Prof Ross Forgan
@forganross.bsky.social
Prof of Supramolecular and Materials Chemistry at University of Glasgow. Chair of RSC Porous Materials Interest Group. Pores and snores in equal measure. Personal account with occasional boasting.
It was never a real fish anyway
January 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
It was never a real fish anyway
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📢 Just a few days left to send your oral abstracts for #UKPorMat2026, deadline on the 31st January 📢
With Sanjit Nayak we are looking forward to welcoming you in the beautiful city of Bristol 🌉 on the 9-10th June 2026 for what promises to be another excellent and fun porous materials conference.
With Sanjit Nayak we are looking forward to welcoming you in the beautiful city of Bristol 🌉 on the 9-10th June 2026 for what promises to be another excellent and fun porous materials conference.
UK Porous Materials Conference (UKPorMat)
The UK Porous Materials Group annual meeting and conference, covering all porous materials from MOFs, COFs, POCs, POPs, PCPs, PIMs & zeolites. UKPorMat.
www.ukpormat.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 PM
📢 Just a few days left to send your oral abstracts for #UKPorMat2026, deadline on the 31st January 📢
With Sanjit Nayak we are looking forward to welcoming you in the beautiful city of Bristol 🌉 on the 9-10th June 2026 for what promises to be another excellent and fun porous materials conference.
With Sanjit Nayak we are looking forward to welcoming you in the beautiful city of Bristol 🌉 on the 9-10th June 2026 for what promises to be another excellent and fun porous materials conference.
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1/2 "The most striking finding we had is that the students that practiced math problems with ChatGPT without any guardrails did 17% worse on immediate subsequent exam where they did not have AI assistance." Hamsa Bastani of @upenn.edu at the Simons Institute. simons.berkeley.edu/talks/hamsa-...
January 26, 2026 at 4:20 PM
1/2 "The most striking finding we had is that the students that practiced math problems with ChatGPT without any guardrails did 17% worse on immediate subsequent exam where they did not have AI assistance." Hamsa Bastani of @upenn.edu at the Simons Institute. simons.berkeley.edu/talks/hamsa-...
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Congratulations to everyone involved in this study, particularly our collaborators, Adriana Tavares and the Edinburgh team. Great to see our TSPO PET tracer LW223 take another big step forward with the first set of successful clinical trials in healthy patients (@uofgchem.bsky.social).
A new inflammation imaging tool from the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow has been found to be safe and tolerable in healthy humans.➡️ eil.ac/LW223/B
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @uofgied.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @uofgied.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Congratulations to everyone involved in this study, particularly our collaborators, Adriana Tavares and the Edinburgh team. Great to see our TSPO PET tracer LW223 take another big step forward with the first set of successful clinical trials in healthy patients (@uofgchem.bsky.social).
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Paper Alert! 4Y in the making. Anion sensing with highly luminescent Boron-Lanthanide MOFs. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... Well done to Sarah Englehart and Dr Mason Lawrence. @unbresearch.bsky.social Thanks to @forganross.bsky.social and Dr Russell Main for their 3D-ED sorcery.@glasgow.ac.uk
pubs.acs.org
January 21, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Paper Alert! 4Y in the making. Anion sensing with highly luminescent Boron-Lanthanide MOFs. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... Well done to Sarah Englehart and Dr Mason Lawrence. @unbresearch.bsky.social Thanks to @forganross.bsky.social and Dr Russell Main for their 3D-ED sorcery.@glasgow.ac.uk
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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Multi‐Crystal X‐Ray Diffraction (MCXRD) Bridges the Crystallographic Characterisation Gap in Chemistry and Materials Science: Application to MOFs https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202523233?af=R
January 19, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Multi‐Crystal X‐Ray Diffraction (MCXRD) Bridges the Crystallographic Characterisation Gap in Chemistry and Materials Science: Application to MOFs https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202523233?af=R
It was great to attend and see the wide range of science within this grouping, and a lovely opportunity to discuss the team’s research. Many thanks for the invitation!
January 14, 2026 at 2:17 PM
It was great to attend and see the wide range of science within this grouping, and a lovely opportunity to discuss the team’s research. Many thanks for the invitation!
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
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We’ll be attending the RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (CNN) Symposium next week at Burlington House, London.
If you’re attending the CNN Symposium, we’d be delighted to connect!
Read on to see our next RSC event - hidenisochema.com/events/join-...
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If you’re attending the CNN Symposium, we’d be delighted to connect!
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January 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
We’ll be attending the RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (CNN) Symposium next week at Burlington House, London.
If you’re attending the CNN Symposium, we’d be delighted to connect!
Read on to see our next RSC event - hidenisochema.com/events/join-...
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#RSC#Nanoscience#MaterialsScience
If you’re attending the CNN Symposium, we’d be delighted to connect!
Read on to see our next RSC event - hidenisochema.com/events/join-...
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Confinement in metal-organic frameworks as a route to harnessing liquid barocalorics in the solid-state https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18541
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Confinement in metal-organic frameworks as a route to harnessing liquid barocalorics in the solid-state https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18541
I’m delighted to share with everyone that my out of office is about to go on.
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m delighted to share with everyone that my out of office is about to go on.
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Come be my colleague @ucdchemistry.bsky.social!
We're currently looking for an organic chemist (broadly defined) to start as a permanent (i.e., tenured) assistant professor.
Job reference (www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...) is 019237. Due date Feb. 27, 2026
Reach out if you have questions!
We're currently looking for an organic chemist (broadly defined) to start as a permanent (i.e., tenured) assistant professor.
Job reference (www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...) is 019237. Due date Feb. 27, 2026
Reach out if you have questions!
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Come be my colleague @ucdchemistry.bsky.social!
We're currently looking for an organic chemist (broadly defined) to start as a permanent (i.e., tenured) assistant professor.
Job reference (www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...) is 019237. Due date Feb. 27, 2026
Reach out if you have questions!
We're currently looking for an organic chemist (broadly defined) to start as a permanent (i.e., tenured) assistant professor.
Job reference (www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...) is 019237. Due date Feb. 27, 2026
Reach out if you have questions!
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this is whose reputation they're trying to whitewash www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
this is whose reputation they're trying to whitewash www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
1. Did they ask everyone’s permission?
2. This is the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard this week. And it’s been a dumb fucking week.
2. This is the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard this week. And it’s been a dumb fucking week.
UKRI has opened up its archives on grants in the hope that AI can be trained on it and, in future, help reviewers speed up the peer review process.
UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review
Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers
www.chemistryworld.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
1. Did they ask everyone’s permission?
2. This is the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard this week. And it’s been a dumb fucking week.
2. This is the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard this week. And it’s been a dumb fucking week.
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Liverpool is hiring for a Professor who would also be Head of Chemistry. Application deadline Jan 4th. Interviews Feb 5th. I really like it here; maybe you would, too. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p...
Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry at University of Liverpool
Recruiting now: Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Liverpool is hiring for a Professor who would also be Head of Chemistry. Application deadline Jan 4th. Interviews Feb 5th. I really like it here; maybe you would, too. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p...
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Multifunctional Fe‐Doped MOF‐808 Nanocomposites for Chemo/Chemodynamic Synergistic Therapy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202512728?af=R
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Multifunctional Fe‐Doped MOF‐808 Nanocomposites for Chemo/Chemodynamic Synergistic Therapy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202512728?af=R
I just turned 44 and got tested by my GP at my request as we have a family history too. There’s no reason not to.
All men over 50 have the right to a PSA test. It's not a screening program because you have to ask you GP. GO AND ASK! Especially if you are black or had a family member with prostate cancer.
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I just turned 44 and got tested by my GP at my request as we have a family history too. There’s no reason not to.
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📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Flow | Andrea Laybourn
Interested in
#flowchemistry?
#crystallography?
#MOFs?
📣 Fully funded PhD available in our group 📣Title: Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive MOFs in Flow
Based in the School of Chemistr...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
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Now this is some top-quality misunderstanding of physics, right here.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Now this is some top-quality misunderstanding of physics, right here.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
To quote my PhD supervisor - it’s always cheaper to buy bonds than make bonds.
Organic Chemists: If you can buy it, you can also make it.
My opinion: If you can buy it, don't make it.
Your salary, time spent on optimization & synthesis and the unseen cost of solvents, consumables and equipment justify buying even expensive chemicals in most cases.
My opinion: If you can buy it, don't make it.
Your salary, time spent on optimization & synthesis and the unseen cost of solvents, consumables and equipment justify buying even expensive chemicals in most cases.
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
To quote my PhD supervisor - it’s always cheaper to buy bonds than make bonds.