Dr Tim Kahlke

After-hour bioinformatician, hobby geneticist, paid DevOps dude, enthusiastic father, cook and occasional climber - he/him.

[Michele Fabris @fabrismichele]

Our article on a new #diatom #transposon is published in @ThePlantJournal . We observed its mobilization within the course of a single experiment to inactivate the #auxotrophic #marker locus UMPS. New insights on #biotech, #synbio and #genomeevolution! https://t.co/tZLf2EIPdR

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

Twitterverse: are there any (reliable) reference databases for vertebrate 12S mtDNA sequences out there? Thinking along the lines of Silva, PR2 etc ...
#eDNA #Bioinformatics #sequencing

[Michele Fabris @fabrismichele]

New #preprint with @rafabbriano @jestinARgeorge @AdvancedTwigTec, Audrey Commault. We observed that a #transposon with novel features mobilised and interfered in real-time with genetic selection in #diatoms. #genomeevolution #biotechnology https://t.co/1ANjwsobcb

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

https://t.co/los8fd1V9I

Something to think about ...

[Invertebrates Australia 🪲 @invertsau]

Third day of Christmas Beetle fact:

Christmas beetles can be found in urban and rural areas all over Australia! If you see one of these golden cuties, take a pic and upload it to @inaturalist

📷: Alan Henderson

#12DaysOfChristmasBeetles #ChristmasBeetleCount

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

@giorgilab

[Neil Saunders @neilfws]

Always good when you go out to look for a specific thing and find it. Flying duck orchid (Caleana major). They weren't kidding when they named it.

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

@WestobyMark Currently, there are no incentives not to abuse staff, in fact abuse often has advantages for the abuser. As with all abuse it's often hard to prove without a doubt bcse it often happens without witnesses. And no, I'm not talking about being treated unfriendly.

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

1/4 Twitter, what do you do when you see people boasting about how supportive they are (ECRs come work with me! ..") but you know they are toxic and abusive? How do you warn others? How do you make sure that they don't ruin yet another career, destroy another ECR?

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

@WestobyMark Which leads to exactly the problem I'm talking about: existential fears. So limited-term contract employees don't speak up => nothing changes. And processes like thsi may "theoretically" be already in place but I don't think either of us has any illusions about the reality.

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

@WestobyMark How about creating incentives for supervisors not to abuse students/staff and foster a workplace culture where abuse is not acceptable? E.g. an ethics committee with the power to ban academics from supervising students/postdocs for x years?

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

@WestobyMark I agree somewhat but feel that this is outsourcing the problem solution to the students. Shouldn't the university be interested and protect staff and students?

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

4/4 It makes me sick and I feel guilty. I am wondering where is the difference to the priest/family member/coach where everyone knows something is wrong but no one says anything publicly? ... #academiaisbroken

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

3/4 The institutions know about it but don't seem to care (enough). HR knows, their supervisors know, colleagues know (but usually don't say anything, look away to protect themselves). What else to do? See another ECR develop PTSD/depression caused by this?

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

@kateumbers @franzanth Crab (Incubus)
Crab (Alice in Chains)
Crab (Silverchair)
Crab (Alanis Morissette)
Crab (Alicia Keys)
...

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

@BioMickWatson The Rings of Power ...

[Dr Tim Kahlke @AdvancedTwigTec]

@jr4science Wow, that's an awesome potato crop. Will have to tell us your secret.

[Dr Kate Umbers @kateumbers]

Australian baby meets snow… Australian baby eats snow. ⛄️
#bluemountains #snow #wildoz

[Invertebrates Australia 🪲 @invertsau]

Our #invertebrates of the week are annelids, also called segmented worms! 🪱 Earthworms, leeches, and alien, aquatic critters like this polychaete all fall within the group. 1/4

📷: Invasive fanworm (Sabella spallanzanii) off the coast of SA © ScubaWayne via iNaturalist #wildoz