Tammy Robinson
@tbrresearch.bsky.social
Marine invasion biologist, CIB SU, South Africa Co-EIC NeoBiota
🌿 Lovely to have the @neobiota.bsky.social journal community gather in person yesterday at #NeoBiota2026 in Brussels! Led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Philip Hulme, the editorial team shared ideas for the journal's future direction. 🙌Thank you to everyone who joined us!
Meet the team behind ICMB 2027 Our dedicated team is working to deliver a memorable conference - from securing inspiring keynotes to planning exciting field trips and every detail in between. We can't wait to welcome you to Cape Town! #bioinvasions #AlienSpecies #CapeTown #SouthAfrica #ICMB
INVEMAR launches the Colombia Register of Marine Species to enhance knowledge of the country's marine biodiversity www.marinespecies.org/news.php?p=s... #CoRMS #marinespecies
🔹 #Scopus CiteScore: 4.6 - the journal maintains the prestigious Q1 across 5 categories. 🔹 Impact Factor: 3.2 (up from 3.0), showing a continued growth in Web of Science. See more: neobiota.pensoft.net/news/1296 #academic #publishing #WebOfScience
Interested in alien seaweed management? The University of Portsmouth, UK, is offering a fully funded PhD focused on the efficacy and effects of invasive seaweed management. #bioinvasions #studentfunding www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Assessing the efficacy and effects of invasive seaweed management in Christchurch Harbour
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Doing a PhD can be challenging but dont loose sight of the realy great aspects that come along with this once in a lifetime opportunity. If you need a reminder of how great a PhD can be, read this article: #PhD elifesciences.org/articles/81075
Research Culture: Highlighting the positive aspects of being a PhD student
Articles about doing a PhD tend to focus on the difficulties faced by research students: here we argue that the scientific community should also highlight the positive elements of the PhD experience.
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🌍 I’m proud to have contributed to the Third World Ocean Assessment —a global effort by over 550 experts from 86 countries. 🌊 The Assessment highlights how the ocean is changing, why it matters, and what’s at stake. un.org/regularproce... #WOAIII #OceanScience #OurOcean #ShareTheKnowledge
Clarifying the identity of alien species is vital for understanding spatial and temporal patterns in introductions. Let's celebrate our taxonomists. #bioinvasions #anemones Great work @mirandandersen.bsky.social
Funding call! Grants in support of on-the-ground actions related to early detection and swift response actions aligned with EU IAS regs, the GBF and the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. #bioinvasions #funding For more details: iucnsos.org/initiative/e...
European Invasive Alien Species Rapid-Response Fund - IUCN SOS
Invasive alien species (IAS) are rising rapidly across the European Union, fuelled by global travel, trade and climate change. Funded by the European Union,
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Wetlands are biodiversity hotspots that support vital ecosystems and protect against environmental changes. Africa hosts 369 internationally recognized wetlands, critical #ForNature and people.🌎🧪 🏡IPBES #RegionalAssessment for Africa: https://www.ipbes.net/assessment-reports/africa
ICMB XIII will be in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2027. If you would like to know more about this exciting conference and sign up to join our mailing list use this link: marinebioinvasions.info
We are proud to announce thyat the next ICMB meeting will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in 2027. Join the mainling list to make sure that you get all updates marinebioinvasions.info/contact/emai... #ICMB #bioinvasions #SouthAfrica #marine
A leading light in biological invasion research who proudly calls South Africa home. #StellenboschUniversity #CIB
South Africa, the world capital of tree invasions - Research for Impact
Prof David Richardson’s career in invasion science started when he studied forestry as an undergraduate student at Stellenbosch University (SU) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Whereas most of his p...
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Calling all woman in marine science - let us hear your voices #bioinvasions #MPAs #convervation www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | Women in Marine Science: 2026
Women play an important role in marine science and according to a recent UN report they make up 38% of ocean science researchers. This Research Topic (RT) ai...
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Alien species inventories underpin our understanding of geographic patterns of invasions. This new paper presents the first list of alien species known from Namibia & is a key step in improving our understanding of invasions in southern Africa. #bioinvasions www.abcjournal.org/index.php/ab...
Good taxonomy underpins all ecological studies. Cheers to those who described the more than 2000 new marine species in 2025. www.marinespecies.org/news.php?p=s...
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2025
As for previous years, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has again released its annual list of the top-ten marine species described by researchers during the past year to coincide with Worl...
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👩🔬Happy International Day of Women and Girls in #Science! Explore the reflections and visions for the future from our Women Editors-in-Chief. 💫With these insights, we hope to foster a more equitable #scientific community and inspire the next generation of girls to pursue their passions in #STEM.⤵
Pensoft Celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science | Blog
In honour of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Pensoft Publishers celebrates the remarkable contributions of women in our journals’ editorial teams.
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Marine heatwaves and cold spells are an increasing threat. Here we characterise extreme thermal events in South African MPAs & use a novel index to compare severity. This supports adaptive management and prioritization of sites for in situ monitoring #MPA #oceantemperature doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Identifying South African marine protected areas at risk from marine heatwaves and cold-spells - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Identifying South African marine protected areas at risk from marine heatwaves and cold-spells
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Constructive, kind and insightful reviews are key to strengthening our field of research. This new paper gives great tips for those who are starting off as reviewers. academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...
Tips and tricks for writing constructive peer reviews
Peer review has been the cornerstone of scientific inquiry for centuries and is considered the backbone of scientific quality and rigour (Spier, 2002). Des
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Super new paper on differential behavioural responses of native and alien nudibranchs to marine heatwaves. #bioinvasions #climatechange #nudibranchs link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Marine heatwaves as selective filters on the behaviour of native and non-native invertebrates - Biological Invasions
Climate change is associated with an increase in heatwave events, extended periods of unusually high temperatures compared to seasonal or local averages. Marine invertebrates may be particularly vulne...
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ICMB XIII goes to Cape Town, South Africa! The next International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions is now confirmed for 2027! Follow for more updates. Hope to see you there! @marinebioinvasions.bsky.social #bioinvasions #NIS #marinebioinvasions #ICMB2027 #capetown #southafrica
A new Special Issue on aquatic invasions has just been released in NeoBiota. Read the editorial to gain an overview of all the papers: Invasions in aquatic systems. Use this link: neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1678... #bioinvasions @neobiota.pensoft.net
Using citizen science to unlock data about under studied African MPAs. Our new paper is hot off the press! neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1492... #bioinvasions @sjackland.bsky.social
Here we go... Three days of exciting presentations and interesting discussions. @marinebioinvasions.bsky.social #bioinvasions
Funded PhD opportunity in our lab with NorthWestBio DTP: Assessing the role of plant invasions in mosquito-borne disease risk Plant invasions transform ecosystem structure, but can they promote insect vectors and associated disease risks? Deadline 21 November 2025 www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
After more than fourteen years of advancing research on biological invasions, we have published our 100th issue! 🌎 🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/29/a...
Advancing invasion science: NeoBiota publishes its 100th issue
The open-access journal NeoBiota has published its milestone 100th issue, celebrating more than fourteen years of advancing research in invasion science.
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Summer heatwaves pose a greater threat than winter cold spells for an African temperate whelk. Finally getting some of our extreme thermal event work out! Great work @sjackland.bsky.social #marineheatwaves www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A temperate whelk overcomes winter cold spells but not summer heatwaves
Climate change has increased the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme thermal events. Our understanding of how marine heatwaves (MHWs) and marine cold spells (MCSs) affect coastal species ...
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