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Anish Kirtane

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eDNA scientist at ETH Zurich, watercolor artist, home cook 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🇨🇭 youtube channel:

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@DNAsaur_

Anish Kirtane

2 months

Newest paper with @alpineedna investigating best strategies to extract dissolved state of eDNA is now published in Environmental DNA journal ! We compared three approaches on their effectiveness in recovering max DNA, removing inhibitors and cost (1/5)

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Anish Kirtane

26 days

My PhD thesis is due in a couple of weeks. With so many things to take care of, I have adopted more effective to-do lists to manage my tasks and I am never going back! Here are my tips for best practices to improve output (1/n) #phdlife #AcademicChatter #phdvoice #AcademicChatter

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How I, as a PhD student, feel while reviewing papers by extremely established scientists in my field @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter

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1. Make a to-do list the day before. It takes a lot of mental capacity to plan first thing in the morning. It's much easier to get started if you already know what to do. (2/n)

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4. STOP WORKING when you have completed your list. Congratulate yourself on the great day, and make a new list for tomorrow ! You got this 😁(5/n)

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3. Figure tip: It’s easy to lose sight of the goal while doing data analysis and creating complex figure panels. Draw out the figures you want to create beforehand. This way you always have a visual of your goal in front of you that guides you through to figure completion. (4/n)

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26 days

2. Break tasks into small specific chunks. Smaller the better. Write them down this time. Stick to the time. Be as specific as possible. This way each task has a deadline, and you can see the progress as you complete tasks, which I find motivating (3/n)

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

📢New publication:- eDNA is NOT one thing, but is composed of different states !! Our new publication tests various methods to isolate and analyze the membrane-bound, dissolved and adsorbed states of environmental DNA #eDNA .

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Sorting states of environmental DNA: Effects of isolation method and water matrix on the recovery...

In this study, we consider three states of eDNA: (1) a membrane-bound state referring to DNA enveloped in a cellular or organellar membrane, (2) a dissolved state defined as the extracellular DNA...

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Anish Kirtane

10 months

Some days I feel everyone is working on #eDNA . Other days I google eDNA and notice that a side character from Incredibles movie is more popular than the future of biodiversity monitoring 🙈

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

As someone who authored the first eDNA passive sampling study, I feel like the rug pulled under my feet. I am really not enjoying this side of science. I thought we were here to share knowledge to solve the biggest problems facing our times. #eDNA #AcademicTwitter #phdvoice

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CSIRO effectively just patented all passive #eDNA sampling. This means you can't stick a sponge in the water without paying them royalties. Someone needs to challenge this.

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Happy to see my work on the cover of the new @envDNA issue 🤗 You can see the #hemlock twig (bottom right) infested with big white adelgid egg sacks. However, we developed #eDNA methods to find these #adelgids in early stages of infestations when they are not as apparent!

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Anish Kirtane

26 days

My PhD thesis is due in a couple of weeks. With so many things to take care of, I have adopted more effective to-do lists to manage my tasks and I am never going back! Here are my tips for best practices to improve output (1/n) #phdlife #AcademicChatter #phdvoice

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Converting our Airbnb mountain cabin into a lab to separate the states of eDNA. Where there is a will, there is a way. @alpineedna #eDNA #fieldwork #nocontamination

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

The most difficult slide to make for my PhD committee meeting. To select a handful of photos from hundreds I took last summer. We collected 246 eDNA samples and countless memories from ~50 inlets in 8 Swiss watersheds! Grateful to @alpineedna Enrico and @noriko_uchida64

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Happy to have won 1st prize at Famelab 3 min science pitch competition. Whats can I say, #eDNA is pretty awesome. Looking forward to the next stage national competition.

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1 year

Meet the winners of the Zurich FameLab heat: Anish Kirtane @usys_ethzh , Mathias Herzog @ETH_DBIOL and Ruchi Manglunia @UZH_Science ! You can still join FameLab Switzerland and register for the heats in Basel and Lausanne. @BsnlLausanne @phd_UniBasel @scislam2022

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Anish Kirtane

8 months

Our eDNA group at ETH featured in Globe magazine. The title translates to "A Forensic look at eDNA" #eDNA #biodiversity #eth

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Can we sort states of environmental DNA (eDNA) from a single sample? - Preprint out now (1/4) #eDNA #prepint @alpineedna @KleyerHannah @OpiasaPascal @KillianZurita95

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Can we sort states of environmental DNA (eDNA) from a single sample?

Environmental DNA (eDNA) once shed can exist in numerous states with varying behaviors including degradation rates and transport potential. In this study we consider three states of eDNA: 1) a...

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Some pages from my sketchbook from Japan ! Travel sketching is such a. Immersive experience, I don't think I can travel without a sketchbook ever again. Which one is your favourite? #art #watercolor #travel #journaling #Japan #Osaka #Kyoto #Nara

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

My paper with @LSassoubre got published ! We found out how fast DNA from fishes gets degraded ....

Quantification of Environmental DNA (eDNA) shedding and decay rates for three commercially harves...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is a potential tool for assessing fish biomass and informing fish stock assessments. To inform the use of this tool, we present species-specific qPCR assays, eDNA...

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

We developed tools to capture terrestrial #eDNA off foliage to detect invasive hemlock woolly adelgid and 3 of its biological control predators (two silver flies and one beetle) Spoiler:eDNA was dramatically more sensitive than conventional methods! (1/n)

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice 1) you are in a PhD program. You are cut out for PhD. 2) always prioritise your mental health. No degree is worth compromising your health.

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Led a watercolor "paint and sip" workshop yesterday for PhD and Postdocs at @ETH . I myself had a blast teaching, and everyone made such beautiful art! The last image shows our demonstration rig. #phdlife #art #phd #postdoc

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Fantastic fieldwork week with @alpineedna at Lake Baldegg investigating transport of different states of #eDNA across a watershed. PSA: The dragonfly did not contaminate the sample 😉

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Anish Kirtane

10 months

Whaaaat !?!? So cool !

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Sentinel cells programmed to respond to environmental DNA including human sequences

Nature Chemical Biology - Nou et al. engineered Bacillus subtilis cells into a living sentinel system, which can take up environmental DNA and fluoresce when a matching sequence is detected. This...

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Mind blowing talk by @alpineedna at #edna2023japan on future of global biodiversity monitoring. Would highly recommend everyone to watch it when the recording is available. "Who wants to play the game?" 🤯

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Great time networking at the eDNA conference in Japan 😍 #eDNA2023japan

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Anish Kirtane

26 days

@calmyavi Have been doing the time thing for quite a while now. Had to force it the first few times but it becomes a habit quickly once you see the results in your productivity!

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

After a hectic field day, some fun is warrented. The last field site today had a swing, and I had to too !! #eDNA #scienceisfun #phdlife

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

Another great field work day with large volume tow net eDNA sampling at Lake Constance ! Cells from ~3000L in that tube. @alpineedna

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Last week I was awarded the "Best Talk" at the annual congess of my institute. My talk was titled "A Matter of State: Evaluation of Methods for Sorting State of Environmental DNA". Feeling humbled, and grateful to all presenters and organizers for a great day! #edna #ethz

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Anish Kirtane

2 months

Absolute blast to speak at Pint of Science festival. I spoke about the elegance of molecular biology, and how nature is beautiful at every scale of magnification. And off course I had to talk about the long history of science and bars! #PINT24 #pintofscience #zurich

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

What the heck is publons? I feel after all these years in academia, I should know this but too afraid to ask at this point. #accademicchatter #phdvoice #publons #reviews #citations #academia

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

Channeling my creativity into something productive while my samples incubate at 56°C #eDNA #fisheries #sciencememe

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

eDNA sampled using tow nets at Lake Hallwil with @alpineedna ... Thanks @gordon_luikart and lab for the nets!

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Feeling proud to have my painting framed and mounted in my home in India. This painting has a piece of my soul in it, therefore I cannot imagine it residing anywhere else. #watercolor #painting #como #soulart #banana #aquarelle

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

eDNA sampling Katzensee today ! Can't wait to see what @VascoElbrecht and @alpineedna find in this water. My hunch includes a horse...

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Came across this awesome alpine salamander while hiking in Schwyzer Alps this weekend ! #Switzerland #amphibian

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1 year

Japanese striped snake ! My first snake in Japan .. I might or might not have climbed up a tree in the botanical gardens to take this photo 🤫

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Great news on a Monday! Will share the paper as soon as it is available.. #edna #publishorperish #invasivespecies #biocontrol

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

🌟 Exciting News! 🏆 Took part in and won the 1st place in the prestigious Famelab 3 Minute Science Pitch Competition in Zurich! 🎉 Grateful for the opportunity to share my science #eDNA on this platform. Check out the winning pitch video attached! 🎥

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Recording of a presentation I made for @iyrcis_congress I talk about the development and use of terrestrial eDNA methods for detecting invasive forest insects, and also the biological control predators we release to manage the pests. #eDNA #HWA

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Sensitive detection of forest pests using environmental DNA (eDNA)

This research presentation highlights how eDNA methods can be used to detect invasive forest pests (hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelgis tsugae) and its biologica...

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3 years

Manuscript submitted 🥳🥳 What a relief !

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

One of the most interesting lectures I have heard lately. What's your take on #psychedelics and nature connectedness? #ALPSconference @SamwiseGandy

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

A really nice summary of our research on detecting invasive terrestrial insects and their predators ! White, Woolly, and Worrisome: Detecting the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid with eDNA

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White, Woolly, and Worrisome: Detecting the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid with eDNA

Original article: Kirtane, A., Dietschler, N.J., Bittner, T.D., Lefebvre, M.B., Celis, S., O’Connor, K., Havill, N. and Whitmore, M.C., 2022. Sensitive environmental DNA (eDNA) methods to det…

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Alright, that's it. No more followers for me. Don't follow me. 🍀

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

Big fish small pond, or small fish big pond? What's the better philosophy for you in academia? @Gladwell @AcademicChatter @PhDVoice #AcademicTwitter

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

That is not a snake! ❌🐍 Found my first legless lizard yesterday. Anguis genus. Very friendly.

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

eDNA state sorting with @KillianZurita95 and @OpiasaPascal ... Saw wet lab teamwork at its peak. Photo credits @_JChildress

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

As academic writers, we face a dilemma when encountering flawed studies: Should we cite them to highlight flaws, or let them be and hope they are forgotten? 📚 How does our scientific system address these challenges? Share your thoughts! #AcademicTwitter #phdlife

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

Absolutely stunning fieldwork with @alpineedna at Silvaplana, Switzerland !

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

New logo for our lab group!

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Dr Kristy Deiner

3 years

New lab logo! One molecule to rule them all #eDNA

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Anish Kirtane

3 months

JOB: eDNA technician position at Cornell... I have worked in this lab in the past and can vouch for good working environment and the real world impact of the work. Check it out !

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

People of Idaho: time to start transcribing your DNA straight to proteins !! I believe in you !

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Senator Tammy Nichols

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1 year

Today I introduced a bill to ban all messenger ribonucleic acid technology (mRNA) in the State of Idaho, and we passed the Freedom in Education Savings Account out of the Senate Education Committee to fund students and not systems, putting families in control over their ed $.

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

I named this one "Grapejuice Twirl" 🎨 #silverliningart #watercolor #wine #aquarelle

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Shared some perspectives with @saugat_optimist from Asian Scientist magazine on the role of eDNA technologies in biodiversity conservation. 🧬-> 🐢🐟🐝

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eDNA: Emerging Technology For Biodiversity Conservation - Asian Scientist Magazine

Conservation researchers in Asia are increasingly using environmental DNA technology. But it needs to be refined for better conservation efforts.

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Anish Kirtane

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@Cyberfunk14 Really depends on how you work and how much more work you have left to do. But I say work fills up as much time as you give it. I try to not exceed 8 hours a day, and enjoy rest of the time to the fullest ! 😁 All the best 👍

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

We can now age animals based on their DNA methylation tags. Can't wait to see how these epigenetic tools revolutionize population characterization using #eDNA !!

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Michael Bunce

2 years

Is it just me, or is the fact that you can age turtles🐢 to within a couple of years based on their 🧬 methylation 'marks' really amazing? The age structure of animals can underpin conservation action! - well played @OllyBerry4 et al.

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Art allows me to turn my imagination into reality and none expemplifies this better than my most recent painting!

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Love is in the air .... If you love DNA ❣️🧬

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Fabian Roger

2 years

Finally published! Airborne #eDNA can be monitored _in the field_ to study terrestrial insects 🌬️🧬🐝🐞🪲🦋 I'll summarize our main findings below 🧵

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Anish Kirtane

1 month

Happy to help out with another #WorldBiodiversityForum Looking forward to a great week ahead. #wbf2024 #wbf24

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

I have been fascinated by hummingbirds since I first heard about them as a kid. Tinest bird that lived on the other side of the planet. Happy to convert this fascination into a painting on my YouTube channel. Check it out using the link 👇

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

Check out my PI- @alpineedna 's inspirational talk on how we use #eDNA #metabarcoding for global biodiversity monitoring.

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D-USYS@ETH

3 years

With 1 million species at rick of extinction, the biosphere is in trouble. Can #eDNA contribute to a solution? Fascinating Inaugural Lecture of Kristy Deiner. @alpineedna #usyslife #usysscience :

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

Absolutely beautiful day for fieldwork #watershedmapping #eDNA

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Anish Kirtane

3 months

Top notch science communication highlighting eDNA science : check out these awesome series by Hakai institute

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The Nature Files (Ep. 3): The Case of the Wayward Whales

Researchers have been coming to Kingnait Fjord in Canada’s Baffin Island for years to study how bowhead whales are adapting to climate change. But this year,...

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Visited @IUCN headquarters today ! Among other things got some really good life advice at their library. Very inspired to see all the conservation action facilitated by the union around the world. Makes me optimistic about our future. #conservation #biodiversity #nature

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

People making different life choices can still be friends. Presenting 'exibit A' conceptualized during our lab art day. #ducktor

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Positive change! Would like to see more journals move to non profit publishers ....

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The International Society for Microbial Ecology is excited to announce that The ISME Journal and ISME Communications will be published by Oxford University Press beginning in 2024.

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

Here is a happy me with my watercolor elephant !! Let it drip 💦💧🩸 #drippingpaint #silverliningart #watercolor #aquarelle #elephant #timewellspent

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Grateful to the amazing co-authors @alpineedna and @KleyerHannah 🙏.. and a big thank you to @KillianZurita95 and @OpiasaPascal for helping out with the experiment. Team work makes the dream work! @eDNA_papers @eDNAScience @enviro_DNA @eDNAsupport @ETH @PISCeS_eDNA @EdnaEecology

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Anish Kirtane

7 months

An incredible 2023 where my science and art thrived harmoniously together! 🎨🔬 Excited to see what 2024 has in store. Thanks to Kaan Mika for this amazing click that truly reflects my perspective.

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Visa stuff is triggering today. Got a travel grant for a conference, but I won't be able to attend because Canadian embassy in Switzerland does not issue visas, and the next nearest embassy in France has a 276 day processing time 🤯

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Ujjavala Bothra

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1 year

The amount of paperwork for a Schengen visa is insane! Why is it so difficult to understand: 1. We are not interested in marrying your men, thank you 2. We are actually adding to the GDP of your country!!

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I went on a podcast to talk about how science and art help me see the world more fully ! Check it out #scicomm #phdvoice #Science #art

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Art, Science and Symphony of Nature : In conversation with Anish Kirtane

Listen to this episode from Breaking The Facts: The Art of Scicomm on Spotify. In this captivating episode, we are joined by Anish Kirtane, a Ph.D. researcher at ETH Zürich whose remarkable journey...

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Collect your own sample for a global biodiversity monitoring project with #eDNA

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Dr Kristy Deiner

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🧵1/3 Passionate about #biodiversity ? 🌳🐟 Join our global lake sampling on #WorldBiodiversityDay2024 and unravel #biodiversity with #eDNA 🌎🧬 Your contribution will shape the future of global biodiversity monitoring. #LeDNA

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3 years

When you start thinking about the upcoming vacation ... @AcademicChatter

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

@alpineedna had an awesome idea to use hiker's water purifier for collecting #eDNA

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

Preparing my talk for ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting with some original artwork .. @aslo_org #eDNA #whatstateareyouin #zoom

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

New painting video on YouTube ! Link in the comments below 🎨

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Another study shows eDNA analysis to be a useful tool for detecting endangered turtles. Throwback to the start of my #eDNA journey working with endangered bog turtles.

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Cecilia Villacorta

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New #eDNA #survey reveals that the iconic #Irwin 's #turtle is still present in the lower Burdekin River, #QLD . This #turtle had not been seen in some areas since the 1990s. Check the full article on @BMC_series : @TropWATER @jcu @NESPLandscapes @Turtlenerd

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

We often subconsciously categorize any habitat that is not a lush green dense rainforest as 'degraded'. Ashish has never had that issue. He presents a really strong case for conservation of indian savannahs by showing the endemic life they support !

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Ashish Nerlekar

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3 years

🌟Publication alert!🌟 Botanists are discovering several endemic plants in the Indian savannas—ecosystems long misinterpreted as wastelands of low conservation value. Article link (DM for access if needed): Read on for a summary. 1/n

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

I have now memorized parts of mitochondrial DNA sequences of two tiny silverfly species. They have no idea I even exists 🤠🤯

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Paleontology friends, I need help ! Saw this plant fossil during field work near Schwyz, Switzerland. Any idea what this is ? How old is it? #fossil #IDhelp #paleontology @PaleoSoc

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Anish Kirtane

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Biodiversity data is out there... Everywhere. Up for grabs !

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Shawan Chowdhury (শাওন চৌধুরী)

1 year

We show ➡️the potential of Facebook (FB) data to reduce the global biodiversity data gap We harvested ➡️~44000 locality data for 970 species ➡️86% of the Threatened species records were from FB (1/12) @AIBSbiology @idiv @UQ_CBCS @GBIF

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

NOAA Frisheries feature our work on shedding and degradation of eDNA from commercially harvested fish species @LSassoubre

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Don't worry. Everything is out of control, but also always has been. Don't worry.

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Best thread I have seen all day ! Kudos

@swatiudayraj

Swati Udayraj (She/Her)

1 year

The Kodaikanal bush frog is a vulnerable species endemic to southern Western ghats and has multiple morphs. Idea - @ViraljoshiLark Ranveer Singh as Kodaikanal bush frog A🧵...

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Anish Kirtane

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🤗🤗 I had an absolute blast making it ! 😁

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Jessica Rieder

11 months

@DNAsaur_ !! It looks beautiful in my Phd dissertation book! Thank you again!!

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Coffee just tastes better in Italy

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Anish Kirtane

10 months

Just presented psychedelic science at the #famelab science pitch competition! What an awesome time we live in 🤙 #psychedelics #MentalWellness

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Psychedelic Renaissance | Famelab 3 minute pitch competition Finals...

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

So impressive how much natural history is captured in amber 🤯 Brilliant!

@LarsKrogmann

Lars Krogmann

2 years

This is spectacular 🥹, a parasitoid flat wasp ovipositing in its host beetle larvae in 100 mio year old amber! 👇

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Completely agree. When we say "imapct" we are usually projecting the ability of the research to advance the field of study not the benefits to conservation/management.

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Ho Yi Wan

1 year

It's getting harder to publish single-species papers..."low-impact" they say. But I remind my students that their "low-impact" studies probably offer more to save a species than those so called "high-impact" global biodiversity papers. #wildlife #conservationbiology #biodiversity

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Interesting to see more work on investigating target states of eDNA. In this case, extracellular DNA.

@envDNA

Moler

1 year

Taxonomic diversity assessment across the tree of life from extracellular environmental DNA in aquatic ecosystems #eDNA #environmentalDNA

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

My question to mid/late-career scientist:- do you feel like you might have already done the best/most impactful if your already? #phdvoice #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Science has so many parallel investigations going on... One of them is the ARG and eDNA research. Here is a paper in ARG context, but with cool insights for eDNA folks.

@kylejbibby

Kyle Bibby

1 year

How does ARG persistence vary with particle size and underlying substrate? Check out this new paper by @Olivia_Ginn_ in @EnvSciTech - Persistence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes Varies with Particle Size and Substrate Conditions in Recirculating Streams

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

3D printing niche and overpriced lab plastics. #powertothepeople @VascoElbrecht

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Anish Kirtane

2 years

Really enjoying posts from #sciartportfolioweek .. Yesterday, I made this Sci-art for @JakeWCasselman 's PhD thesis cover! Jake work focuses on El Niño Southern Osculations. Its a privilege to dive deep into new science topics and their motivations to make visually inspiring art

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Anish Kirtane

3 years

😭😭

@MVidiecanova

Michaela Vidiečanová

3 years

This 👌🏼🤷‍♀️ #PhDlife #PhDstudent @ef_umb

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

John Oliver covers psychedelic assisted therapy! This is officially popular science now.

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Anish Kirtane

6 months

Interesting PhD opportunity for Indian students!

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

Remember #eDNA sampling Lake Constance coast two years ago with @de_Niro5 ... ALL samples had high concentration of quagga mussel eDNA !

@EawagResearch

Eawag

1 year

Nutrient changes, invasive species and climate change have a major impact on the ecosystem of Lake Constance. This is the conclusion of a large-scale project conducted by seven institutions in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. #seewandel 👉 Read more:

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Anish Kirtane

1 year

@sofiavanmoorsel My guess would be hemiptera eggs !

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