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?...
All flavours of applied ecologists are welcome to apply!
If you're an active researcher or practitioner working in the field of applied ecology - why not apply to join us as an Associate Editor?🌍
We're seeking a range of expertise such as marine ecology, disease ecology & local knowledge!🧪
Find out more 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
We're seeking a range of expertise such as marine ecology, disease ecology & local knowledge!🧪
Find out more 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
January 28, 2026 at 9:21 AM
All flavours of applied ecologists are welcome to apply!
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As the Aotearoa/NZ research system shifts around us, it's important to hear from the voices within, especially those who are the future of the system!
It has been an absolute privilege for the New Zealand Science Review to work with early career researchers (ECRs) to get their experiences on record
It has been an absolute privilege for the New Zealand Science Review to work with early career researchers (ECRs) to get their experiences on record
Early Career Voices from a Changing Research System
| New Zealand Science Review
doi.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
As the Aotearoa/NZ research system shifts around us, it's important to hear from the voices within, especially those who are the future of the system!
It has been an absolute privilege for the New Zealand Science Review to work with early career researchers (ECRs) to get their experiences on record
It has been an absolute privilege for the New Zealand Science Review to work with early career researchers (ECRs) to get their experiences on record
All the forgotten gems. Including my favourite- "I am a woman of colour. The colour white."
January 28, 2026 at 5:37 AM
All the forgotten gems. Including my favourite- "I am a woman of colour. The colour white."
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Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science
Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Government's Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashed
Cutting all research funding for the fields is a massive step backwards, critics say.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 28, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science
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This is an excellent article because, of course, if it actually is about protecting rocky shore marine life, there are good ways to do that without being racist.
Am quoted in this article by Eda Tang, which is actually excellent despite me being in it momentarily.
Tired tropes and racist rhetoric: How Asians became scapegoats in the rockpool row
Debate around damage to delicate marine environments quickly turned ugly this month, dredging up attitudes that gave many a sense of déjà vu.
thespinoff.co.nz
January 27, 2026 at 11:36 PM
This is an excellent article because, of course, if it actually is about protecting rocky shore marine life, there are good ways to do that without being racist.
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NEW RESEARCH: Climate change on track to slash global crop yields by 24% before 2100.
Like, within the lifespan of your kids.
Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this.
agupdate.com/agriview/mar...
Like, within the lifespan of your kids.
Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this.
agupdate.com/agriview/mar...
Climate change will devastate crop yields
A sweeping new analysis finds that warming global temperatures will dampen the world’s capacity to produce food from most staple crops, even after accounting for economic development and adaptation by
agupdate.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:05 PM
NEW RESEARCH: Climate change on track to slash global crop yields by 24% before 2100.
Like, within the lifespan of your kids.
Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this.
agupdate.com/agriview/mar...
Like, within the lifespan of your kids.
Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this.
agupdate.com/agriview/mar...
Where did southern Australia’s record-breaking heatwave come from?
theconversation.com/where-did-so...
theconversation.com/where-did-so...
Where did southern Australia’s record-breaking heatwave come from?
Australia’s northwest is well known for its heat. But this furnace-like area can deliver heatwaves to the southeast, thousands of kilometres away.
theconversation.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Where did southern Australia’s record-breaking heatwave come from?
theconversation.com/where-did-so...
theconversation.com/where-did-so...
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Our lab has an opening for a fully funded postdoc position! Start date is flexible; ideally summer 2026. Apply by Feb 20th for full consideration. For more about the lab and how to apply:
sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...
sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...
Luo Lab - Microbial Ecology - join
Lab members will have access to state-of-the art wet lab, and computing, and sequencing resources, including in-house sequencing for both short and long reads (Illumina NextSeq and Nanopore GridION). ...
sites.google.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Our lab has an opening for a fully funded postdoc position! Start date is flexible; ideally summer 2026. Apply by Feb 20th for full consideration. For more about the lab and how to apply:
sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...
sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...
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For anyone who was struggling with the link to our Antarctic jobs yesterday, sorry about that. We're launching a new website next month - our current one is a total maze.
Here's a link to the current vacancies page that actually works: www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
Here's a link to the current vacancies page that actually works: www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
January 22, 2026 at 9:34 AM
For anyone who was struggling with the link to our Antarctic jobs yesterday, sorry about that. We're launching a new website next month - our current one is a total maze.
Here's a link to the current vacancies page that actually works: www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
Here's a link to the current vacancies page that actually works: www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
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Did you know that we're looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board? 🌍💭
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below! 👇
britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below! 👇
britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
January 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Did you know that we're looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board? 🌍💭
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below! 👇
britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below! 👇
britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
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We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in community ecology to work in the Arthropods Core Project of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social
Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks.
More information here:
www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks.
More information here:
www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
www.lss.ls.tum.de
January 26, 2026 at 2:03 PM
We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in community ecology to work in the Arthropods Core Project of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social
Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks.
More information here:
www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks.
More information here:
www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
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It is poor journalism to repeat the 'savings' lie. These are cuts. Cuts to programs that help people around the motū. Cuts that increases the expense over time. In the short term they make this govt's books look just a little bit better. We pay more in the long run.
BTW the "savings" listed in this thread were pasted directly from the article but they are, of course, not savings at all and potentially result in much greater costs down the line. Sensible spending on climate adaptation is an important investment all govts need to make.
This article from 2024 documents what got cut from the Climate Emergency Response Fund, including -
Hapori Māori programme to improve evidence available to Māori communities about climate change, adaptation, and resilience. Savings: $23m
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Hapori Māori programme to improve evidence available to Māori communities about climate change, adaptation, and resilience. Savings: $23m
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
January 27, 2026 at 5:59 AM
It is poor journalism to repeat the 'savings' lie. These are cuts. Cuts to programs that help people around the motū. Cuts that increases the expense over time. In the short term they make this govt's books look just a little bit better. We pay more in the long run.
BTW the "savings" listed in this thread were pasted directly from the article but they are, of course, not savings at all and potentially result in much greater costs down the line. Sensible spending on climate adaptation is an important investment all govts need to make.
This article from 2024 documents what got cut from the Climate Emergency Response Fund, including -
Hapori Māori programme to improve evidence available to Māori communities about climate change, adaptation, and resilience. Savings: $23m
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Hapori Māori programme to improve evidence available to Māori communities about climate change, adaptation, and resilience. Savings: $23m
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Budget 2024: What survived and what was cut from Climate Emergency Response Fund
Funding cuts affect research on how to shrink farming greenhouse gases, a programme for establishing native forests and work on bringing in a price on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 AM
BTW the "savings" listed in this thread were pasted directly from the article but they are, of course, not savings at all and potentially result in much greater costs down the line. Sensible spending on climate adaptation is an important investment all govts need to make.
This article from 2024 documents what got cut from the Climate Emergency Response Fund, including -
Hapori Māori programme to improve evidence available to Māori communities about climate change, adaptation, and resilience. Savings: $23m
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Hapori Māori programme to improve evidence available to Māori communities about climate change, adaptation, and resilience. Savings: $23m
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Budget 2024: What survived and what was cut from Climate Emergency Response Fund
Funding cuts affect research on how to shrink farming greenhouse gases, a programme for establishing native forests and work on bringing in a price on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 27, 2026 at 2:49 AM
This article from 2024 documents what got cut from the Climate Emergency Response Fund, including -
Hapori Māori programme to improve evidence available to Māori communities about climate change, adaptation, and resilience. Savings: $23m
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Hapori Māori programme to improve evidence available to Māori communities about climate change, adaptation, and resilience. Savings: $23m
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:
Climate Data Scientist | Climate Central
Climate Central is seeking a highly-skilled Climate Data Scientist to join our team. Reporting to the Vice President for Science, the scientist will be part of a new initiative in climate services to ...
www.climatecentral.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:
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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....