Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 21/04/2026Soft launched a week ago, excited to see the momentum! 000
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 21/04/2026Describe 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.comsifrprize.comthe sifr prizeWhat should exist for science and technology in the Arab world, but doesn't? An essay contest with thousands of dollars in prizes. 110
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghCameron Dale MacQuarrie @cdmacquarrie.bsky.social · 19/02/2026New 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]thestacks.orgMorphological transformation of Chlamydomonas smithii grown in Marine Broth mediumMarine 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... 121
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/11/2025If anyone at #sfn25 near the poster floor has hand moisturizer that I could use I will name my second-born after you 150
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghSeemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · 06/11/2025We’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.comBig experiments are only big if they can failSome reflections on Arena Bioworks' unexpected wind down as a fellow institutional experimentalist 3116
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Excellent 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copyright, our labor, and our intellectual property every single day."ubadah.substack.comBeware giving this site your unpublished dataUsers noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight. 1267
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/10/2025Scientists 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. 19520
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/10/2025Ubadah 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... 111225
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 23/10/2025PSA: 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.comBeware giving this site your unpublished dataUsers noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight. 13223
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/10/2025Woah just discovered this formatmypaper.comformatmypaper.comFormatMyPaper - The End of Manuscript FormattingPaste your paper, choose your journal, and let our AI handle the tedious rest. Get back to the science. 063
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 13/10/2025If 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... 013
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 22/08/2025see our open engineering, science, and ops roles here: www.arcadiascience.com/careersarcadiascience.comCareers | Arcadia ScienceEvolve with Arcadia. 000
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 22/08/2025excited 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: 111
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghAhmed G. Ibrahim @ahmedgibrahim.bsky.social · 17/05/2025This 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... 011
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 15/05/2025folks, 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 030
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...arcadia-science.github.ioCross-trait learning with a canonical transformer tops custom attention in genotype-phenotype mapping – 162
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghArcadia Science @arcadiascience.com · 30/04/2025And the artist, Audrey Bell! www.aebellillustration.com 042
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 30/04/2025The pub @arcadiascience.com research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-c...research.arcadiascience.comComparative phylogenomic analysis of chelicerates points to gene families associated with long-term suppression of host detectionWe 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... 140
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 30/04/2025Not only do we do cool science but we have a badass illustrator for our pubs 2387
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/04/2025This 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...tufts.eduUniversity Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkUniversity 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... 7781221
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This 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. 19524
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 22/03/2025prudent reminder for scientists today, from a thousand years ago 131
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 18/03/2025my tl is once again flooded with dead palestinian children killed by israeli bombs we pay for 042
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 23/02/2025fast 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 💚 060
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 21/02/2025This looks very exciting, congratulations! Looking forward to seeing more. 010
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 08/02/2025Whether 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. 0100
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 07/02/2025New 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 :) 2187
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 02/02/2025Democratic 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 030
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 01/02/2025Pleasure speaking with Katie @thetransmitter.bsky.social for her well researched story. 060
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 31/01/2025Oh perfect thanks @jeremymberg.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jere... 030
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 31/01/2025Academic scientists, I’m curious to hear what guidance (if any?) your institutions have offered re the disruption and uncertainty around NIH/NSF funding 550
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 13/01/2025“Relationships need repetition and structure to grow. They need rituals and habits.” www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...theatlantic.comThe Easiest Way to Keep Your FriendsIt’s a little boring, a little type A, and a lot better than letting relationships fizzle. 060
Reposted by Ubadah SabbaghVirginia Arechavala @varechavala.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Que 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... 121
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 09/01/2025First time I had chicken shawarma I knew it was going to be my forever 030
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 09/01/2025nice to see you too :) im still familiarizing myself 120
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 09/01/2025NINDS 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.govChallenge.GovChallenge.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 ... 27464
Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · 07/01/2025When 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... 0105