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Dr Rachel Honeyghan-Williams 🐝
@sciwithrach.bsky.social
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👩🏾‍🔬🌈🇯🇲✨ Neuroscientist & ear expert. UK☔

Postdoc @ UCL Ear Institute 👂🏾
Trustee @britsciassoc.bsky.social ✨
My own opinions 🥰

TTRPG: @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social
Science: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/94388-rachel-williams
TV: [email protected]
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It's #Dragonmeet2025 time!

@scienceandsorcery.bsky.social is in the #PodcastZone chatting about what we've got coming up, and dishing out science facts made to order!

Thanks to @innocentgoblin.bsky.social for letting me borrow your cool hat 🍄
Rachel wearing a fuzzy mushroom hat in front of the Innocent Goblin stand at Dragonmeet 2025
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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TALKS: Too many for one skeet, but highlights were speaking at the @rigb.org for @fotsn.bsky.social about Chickens, Eggs, and Molecules 🐔 and to hundreds of school students across the country with Education in Action
Rachel onstage in front of a title slide at an Education in Action event.
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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TTRPGs: I performed in @twistedspiregames.bsky.social's Sirens Oath at @tate.bsky.social Britain, sharing the science of coral reefs through mermaid vengeance 🧜🏾‍♂️ At @ukge.bsky.social, it was great to be on @womenofttrpg.bsky.social 's panel about trailblazing women in the industry 🎲
Rachel with the cast of Sirens Oath at Tate Britain
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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DOING MY BIT: This year, I became a trustee of @britsciassoc.bsky.social which has been phenomenal.

I also went back to @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Students' Union to talk about my time as a student officer (VP Welfare and Community) and the importance of agitating for good! 💪🏾😁
Rachel with the British Science Association board of trustees Rachel in front of a screen for KCLSU's future leaders programme
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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COMEDY: I neeearly won Master of Tasks at #CheltSciFest while dressed as a clown, headlined the comedy night at @britsciassoc.bsky.social #BSF25 to natter about ADHD, and went looking for the next gen of science comedians at the @mrc-lms.bsky.social with @drstevex.bsky.social 's Talent Factory
Rachel onstage at the British Science Festival 's comedy night Rachel with other performers at the comedy night, including fellow WiN UK nominee Kate Slade Rachel dressed as a clown for Cheltenham Science Festival
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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S&S: @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social had a barnstorming year, receiving funding from @prideinstem.bsky.social for online shows, delivering training at @big-stem-network.bsky.social, and heading to the @britsciassoc.bsky.social #BSF25 for a hearing adventure inspired by Liverpudlian music!
The cast of Sounds of the Wild at this year's British Science Festival - Rachel, Sam Langford, Khalil Thirlaway, and Molly Jones. Screenshot of Pride in Stem England: Veins of Resistance, run by Science and Sorcery. Four cast members dressed like vampires are onscreen
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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BOOKS: In Feb, All Brains Are Wonderful was named as one of the 40 best new children's books in 2025 by @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social 🥹

It was a real pleasure to provide scientific advice and proofreading, while working with @bsmallpublishing.bsky.social and author @thereaderteacher.bsky.social ❤️
Rachel holds a copy of All Brains Are Wonderful.
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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TV: In May, I had my first TV shoot with Go Button media on Mysteries of Ancient Medicine. I'm ELATED to say that the show has been picked up by National Geographic! 🤩 Grateful to my agent, @pastpreservers.bsky.social ❤️
Rachel sits on set in front of a camera, surrounded by four monitors showing the camera's field of view
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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That's a wrap! 🤩 Had an absolute blast on my first TV shoot!

Thanks to @pastpreservers.bsky.social, Go Button Media, and everyone who made this possible!

Can't wait to see the final outcome of the project 🥰📺
Rachel is wearing a green top and sits on a chair on set in a studio. She is surrounded by 4 screens showing different camera angles of her while she speaks.
May 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I had THE best time at @ri-science.bsky.social sharing some of my work on hearing loss in mammals and birds with @fotsn.bsky.social 🥰🐔👖

It was so cool to be on the Faraday stage, riffing on the 1980 Christmas lectures - The Chicken, The Egg, and The Molecules by David Phillips 🐣🧬
Rachel onstage at a sold-out show in the Royal Institution's Faraday Theatre. The slide shows a picture of an egg and says, "This is an egg". Rachel onstage at a sold-out show in the Royal Institution's Faraday Theatre. The slide shows a picture of a chicken embryo on the left, with a time lapse of mouse and human embryo development on the right. The slide says, "This is a chicken" on the left, and "These are not eggs" on the right.
March 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Look what I just got in the post!! My advance copy of All Brains Are Wonderful by @thereaderteacher.bsky.social 🥰🧠✨ I'm so proud to have been a part of this project.

This book is the perfect primer on neurodiversity for curious minds aged 7-12 years.

Pick up your copy Feb 3rd! 📖
#scicomm
Rachel poses for a selfie with a book titled All Brains Are Wonderful. The cover is bright yellow with an illustration of the silhouette of a head in blue, with the title written against the black silhouette of a brain. The inside cover reads: All Brains Are Wonderful. Written by Scott Evans (the reader teacher). Expert advice from Dr Rachel S. H. Williams. Illustrated by The Boy Fitz Hammond. Designed by Vicky Barker. The page is yellow and decorated with illustrations of stars, cogs, and neurons.
January 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Had a lot of fun chatting with Eric on his new episode of the Art of the Covenant - check it out here!

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A screenshot of an Instagram story that reads: "From the World's tiniest brain Michelangelo's Creation of Man, to Dungeons & Dragons, Dr Rachel Williams joins me on Art of the Covenant"
December 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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A cheeky before and after Dragonmeet - I'm genuinely blown away by the love and support we've received this weekend for our sciencey TTRPG adventures on @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social ! ❤️

Thanks to everyone who came to our live show to learn about the dangers of cyanide poisoning and capitalism 😎
Before dragonmeet - Rachel is ready to put on a show with a full face of makeup and a smart outfit! After Dragonmeet - Rachel is tucked under a big duvet with matching pillows in bed with her bonnet on and a big smile on her face.
December 2, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

#altme
November 14, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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Getting ready to hit the stage for An Evening of Unnecessary Detail @fotsn.bsky.social !!

On a quest for the smallest brain... There will be SCALE BARS 📏🤏🧠

#SciComm #Neuroscience #Comedy
Rachel is a tall black woman in a blue dress with dreadlocks. She's standing onstage with her fingers making peace signs in front of a slide with the event name.
November 11, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Can I get a big ass HELL YEAH for the afro & textured hair options in Baldur's Gate 3??? MY CHARACTER IS SO HOT. And she has my hair 🥺♥️
Side view screenshot from head to shoulders of a brown-skinned wood elf in Baldur's Gate 3. She has long red locs with brown roots and has the top half of her hair tied up. She also has four hoop earrings, face tattoos, dark makeup and a scar running down one side of her face.
August 3, 2023 at 10:59 PM