Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)
@jperkel.bsky.social
Technology Editor at Nature magazine (@nature.com) #rstats #scicomm. Love is love. 💕
Nature reveals the studies that are mentioned most often in patent filings — and why. A fascinating analysis by @richvn.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social & Edward Chen at @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: the science papers that patents cite the most
Nature reveals the studies that are mentioned most often in patent filings — and why.
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Taking a scientific approach to artificial-intelligence queries makes every output a result to be checked, says @jamesmdewar.bsky.social. Here are ten tips for doing it right. New @nature.com 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Want to get more from AI? Treat every prompt like an experiment
Taking a scientific approach to artificial-intelligence queries makes every output a result to be checked, says James Dewar. Here are ten tips for doing it right.
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This is cool. The Center for Scientific Integrity (which oversees @retractionwatch.com) announces the first winners of its Ctrl-Z Prize for researchers with the courage to retract their own work. 🧪 centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/08/04/2...
The Center for Scientific Integrity announces inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z Award for courage in retracting their own work - The Center for Scientific Integrity
The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors a junio...
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Taking a scientific approach to artificial-intelligence queries makes every output a result to be checked, says @jamesmdewar.bsky.social. Here are ten tips for doing it right. New @nature.com 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Want to get more from AI? Treat every prompt like an experiment
Taking a scientific approach to artificial-intelligence queries makes every output a result to be checked, says James Dewar. Here are ten tips for doing it right.
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Thank you for sharing your experience with @nature.com’s readers, James!
James Dewar@jamesmdewar.bsky.social · 2d agoExcited to share my piece in @nature.com Careers on why scientists are already trained for AI, plus ten places to start. 🧑🔬🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41... Hope it helps! 🙏 Incredibly grateful to editors Jack Leeming and @jperkel.bsky.social for the opportunity and collaboration.
This is such a profound invasion of privacy. They’re going to push to do this to ALL women btw.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Cool method for nano pore based peptide sequencing, nice use of copper-free click chemistry as well! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sequential reading of a stepwise-shortened peptide immobilized on nanopore - Nature
A nanopore-based ‘chop and measure’ method sequences peptides at single-amino-acid resolution by using enzymatic digestion to progressively shorten the N terminus one residue at a time,...
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Three tips to avoid #AI image mistakes in science: 1. Check publishers’ rules 2. Don’t manipulate original data 3. Take responsibility www.nature.com/articles/d41... @sarahemilywild.bsky.social @nature.com @springernature.com
Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science
Artificial-intelligence tools can be useful for brainstorming and creating graphics, but they can introduce errors. If you’re going to use them, here’s how to avoid problems.
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“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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The Curvenote Reader button is live on bioRxiv! 😎 Click it to explore papers in a new way—zoom figures, pull up references without leaving the page. Button appears 48 hours after papers drop. Feedback? DM us or hit the GitHub repo. openrxivlabs.org/articles/rea...
Why we’re expanding the openRxiv Labs Curvenote Reader experiment
Read on for early results and what we’ll be looking at in the next phase.
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How cow -- spatial transcriptomics is 10 years old! New @nature.com, @jef.works (Dr. Jean Fan) reflects on a decade of "location, location, location" in the world of gene expression analysis. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ten years of mapping gene expression in tissues
Spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies continue to enhance understanding of development and disease through a feedback loop involving academia and industry.
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Also new @nature.com, how to use #AI to create a graphical abstract in minutes. By Ananya Thakur. 🧪🎨🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to use AI to make a graphical abstract in minutes
Artificial intelligence is a democratizing force for those without graphic-design experience, as long as it is used conscientiously.
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New @nature.com 🧪: #AI is increasingly used to create scientific illustrations -- but as with text, it makes mistakes. Here are 3 tips for avoiding them. By @sarahemilywild.bsky.social, feat. @elisabethbik.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science
Artificial-intelligence tools can be useful for brainstorming and creating graphics, but they can introduce errors. If you’re going to use them, here’s how to avoid problems.
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She was so enamored with the gentle, misunderstood creatures, her mom said, that for years, “sloth” became her shorthand for “I’m really happy.” --> Crucial, devastating reporting. Just a gut punch from the lede onwards. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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Even as Cyclospora outbreaks have become more frequent, CDC's parasite surveillance team was slashed from 11 people to 3 last year. Joel Barratt, who ran the team, tells me he worries the agency doesn't have the staffing to stop the current outbreak quickly. My story in @nature.com:
‘Explosive diarrhoea’ outbreak grips US: how researchers are hunting its source
Cases have hit record levels, and scientists are racing to pinpoint where the Cyclospora parasite entered the food supply.
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🧪 Double pub day! I got to catch up with Nobel Prize-winner Jennifer Doudna about her new study crafting synthetic CRISPR proteins that perform gene editing more efficiently than their naturally-occurring counterparts! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
CRISPR gets a power boost from AI-designed ‘molecular scissors’
Researchers used artificial intelligence to design functional CRISPR enzymes not seen in nature.
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ICE will keep murdering random people until Democrats stop criticizing them is... well... quite a take.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
Researchers increasingly use #AI agents to mine online resources for new insights. New @nature.com, @dalmeet.bsky.social reports on a study that documents how easy it is to 'poison' these datasets to support false conclusions. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Doctored data sets could trick AI agents
Researchers warn that ‘poisoned’ information can undermine the reliability of tools that analyse data autonomously.
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Researchers increasingly use #AI agents to mine online resources for new insights. New @nature.com, @dalmeet.bsky.social reports on a study that documents how easy it is to 'poison' these datasets to support false conclusions. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Doctored data sets could trick AI agents
Researchers warn that ‘poisoned’ information can undermine the reliability of tools that analyse data autonomously.
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"The change happened overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, hours after the city hosted MLB All-Star game events near the site, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown." -- www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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“I find epigenome editing to be much more sophisticated, much more complex" than genome editing; "there are just so many more things you can do with it." Amber Dance reports on the researchers rewriting chemical tags in chromatin to tune gene activity. @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Epigenetic editing makes its mark
Researchers are rewriting the chemical tags on DNA and chromatin to tune gene expression.
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Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions to @arxiv.bsky.social. By David Brzostowicki in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared
Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions.
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"What was the AIM screen name of the girl who bullied you in middle school? "
Triggering Password-Recovery Questions
What’s the largest animal you’ve ever hit with a car? What’s the age you thought you’d be when you’d get married? Now subtract the number of children you tho...
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