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Bowchro

@bowchro.bsky.social
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Scientist and educator at the University of Warwick. Interested in the replication and spatial dynamics of chromatin.

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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everything is fake, and nobody cares!
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Joy Jeongyoon Choi @joyjoychoi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excited to share our new preprint on in situ chromatin structure of the inactive X chromosome in differentiated female mouse embryonic stem cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵1/8
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Claude has taken over my computer. I have crossed the Rubicon. The world will end with a pulsating salmon-coloured border.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Oh my. Seems I have become a convert to the cytoskeleton.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Lift a patio slab, plant a tree.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
*I am guilty of this is nearly all my publications. Soon I will be using the word 'leverage'.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Mouse, shrew or vole? Found this little guy lethargic on the patio.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A dragonfly larvae contemplating metamorphosis.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Live cell imaging. Three day old amano shrimp.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Who says you need fancy microscopes to study biology?
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Great to see Integrated Natural Science students showcasing their research projects!
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Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology @mechanochemistry.org · 08/05/2026
Last both not least in this session: Xuan describes how to design highly stable red fluorescent proteins beyond the codon expansion strategy the team used before
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Join us this Wednesday to hear about fascinating research from @kashyapchhatbar.bsky.social and @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social! If you're not already registered, click here to sign up: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... you can also join the conversation at our discord: discord.com/invite/dXqT89r
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We have another exciting #FragileNucleosome seminar for you next week! @sunil-k-pradhan.bsky.social and Genevieve Fourel will share their fascinating stories on chromatin and genome organization. Click here to register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'll never look at my mollies in the same way again, though I think mine are the boring sexual type.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I fully agree! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wildlife to replace historical figures on banknotes
The public will help choose which animals and birds will appear on the Bank of England's new notes.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
the most annoying shift in my academic career
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
That time of year again when I make my Mendel impression. I suppose these are peaches and not peas, and will be furry not wrinkled, and I'm a biochemist not a geneticist, but I'm claiming it anyway.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“We need this information. It’s part of the beauty and complexity that’s out there on Earth. Humans hardly know anything.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?
Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Baby guppy update.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Baby guppies! Did you know: guppies have 23 chromosomes, the same as humans.
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
We've got two exciting chromatin talks coming up on Wednesday next week: @epijenatics.bsky.social from @jbuenrostro.bsky.social's lab and @ambystoma22.bsky.social! register and join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Spring vibes
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@cmcbcakeclub.bsky.social has had a fitness push.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"When I contacted OpenAI’s support, the first responses came from an AI agent." - Kind of expected, no? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Join us in Warwick for a fun two-day symposium and celebrate the career of Prof Rob Cross!
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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/...
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FragileNucleosome @fnucleosome.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🧬🎉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...
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Sometimes sense does prevail.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 17/12/2025
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.
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Al-Sady lab @al-sadylab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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/...
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Phosphorylation of HP1/Swi6 relieves competition with Suv39/Clr4 on nucleosomes and enables H3K9 trimethyl spreading
Abstract. Heterochromatin formation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe requires the spreading of histone 3 (H3) Lysine 9 (K9) methylation (me) from nucleation ce
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Potato or DNA polymerase?
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“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...
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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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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧬🌽 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
Barbara McClintock portrait
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Back in the lab!
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Posit @posit.co · 09/06/2025
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
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ahellab.bsky.social @ahellab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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...
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Ed Boyden @eboyden3.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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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Alfonso Martinez Arias @amartinezarias.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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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Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I do not think enough people know about the Campaign for Real Ale (1/2)
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very good
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Spring has arrived and yes, the two bunnies we got in Autumn were a boy and a girl.
Cute baby bunny sleeping in a handCluster of baby bunnies in a nest.
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Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Step aside AlphaFold. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught
The Dreamer system reached the milestone by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions.
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