Ubadah Sabbagh

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...

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

Cross-trait learning with a canonical transformer tops custom attention in genotype-phenotype mapping –

>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...

And the artist, Audrey Bell! www.aebellillustration.com

The pub @arcadiascience.com

research.arcadiascience.com/pub/result-c...

Graphical abstract depicting diverse types of ticks on a phylogenetic tree

Not only do we do cool science but we have a badass illustrator for our pubs

wow okay tufts, surprising me

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...

popped over to make sure its still there

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.

sorry it was raining while I read

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

prudent reminder for scientists today, from a thousand years ago

my tl is once again flooded with dead palestinian children killed by israeli bombs we pay for

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 💚

This looks very exciting, congratulations! Looking forward to seeing more.

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.

i can imagine how hard things are for you rn 🤍

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 :)

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

Pleasure speaking with Katie @thetransmitter.bsky.social for her well researched story.

I do I just don’t open it often. I’ll check soon

Oh perfect thanks @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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unacceptable

Academic scientists, I’m curious to hear what guidance (if any?) your institutions have offered re the disruption and uncertainty around NIH/NSF funding

huge congrats!!

The Easiest Way to Keep Your Friends It’s a little boring, a little type A, and a lot better than letting relationships fizzle.

“Relationships need repetition and structure to grow. They need rituals and habits.”

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

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...

First time I had chicken shawarma I knew it was going to be my forever

nice to see you too :) im still familiarizing myself

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 ...

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...