Joe Forth
@joeforth.bsky.social
Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry at University of Liverpool. Bioprinting. Frugal Automation. Squishy Devices. Animate Materials. Blood-Brain Barrier. He/him.
Doing revisions to Reviewers comments and this observation is evergreen tbh.
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January 30, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Doing revisions to Reviewers comments and this observation is evergreen tbh.
Fully funded, 3.5-year PhD position with me, Marco Giardiello, and Liam O'Brien developing Magnetic Particle Imaging towards direct imaging of local material properties (rheology, pH, etc).
More here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@livuninews.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social
#chemsky
More here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@livuninews.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social
#chemsky
New Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) methods based on complex nanocomposite particle dynamics at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - New Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) methods based on complex nanocomposite particle dynamics at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Fully funded, 3.5-year PhD position with me, Marco Giardiello, and Liam O'Brien developing Magnetic Particle Imaging towards direct imaging of local material properties (rheology, pH, etc).
More here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@livuninews.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social
#chemsky
More here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@livuninews.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social
#chemsky
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I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up!
Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
January 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up!
Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
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When the Manchester Guardian calls, the people of the North heed the call. And if those people are me, we inject Manchester Liberalism, even from across the Pennines, right back in to the paper of Northern record. Get your fill. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain’s cities are desperate for better transport. Why is Westminster derailing our plans in Leeds? | Thomas Forth
A long-promised tram network has been pushed back to the late 2030s – unless we build local, northern growth will be snuffed out, says Thomas Forth, co-founder of tech firm The Data City
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
When the Manchester Guardian calls, the people of the North heed the call. And if those people are me, we inject Manchester Liberalism, even from across the Pennines, right back in to the paper of Northern record. Get your fill. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New pre-print! Giorgio Volpe, Rob Malinowski, and myself discuss the possibilities of making materials from droplets that can move, process information, and make decisions collectively.
@livunisps.bsky.social
@uclchemistry.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2512.13425
#chemsky
@livunisps.bsky.social
@uclchemistry.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2512.13425
#chemsky
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New pre-print! Giorgio Volpe, Rob Malinowski, and myself discuss the possibilities of making materials from droplets that can move, process information, and make decisions collectively.
@livunisps.bsky.social
@uclchemistry.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2512.13425
#chemsky
@livunisps.bsky.social
@uclchemistry.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2512.13425
#chemsky
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**new blog post** I thought it would be interesting to see what it would look like if tuition fees had grown with the "triple lock" approach of the state pension. www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2025/...
The Triple-Locked Tuition Fee — Michael O'Neill
I tried scaling the £9k tuition fee by the “triple lock” used for pensions to see what it looked like.
www.michaeloneill.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
**new blog post** I thought it would be interesting to see what it would look like if tuition fees had grown with the "triple lock" approach of the state pension. www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2025/...
There is truly no finer sight than walking into the group office to find a mess of screws, tools, and disassembled 3D-printers being hacked into god-knows-what.
Looks like science to me, lads.
#chemsky
Looks like science to me, lads.
#chemsky
December 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is truly no finer sight than walking into the group office to find a mess of screws, tools, and disassembled 3D-printers being hacked into god-knows-what.
Looks like science to me, lads.
#chemsky
Looks like science to me, lads.
#chemsky
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Opportunity to join us at @liverpooluni.bsky.social as our new Chemistry HoD: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p... - lots of brilliant science & exciting plans going on, plus the joy of being my line manager :D
Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry at University of Liverpool
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December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Opportunity to join us at @liverpooluni.bsky.social as our new Chemistry HoD: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p... - lots of brilliant science & exciting plans going on, plus the joy of being my line manager :D
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Would you like to be our Head of Department? A unique opportunity to guide some important developments (see e.g., news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/11/18/u...). Advert now live on jobs.ac.uk.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Would you like to be our Head of Department? A unique opportunity to guide some important developments (see e.g., news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/11/18/u...). Advert now live on jobs.ac.uk.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p...
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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...
Be sure to checkout the 3D animations of various bell ringing peals!
Visualisations of Minimus Methods
#chemsky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ytterbium Surprise – the meeting of a rare earth element with symmetry, group theory and culture
This article uses concepts of symmetry and group theory that are familiar to the inorganic chemist to explain some of the theory of the ancient (4 cen…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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...
Be sure to checkout the 3D animations of various bell ringing peals!
Visualisations of Minimus Methods
#chemsky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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...
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...
Catechol Benchmark Hackathon (NeurIPS 2025 DnB)
ML model-building challenge for reaction yield prediction for catechol rearrangement reaction from transient flow dataset.
www.kaggle.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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...
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...
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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!
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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!
Choose 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.
#chemsky
Choose collaborating with Physicists.
#chemsky
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Choose 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.
#chemsky
Choose collaborating with Physicists.
#chemsky
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?
#chemsky
I assume at some point they start switching off experiments when I enter the lab just so I don't mess things up?
#chemsky
October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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?
#chemsky
I assume at some point they start switching off experiments when I enter the lab just so I don't mess things up?
#chemsky
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.
October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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.
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_
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_
October 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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_
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.
October 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Hull's transformation over the last few years has got to be one of the North-East's great secrets.
There'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
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
There'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
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.
October 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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.
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Thrilled 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
Massive thanks to all the co-authors for their time and insights!
#InfectiousDiseases #Neuroinflammation #Neuroscience #BloodBrainBarrier #Virology #Research
🎉 Congratulations 🎉 to @sarahaimeeb.bsky.social on her review paper in looking at Viral Infections and the Blood-Brain Barrier: academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
@benedictneuro.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social @clairehetherington.bsky.social @immunecord.bsky.social @thewaltoncentre.bsky.social
@benedictneuro.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social @clairehetherington.bsky.social @immunecord.bsky.social @thewaltoncentre.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Thrilled 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
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-...
From the group of Benedict Michael, with Cordelia Dunai, Adjanie Patabendige, and a host of others including myself.
academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
Viral Infection and the Blood-Brain Barrier: Molecular Research Insights and Therapies
Viral infections can disrupt the blood-brain barrier via direct and indirect mechanisms and cause neurologic complications. Current treatment is limited to
academic.oup.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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-...
From the group of Benedict Michael, with Cordelia Dunai, Adjanie Patabendige, and a host of others including myself.
academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...