Ubadah Sabbagh
@ubadahsabbagh.com
chief of staff @arcadiascience.com • syrian immigrant • former: mit, virginia tech, umkc, community college
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resolved thank you!
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
resolved thank you!
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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...
Big experiments are only big if they can fail
Some reflections on Arena Bioworks' unexpected wind down as a fellow institutional experimentalist
seemay.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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...
Thanks for reading
October 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Thanks for reading
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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."
"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."
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
ubadah.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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."
"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."
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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.
We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.
October 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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.
We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.
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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...
ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giv...
October 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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...
ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giv...
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/pub/ubadah/p...
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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/pub/ubadah/p...
there's a complaint button
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
there's a complaint button
wow worked great for me
October 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
wow worked great for me
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.
formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Woah just discovered this
formatmypaper.com
formatmypaper.com
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...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
October 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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...
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...
see our open engineering, science, and ops roles here:
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
Careers | Arcadia Science
Evolve with Arcadia.
www.arcadiascience.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
see our open engineering, science, and ops roles here:
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
www.arcadiascience.com/careers
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:
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:
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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:
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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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...
May 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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
- 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
May 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
- 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
>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...
>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
May 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
>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...
>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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And the artist, Audrey Bell! www.aebellillustration.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
And the artist, Audrey Bell! www.aebellillustration.com
Not only do we do cool science but we have a badass illustrator for our pubs
April 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Not only do we do cool science but we have a badass illustrator for our pubs
wow okay tufts, surprising me
April 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
wow okay tufts, surprising me
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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...
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
April 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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...
www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
popped over to make sure its still there
April 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
popped over to make sure its still there
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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.
March 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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.