Rae Jordan

Photo of woman with hat and oxygen tube under nose in front of stunning desert landscape with an array of white telescope dishes spread out behind. In the background the iconic Licancabur volcano in the background.

Photo of a desert landscape with white telescope dishes scattered across the plane, with the Licancabur volcano cone looming over

Close up of the APEX single dish telescope with spikey sheets of ice in vertical formation in front and a dramatic sky behind.

Photo of three guanacos, a type of Andes camelid related to alpacas and llamas, with cute black faces and tan hides, on a scrubby plain with valley in background.

An unbelievable privilege and experience today visiting the world leading #ALmA telescope at 5000m in Chile! 🧪🔭 Plus we saw some local fauna!

Less than a week until this year's @mayodarkskies.bsky.social Festival! Here's a snippet from 2022 looking at lighting to preserve dark skies, and how nature is a gift for life!

This is our biggest result so far this year (IMHO)! 🔭🧪 The M87* #blackhole is clearly cocooned in a turbulent, magnetised plasma and we can now resolve it changing in real time (albeit slowly). Excitingly we plan to do the first 2 month "movie" campaign looking ever 3-4 days in spring 2026!

Looking forward to this year!

3 colour illustration/visualisation of a talk about black holes. There is a drawing of a woman in a jacket holding open an interstellar like black hole that says "What will an 'activated'" black hole look like? Surrounding this drawing is a dynamic panorama of text and images relating to quotes and questions from the talk like "Black holes spend most of their time being rather harmless..." with cartoons of adorable little black holes with arms and legs being cute, and eating (with text "...until they get hungry!").

Just one week until the @mayodarkskies.bsky.social festival! I'm excited to give a public talk, but also to see @paraphrasestudio.bsky.social again. Rae achieves the impossible by making insane visualisations of talks in real time! 🔭🧪Here's the one she made during my #blackhole talk back in 2022:

Illustrated infographic summarising insights from the roundtable with researchers on advancing evidence for youth social prescribing, covering challenges, impact, and future research.

How can we advance the evidence base for youth #SocialPrescribing? 🔎

We spoke to researchers & academics to answer this question – we’re delighted to share learning in our latest blog and accompanying illustration.

Take a look 👇
sbbresearch.org/advancing-th...

Thanks! Some wise words there to protect the planet we have before reaching out further - super interesting talk!

This is either a really good idea - or will drive people up the wall! #businesscards

✨Call out to researchers! ✨
After making these little case studies up I am DYING to start illustrating comic books to summarise academic work!
🖌️🧫🔬🧬⚗️🥼
Please reach out if you’re interested!

On Tuesday at our monthly Centre Seminar, Prof Kate Woodcock from @unibirmingham.bsky.social presented on a great new immersive programme to support mental health in classrooms. Thanks to those who joined online and in person. See you next month!

So cool! ✨

Good morning Bluesky! I lead the microbiological risk assessment team at the UK's Food Standards Agency, a non-ministerial department (yes, despite the name) with responsibility for making sure food is safe in England, Wales and NI (Scotland is Food Standards Scotland, who we work closely with).

Moved onto visualising hormone data from a sample of Hope’s #Baleen - indicating that she was pregnant during the last years of her life

Welcome to “The Perfect Specimen” a new podcast from NHM London with science writer @joshlukedavis.com and scientist @nhcooper123.bsky.social. Each episode Josh and Natalie pick two objects each to represent an adjective given to them by their producers and attempt to amaze and surprise each other.

A sneak peak at my latest project, an illustration celebrating the science that helps us explore the last movements of the #Wexford #Whale - otherwise known as Hope. Currently mounted in Hintze Hall at @nhm-london.bsky.social 🐳

The original sketch I made after a chat with Richard Sabin, Principal Curator at @nhm-london.bsky.social - about Hope the whale in Hinze Hall. Talking about all the research that goes on alongside the specimen

Wrong @nhm.org sorry! But thanks for liking my work! X I’m new to blue sky 😂

Highlights from the 2022 @mayodarkskies.bsky.social festival - Dr. Karen Weekes and @kevinjgaston.bsky.social - Looking forward to this year!

Delighted to be at tonight's launch on Nollaig na Ban of Linda Hanlon's book & exhibition celebrating extraordinary women of Ireland including from @mtu.ie Dr Karen Weekes and Commander Roberta O'Brien of @nmci-ts.bsky.social
I recommend a visit - St Peter's, North Main St, Cork throughout January.

Looking forward to this year's @mayodarkskies.bsky.social festival!

Imperial receives £15m ARIA funding for breakthrough brain research | Imperial News | Imperial College London Imperial researchers will receive almost £15m in funding to embark on cutting edge research to help overcome neurodegenerative disease.

Researchers from @imperialbrains.bsky.social & @ukdri.ac.uk, led by Dr Nir Grossman, have won £1.4M ARIA funding to develop tech that precisely stimulates deep brain regions—pushing boundaries in tackling neurodegenerative disease.

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/260073/...

Capture patient engagement sessions with a live illustration, then pull out key themes to add to your report!

How about illustrating findings from your papers?

A short case study from my recent work with The Hospital School at Great Ormond Street & UCLH 🥰 -https://tinyurl.com/4bdkm97p
@greatormondst.bsky.social

Opinion: Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research Writing in The Conversation, Professor Alex Bryson (UCL Social Research Institute) outlines his new research that highlights a peak of unhappiness among the young, which then declines with age. He exp...

Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Looking forward to this years @mayodarkskies.bsky.social festival in November! Here's a highlight from @irishspacegal.bsky.social from 2023! #Darkskies

Practice detail in the sketchbook before it makes it onto the final piece

A work in progress, in a truly incredible place. Surrounded by the skulls of giant ocean dwellers - and the many people working on protecting and conserving them.

A sneak peak at my latest project, an illustration celebrating the science that helps us explore the last movements of the #Wexford #Whale - otherwise known as Hope. Currently mounted in Hintze Hall at the @nhm.org 🐳

Last camping trip of the season before the chill! 🏕️Stalked by the Cheese-finder general himself 🧀