Eric Perlman

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I am a freelance data wrangler drawn to the deluge of scientific data being generated.

Other interests include biking, board games, transit & travel (of all forms).

Baltimore is home; originally from Berkeley.

Posting pictures at an unknown frequency to @perlman.

he/him; 🏳️‍🌈

Webhttps://www.yikes.com/~eric/
GitHubhttps://github.com/perlman/

So… um… I (and Draga Doncila Pop and @perlman and @joshmoore and @kevinyamauchi) started a thing! We are excited and terrified in equal measures, and look forward to working with you all in our amazing scientific imaging community! ❤️‍🔥

Read the linked post for the lowdown.

https://image.coop/blog/posts/2026/03/16/why-image-cooperative/

Why we started Image Cooperative – Image Cooperative

“Hello, World!” from the Image Cooperative team

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@jni/116239224858280467

So, we started a thing... and, as the member with five broken ribs, I'm very happy that my slack was picked up by the rest of the kick ass team!

@mattblaze We were all so incredibly “cool”!

My favorite mobile setup to date was a Libretto running FreeBSD with the fancy “new" modem attached.

@kona I love Pantograph. I'm glad you've chosen to keep developing!
@enobacon I wish I could make the ride today! I spent a month in the SW hills in 2022 and the bike infrastructure confirmed that I did not want to move there.
@jemal Sweeeet! I particularly love the green & black scheme.
All I can counter with is my ride at Sophomore on Friday =)
@jemal Quite the bike maintenance day! Bike party was great; I'm glad the weather cooperated.

RIP Donald Shoup. He wrote a book that really had a big impact on me called "the high cost of free parking" it's a lot better than the title makes it sound. If you don't know it maybe check it out.

https://parkingreform.org/donald-shoup/

Remembering Donald Shoup - Parking Reform Network

Professor Donald Shoup’s curiosity, intelligence, passion, generosity, and kindness allowed him to not only expose the critical problems with modern parking policy, but to also ignite and nurture a…

Parking Reform Network
My #OpenScience talk is ready, thanks to all for the suggestions.
You can see the slides here:
https://jekelylab.github.io/ELTE_Open_Science_28Jan2025.html#/title-slide
Open Science in (In)Action: Why, What, and How

@jemal I have similar feelings. I wish FireFox would sandbox Google the way it does Meta, but that's unlikely to happen with the direction Mozilla is headed. Sigh.