As well as threatening wildlife, invasive alien species are estimated to cost economic damage of at least €12.5 billion a year in Europe. The #BewareOfAliens awareness campaign focuses on key messages for key audiences. Download free materials from easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/easin/bewareof…

Great to celebrate innovation as Ecogas opens its flagship Reporoa Organics Processing Facility ecogas.co.nz/news/ecogas-op…

Our recent Nature Communication paper entitled “A new Progressive Management Pathway for improving seaweed biosecurity” has been selected as one of 50 Editors’ Highlights in Plants and agriculture! nature.com/collections/jg…

WORKSHOP: Next week @ #ZiF: The first workshop of our resident research group „The Epistemology of Evidence-Based Policy…“!👏 Find the program and all information on how to participate here: bit.ly/3TBlzaC #philosophy #scicomm #dataquality Remco Heesen Chad L Hewitt

New paper: Offshore decommissioning horizon scan: Research priorities to support decision-making activities for oil and gas infrastructure - STOTEN- doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…. BCL's Prof. Peter Macreadie breaks down the study in this video- youtu.be/RriRumwJBio

It is a busy and fantastic week at ZiF, hosting three groups, several workshops and a dinner to connect everyone: miriam-akkermann Nikita Braguinski // Clive Oppenheimer Eleonora Rohland Michael D. Frachetti Remco Heesen Chad L Hewitt TOSogbanmu

Lincoln University's Centre for One Biosecurity Research, Analysis and Synthesis has published the horizon scan "Emerging advances in biosecurity to underpin human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health.: iScience cell.com/iscience/fullt…"

Its great to have this first in a series of papers examining the intersection of philosophy, science and policy! Epistemology of ignorance: the contribution of philosophy to the science-policy interface of marine biosecurity frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Wonderful to see this global study published! Does non‐native diversity mirror Earth's biodiversity? - Briski - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Fantastic to see this in print “Critical coastal values impacted by marine bioinvasions”... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Celebrating publication of “Science-policy research collaborations need philosophers” nature.com/articles/s4156… with colleagues from our ZiF residency at U Beilefeld

Great to see this perspective on applying the One Biosecurity concept to aquatic ecosystems - Bridging aquatic invasive species threats across multiple sectors through One Biosecurity academic-oup-com.ezproxy.lincoln.ac.nz/bioscience/art…

Celebrating a second paper from our ZiF U Bielefeld Fellowship - Heesen et al. A model of faulty and faultless disagreement for post-hoc assessments of knowledge utilization in evidence-based policymaking. Sci Rep 14, 18495 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Views on biosecurity and food security as we work toward reconciling a... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A holistic marine biosecurity risk framework that is inclusive of soci... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Revisiting the Base in Evidence-Based Policy - M Schneider, H Slanickova, H Rubin, R Heesen, A Schwenkenbecher, A Bortolus, EE Chukwu, CL Hewitt, R Kaufer, E Schwindt, TO Sogbanmu, K Woolaston, L Yu, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Very humbled to be inducted by the Oroville Union High School District into the Hall of Fame. My immense and enduring gratitude for the multiple ways in which the Oroville High School academics contributed to my personal and professional journey to be where I am today.

This output is from funding to support the national defence policy debate - specifically how important biosecurity impacts on food security are to conflict and therefore national security! doi.org/10.3897/neobio… via @neobiotajournal

A great article by Gemma Martínez-Laiz! Mapping the voices: Spanish boat owners and marina operators on non-indigenous marine species—knowledge and key informants. Biol Invasions 27, 126 (2025). doi-org.ezproxy.lincoln.ac.nz/10.1007/s10530…

Another ZiF output from the Epistemology of Evidence Based Policy Project - Bortolus et al. Knowledge brokers at the Science-Policy interface: insights from biosecurity and environmental management. AMBIO. DOI:10.1007/s13280-025-02208-7