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.
🎥 It's been a busy week at AIchemy! Due to popular demand, we were thrilled to host another Inator Hackathon University College London this week. Huge thank you to Michael Parkes and Joe Forth for delivering the workshop. Take a look at some of the highlights below! 👇
Getting essential treats in ahead of the @aichemyhub.bsky.social LabRat / inator Hackathon at @uclchemistry.bsky.social #chemsky
A paper is not complete without the story behind it... Take a look at our journey in the world of 1D carbon that led us to the Nature Chemistry publication! The story: pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~skeja/behin... The paper (OA): www.nature.com/articles/s41... The hashtags: #chemsky and a cheeky #PiSky
Andrea Vezzoli - Molecular Devices @ University of Liverpool
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An absolutely beautiful paper on active colloidal chains in PNAS from Daniela Kraft and Mengshi Wei. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Life-like behavior emerging in active and flexible microstructures | PNAS
Many organisms leverage an interplay between shape and activity to generate motion and adapt to their environment. Embedding such mechanical feedba...
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UoL has secured more than £23.7M in new funding through the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Local Innovation Partnerships Fund (LIPF) 🙌 Liverpool is leading two high growth projects- AIM-HI and NBIC-LIVE Read more - news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/06/01/u...
University awarded over £23M to turbocharge regional economic growth - University of Liverpool News
University awarded over £23M to turbocharge regional economic growth
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Spent last week cycling 250 miles from one end of Wales to the other on the Lôn Las Cymru. Passes through temperate rainforest, farmland managed in ways that have barely changed in a century (and is *alive* with birdlife), and villages where the default language predates England as a concept.
How to make your own robot! A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org. Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...
Hacking 3D printers as laboratory robots
The emergence of affordable and reliable 3D printers has enabled laboratories to optimize setups, print custom parts, accelerate research, and rapidly prototype. A new movement has emerged in the past...
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FREE TO READ - PERSPECTIVE - OPEN ACCESS: Towards animate droplets: Active, adaptive, and autonomous by Joe Forth, Robert Malinowski and Giorgio Volpe #FreeToRead #Perspective #OpenAccess @uclchemistry.bsky.social @livunisps.bsky.social 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Joe Forth@joeforth.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew paper! Active Droplets: Active, Adaptive, Autonomous. Me, Rob Malinowski, and Giorgio Volpe pitch droplets as energy converting systems that act collectively. Out in @epljournal.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social and @livunisps.bsky.social. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #chemsky
New paper! Active Droplets: Active, Adaptive, Autonomous. Me, Rob Malinowski, and Giorgio Volpe pitch droplets as energy converting systems that act collectively. Out in @epljournal.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social and @livunisps.bsky.social. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #chemsky
AIchemy is BUSY 🚀 and the opportunities are stacking up! 💰 1 live funding opportunity (with Frontier Fund announcements coming 👀) 🎓 5 training & internship programmes 📅 14 events open for registration Funding. Training. Community. Momentum. Sign up to our newsletter and be part of it.
Lads the internet is down at work. All my docs and work are "in the cloud" and installed software struggles to open local-only files. Do I: 1.) Persevere and grind out work that I will probably spend at least as long integrating into online versions afterwards OR 2.) Go to the pub? #chemsky
📢 Liverpool delivered. A room full of curious minds, practical problem-solving and some genuinely exciting ideas taking shape. Take a look at our highlights ➡️ buff.ly/8fhonYg A huge thank you to Mike Parkes at UCL and Joe Forth at University of Liverpool for the delivery!
🚀 Liverpool sold out - but we’ve got you covered! Due to popular demand, we’re running another Inator Hackathon at University of Strathclyde on 18 March 2026 🗓️. 📍 University of Strathclyde, Glasgow 🕘 09:00–17:00, 18 March 2026 🎟️ Free, register now before it fills up! 👉
The Inator Hackathon: Raspberry Pi’s and Remote Sensing for Machine Learning – aichemy
18 MARCH, 2026
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🚀 We’re recruiting a postdoc to join a @ukcatalysishub.bsky.social project at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Collaboration with @donnablack.bsky.social, @virtualatoms.bsky.social, @astrazeneca.bsky.social, @glaxosmithkline.bsky.social, @aichemyhub.bsky.social. Please share or apply if interested
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📢 We’re hiring! Join us as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in AI/ML-Driven Chemical Discovery Work at the intersection of AI, machine learning & chemistry on cutting-edge research. 📍 Liverpool | ⏰ Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉
Postdoctoral Research Associate in AI/Ml-Driven Chemical Discovery - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in AI/Ml-Driven Chemical Discovery - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
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Doing revisions to Reviewers comments and this observation is evergreen tbh.
Joe Forth@joeforth.bsky.social · 9mo agoChoose 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
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
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
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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...
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
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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
**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.
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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
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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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...
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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...
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…
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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...
Catechol Benchmark Hackathon (NeurIPS 2025 DnB)
ML model-building challenge for reaction yield prediction for catechol rearrangement reaction from transient flow dataset.
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