neuroscientist by training, biotech guy @arcadiascience.com and open science guy @asterainstitute.bsky.social • syrian immigrant • former: mit, virginia tech, umkc, community college
ubadah.sy
Ubadah Sabbagh
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Soft launched a week ago, excited to see the momentum!
Describe 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.com
If anyone at #sfn25 near the poster floor has hand moisturizer that I could use I will name my second-born after you
Woah just discovered this
formatmypaper.com
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...
Ubadah Sabbagh
Paste your paper, choose your journal, and let our AI handle the tedious rest. Get back to the science.
formatmypaper.com
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]
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."
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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.
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".
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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...
