Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)

Laissez les bonne temps rouler, I guess <shrug>

Illustration of a fluffy black cat lying on green grass with small flowers under a blue textured sky. The cat looks tired and the text says: “I would like some spring, please.”

My colleague @alexwitze.bsky.social joined @scifri.bsky.social today to break down our reporting on how the White House is withholding funds from science agencies.

One researcher dials in to say her institution is waiting on $20 million in research funding.

Give it a listen ⤵️

CiteAudit: You Cited It, But Did You Read It? A Benchmark for Verifying Scientific References in the LLM Era Scientific research relies on accurate citation for attribution and integrity, yet large language models (LLMs) introduce a new risk: fabricated references that appear plausible but correspond to no r...

The second is CiteAudit: arxiv.org/abs/2602.23452

CheckIfExist: Detecting Citation Hallucinations in the Era of AI-Generated Content The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in academic workflows has introduced unprecedented challenges to bibliographic integrity, particularly through reference hallucination -- the generati...

A bunch of new papers on @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social offer tools to address one challenge: id'ing fake citations. Here's the first: CheckIfExist: arxiv.org/abs/2602.15871

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

"We know the fraudsters are going to fraud. We’re gonna make it a little bit harder for them”. @sjmelchor.bsky.social talks to @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other science sleuths to learn their tips for spotting dodgy papers. New @nature.com 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

they didn’t do it with CA, but are now toying with the idea that the constitution means “Republicans get to gerrymander but Democrats can’t”

CiteAudit: You Cited It, But Did You Read It? A Benchmark for Verifying Scientific References in the LLM Era Scientific research relies on accurate citation for attribution and integrity, yet large language models (LLMs) introduce a new risk: fabricated references that appear plausible but correspond to no r...

The second is CiteAudit: arxiv.org/abs/2602.23452

CheckIfExist: Detecting Citation Hallucinations in the Era of AI-Generated Content The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in academic workflows has introduced unprecedented challenges to bibliographic integrity, particularly through reference hallucination -- the generati...

A bunch of new papers on @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social offer tools to address one challenge: id'ing fake citations. Here's the first: CheckIfExist: arxiv.org/abs/2602.15871

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

"We know the fraudsters are going to fraud. We’re gonna make it a little bit harder for them”. @sjmelchor.bsky.social talks to @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other science sleuths to learn their tips for spotting dodgy papers. New @nature.com 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version!
It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Off… An irreverent and charming collection of deeply persona…

Loved TACKY, a remarkable collection of deeply personal essays by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social! You'll never look at Creed, the Cheesecake Factory, or "The Jersey Shore" the same way again. 📚 www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...

Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk By Maureen Dowd April 30, 2016

happy 10-year anniversary to this razor-sharp political prognostication

Absolutely thrilled to have @theopennotebook.bsky.social join forces with @retractionwatch.com for a new fellowship program exclusively for local journalists! Details 👇

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

“We know the fraudsters are going to fraud. We’re gonna make it a little bit harder for them”. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other sleuths share tips for detecting dodgy papers. By @sjmelchor.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is correct ✅ 🍊

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Ugh.

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

“We know the fraudsters are going to fraud. We’re gonna make it a little bit harder for them”. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other sleuths share tips for detecting dodgy papers. By @sjmelchor.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Illustration of a small black cat with big shiny eyes looking up, sitting on a soft pink surface against a green background. Text above reads: “Every now and then, I think I understand why roosters start the day screaming.”

$120,000 — that’s the financial hit for new mothers over 20 years, in Denmark 🇩🇰

How big is the ‘motherhood penalty’? In Denmark, it adds up to $120,000 An analysis documents the cumulative income hit mothers incur — as well as the extent to which state aid can offset the loss.

“This research underlines the powerful role of the state in cushioning the financial shock of motherhood. But replacement income is not enough.” New study documents the financial hit new mothers experience -- and how much governmental aid can help. @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

John Roberts' Rules of Order: How to avoid doing your job - Dingus of the Week Podcast #15 | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon

If you need another reason to listen to @lyz.bsky.social ‘s amazing podcast, her theme song is a banger. Can’t stop humming it! 🎶https://www.patreon.com/posts/151313199?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe says.

#RStats is up baby

www.infoworld.com/article/4129...

Pritzker’s invoice to White House:

(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

headline at the Wall Street Journal: It’s Called the ‘Fitbit for Farts’—and It’s No Joke Scientists developing a new underwear-able hope to do for gastroenterology what the Apple Watch did for cardiology By Christopher Mims Feb. 20, 2026

my work here (on this earth) is done

CheckIfExist: Detecting Citation Hallucinations in the Era of AI-Generated Content The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in academic workflows has introduced unprecedented challenges to bibliographic integrity, particularly through reference hallucination -- the generati...

Ooh, here's a useful tool in the age of #AI hallucinations and LLM-generated content. arxiv.org/abs/2602.15871 -- CheckIfExist provides a web form to check if the refs in a paper you are reading (or perhaps, provided by an AI writing tool) are legit. 🧪

Nallo: a Nextflow pipeline for comprehensive human long-read genome analysis academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/genomic-medi...