Prof Ross Forgan

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

I mean it’s phenomenal stuff, but it’s not really a MOF, is it.

You’re either with Me or you’re against Me. Or something.

Come be my colleague :)

I hear there are wonderful five star hotels for asylum seekers when they do get here

The Telegraph. How I became a Labour school-fee exile in Dubai Sick of Labour's private school tax raid, Isabel Oakeshott decided to swap the rolling hills of the Cotswolds for the desert of the UAE. Isabel Oakeshott Published 25 January 2025

I don’t want a single penny from British taxpayers to pay for wealthy tax-dodgers in Dubai to safely come home.

They thought they didn’t need us because they greedily refused to pay their fair share … let Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott come crawling back with their own money.

Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware, That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer, Gie her a Haggis!

#legalisehaggis

We are looking for two talented people to join us at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick as assistant professors. Permanent positions. 🧪🍎🥽
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@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.

PhD in Chemistry - Development of Organic Synthetic Methods for the Discovery of Novel Fluorescent- Amino Acid and Peptide-Based Imaging Agents at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD in Chemistry - Development of Organic Synthetic Methods for the Discovery of Novel Fluorescent- Amino Acid and Peptide-Based Imaging Agents at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAP...

A PhD is available in the Sutherland group to develop synthetic methods to access novel amino acid and peptide-based probes to start in October 2026. Deadlines for applications is 31st March. See link for details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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The group is advertising for a new postdoctoral research fellow/associate to join our team on for 18 months, looking into new structures and functions of metal-organic cages.
Deadline Friday 6th March 📆
Full details can be found here:
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Informal enquiries welcome

I have a 2 year PDRA position available in my group focusing on synthetic organic chemistry for supramolecular materials. Please apply using the link below if you’d be a good fit for the role in Glasgow @uofgchem.bsky.social

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Funny way to express to future employers that they feel their degrees are worthless (the rampant grade inflation from the no detriment policies notwithstanding).

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Well whatever these things are, they certainly are not crystalline.

Candy cages? Edible MOFs are so 2010.

I prefer my MOFs that don’t have coordination chemistry.

If the particle size is the same or smaller than the unit cell length then it’s really not a framework.

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Only if holy protons exchange with heathen ones.

CuKo radiation and the wrong diffractometer manufacturer? Unless it was bought in the Netherlands!

🌟 Applications are now open for the Next Generation of AI Chemists Programme, a funded opportunity for penultimate-year undergraduates from backgrounds under-represented in chemistry.

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It was never a real fish anyway

📢 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.

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-...

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).

Someone got paid real actual money to write an article about opening your house windows to let fresh air in. Next week: incredible life hack - opening curtains brightens rooms.

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