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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Aug 22

see our open engineering, science, and ops roles here:
www.arcadiascience.com/careers

Careers | Arcadia Science

Evolve with Arcadia.

www.arcadiascience.com

Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Aug 22

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 · May 17

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 · May 15

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 · May 2

>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...

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

arcadia-science.github.io

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Arcadia Science @arcadiascience.com · Apr 30

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

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Apr 30

The pub @arcadiascience.com

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

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...

research.arcadiascience.com

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Apr 30

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 · Apr 3

wow okay tufts, surprising me

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Apr 3

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...

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...

www.tufts.edu

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Apr 3

popped over to make sure its still there

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 28

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 · Mar 22

sorry it was raining while I read

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Mar 22

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 · Mar 18

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 · Feb 23

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 💚

Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Dec 8

Im in disbelief. The tyrannical dynasty that’s caused so many of us generations of pain, imprisoned and exiled my family, has ended. Hard to know what’s next in these conditions. But I’m relishing with my friends and family that we can, if only for a moment, finally breathe.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Dec 8

Assad is gone. I can’t believe it.

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Feb 21

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

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Feb 8

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 · Feb 7

i can imagine how hard things are for you rn 🤍

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Feb 7

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 · Feb 2

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 · Feb 1

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

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Jan 31

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

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Jan 31

Oh perfect thanks @jeremymberg.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/jere...

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jan 28

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).

Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.

THANK YOU!

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Ubadah Sabbagh @ubadahsabbagh.com · Jan 31

unacceptable

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