@joeforth.bsky.social
Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry at University of Liverpool. Bioprinting. Frugal Automation. Squishy Devices. Animate Materials. Blood-Brain Barrier. He/him.
Ytterbium Surprise -a most unexpected paper from a former collaborator of mine, Helen Aspinall
Be sure to checkout the 3D animations of various bell ringing peals!
Visualisations of Minimus Methods
#chemsky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hackathon time! Can you build an ML model for sigmatropic rearrangements of allylcatechols in flow?
Teams of <=4; total prizes £2000; time limit 09 Jan. 🧪 #Chemsky
Competition Link: www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Example Notebook Link: www.kaggle.com/code/josepab...
Yeah so just a couple more major iterations and I reckon my grant will be ready submit. #chemsky
31.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
I went tonight to see my PhD student Emma Brass’s fantastic AI art exhibit in Liverpool. It features a 4x4 m screen with a giant robot arm (see video below) and the whole thing is really fantastic!
29.10.2025 22:14 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0badness 10000
29.10.2025 12:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah I acknowledge it's good for long complicated docs and stuff with lots of maths and/or cross-references. Otherwise, it's a terrible idea.
29.10.2025 12:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Choose showing your age by referencing the opening monologue of a film that came before most of your students were born, I guess.
29.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Choose LaTeX. Choose spending 20 minutes looking for a "}". Choose waiting to compile before you can read what you've written. Choose editing decades-old templates so your margins match the current journal style and you can see the page count.
Choose collaborating with Physicists.
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Pleased to announce I've reached the PI stage at which the group actually runs better when I disappear for a week or two.
I assume at some point they start switching off experiments when I enter the lab just so I don't mess things up?
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Heading home after 4 days visiting Chengdu and Sichuan University that were everything my inner @fuchsiadunlop.bsky.social fanboy wanted - might wait for a bit after getting back before weighing myself though.
22.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This morning's breakfast was peanut-butter-stuffed French toast at a cha chaan teng.
The white lump? Butter.
The accompanying drink? Condensed milk tea, just in case that's not rich enough.
About 900 calories for £2.80.
[Narrator] _He will not need to eat for some time_
Hull's transformation over the last few years has got to be one of the North-East's great secrets.
15.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MERCH. The real reason for any visit. #chemsky
14.10.2025 03:14 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There's a snarky comment to be made about this being a satire on the nature of most lab automation work (including my own), but it feels like a cheap shot.
14.10.2025 01:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There's something familiar about the guys they have working the coffee shop at XJTLU...can't put my finger on what it is though. #chemsky
14.10.2025 01:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We had a symposium organised by Tom Russell and Masao Doi which ran at the same time as yours, I think. Though I will admit my memory is hazy, due (indirectly) to me being 29, unemployed, and "definitely done with academia" at the time.
11.10.2025 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah one of the many sad downsides of doing a PhD during peak-pandemic right there
11.10.2025 19:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 04.89 at the Airport Spoons - reasonable even by Scouse / Glaswegian standards!
11.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fun possible fact - last time I made this trip was to Beijing University of Chemical Technology in Summer 2018 to give a talk on Structured Liquids. I'm like 60% sure some bloke called @aicooper.bsky.social was giving a completely unrelated talk with an identical title in the seminar room next door.
11.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Treating myself to airport pints after a 6am start, an open day, and a train journey down to Gatwick for wee jaunt to China through Suzhou, Hong Kong, and Chengdu.
11.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Thrilled to share my first first-author review paper—now published in @jidjournal.bsky.social
Massive thanks to all the co-authors for their time and insights!
#InfectiousDiseases #Neuroinflammation #Neuroscience #BloodBrainBarrier #Virology #Research
New paper! Sarah Boardman takes us on a tour of Viral Infection and the Blood-Brain Barrier. Just out in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
From the group of Benedict Michael, with Cordelia Dunai, Adjanie Patabendige, and a host of others including myself.
academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
the abstract of the review
the schematic of a 3D printer
Our 6-hands review/perspective: "Hacking 3D printers as laboratory robots" is now on ChemRxiv.
In there, we show how many robots you can make by simply modifying a 3D printer. #chemsky 1/n
with @sandersays.bsky.social and @supersciencegrl.co.uk
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Bruce Springsteen is going to feel silly when he learns about autoignition temperatures
23.09.2025 17:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0What's obviously most impressive here is not losing momentum in the 3 minutes before the drop.
13.09.2025 10:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The UK is ‘losing the race’ for investment in R&D, clinical trials, and foreign direct investment, a new report warns.
Since 2018, UK pharmaceutical R&D investment has underperformed against international rivals, the report from an pharma industry body said.
www.soci.org/news/2025/9/...
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So this paper:
spj.science.org/doi/10.34133...
Aside from some major writing issues, appears to involve injecting *Ni-particle-filled-droplets of dodecane into a living creature*.
Science Partner Journal. No ethical approval statement is given. Have @aaas.org just given up or am I misreading?
