Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)

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.

SACRED FERTILITY 🥴

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...

Microsoft team creates ‘revolutionary’ data storage system that lasts for millennia Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.

Hard drives fail after a few years -- ever thought about writing your data into glass instead?

Microsoft has developed a ready-to-deploy system which, while pricey to read and write, could save data for millennia, with minimal storage costs 🧪

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

a man with glasses and a mustache is saying yess . ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is saying yess .

TFW you realize you can distill a bunch of joins and for-loops into about 10 lines of #tidyverse #rstats code. :)

American Science, Shattered An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that

So thrilled @lizzylawrence.bsky.social and @statnews.com have won a Polk Award for our coverage of the Trump Administration assault on science+health. I couldn’t be prouder of our powerful coverage and the many stories we were first on. What a team. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

What Guy Fieri taught my son | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon

ht @lyz.bsky.social and her wonderful essay, out today! www.patreon.com/posts/151038...

This is from 2019, but this is a fantastic essay by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social. magazine.catapult.co/people/stori...

@marynmck.bsky.social has an excellent TED talk on this.

This is the Colbert interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that Barri Weiss, David Ellison & Donald Trump don’t want you to see.

Twice in three months content on CBS has been censored. And this is only the beginning…

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained.

The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.

A photo of Frodo speaking with Gandalf in the Mines of Moria: "I wish it had not happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But the Dow is over 50,000."

Apparently, neither am I.