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James McCarthy

@james-k-mccarthy.bsky.social

Plant ecology researcher at @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social; also coffee drinker, mountain biker, binge runner, and amateur furniture maker.

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Words starting with the letter β€˜y’, mainly. Not my finest moment.

20.08.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a particularly bad day recently trying to remember how to spell "why"...

19.08.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I usually go with the new name, we have to start adopting it some time…

27.05.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out or latest paper for national maps of floral resource production, published in Ecological Applications @esajournals.bsky.social

National‐scale mapping of potential floral resources for honeybees and native pollinators in New Zealand esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

19.05.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Yip, I see now NZ and Aus is included in the issue description.

07.05.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can see why it confuses everyone!

07.05.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Global North and Global South - Wikipedia

I only just learnt this myself, but it turns out NZ isn’t in the Global South: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_...

07.05.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm a little late with this year's DRAGNet photos; see Twitter for photos from previous years. The treatment effects are still quite obvious, especially between the two disturbance treatments. Each block runs left/right (treatments labelled on bottom block).

05.03.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I went straight to the figures, as always for a Staples paper. Nice job.

18.02.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah definitely! I’ll swing by when I’m next at UC, or could tee up a bike ride some time.

28.01.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice shot. We must live close, I was just up that way yesterday evening.

28.01.2025 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep that’s the one πŸ‘

06.01.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So wild seeing those.

Reckon this is the same tree from the other side? Double Fenceline about a month ago.

06.01.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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