Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝

@sciwithrach

👩🏾‍💻 A real scientist on made-up adventures🧚🏾‍♀️ 💥 EAR FACTS 💥 BOARD GAMES 💥 TTRPGS 💥LOLS 💥 ➿ Postdoc @ UCL Ear Institute Trustee @britsciassoc.bsky.social ✨ Factual TV & media: casting@pastpreservers.com ➿ My own opinions 🥰 UK☔ ➿ linktr.ee/sciwithrach

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Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· 11h

NEW SHOW ALERT! #ttrpg I'll be playing Call of Cthulu with a LEGENDARY cast at World's Lair @worldslair.bsky.social 🤩🐙🎲 Join us in London on Fri 6th Nov for spine-tingling fun. Presale kicks off Thu 14th Aug @ 10am. General sale opens Fri 14th Aug @ 10am here: www.axs.com/uk/events/15...

An event poster: Call of Cthulu at World's Lair, November 6th 2026. Featuring Dom Allen as the Keeper alongside Ellen Rose, Jasper William Cartwright, Johnny Chiodini, and Rachel Honeyghan-Williams. The location is "Between the Bridges - London South Bank" and the website is listed at the bottom: worldslair.com. The poster also shows a photo of each cast member.

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Mar 9

International Women’s Day Sunday ➡️ British Science Week Monday! #BSW26 I’ll be celebrating both by giving my first schools talk of the week to some ASPIRING women in STEM 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏾‍💻💪🏾 Then heading back to the @uclearinstitute.bsky.social to work with a lab full of INSPIRING women in STEM! Life is good 🥰

The Lipovsek Lab at Christmas lunch. All of us are women, except one! 💪🏾

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 29

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

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 7

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.

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 7

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

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 7

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

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 7

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

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 7

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

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 7

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.

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 7

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

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· May 1

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.

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Mar 2

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.

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Jan 22

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.

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Dec 9

Had a lot of fun chatting with Eric on his new episode of the Art of the Covenant - check it out here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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"

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Dec 2

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.

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 14

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy #altme

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Nov 11

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.

Rachel Honeyghan-Williams, PhD 🐝@sciwithrach· Aug 3

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 🥺♥️