Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)

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Technology Editor at Nature magazine (@nature.com) #rstats #scicomm. Love is love. 💕

Two bright blue birds in a cage in front of an informational sign about Tyrannosaurus rex
Woman writing on notepad resting her head face down on page.
A stylised illustration with a bright red background. Solid black silohetted arms and hands appear from the right and left reaching out to a simplified silhouetted figure standing in a doorway the shape of a keyhole. The lines of an atom circle the top of the keyhole.
A silver Hanukkah menorah with two lit candles
Right before Thanksgiving, Duffy also offered a helpful solution to the hell of air travel: Dress nicer, you fucking slobs! That’s right. The problem is not airline safety, pricing, or comfort. (What even happened to the investigation into Boeing? I’m sure Sean Duffy told them, “It’s OK, bros, death happens.” And handed them a kazoo on his way out.) No, the problem with airlines is not being upsold every small convenience while you're shoved into tiny seats on flying tin cans owned by giant companies who are extorting you and their own employees. No, it’s that you, a weary traveler, decided to wear sweatpants on your 6 a.m. flight to see your dying grandma because it was the only flight that day that didn’t cost $800 and come with a free punch in the face from TSA. Sean Duffy literally looked at the hellscape of American infrastructure and said, “OK, but what were you wearing?"
“Lately, Jamie watches other PhD students—talented, valiant souls—going on the job market and getting no offers. Grad school feels like the conveyor belt in Toy Story 3: Jamie can see the toys just a ways ahead of her tipping into the incinerator. Her only hope is to produce a dissertation so mind-freaking that someone scoops her off the conveyor belt, brushes her fake fur clean, and puts her into a loving home, wherein she shall befriend a spork.”
Crater Lake is full of cobalt-blue water. There’s a small island in the center, and snow in the foreground. A blue sky with wispy clouds dominate the top third of the image.
THE GRIFFIN SISTERS’ GREATEST HITS by Jennifer Weiner and SHARK HEART by Emily Habeck
A view of the Oregon coast under a mostly cloudless sky. There is grass in the foreground and blue water behind. The coast curves into the background
Snow-capped mountains under a bright blue sky, with a snowy plain in the foreground
A color painting of the moon against the blackness of space. The image is in a black frame with white matting, and sits on a brown couch.
A red door with a sign saying “Whoeva”
Larry, Daryl and Daryl, from Newhart
A DNA double helix ladder with pencil rungs/bases. The pencils form a color spectrum from purple (bottom) to red.
A gradient of sliced tomatoes, from yellow at the top to red at the bottom
A dinosaur sculpture on a sunny sidewalk
webr-demo AUTHOR: Jeffrey M. Perkel PUBLISHED: December 14, 2023 WEBR STATUS: 🟢 Ready! WebR This document demonstrates the webR package for the #rstats community. Using it, in conjunction with the quarto-webr Quarto extension, allows users to create Quarto documents with code that runs at runtime instead of during document rendering. p <- mtcars |> ggplot(aes(x = wt, y = mpg, color = factor(cyl))) + geom_point(shape = 21) p We can modify this base graph (stored as the variable p), for instance by changing the background from grey to white. p + theme_minimal() Now, replace the text in the previous cell to read: p + labs(title = "Title", x = "Weight", y = "Miles-per-gallon") + theme_minimal() (You can click the clipboard icon at the upper-right of the cell above to copy its text) and click Run Code again.
Blue sky over the Tetons
A single puzzle piece on an asphalt road.
Life is short. Buy the donuts.
Photo of Sara Benincasa’s book, REAL ARTISTS HAVE DAY JOBS.