antibiotic‐Resistant Bacteria Show Contrasting Movement Behaviour Our work addresses a major research gap in animal ecology and movement behaviour by investigating differences between infected and uninfected gull individuals with Escherichia coli. More specifically...

Have you ever wondered if #AMR affects the movement behaviour of the host?🧪🧫

As a first approach, we show how #gulls carrying antibiotic-resistant E. coli show different movement patterns in travelled distances and covered areas! 👇

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Back from fieldwork on the Chafarinas Islands! Sampling and GPS-tracking of yellow-legged #gulls for #PCBio and #IsoPlastic projects. Grateful to the amazing team! @ebdonana.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @jnavarro.bsky.social @sanchezmarta.bsky.social

Yes please!

Please follow and share this starter pack if you like and/or study gulls or skuas! 🪶 go.bsky.app/Vd8zWBU

📢Today we celebrate #11F, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

🔗Watch it here and help us share it!
@ICMCSIC
@elenafcorr.bsky.social @claudiaapa6 #AlbaFuster
@MariaCascad

Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems wlb3.01406 #Gulls #Foraging #UrbanEcology

Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems Urbanization affects ecosystems by reducing biodiversity and displacing species from native habitats. While some suffer, others, like urban wildlife, adapt through innovative feeding and behaviours t...

Paper alert 📣 🚨

Feeling old after new year? #BCNGULLS too!

#GPS tracking revealed that gulls at different ages showed different spatial, diet and foraging strategies 👇

doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...

@jnavarro.bsky.social @joangimenez.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social

White stork pellet full of rubber bands from Guadalquivir rice fields (SW Spain). In the IsoPlastic project we are evaluating the role of aquatic birds as biovectors of plastics @ebdonana.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @juliancap.bsky.social @seobirdlife.bsky.social

Characterization of plastic ingestion in urban gull chicks and its implications for their use as pollution sentinels in coastal cities The increase of plastic pollution represents a significant ecological threat, particularly in human-impacted environments. However, the effects of pla…

Paper alert 🚨🐦‍⬛📣

Here, we characterize the #plasticpollution present in #gull chicks stomachs... #seabirds #Barcelona

@jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social
@odeigg.bsky.social

SPOILER: sadly, all samples showed #microplastics...👇

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Gaviotas como centinelas y dispersores de resistencias a antibióticos en ambientes agrícolas El reto global de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos viene derivado del uso excesivo de antibióticos tanto en medicina humana como veterinaria. La aparición y propagación de bacterias resistentes…

Se ha publicado un nuevo artículo en el blog de la
@eco-aeet.bsky.social (la asociación que edita nuestra revista). ¿Sabías que las gaviotas pueden actuar como dispersores de resistencias a antibióticos en determinados ecosistemas?
blogaeet.org/2024/12/10/g...

Gaviotas como centinelas y dispersores de resistencias a antibióticos en ambientes agrícolas El reto global de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos viene derivado del uso excesivo de antibióticos tanto en medicina humana como veterinaria. La aparición y propagación de bacterias resistentes…

Gracias a @eco-aeet.bsky.social por la oportunidad de difundir nuestro trabajo sobre resistencias a antibióticos y gaviotas con #GPS en ambientes agrícolas! @jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social @joangimenez.bsky.social #seabirds #movementecology #OneHealth

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#BlogAEET
Nueva entrada de nuestro blog "Gaviotas como centinelas y dispersores de resistencias a antibióticos en ambientes agrícolas" por Víctor Martín-Vélez y Joan Navarro del Institut de Ciències del Mar ICM-CSIC

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Getting ready for this winter tagging season of Black-headed gulls in Barcelona! #seabirds #OneHealth @jnavarro.bsky.social @drandygreen.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social

Habitat Changes at the Local Scale Have Major Impacts on Waterfowl Populations Across a Migratory Flyway Migratory waterbirds are declining worldwide due to habitat loss, but not much is known about how the loss of specific wetlands can affect waterbird populations at the biogeographical scale. To inves...

No. What happens in Doñana DOES NOT STAY in Doñana.

After more than two years of work, we’ve published an article demonstrating that the poor condition of Doñana negatively affects waterbirds across the ENTIRE continent!

Thread below! 🧵
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