Cate Macinnis-Ng
@loraxcate.bsky.social
Tree ecophysiologist, parent, ocean swimmer and brownie baker. I'm interested in forests, water, carbon, climate change. Pākehā (she/her), Auckland Uni Prof
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Cate Macinnis-Ng
@loraxcate.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Cate Macinnis-Ng Inaugural Lecture
YouTube video by University of Auckland - Website video repository
youtu.be
Here's the link for my inaugural professional lecture presented last month.
Those who know me well will not be surprised that it is more about diversity and inclusion than plants. 🌿🌱
youtu.be/R7twxY5VExA?...
Those who know me well will not be surprised that it is more about diversity and inclusion than plants. 🌿🌱
youtu.be/R7twxY5VExA?...
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Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Post doctor (3 years) within mountain plant community and ecosystem processes across a globally distributed experiment
www.umu.se
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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📢 Homes were evacuated, floods covered districts, and slips blocked roads and took lives. RNZ looks at just how devastating last week's storm was.
Evacuations, floods and slips: The damage caused by last week's deadly storms
www.rnz.co.nz
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Job opportunity!
Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology
Fixed term
Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
#PlantSci #PlantSciJobs
Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology
Fixed term
Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
#PlantSci #PlantSciJobs
January 26, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Job opportunity!
Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology
Fixed term
Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
#PlantSci #PlantSciJobs
Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology
Fixed term
Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
#PlantSci #PlantSciJobs
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New research - Including carbon emissions from permafrost thaw and fires reduces the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C by 25%
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Permafrost and wildfire carbon emissions indicate need for additional action to keep Paris Agreement temperature goals within reach - Communications Earth & Environment
Including permafrost and wildfire carbon emissions reduces the remaining allowable carbon budget for keeping the global average temperature increase below 1.5 degrees by 25%, according to Earth system...
www.nature.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:18 AM
New research - Including carbon emissions from permafrost thaw and fires reduces the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C by 25%
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Everyone on the right spent a lot of time deriding Ardern as performatively empathetic, but her government passed firearms legislation after the massacre. It created the Climate Response Emergency Fund in 2021. It saved 20,000 lives with the Covid elimination strategy.
January 26, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Everyone on the right spent a lot of time deriding Ardern as performatively empathetic, but her government passed firearms legislation after the massacre. It created the Climate Response Emergency Fund in 2021. It saved 20,000 lives with the Covid elimination strategy.
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Thrilled to share our new paper on restoring tree diversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest!🌳
Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time.
Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time.
Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
All Reforestation Methods Can Support Tropical Tree Diversity Recovery, but Drivers and Species Composition Vary
We assessed tree diversity recovery across five reforestation methods (white background) and compared them to three reference systems (grey background). In the rainforest, none of the restoration met...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Thrilled to share our new paper on restoring tree diversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest!🌳
Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time.
Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time.
Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Invasion Day, 2026
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Invasion Day, 2026
"The year 1938 marked 150 years since British colonisation and as many Australians celebrated, thousands of Aboriginal men and women marched through the streets of Sydney protesting more than a century of brutal mistreatment."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Invasion Day rallies are going ahead. Here's what they mean for First Peoples
Invasion Day rallies will go ahead on Monday after being exempted from NSW protest bans. Here's the story of how they started in the first place.
www.abc.net.au
January 26, 2026 at 8:05 AM
"The year 1938 marked 150 years since British colonisation and as many Australians celebrated, thousands of Aboriginal men and women marched through the streets of Sydney protesting more than a century of brutal mistreatment."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
By cancelling the Climate Emergency Response Fund, the government was telling us there was nothing to see here. The past week has shown they could not have been more wrong. We need a government that takes climate change seriously because it's only going to get worse. #nzpol
We had funding for these types of actions. It was the Climate Emergency Response Fund but the government closed that in 2024 so now there is no dedicated funding to prepare for future floods, slips, fires and other climate disasters www.treasury.govt.nz/information-...
The Climate Emergency Response Fund
The Climate Emergency Response Fund is now closed.At Budget 2024, the Government confirmed its decision to close the Climate Emergency Response Fund (CERF).
www.treasury.govt.nz
January 26, 2026 at 7:02 AM
By cancelling the Climate Emergency Response Fund, the government was telling us there was nothing to see here. The past week has shown they could not have been more wrong. We need a government that takes climate change seriously because it's only going to get worse. #nzpol
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This would be the same Federated Farmers who have actively resisted climate change mitigation strategies and put pressure on the govt to reduce climate change action 🧐🤔
Farmers frustrated by Canterbury's recent bad weather
Farmers frustrated by Canterbury's recent bad weather
Canterbury arable farmers are facing millions of dollars of losses after a third big hail storm hit parts of the region on Friday.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 26, 2026 at 5:09 AM
This would be the same Federated Farmers who have actively resisted climate change mitigation strategies and put pressure on the govt to reduce climate change action 🧐🤔
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I'm back! Here is a cartoon about Australia Day but also not. With bandicoots! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia! I quite like bits of it | First Dog on the Moon
But this is not a day for celebration
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:18 AM
I'm back! Here is a cartoon about Australia Day but also not. With bandicoots! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...
PhD Position: Tree Physiological Responses to Atmospheric Drought
We invite applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, with a planned start date in June 2026. The selected candidate wil...
www.epfl.ch
January 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...
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I've got a bunch of fresh new botanical art workshops open to book now in association with Auckland Wintergardens. No experience necessary, all materials provided, so they're a great place to start, or pick up an art practice where you left off. The curators choose the most beautiful plants for us 😍
January 26, 2026 at 5:17 AM
I've got a bunch of fresh new botanical art workshops open to book now in association with Auckland Wintergardens. No experience necessary, all materials provided, so they're a great place to start, or pick up an art practice where you left off. The curators choose the most beautiful plants for us 😍
NZ taxpayers spent $6M to bring Michelin stars here and only paid $3M to the WHO.
Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol
Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol
January 26, 2026 at 4:13 AM
NZ taxpayers spent $6M to bring Michelin stars here and only paid $3M to the WHO.
Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol
Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol
"This election, climate action and climate adaptation must be non-negotiable - not for abstract targets, but for the safety of the people and the ecosystems, landscapes and waterways we all depend on."
"We should be demanding a government-wide commitment to climate risk reduction, incl. binding emissions cuts, adaptation plans, and a national programme to stabilise vulnerable landscapes using science-informed, Indigenous-led land stewardship." manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi... #nzpol
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 AM
"This election, climate action and climate adaptation must be non-negotiable - not for abstract targets, but for the safety of the people and the ecosystems, landscapes and waterways we all depend on."
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I’m #hiring - Our company is looking for a Remote Sensing Data Engineer! If you're interested innovative remote sensing analytics and developing systems to scale-up reforestation projects, we’d love to hear from you. Our j.d. and links to apply are here: lnkd.in/gvzb_3ck
Reach out to learn more
🧪🌳🌐🍁
Reach out to learn more
🧪🌳🌐🍁
Living Carbon hiring Remote Sensing Data Engineer in United States | LinkedIn
Posted 8:04:46 PM. Living Carbon is a public benefit company with a mission to fight climate change by transforming…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
lnkd.in
January 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I’m #hiring - Our company is looking for a Remote Sensing Data Engineer! If you're interested innovative remote sensing analytics and developing systems to scale-up reforestation projects, we’d love to hear from you. Our j.d. and links to apply are here: lnkd.in/gvzb_3ck
Reach out to learn more
🧪🌳🌐🍁
Reach out to learn more
🧪🌳🌐🍁
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Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Keep reading!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Keep reading!
January 23, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Keep reading!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Keep reading!
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NZ has more that 4 times the number of days in state of emergency in last 10 years than in the previous decade. In the five years, it is 5 times the number of that prior decade. Climate emergency is very real.
www.lgnz.co.nz/news/media-r...
www.lgnz.co.nz/news/media-r...
More frequent states of emergencies a concern for councils
More frequent states of emergencies a concern for councils
www.lgnz.co.nz
January 24, 2026 at 8:53 AM
NZ has more that 4 times the number of days in state of emergency in last 10 years than in the previous decade. In the five years, it is 5 times the number of that prior decade. Climate emergency is very real.
www.lgnz.co.nz/news/media-r...
www.lgnz.co.nz/news/media-r...
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We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
January 22, 2026 at 11:45 AM
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?
Come and join us at KIT!
Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
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A climate emergency fund would be useful right about now.
Oh, that's right, Luxon canned it so he could funnel more money to landlords.
Oh, that's right, Luxon canned it so he could funnel more money to landlords.
January 24, 2026 at 6:41 AM
A climate emergency fund would be useful right about now.
Oh, that's right, Luxon canned it so he could funnel more money to landlords.
Oh, that's right, Luxon canned it so he could funnel more money to landlords.
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You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:42 AM
You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
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Yeah......this ain't a great forecast.
Word on the street it will rival the heatwaves of 2009 and 1939.
Some inland parts of Australia will get into the high 40s. The last i checked, some models were Predicting low 50s in some inland places.
Im really nervous about this one.
#heatwave #Australia
Word on the street it will rival the heatwaves of 2009 and 1939.
Some inland parts of Australia will get into the high 40s. The last i checked, some models were Predicting low 50s in some inland places.
Im really nervous about this one.
#heatwave #Australia
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Yeah......this ain't a great forecast.
Word on the street it will rival the heatwaves of 2009 and 1939.
Some inland parts of Australia will get into the high 40s. The last i checked, some models were Predicting low 50s in some inland places.
Im really nervous about this one.
#heatwave #Australia
Word on the street it will rival the heatwaves of 2009 and 1939.
Some inland parts of Australia will get into the high 40s. The last i checked, some models were Predicting low 50s in some inland places.
Im really nervous about this one.
#heatwave #Australia