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.
14 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 (37)
google-colab10
binder10
google-colaboratory10
ecology9
stable9
jupyterlab9
jupyterlab-extension9
genbank9
knitr9
jupyter-notebook8
rmarkdown8
notebook8
data-wrangling8
r8
jupyter8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
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
pythonsciencemachine-learningdata-science
jperkel/mymanuscript
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Demo manuscript using Manubot
Contributions:126 commits, 3 PRs, 40 pushes in 28 days
manubotmanuscript
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