Andrew Bowman
@bowchro.bsky.social
Scientist and serial hobbyist. Warwick Uni. How does chromatin move, and is it important? Contrary to my profile picture, I am ambivalent towards cats. Chickens however....
"When I contacted OpenAI’s support, the first responses came from an AI agent." - Kind of expected, no? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:31 PM
"When I contacted OpenAI’s support, the first responses came from an AI agent." - Kind of expected, no? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Join us in Warwick for a fun two-day symposium and celebrate the career of Prof Rob Cross!
January 22, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Join us in Warwick for a fun two-day symposium and celebrate the career of Prof Rob Cross!
January 22, 2026 at 9:38 AM
This term in my lab we are trialling a chalk-talk journal club format with emphasis on concepts and implications: no Powerpoint, no presentation of data.
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 AM
This term in my lab we are trialling a chalk-talk journal club format with emphasis on concepts and implications: no Powerpoint, no presentation of data.
The word 'leverage' in biomedical literature (as search by Pubmed trends). I wonder what is behind it. Every other abstract I read now seems to be leveraging.
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The word 'leverage' in biomedical literature (as search by Pubmed trends). I wonder what is behind it. Every other abstract I read now seems to be leveraging.
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Great news in the fight against antimicrobial resistance!
Two oral antibiotics have been approved by the FDA for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. As Neisseria gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant to all known antibiotics, such breakthroughs were urgently needed. (1/4)
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
Two oral antibiotics have been approved by the FDA for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. As Neisseria gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant to all known antibiotics, such breakthroughs were urgently needed. (1/4)
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Great news in the fight against antimicrobial resistance!
Two oral antibiotics have been approved by the FDA for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. As Neisseria gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant to all known antibiotics, such breakthroughs were urgently needed. (1/4)
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
Two oral antibiotics have been approved by the FDA for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. As Neisseria gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant to all known antibiotics, such breakthroughs were urgently needed. (1/4)
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
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🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation:
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🧬🎉Join us on Dec 17th for our last session of 2025! 🎉🧬Two fantastic talks on transcriptional regulation:
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🔬JB Lalanne on developmental enhancers (and starting a lab in 2025?)
🔬 @rberrens.bsky.social on transposable elements in development
📋Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sometimes sense does prevail.
Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Sometimes sense does prevail.
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Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
December 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
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Took us a bit, but proud of this published version. We now examine the genetic interaction of phosphorylation with oligomerization and where bulk and phospho-Swi6 localize. Wonder if chromatin affinity tuning to enable Suv39 H3K9me3 spreading is a conserved mechanism ?
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
December 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Took us a bit, but proud of this published version. We now examine the genetic interaction of phosphorylation with oligomerization and where bulk and phospho-Swi6 localize. Wonder if chromatin affinity tuning to enable Suv39 H3K9me3 spreading is a conserved mechanism ?
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
Potato or DNA polymerase?
September 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Potato or DNA polymerase?
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Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across.
I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears.
Just make it stop.
#AcademicChatter
I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears.
Just make it stop.
#AcademicChatter
September 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across.
I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears.
Just make it stop.
#AcademicChatter
I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears.
Just make it stop.
#AcademicChatter
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” – Ronald A. Fisher
Yeah, but, I just wanted a quick look...
share.google/jo0NIT24BKmS...
Yeah, but, I just wanted a quick look...
share.google/jo0NIT24BKmS...
How thoughtful experimental design can empower biologists in the omics era - Nature Communications
Here, the authors discuss principles of experimental design that are relevant for all biology research, along with special considerations for projects using -omics approaches, highlighting common expe...
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August 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” – Ronald A. Fisher
Yeah, but, I just wanted a quick look...
share.google/jo0NIT24BKmS...
Yeah, but, I just wanted a quick look...
share.google/jo0NIT24BKmS...
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🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
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ggplot2 is turning 18! 🎂
For nearly two decades, it’s helped data scientists turn complex data into clear, beautiful insights.
We’re throwing a birthday party at Data+AI Summit, with treats and limited-edition swag. Come celebrate with us and @hadley.nz!
📍 Posit Lounge (402)
📅 June 10, 6–8pm
For nearly two decades, it’s helped data scientists turn complex data into clear, beautiful insights.
We’re throwing a birthday party at Data+AI Summit, with treats and limited-edition swag. Come celebrate with us and @hadley.nz!
📍 Posit Lounge (402)
📅 June 10, 6–8pm
June 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
ggplot2 is turning 18! 🎂
For nearly two decades, it’s helped data scientists turn complex data into clear, beautiful insights.
We’re throwing a birthday party at Data+AI Summit, with treats and limited-edition swag. Come celebrate with us and @hadley.nz!
📍 Posit Lounge (402)
📅 June 10, 6–8pm
For nearly two decades, it’s helped data scientists turn complex data into clear, beautiful insights.
We’re throwing a birthday party at Data+AI Summit, with treats and limited-edition swag. Come celebrate with us and @hadley.nz!
📍 Posit Lounge (402)
📅 June 10, 6–8pm
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We have another postdoc position available to work on interplay between ADP-ribosylation and ubiquitination in regulation of genome stability. For this post expertise in cell biology is required.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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my.corehr.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
We have another postdoc position available to work on interplay between ADP-ribosylation and ubiquitination in regulation of genome stability. For this post expertise in cell biology is required.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Just published the new edition of “Principles of Development’ from now called “Wolpert’s Principles of Development’ to honour his memory and the origin of this textbooks that aims at distilling the, sometimes elusive, principles underlying animal and plant development shorturl.at/LrOxn
May 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Just published the new edition of “Principles of Development’ from now called “Wolpert’s Principles of Development’ to honour his memory and the origin of this textbooks that aims at distilling the, sometimes elusive, principles underlying animal and plant development shorturl.at/LrOxn
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I do not think enough people know about the Campaign for Real Ale
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In the 1960s/70s there was a big corporate push to replace local ales & diverse styles of beer in the UK w/ mass produced lagers & slop. In response, the Campaign for Real Ale, started by beer fans, has been one of the most successful consumer campaign ever.
camra.org.uk/about/who-we...
camra.org.uk/about/who-we...
About the Campaign for Real Ale
CAMRA is considered one of the most successful consumer organisations across Europe. Founded by four real ale enthusiasts back in 1971, today we represent beer drinkers and pub-goers across the UK.
camra.org.uk
May 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I do not think enough people know about the Campaign for Real Ale
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Very good
April 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Very good
Spring has arrived and yes, the two bunnies we got in Autumn were a boy and a girl.
April 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Spring has arrived and yes, the two bunnies we got in Autumn were a boy and a girl.
Step aside AlphaFold. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught
The Dreamer system reached the milestone by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions.
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Step aside AlphaFold. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Alejandro came to Warwick last year and gave an excellent talk on life as a scientific editor. Highly recommend.
But you do!
Which is why it's important to organize career seminars, so trainees know what's out there.
If you think some of the students/postdocs at your institution may feel this way, I'd be happy to visit and give a talk about careers in publishing, particularly as a journal editor!
Which is why it's important to organize career seminars, so trainees know what's out there.
If you think some of the students/postdocs at your institution may feel this way, I'd be happy to visit and give a talk about careers in publishing, particularly as a journal editor!
"why don't you leave academia then?"
March 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Alejandro came to Warwick last year and gave an excellent talk on life as a scientific editor. Highly recommend.
They say life becomes boring in middle age, but I recorded both a Eurasian Green Woodpecker AND a Rose-ringed Parakeet on my lunch break today. So there.
March 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
They say life becomes boring in middle age, but I recorded both a Eurasian Green Woodpecker AND a Rose-ringed Parakeet on my lunch break today. So there.