Andrew Bowman

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.

"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!

warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...

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.

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/...

🧬🎉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...

This is wild

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.

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 ?

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Potato or DNA polymerase?

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

Bovine Faecal Society AGM tomorrow?

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...

“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...

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Barbara McClintock portrait

🧬🌽 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

Back in the lab!

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

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.
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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/...

I used a Pirates of the Caribbean meme only to find out the 1st year class weren't even born when it came out. Outrageous.

When will the gas phase arrive?

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

I do not think enough people know about the Campaign for Real Ale
(1/2)

You'll put Goodsell out of a job!

Very good

Cute baby bunny sleeping in a hand

Cluster of baby bunnies in a nest.

Spring has arrived and yes, the two bunnies we got in Autumn were a boy and a girl.

AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught The Dreamer system reached the milestone by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions.

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.

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.