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]
resolved thank you!
If anyone at #sfn25 near the poster floor has hand moisturizer that I could use I will name my second-born after you
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
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."
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.
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.
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...
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...
woah seems serious
there's a complaint button
wow worked great for me
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...
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:
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
>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
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 💚
