Rachel Rayner
@raynerexplainer.bsky.social
Science Communicator, performer, comedian, podcaster, writer, sometime poet.
She/her
She/her
Anyone want to see my brain? We'll be talking brain imaging and statistics in our Sunday show for @melbcomedyfestival.bsky.social.
Tickets are free, but you'll need to register: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
Tickets are free, but you'll need to register: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
April 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Anyone want to see my brain? We'll be talking brain imaging and statistics in our Sunday show for @melbcomedyfestival.bsky.social.
Tickets are free, but you'll need to register: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
Tickets are free, but you'll need to register: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
Can't wait for this exploration of science and art crossovers to foster some beautiful moments of creativity.
#sciencepoetry
#sciencepoetry
Excited to be on stage again after a long while - Sat 12 April, MICF (4pm, Library on The Dock)! Free!
Join host @raynerexplainer.bsky.social in a live recording for her Australian Highlights podcast - exploring captivating stories behind Australian innovations in science, art & culture. Fun!
Join host @raynerexplainer.bsky.social in a live recording for her Australian Highlights podcast - exploring captivating stories behind Australian innovations in science, art & culture. Fun!
April 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Can't wait for this exploration of science and art crossovers to foster some beautiful moments of creativity.
#sciencepoetry
#sciencepoetry
New ep!
Corey Tutt, founder of DeadlyScience, knows the power of representative educational resources & role models.
"Indigenous kids used to say they wanted to be a deadly footballer now they want to be a deadly scientist.”
Hear Corey's story & his steadfast vision to make STEM a place for all.
Corey Tutt, founder of DeadlyScience, knows the power of representative educational resources & role models.
"Indigenous kids used to say they wanted to be a deadly footballer now they want to be a deadly scientist.”
Hear Corey's story & his steadfast vision to make STEM a place for all.
April 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New ep!
Corey Tutt, founder of DeadlyScience, knows the power of representative educational resources & role models.
"Indigenous kids used to say they wanted to be a deadly footballer now they want to be a deadly scientist.”
Hear Corey's story & his steadfast vision to make STEM a place for all.
Corey Tutt, founder of DeadlyScience, knows the power of representative educational resources & role models.
"Indigenous kids used to say they wanted to be a deadly footballer now they want to be a deadly scientist.”
Hear Corey's story & his steadfast vision to make STEM a place for all.
Thanks for the shout out @scienceinpublic.bsky.social!
>Quantum Year steps up: Brian Greene at @worldscifest.bsky.social
>"First deployable biological computer" says Cortical Labs
>Australian Highlights: new podcast by @raynerexplainer.bsky.social
>Media training workshops across Australia
Plus more in our latest Science bulletin
scienceinpublic.com.au
>"First deployable biological computer" says Cortical Labs
>Australian Highlights: new podcast by @raynerexplainer.bsky.social
>Media training workshops across Australia
Plus more in our latest Science bulletin
scienceinpublic.com.au
March 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Thanks for the shout out @scienceinpublic.bsky.social!
There be nerds here... especially as the new episode of Australian Highlights has an #LOTR connection...
australianhighlights.com.au/vanessamoss
#ASKAP #SAURON
@iamseizure.bsky.social
australianhighlights.com.au/vanessamoss
#ASKAP #SAURON
@iamseizure.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
There be nerds here... especially as the new episode of Australian Highlights has an #LOTR connection...
australianhighlights.com.au/vanessamoss
#ASKAP #SAURON
@iamseizure.bsky.social
australianhighlights.com.au/vanessamoss
#ASKAP #SAURON
@iamseizure.bsky.social
Something beautiful for the weekend: the story of Harriet & Helena Scott.
Dr Vanessa Finney, Australian Museum, shares the lives & works of our first professional female illustrators & how they continue to inspire:
australianhighlights.com.au/scottsisters
Image: Watercolour by Harriet Scott.
Dr Vanessa Finney, Australian Museum, shares the lives & works of our first professional female illustrators & how they continue to inspire:
australianhighlights.com.au/scottsisters
Image: Watercolour by Harriet Scott.
March 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Something beautiful for the weekend: the story of Harriet & Helena Scott.
Dr Vanessa Finney, Australian Museum, shares the lives & works of our first professional female illustrators & how they continue to inspire:
australianhighlights.com.au/scottsisters
Image: Watercolour by Harriet Scott.
Dr Vanessa Finney, Australian Museum, shares the lives & works of our first professional female illustrators & how they continue to inspire:
australianhighlights.com.au/scottsisters
Image: Watercolour by Harriet Scott.
Ah! Just remembered I have to do the splits on stage for the New Zealand International Science Festival in June... not sure that range of motion exists anymore...why do I do this to myself??!
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ALT: a man wearing shorts and an anchor saloon shirt stands in front of a large t
media.tenor.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Ah! Just remembered I have to do the splits on stage for the New Zealand International Science Festival in June... not sure that range of motion exists anymore...why do I do this to myself??!
New episode in time for #IWD where I get to talk to @astrokatross.bsky.social about the work of #IncludeHer - giving credit where credit is due for the science we're learning about today.
australianhighlights.com.au/katross
australianhighlights.com.au/katross
March 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
New episode in time for #IWD where I get to talk to @astrokatross.bsky.social about the work of #IncludeHer - giving credit where credit is due for the science we're learning about today.
australianhighlights.com.au/katross
australianhighlights.com.au/katross
Tomorrow at Adelaide Fringe!
February 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Tomorrow at Adelaide Fringe!
Say what???!
This Saturday in Adelaide, we discuss past and future innovators, and the joy of storytelling.
It's free and you don't need a ticket! Come to... I forget... Ah, just google it: Australian Highlights Adelaide Fringe...if the copy-paste isn't too fiddly.
This Saturday in Adelaide, we discuss past and future innovators, and the joy of storytelling.
It's free and you don't need a ticket! Come to... I forget... Ah, just google it: Australian Highlights Adelaide Fringe...if the copy-paste isn't too fiddly.
February 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Say what???!
This Saturday in Adelaide, we discuss past and future innovators, and the joy of storytelling.
It's free and you don't need a ticket! Come to... I forget... Ah, just google it: Australian Highlights Adelaide Fringe...if the copy-paste isn't too fiddly.
This Saturday in Adelaide, we discuss past and future innovators, and the joy of storytelling.
It's free and you don't need a ticket! Come to... I forget... Ah, just google it: Australian Highlights Adelaide Fringe...if the copy-paste isn't too fiddly.
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Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory's front page showing recently added podcasts including work from: @raynerexplainer.bsky.social
Sponsored by Lenny.fm
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Sponsored by Lenny.fm
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#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia
February 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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#Perth! It's Fringe season!
Tickets still available to the LIVE launch events for the series Australian Highlights this weekend:
fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/aus...
Tickets still available to the LIVE launch events for the series Australian Highlights this weekend:
fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/aus...
Australian Highlights - Live | FRINGE WORLD Festival - 17 Jan to 16 Feb 2025
The Australian Highlights podcast and article series is the place where we find the innovative people and ideas which are not – yet! – common knowledge. Join us for a live recording where we'll be bri...
fringeworld.com.au
February 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
#Perth! It's Fringe season!
Tickets still available to the LIVE launch events for the series Australian Highlights this weekend:
fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/aus...
Tickets still available to the LIVE launch events for the series Australian Highlights this weekend:
fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/aus...
Two episodes of my new podcast series, Australian Highlights, is launching Saturday, 8 February. Our exceptional highlight is innovator Mik Jade, one of the most amazing people I've had the privilege to speak to.
January 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Two episodes of my new podcast series, Australian Highlights, is launching Saturday, 8 February. Our exceptional highlight is innovator Mik Jade, one of the most amazing people I've had the privilege to speak to.
Reposted by Rachel Rayner
Check out this new cosmic weirdo discovered using @csiro.bsky.social's ASKAP telescope! It spins so slowly that you could watch both the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers and still have time leftover before it finishes a full rotation
Read more: theconversation.com/blinking-rad...
Read more: theconversation.com/blinking-rad...
Blinking radio pulses from space hint at a cosmic object that ‘shouldn’t exist’
The slowest ‘cosmic lighthouse’ ever found challenges our understanding of how neutron stars work.
theconversation.com
January 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Check out this new cosmic weirdo discovered using @csiro.bsky.social's ASKAP telescope! It spins so slowly that you could watch both the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers and still have time leftover before it finishes a full rotation
Read more: theconversation.com/blinking-rad...
Read more: theconversation.com/blinking-rad...
Instagram's Twitter-like fall begins...
January 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Instagram's Twitter-like fall begins...
Using new, advanced telescopes like CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope has shown this supernova remnant to be closer than previously thought. Discovered in 1988, G278.94+1.35 is estimated to be 8,800 light years away. Now, this figure is at 3,300 light years.
Credit: Filipović et al., 2024
Credit: Filipović et al., 2024
January 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Using new, advanced telescopes like CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope has shown this supernova remnant to be closer than previously thought. Discovered in 1988, G278.94+1.35 is estimated to be 8,800 light years away. Now, this figure is at 3,300 light years.
Credit: Filipović et al., 2024
Credit: Filipović et al., 2024
Our trailer is here! Give it a listen and subscribe on your favourite podcast app!
australianhighlights.com.au/trailer
australianhighlights.com.au/trailer
Australian Highlights
and celebrating the people behind them
australianhighlights.com.au
January 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Our trailer is here! Give it a listen and subscribe on your favourite podcast app!
australianhighlights.com.au/trailer
australianhighlights.com.au/trailer
Last minute Chrissy gift for the Perth set? Why not tickets to Fringe World? Why not this show...
Across two nights of laughter with Perth's finest thinkers, discover the fields where Australia is leading the way: we'll head into space on Sat, 8 Feb, then bring science to life on Sun, 9 Feb.
Across two nights of laughter with Perth's finest thinkers, discover the fields where Australia is leading the way: we'll head into space on Sat, 8 Feb, then bring science to life on Sun, 9 Feb.
Australian Highlights - Live | FRINGE WORLD Festival - 17 Jan to 16 Feb 2025
The Australian Highlights podcast and article series is the place where we find the innovative people and ideas which are not – yet! – common knowledge. Join us for a live recording where we'll be bri...
fringeworld.com.au
December 23, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Last minute Chrissy gift for the Perth set? Why not tickets to Fringe World? Why not this show...
Across two nights of laughter with Perth's finest thinkers, discover the fields where Australia is leading the way: we'll head into space on Sat, 8 Feb, then bring science to life on Sun, 9 Feb.
Across two nights of laughter with Perth's finest thinkers, discover the fields where Australia is leading the way: we'll head into space on Sat, 8 Feb, then bring science to life on Sun, 9 Feb.
Reposted by Rachel Rayner
Issue 19 of the science, poetry, & art journal Consilience, has just been published!
This issue features poetry and artwork that explores the scientific topic of ‘Insects’.
www.consilience-journal.com/issue-19 #SciComm #SciArt 🧪 #Poetry
This issue features poetry and artwork that explores the scientific topic of ‘Insects’.
www.consilience-journal.com/issue-19 #SciComm #SciArt 🧪 #Poetry
Consciousness (Issue 19) — Consilience
Issue 19 of Consilience features poetry and artwork that explores the topic of 'insects'.
www.consilience-journal.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Issue 19 of the science, poetry, & art journal Consilience, has just been published!
This issue features poetry and artwork that explores the scientific topic of ‘Insects’.
www.consilience-journal.com/issue-19 #SciComm #SciArt 🧪 #Poetry
This issue features poetry and artwork that explores the scientific topic of ‘Insects’.
www.consilience-journal.com/issue-19 #SciComm #SciArt 🧪 #Poetry
I've been hiding away working on a big project that I'm so nervous about! It's a podcast and article series that I'll be touring around the festivals next year. It's also online at www.australianhighlights.com.au
December 17, 2024 at 12:25 PM
I've been hiding away working on a big project that I'm so nervous about! It's a podcast and article series that I'll be touring around the festivals next year. It's also online at www.australianhighlights.com.au
Reposted by Rachel Rayner
We've heard of spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, lenticular galaxies, even irregular galaxies.
BUT HAVE YOU HEARD OF CORKSCREW GALAXIES?!
Awesome work from CSIRO friends using #ASKAP.
@raynerexplainer.bsky.social covers: www.instagram.com/p/C-myBWpMJR...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... 🔭🧪📡
BUT HAVE YOU HEARD OF CORKSCREW GALAXIES?!
Awesome work from CSIRO friends using #ASKAP.
@raynerexplainer.bsky.social covers: www.instagram.com/p/C-myBWpMJR...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... 🔭🧪📡
ASKAP reveals the radio tail structure of the Corkscrew Galaxy shaped by its passage through the Abell 3627 cluster
ABSTRACT. Among the bent-tail radio galaxies common in galaxy clusters are some with long, collimated tails (so-called head-tail galaxies) shaped by their
academic.oup.com
August 13, 2024 at 11:17 PM
We've heard of spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, lenticular galaxies, even irregular galaxies.
BUT HAVE YOU HEARD OF CORKSCREW GALAXIES?!
Awesome work from CSIRO friends using #ASKAP.
@raynerexplainer.bsky.social covers: www.instagram.com/p/C-myBWpMJR...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... 🔭🧪📡
BUT HAVE YOU HEARD OF CORKSCREW GALAXIES?!
Awesome work from CSIRO friends using #ASKAP.
@raynerexplainer.bsky.social covers: www.instagram.com/p/C-myBWpMJR...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... 🔭🧪📡
My goodness, what a fucking fantastic night. You guys were amazing! Thank you for coming, you absolutely made it a blast.
May 19, 2024 at 2:10 AM
My goodness, what a fucking fantastic night. You guys were amazing! Thank you for coming, you absolutely made it a blast.
Calling all nerds, dorks and the curious... come hang out with me (described as Dr Karl meets Barbie) next weekend - there will be puns, jabs at the patriarchy, yoga and quantum physics!!
Tix: sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/rachel-r…
Tix: sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/rachel-r…
May 10, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Calling all nerds, dorks and the curious... come hang out with me (described as Dr Karl meets Barbie) next weekend - there will be puns, jabs at the patriarchy, yoga and quantum physics!!
Tix: sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/rachel-r…
Tix: sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/rachel-r…
Happy Easter to all those who celebrate! Especially to those who celebrate the hatching of the Bunny from the Egg. A famously mammalian thing to do.
March 31, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Happy Easter to all those who celebrate! Especially to those who celebrate the hatching of the Bunny from the Egg. A famously mammalian thing to do.