Jeffrey Perkel
Technology Editor at Springer Nature
Pocatello, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Perkel is a technology editor at Springer Nature with a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology and over two decades of experience translating complex bioscience research into accessible journalism. After postdoctoral work at Penn and Harvard, he pivoted from the bench to editorial roles at The Scientist and a decade as a freelance science writer before joining Nature in 2016. He blends deep domain expertise in laboratory technology with a knack for spotting practical impacts of emerging tools and methods. Based in Pocatello, Idaho, he combines metropolitan-level editorial experience with the perspective of a scientist who has lived both in academia and the media. His work often illuminates the operational side of lab innovation—how instruments and workflows change what scientists can actually do, not just what’s theoretically possible.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of Massachusetts AmherstPhD, PhD at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (33)
scientific-publications10
genbank10
filereader9
r9
ecology9
stable9
bash9
knitr9
jupyter-notebook9
r-api9
rmarkdown8
google-sheets8
data-import8
google-sheet8
spreadsheet8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jperkel/parse_command_line
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:75 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
jperkel/nature_bash
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Example scripts demonstrating science at the command line.
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 months
command-linebashbash-scripting
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