🏴 Departmental Lecturer 🧪👨🔬⚗ - @OxfordChemistry, Amateur Baker 🍰, Silver Screen Supporter 🎬, Model Railway Builder 🚂.
Joined April 2012
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Mar 27
What makes a good reaction? The answer for everyone could be different! @OxfordChemistry 1st-year undergraduates explore this question in a green chemistry context using practical chemistry and oracy.
Out now in J Chem Ed: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
#ChemistryEducation #Oracy
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New Year Publication
📄 Liquid crystal tetramers and spontaneous chirality: the heliconical twist-bend nematic phase (J. Mater. Chem. C) demonstrates how the phase behaviour of liquid crystals can be tailored in oligomers.
🔗 Read the full article here:
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Ewan Forsyth retweeted
20 May 2025
Delighted to share our First-Year Lab Course @OxfordChemistry was the Highly Commended entry in the Innovative Teaching and Learning Award at the Vice-Chancellor's awards!
Congratulations to the whole team! Find out more about the award and our course at chem.ox.ac.uk/article/depart…
ALT Photograph (c) Cyrus Mower @cyrusoxford The Vice-Chancellor in a blue lab coat and safety specs at a stand.
ALT Photograph (c) John Cairns @johncairnsphotography The first-year lab course team on a staircase in the Exam Schools at Oxford.
ALT Photograph (c) John Cairns @johncairnsphotography The awards being read on the stage with the Vice-Chancellor looking on and a PowerPoint slide showing the winning team.
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21 Jan 2025
Today I became a Fellow of Advance Higher Education @AdvanceHE. Awarded in recognition of practice, impact and effectiveness teaching and learning that I carried out at @EdinburghChem and @OxfordChemistry
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29 Dec 2023
What a great way to end a challenging year in academia. Congratulations to @fizzahaseeb5 on their 1st author publication! @EdinburghChem #Hydrogels #DepthStandards #BiomedicalImaging #Optics #Chemistry 🧪👩🏽🔬
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13 Dec 2023
what our solar sytem moving through space looks like.
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Ewan Forsyth retweeted
10 Nov 2023
Supported by @RoySocChem Missing Elements Grant, Project Lead @clairehobday and co-applicants Fizzy Abou Jawad and @JennyGracie_ are excited to embark on a 3-year project to address racial and ethnic inequalities in the chemical sciences.
🔗edin.ac/40xTFzK
ALT Image is the cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry Missing Elements report. Red background with a graphic in the centre showing a person's side profile. Title shown is "Missing Elements - Racial and ethnic inequalities in the chemical sciences".
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30 Oct 2023
Thanks @PeptideCaroline for a Monday morning sweet treat to go perfectly with my morning coffee ☕️ @EdinburghChem
#PDRAappreciation #UoEChemistry #STEMBaker
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22 Apr 2023
Amazing to see PhD students thrive! Check out @ZSG007 @JOC_OL paper on the #SolidPhaseSynthesis of #Tetrazine 👏 #OrganicChemistry #Synthesis @EdinburghChem @BradleyGroupEd
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4 Nov 2022
Feeling good having completed my first lecture course @EdinburghChem. From course concept to delivery - I feel good. Next to the tutorial and exam #PDRAlife #CPD #MSc #PGT #SyntheticChemistry
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4 Nov 2022
Celebrated by going to the gym 💪🏋️♂️, but maybe a more academic celebration is in order 🍻
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Ewan Forsyth retweeted
22 Sep 2022
Check out our @Sensors_rsc #GoldOA publication on a #fluorescent #probe for quick #diagnosis of #eye #infection in #patient samples. Great teamwork by @BradleyGroupEd @EdinburghChem @royalsociety @EPSRC_Proteus & Sankara Netralaya, India #AcademicTwitter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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19 Sep 2022
This weekend I tested some of my baking skills with some #choux #pecanpraline #temperedchocolate and two flavours of #cremepatissiere. Quite proud of this bake #pastryweek #GBBO #stembaker
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7 Sep 2022
Finished #YoungMungo by @Doug_D_Stuart today and had a tear in my eye at the ending. I hope it finds it's way to film to be
reimerse in his world. Well worth a read by all. #reading #book #LGBT
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3 Sep 2022
Movie transporting concert by the Scottish Concert Orchestra🎶🎻🎺 @edinplayhouse as we are transported from Middle Earth 🌳 aboard the Black Pearl 🏴☠️ to Westeros🍷, Narnia 🦁 and beyond...
#Orchestra #Music #MovieSoundracks #Fantasy
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3 Sep 2022
Wonderful visit to @Lighthousebks, where I picked up my 'hidden' signed copy of @robinince #TheImportanceOfBeingInterested looking forward to devouring your new book! #books #independentbookstore #reader #science #HORIZONSLIVE
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1 Sep 2022
#HORIZONSLIVE
@ProfBrianCox Hubble saw beyond its expected lifetime to give amazing data, what do you hope will be discovered with the @NASAWebb #JamesWebTelescope that is also beyond its initial research program?
#Science #Horizons #Chemistry #Physics #Astronomy
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20 Aug 2022
Great to see @menkindpodcast live with @watsoncomedian & @mschakraverty being as ever wonderful hosts as we voyaged through the world of masculinity with @Talldarkfriend. Looking forward to the next series and possible @edfringe'23
#mentalhealth #menkindpodcast #fringefestival
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15 Jul 2022
Purifying my reaction with column chromatography and finally joining in on #FluorescenceFriday purifying
@BradleyGroupEd @EdinburghChem @inlightenus
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