Thomas Swift
@swifthom.bsky.social
Lecturer at a Northern University, ex-Programme lead for Apprentices, Polymer Chemist and fiction aficionado.
A peer reviewed paper just got accepted - and I'm torn between sharing good news with my collaborators and sampling local Hyderabadi Indian cuisine. #toughchoices
June 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A peer reviewed paper just got accepted - and I'm torn between sharing good news with my collaborators and sampling local Hyderabadi Indian cuisine. #toughchoices
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The family is growing! We are delighted to be hosting a summer intern to validate our process Chemistry. In turn Kiera is becoming our 'first' temporary employee of Moleculsr Titans!
June 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The family is growing! We are delighted to be hosting a summer intern to validate our process Chemistry. In turn Kiera is becoming our 'first' temporary employee of Moleculsr Titans!
So... today I was at an infectious disease conference and I finally saw in black and white an answer COVID grifters spent 2020/21 meaning about. 'Where is the evidence N95 masks help prevent COVID?' Well. It exists. Now. Finally. It takes time to do high quality science and full data integrity...
June 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So... today I was at an infectious disease conference and I finally saw in black and white an answer COVID grifters spent 2020/21 meaning about. 'Where is the evidence N95 masks help prevent COVID?' Well. It exists. Now. Finally. It takes time to do high quality science and full data integrity...
So today, I presented in Rome at a Global Infectious Disease congress, my PhD student is presenting in Sheffield @YRM_2025 and all appears to have been a grand success. No idea how she's celebrating but my hotel has a pool..
June 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So today, I presented in Rome at a Global Infectious Disease congress, my PhD student is presenting in Sheffield @YRM_2025 and all appears to have been a grand success. No idea how she's celebrating but my hotel has a pool..
Work has sent me to Rome, but I got 1 afternoon free today to get bus into centre to explore. Crazy to think a generation of people 'sort of' know this city intimately because of Assassin's Creed games - and I'm glad to say it didn't disappoint exploring!
June 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Work has sent me to Rome, but I got 1 afternoon free today to get bus into centre to explore. Crazy to think a generation of people 'sort of' know this city intimately because of Assassin's Creed games - and I'm glad to say it didn't disappoint exploring!
My PhD student delivered a faculty 3 minute thesis competition yesterday and I've had good feedback - unfortunately work meant I was 50 miles north at the time so had to miss out. A great dry run before she presents at the Macro YRM in Sheffield on the 10th of June! #polymerchemistry
May 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
My PhD student delivered a faculty 3 minute thesis competition yesterday and I've had good feedback - unfortunately work meant I was 50 miles north at the time so had to miss out. A great dry run before she presents at the Macro YRM in Sheffield on the 10th of June! #polymerchemistry
Lot of people voted reform because they are unhappy main political parties. But I'm yet to see any evidence Nigel Farage and his ilk are not grifters. Take the country seriously and stop mucking up every day British peoples livelihoods you schmooks
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform mayor vows to sack council’s diversity officers - except there aren’t any
Dame Andrea Jenkyns has doubled down on Farage’s pledge to sack diversity officers in Lincolnshire but the county council has revealed it does not employ any
www.independent.co.uk
May 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Lot of people voted reform because they are unhappy main political parties. But I'm yet to see any evidence Nigel Farage and his ilk are not grifters. Take the country seriously and stop mucking up every day British peoples livelihoods you schmooks
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
My smart watch has started telling me things I already knew! Still... Nice to have it documented.
Self improvement is hard
Self improvement is hard
May 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My smart watch has started telling me things I already knew! Still... Nice to have it documented.
Self improvement is hard
Self improvement is hard
Leeds City Centre is showing its best face for the BSRC Sparking Innovation conference! Park Plaza conference suite has open glass walls facing out over the city hall.
Joined them to find out and contribute to the future of innovation funding opportunities available and upcoming in this sector
Joined them to find out and contribute to the future of innovation funding opportunities available and upcoming in this sector
April 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Leeds City Centre is showing its best face for the BSRC Sparking Innovation conference! Park Plaza conference suite has open glass walls facing out over the city hall.
Joined them to find out and contribute to the future of innovation funding opportunities available and upcoming in this sector
Joined them to find out and contribute to the future of innovation funding opportunities available and upcoming in this sector
First night of the Rothwell Beer Festival, kicking off 3 days of responsible drinking to raise money to charity! Always a stressful moment as we kick off the event, getting purchases sorted and ticket sales going, but I feel like everything will be alright!
April 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
First night of the Rothwell Beer Festival, kicking off 3 days of responsible drinking to raise money to charity! Always a stressful moment as we kick off the event, getting purchases sorted and ticket sales going, but I feel like everything will be alright!
Some things to celebrate after today. A fantastic day networking followed by a stroke of well timed news. Looking forward to the opportunities this will bring over the summer!
April 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Some things to celebrate after today. A fantastic day networking followed by a stroke of well timed news. Looking forward to the opportunities this will bring over the summer!
Delighted to have just given @moleculartitans.bsky.social their first public outings, discussing needs within public health authorities and how our materials offer new routes forward, at the @bionow.bsky.social Yorkshire Partnering event. Hopefully some exciting developments will follow!
April 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Delighted to have just given @moleculartitans.bsky.social their first public outings, discussing needs within public health authorities and how our materials offer new routes forward, at the @bionow.bsky.social Yorkshire Partnering event. Hopefully some exciting developments will follow!
Jason Jones is presenting at BioNow's Yorkshire biopartnering event - introducing the BDH programme that will follow CAYMAN and SIBLING. £4 million UK funds supporting 100 SME businesses in West Yorkshire- has been great to be part of these schemes working for academic-industry partnerships
April 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Jason Jones is presenting at BioNow's Yorkshire biopartnering event - introducing the BDH programme that will follow CAYMAN and SIBLING. £4 million UK funds supporting 100 SME businesses in West Yorkshire- has been great to be part of these schemes working for academic-industry partnerships
Meanwhile I've been part of the volunteer team preparing for next week's Rothwell Beer Festival! 40 casks loaded and ready for sale - all profits for charitable causes. Anyone in Leeds region Thursday- Saturday next week get tickets from www.rothwellbeerfestival.co.uk
April 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Meanwhile I've been part of the volunteer team preparing for next week's Rothwell Beer Festival! 40 casks loaded and ready for sale - all profits for charitable causes. Anyone in Leeds region Thursday- Saturday next week get tickets from www.rothwellbeerfestival.co.uk
Trying to relax over the weekend and my family have decided to try planting for harvest. Now we have pots of earth squirrels over ever spare cm of indoor space that might catch the light!
April 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Trying to relax over the weekend and my family have decided to try planting for harvest. Now we have pots of earth squirrels over ever spare cm of indoor space that might catch the light!
Grant rejections suck.
They particularly suck when the only legible negative part of the feedback is 'There were some concerns about the relevant experience and skills of the proposed team'
They particularly suck when the only legible negative part of the feedback is 'There were some concerns about the relevant experience and skills of the proposed team'
April 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Grant rejections suck.
They particularly suck when the only legible negative part of the feedback is 'There were some concerns about the relevant experience and skills of the proposed team'
They particularly suck when the only legible negative part of the feedback is 'There were some concerns about the relevant experience and skills of the proposed team'
We got my daughter a Walkie Talkie for Christmas. She loved the concept, but in practice seems to find the idea of people contacting her odd.
if anyone calls her through it her go to response to anyone using it is demanding 'what's the matter?' as sternly as she can muster.
if anyone calls her through it her go to response to anyone using it is demanding 'what's the matter?' as sternly as she can muster.
April 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We got my daughter a Walkie Talkie for Christmas. She loved the concept, but in practice seems to find the idea of people contacting her odd.
if anyone calls her through it her go to response to anyone using it is demanding 'what's the matter?' as sternly as she can muster.
if anyone calls her through it her go to response to anyone using it is demanding 'what's the matter?' as sternly as she can muster.
There's a lot more to say before this story completely wraps up - but right now our focus is on the students and apprentices still with us who we hope to do right by. Senior management team have committed to teaching out all currently enrolled students. www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemist...
Chemistry courses to be shut down at the University of Bradford
Closures are part of a trend seen across UK universities
www.chemistryworld.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
There's a lot more to say before this story completely wraps up - but right now our focus is on the students and apprentices still with us who we hope to do right by. Senior management team have committed to teaching out all currently enrolled students. www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemist...
Farewell Swadin Chakraborty, who finishes his 3 month visit from IIT Kharagpur to our labs, going home after a very productive stay. Funded by BBSRC Spark he's kicked off what could be a great larger interdisciplinary collaboration developing new materials
March 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Farewell Swadin Chakraborty, who finishes his 3 month visit from IIT Kharagpur to our labs, going home after a very productive stay. Funded by BBSRC Spark he's kicked off what could be a great larger interdisciplinary collaboration developing new materials
Been on a line managers training course for last 6 months that is coming to an end. As part of the final s
Reading list just come across a package, written in 2016, that warned about the storm work from home culture would lead to...
Reading list just come across a package, written in 2016, that warned about the storm work from home culture would lead to...
March 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Been on a line managers training course for last 6 months that is coming to an end. As part of the final s
Reading list just come across a package, written in 2016, that warned about the storm work from home culture would lead to...
Reading list just come across a package, written in 2016, that warned about the storm work from home culture would lead to...
It's official then! Students were told over a week ago, us a month ago - now the newspapers have picked up on the story. There will be no Chemistry intake at Bradford this September. Am gutted the team has not been able to secure ongoing support.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bradfor...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bradfor...
Bradford threatened with strike over job cuts and course closures
Union fears as many as 300 jobs could go at Yorkshire university, plus courses in chemistry and film and television
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's official then! Students were told over a week ago, us a month ago - now the newspapers have picked up on the story. There will be no Chemistry intake at Bradford this September. Am gutted the team has not been able to secure ongoing support.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bradfor...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bradfor...
#newmanuscript our collaborators at the University of Leeds have just led newly published work into analysing the interactions of alkylsulfates and keratin in hair using TOF-SIMS analysis.
Find the paper online here:
aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Find the paper online here:
aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Using time‐of‐flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy to investigate the reaction of alkylsulfate and alkylethoxysulfate surfactants with keratin
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (ToF-SIMS) was used to investigate the changes in keratin protein surface chemistry caused by the covalent bonding reactions of commercially available a...
aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#newmanuscript our collaborators at the University of Leeds have just led newly published work into analysing the interactions of alkylsulfates and keratin in hair using TOF-SIMS analysis.
Find the paper online here:
aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Find the paper online here:
aocs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#newmanuscript Delighted that our analysis of the kinds of steps needed to overcome challenges examining high molar mass polymers using DOSY NMR techniques has been accepted and is available online. Anyone interested can find the early copies here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#newmanuscript Delighted that our analysis of the kinds of steps needed to overcome challenges examining high molar mass polymers using DOSY NMR techniques has been accepted and is available online. Anyone interested can find the early copies here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Excellent news to end a rather harrowing week - my 48th peer reviewed scientific article has just been accepted in the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents!
Quite a side step compared to what I normally do - heavy on Tim of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy to study biological samples!
Quite a side step compared to what I normally do - heavy on Tim of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy to study biological samples!
March 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Excellent news to end a rather harrowing week - my 48th peer reviewed scientific article has just been accepted in the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents!
Quite a side step compared to what I normally do - heavy on Tim of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy to study biological samples!
Quite a side step compared to what I normally do - heavy on Tim of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy to study biological samples!
Over on LinkedIn we are celebrating @rsc.org poster competition. Here is my #RSCMat summarising our work on soluble bionanotechnology using highly branched polymers. Delighted to engage and discuss with anyone who wants to know more about the applications of this innovative technology!
March 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM