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Ubadah Sabbagh

@ubadahsabbagh.com
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neuroscientist by training, biotech guy @arcadiascience.com and open science guy @asterainstitute.bsky.social • syrian immigrant • former: mit, virginia tech, umkc, community college ubadah.sy

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 21/04/2026
Soft launched a week ago, excited to see the momentum!
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 21/04/2026
Describe a problem in the Arab world that requires R&D to solve and describe the solution. You can get $2500. Excited to announce a technical essay contest called the sifr prize. Open to anyone anywhere. sifrprize.com
sifrprize.com
the sifr prize
What should exist for science and technology in the Arab world, but doesn't? An essay contest with thousands of dollars in prizes.
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Cameron Dale MacQuarrie @cdmacquarrie.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New pub from @ArcadiaScience 🧵 We found that C. smithii — a freshwater green alga — undergoes wild morphological transformations when grown on Marine Broth. Huge cells with mysterious wisp-like appendages. Here's what we saw. thestacks.org/publications... [1/9]
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Morphological transformation of Chlamydomonas smithii grown in Marine Broth medium
Marine Broth induces extreme morphological transformation in C. smithii: Cells shift from typical ellipsoid shape to amorphous forms with thin wisp-like appendages containing mitochondria, revealing u...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 16/11/2025
resolved thank you!
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/11/2025
If anyone at #sfn25 near the poster floor has hand moisturizer that I could use I will name my second-born after you
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Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We’ve been heads down @ArcadiaScience for a bit but the @arenabioworks news this week caused me to dump thoughts. hard things are hard; don’t be such a fucking hater. Reflections on parallels w our own institutional experiment here seemay.substack.com/p/big-experi...
seemay.substack.com
Big experiments are only big if they can fail
Some reflections on Arena Bioworks' unexpected wind down as a fellow institutional experimentalist
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 26/10/2025
Thanks for reading
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Excellent post by the creator of the hoax FormatMyPaper.com. "We’re a community of experts, terrified of a harmless prank site, yet seemingly unbothered by the multi-billion dollar publishing industry that actually takes our copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."
ubadah.substack.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/10/2025
Scientists themselves determine what is valued within science. Yet we act as if beholden to external managers, bean-counters who confuse the production of papers with scientific progress. We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/10/2025
Ubadah Sabbagh is referring to closed-access for-profit publishing here, but I keep thinking about how perfectly it describes the general push to incorporate large language models into the scientific workflow in the interest of higher "productivity". ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giv...
What does a reaction like this reveal? It reveals a kind of learned helplessness. A mind so accustomed to the constraints of its environment that its first impulse is not to imagine a different world, but to seek a more efficient way of navigating its own prison.
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 23/10/2025
PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here: open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
open.substack.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/10/2025
woah seems serious
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/10/2025
there's a complaint button
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/10/2025
wow worked great for me
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/10/2025
Woah just discovered this formatmypaper.com
formatmypaper.com
FormatMyPaper - The End of Manuscript Formatting
Paste your paper, choose your journal, and let our AI handle the tedious rest. Get back to the science.
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 13/10/2025
If you've been hearing a lot about "AI Scientists" and wondered how much is real, how much is hype, and what's possible, so have I. So I spent some time thinking about it and this came out. open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 22/08/2025
see our open engineering, science, and ops roles here: www.arcadiascience.com/careers
arcadiascience.com
Careers | Arcadia Science
Evolve with Arcadia.
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 22/08/2025
excited about applying engineering + AI to frontier biology? we’re building tools @arcadiascience.com to help scientists move faster and smarter, and we’re hiring software engineers and applied ML engineers to join us. if that’s you, apply and let's talk:
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Ahmed G. Ibrahim @ahmedgibrahim.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This week, I continue my discussion with @ubadahsabbagh.com, Chief of Staff at Arcadia Science. We discuss his transition to industry, perspective on the state of academic research, and his visionary endeavors. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3spkv...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/05/2025
folks, we’re hiring for scientist roles - lab tech - protein designer - molecular biologist - project scientist all onsite, all for creative people who believe in open science & wanna build cool shit. plus other stuff but that’s in the postings jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience @arcadiascience.com
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 03/05/2025
>march 10 @arcadiascience.com announces new form of rapid publishing >apr 18 team reads a preprint, finds it interesting >9 work days later, team publishes results validating and extending model this is how science should be. open, rapid, with the community arcadia-science.github.io/2025-geno-ph...
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Cross-trait learning with a canonical transformer tops custom attention in genotype-phenotype mapping –
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Arcadia Science @arcadiascience.com · 30/04/2025
And the artist, Audrey Bell! www.aebellillustration.com
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 30/04/2025
The pub @arcadiascience.com research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-c...
research.arcadiascience.com
Comparative phylogenomic analysis of chelicerates points to gene families associated with long-term suppression of host detection
We investigated patterns of gene family evolution across ticks and other parasites. We used phylogenetic profiling and trait-association tests to identify gene families that may enable parasitic speci...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 30/04/2025
Not only do we do cool science but we have a badass illustrator for our pubs
Graphical abstract depicting diverse types of ticks on a phylogenetic tree
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 03/04/2025
wow okay tufts, surprising me
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This made me cry and it really should not have. It is a document of basic decency. Good for Tufts, may the other institutions grow a spine too. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
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University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk
University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 03/04/2025
popped over to make sure its still there
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This message is for immigrants — everyone from naturalized citizens to the “undocumented”— you may decide to do some things differently and that’s ok, smart even. Be gentle to yourself & remember that fear is the authoritarian’s greatest weapon.
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 22/03/2025
sorry it was raining while I read
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 22/03/2025
prudent reminder for scientists today, from a thousand years ago
The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration and not the sayings of human beings whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency.
Ibn al-Haytham
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 18/03/2025
my tl is once again flooded with dead palestinian children killed by israeli bombs we pay for
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 23/02/2025
fast forward two months later, i spent 10 hours today with a group of bay area investors, tech entrepreneurs, creatives, academics, lawyers, and scientists planning projects to develop education and tech sectors in syria. we’re cooking 💚
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 21/02/2025
This looks very exciting, congratulations! Looking forward to seeing more.
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 08/02/2025
Whether from this indirects policy or some later thing, many labs will be shuttered. And I bet the first to go won't be those who mastered scientific theatrics & wasting taxpayer dollars, those skilled at prestige games and cronyism, or those rife with sexual harassment & abuse.
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 07/02/2025
i can imagine how hard things are for you rn 🤍
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 07/02/2025
New job @arcadiascience.com! Ideally you've got a few years of experience post-PhD, in academia or elsewhere, and have some computational fluency in addition to experimental expertise. Added bonus, you'd get to join our pastry-fueled preprint comment parties like the one we're having today :)
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 02/02/2025
Democratic member of congress was just bragging that the biden admin had deported more ppl in a week than trump 2.0 admin has in a week, so yeah, plausible
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 01/02/2025
Pleasure speaking with Katie @thetransmitter.bsky.social for her well researched story.
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 31/01/2025
I do I just don’t open it often. I’ll check soon
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 31/01/2025
Oh perfect thanks @jeremymberg.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jere...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 31/01/2025
unacceptable
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 31/01/2025
Academic scientists, I’m curious to hear what guidance (if any?) your institutions have offered re the disruption and uncertainty around NIH/NSF funding
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/01/2025
huge congrats!!
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 13/01/2025
“Relationships need repetition and structure to grow. They need rituals and habits.” www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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The Easiest Way to Keep Your Friends
It’s a little boring, a little type A, and a lot better than letting relationships fizzle.
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Virginia Arechavala @varechavala.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Que fantástica iniciativa para promover el rigor científico y premiar a quienes no suelen ser reconocidos por hacer las cosas "bien", aunque hacerlo así no valga para promociones, ni de puntos en esa investigación "al peso" a la que nos estamos acostumbrando...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 09/01/2025
First time I had chicken shawarma I knew it was going to be my forever
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 09/01/2025
nice to see you too :) im still familiarizing myself
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 09/01/2025
NINDS just launched a $50K prize competition for early-career scientists championing research rigor beyond their normal duties. Do you organize workshops, journal clubs, or do work to try and shift culture? This could be you. www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni...
challenge.gov
Challenge.Gov
Challenge.Gov is the official GSA government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government. Here federal agencies provide prize awards to ...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 07/01/2025
When choosing a model organism, scientists often focus on a handful of species. But the tree of life offers much more, so how can we leverage it? Scientists @arcadiascience.com mapped 1 billion+ years of evolution and developed a rational approach anyone can use: doi.org/10.57844/arc...
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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 05/01/2025
Did I miss some stupid take somewhere
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