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Whether you’re performing phylogenomic inferences, identifying structural differences and similarities between proteins, or doing high-throughput time-lapse imaging, we have some free, easily accessible tools and resources that may be helpful for you. 🧵
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Behold the beauty of the cheese microbiome! 🧀🦠🍄
These plates contain the bacterial (front two plates) & fungal (middle plate) members from washed-rind cheese (🤤) and boy do they make our lab smell... distinctive 😆
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📣Big news day!📣 We've got a new website!! Check it out and let us know which piece of
#sciart
is your favorite!
Also, read our new blog post, answering the question: “So if you aren’t studying model organisms, which organisms will you be studying?”
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To foster community and solicit ideas as we build Arcadia, we will be hosting a conference in 2022 to hear about your awesome research on cool organisms. Sign up here for updates on this! Please RT
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We're having so much fun celebrating our current team, but equally important to note is WE ARE HIRING! Today we're dropping a three part package on hiring at Arcadia, which includes some awesome projects produced for our first hackathon! Check it out 👇🧵 /1
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Lots of exciting things are happening at
@ArcadiaScience
, and that also means we’re growing! Check out our new job postings!
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Announcing! 🥁The
@ArcadiaScience
Pizza Preprint Party Giveaway! We will give $200 in 🍕 bucks to each of the first 20 crews to commit to hosting their own preprint review pizza party this month! Please reply in comments tagging CSO
@PracheeAC
to sign up 👇
Preprint review pizza party at
@ArcadiaScience
! We read a ton of preprints here & since we want to live in a world where authors, reviewers, and readers all benefit from expert opinions, we’re posting a whole bunch public comments on preprints 🙌
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Do you have questions about Arcadia? Want to learn more about our science, mission, structure & culture (or something else?) Do you want to hang with
@seemaychou
and
@PracheeAC
for an hour?
Then come to our Virtual Open House on May 10 at 9AM! Register:
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At Arcadia, we spent much of 2021 building an awesome team & we're kicking off 2022 by celebrating our people! Each day for the next 2 weeks our cofounders
@seemaychou
&
@PracheeAC
will be shouting out a team member. Watch for their quote tweets & get ready to
#meetthearcadians
!
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Attention all brain-iacs 🧠! We’re looking for a dynamic and creative neuroscientist to join our team and help launch
#neuroscience
research at Arcadia. Check out the thread below for more details on the opportunity!
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Loving the positive vibes and questions about
#arcadiascience
- check out our new FAQ section! Go big or go home y'all:
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To be clear: Arcadia is intentionally separate from academia & will not take grad students. We have for-profit & metascience goals that require experimenting with new structures & incentives. Only by being fully independent of existing systems can we truly explore what's possible
The Senate is hosting a town hall on potential UCSF academic affiliations with outside institutes with Chancellor Hawgood, Grad Dean Blake, & SOM Vice Dean Morgan. on 4/8, at 3 p.m. in Byers Hall with Zoom webinar.
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New job alert! We are looking for adventurous scientists to lead pilot, moonshot projects as part of our program, The Arcade:
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🚨 New opportunity alert! 🚨 We're launching an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program!
Check out the job ad and thread below to learn more about the program and the type of candidates we're looking for. RT's appreciated!! /1
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We love some surprising protist behavior!
@cdmacquarrie
caught this diatom (Phaeodactylum tricornutum) shedding its entire cell wall after treating it with a cell wall degrading enzyme. One hypothesis: "if it's too broke, don't fix it!"
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Friday afternoons at Arcadia: tech strategy meeting in the courtyard (renamed "tech therapy"), followed by a cheese microbiome harvest
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. --Albert Einstein.
New blog entry up about publishing at Arcadia:
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🌱Arcadia is growing! 🌱 We launch 3 new job searches this week… and it’s only Wednesday!! Check out the 🧵👇 for info on these new roles, plus a recap of our active searches! And as always, RT's appreciated!! /1
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Big (micro) news!
Microbiology is officially launched
@ArcadiaScience
🚀🎉🔥
Say hello to the newest Arcadians: BACTERIOPHAGES!!!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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The recording of our first virtual Open House is now up on our YouTube channel! In it, we answer some of the most frequently asked questions, including "What is Arcadia?"! See 🧵👇 for the other questions answered and let us know what questions you have!
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Arcadia: Come for the science, stay for the cheese!
😆🧀 🤤
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We're excited to introduce our 1st cohort of scientific scouts! Each day this week we will feature one scout and their field of interest. 🧵👇for more on their role, 👀 watch for the quote tweets, and get ready to 👋
#meetthearcadianadvisors
! /1
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Head's up
#compbio
&
#DataScience
communities! Later this week we are posting not 1, not 2, but **3** new job ads looking for awesome scientists to join our team! Sign up now for our newsletter (at the bottom of ) to be the 1st to get all the details!
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📯It's another big announcement day at Arcadia!📯
Today is all about translation: we've got two new job ads for our translation team *AND* we're shouting out our killer team of translation advisors!
#meetthearcadianadvisors
Check out the 🧵👇for more details! /1
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As we shared in our newsletter yesterday, we've launched a search for 3 scientists with expertise in
#compbio
and
#DataScience
!! Check the 🧵 below for info on each of the positions!
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We’re so thrilled about the interest in our open positions! We’ve gotten a lot of great questions from you about applying so we answered the most common here and in this 🧵:
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Arcadia is part of a bigger movement to revolutionize science. Says our cofounder
@seemaychou
, “It’s truly an experiment of epic proportions.” Read more, today in
@endpts
:
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Year 1 was wild -- 35 people, 37 research organisms, 17 published outputs, and a new HQ. And we're just getting started.
Check out our latest post on how we're thinking about translation and sustainability 🔬🔁🏥🌱🔁💵
I often get asked why
@ArcadiaScience
is for-profit. I love this question because it gives me a chance to share our larger goals. It's all about long-term impact. Thread and new blog post on how we think about this 👇
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Last week we took to Twitter to flag that we are hiring – and holy cow were we blown away by the enthusiasm and amazing candidates that applied! We are so grateful and are heartened by the response! /1
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📈Arcadia had a growth spurt this summer! We are now 33 strong - teamwork makes the dreamwork 💪 💪
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Busy month 😅 We have suddenly metamorphosed into the Two-Pub-Tables developmental stage of
@ArcadiaScience
- welcome
@fuscans
@dave_matus
@emilycpierce
@Mezarque
@AustinHPatton
@BiggeBrae
@ReiterTaylor
and Jennifer Cohen!
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At Arcadia, we are deeply committed to evolving science communication. That's why we are proud to work with ICOR (Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research) to foster collaboration and innovative, reproducible outcomes through open science.
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First Arcadian field trip! Thanks to
@lab_lowe
,
@HopkinsMarine
, &
@MontereyAq
for hosting us! We had so much fun learning about marine biology and seeing the incredible husbandry setups! We're stoked about the under-explored & untapped biology of the oceans! (more pics in 🧵!)
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🦠Scientists & more scientists! We are looking for both independent scientists & team leads for our Discovery program. Discovery scientists might use unique organisms best suited for tackling interesting questions or comparative biology for exploration
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Not even record temps can't deter Arcadians from hunting for weird gooey microbial structures 🛶🌞😅
#cantstopwontstop
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Enjoy getting people stoked about biology? You obviously know how to use twitter already. Apply to be on our communication/design team!
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We’re hosting a fun mini-hackathon here at Arcadia Science for
#Hacktoberfest2023
! 🌟
Come join us in the afternoon on Fri. Oct. 6 & contribute to a curated list of repos. We’ll have coffee + snacks. Sign up today, space is limited!
Details + RSVP ⬇️
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This is 🔥 SO THRILLED for
@olgabot
to be joining our team
@ArcadiaScience
to push this effort for more organisms!
SO THRILLED to share this work.
First of all, thank you to my fearless coauthors Pranthi Vemuri,
@saltyscientist
@PhoenixLogan
@saba_nafees314
and
@lekha_karanam
for their tireless efforts in surviving cell barcodes, Makefiles, Nextflow, and definitions of orthology. 1/20
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And on Fridays, we jam!
At our bi-weekly jam/sandbox sessions, Arcadians talk about their ideas, experimental designs, how to maximize utility, and/or translational potential. This week's topic: creating tools for HTP comparative non-model biology
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Curious about our open science mission and what we are building at Arcadia? Check out this podcast with our cofounder and CSO
@PracheeAC
to learn more!
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Our goal is to spark the match for science. Read about our latest effort to catalyze this 🔥👇
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We're so delighted to be supporting open source science today with our mini-hackathon for
#Hacktoberfest
! Great conversations and even greater collaborations + a swag bag to take home 😎 🖥️
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How can we expand the number of organisms we research?
Join
@tylerbarnumphd
and
@seemaychou
on May 2nd in SF for a convo on predicting ideal growth conditions and choosing transformable research organisms, co-hosted by
@fiftyyears
and Arcadia!
RSVP:
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With so much scicomm talent out there, we decided to host an Arcadia Communications Hackathon to find you. Come show us what you got AND get paid:
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Here we go...
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The building process is getting exciting over here! Check out our new mission statement (and FAQ):
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Our first Open House was a blast! Thank you to all who attended -- and thanks for all the excellent, thoughtful questions!!
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Next up on
#meetthearcadianadvisors
is
@ehaswell
! Liz truly astounded us during her presentation on the untapped potential of plants earlier this year. We're thrilled she is leading our efforts to engage the
#plantscience
community!
We're excited to introduce our 1st cohort of scientific scouts! Each day this week we will feature one scout and their field of interest. 🧵👇for more on their role, 👀 watch for the quote tweets, and get ready to 👋
#meetthearcadianadvisors
! /1
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Excited to learn more about squirrels, genomics, and general awesomeness w
@faunabio
!
Excited to announce our recent funding round led by LifeForce Capital!
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First MiniSeq run at Arcadia! 🧬🧬🧬
For more behind the scenes — sign up for our newsletter! The latest edition will hit inboxes in the next hour...
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New open search! We are looking for project scientists to help us pilot high-risk, high-reward ideas:
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Think the phenotype-o-mat would be useful for your lab? Let us know! We’re considering hosting a workshop if that would be beneficial for the community. 👇
If you’re a fan of DIY lab equipment, you’ll love the phenotype-o-mat, a customizable DIY 96-well plate imager from
@ArcadiaScience
that you can now build for only $400 🧵 1/7
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Special guests
@dsboothacosta
and
@balkalarre
join the weekly cell bio meeting to discuss everything we *don't* know about protists (hint: it's a lot)
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Do you love
#microscopy
🔬? Do you love teaching people to use microscopes and enabling discovery? If yes to the above, check out our new role for Microscopy Core Facility Manager -- a super key team member! /2
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Calling all microbiologists! We've got a weird one!
#microbiology
@ContamClub
(though not a contamination -- we're *trying* to culture odd bugs!)
Does anyone know what the amazing microbe in the top right is?? It was isolated from a compost sample.
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Need something to look forward to? We've got more *new job ads* posting next week! Keep your 👀 peeled & be sure to sign up for our newsletter on our website! And don't forget to check out our open positions, including 3 in
#compbio
&
#DataScience
#hiring
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“I think we could all benefit from more experiments in scientific funding, and I want these experiments to reach far beyond the Bay Area" says
@PracheeAC
in today's article in
@TheAtlantic
. Thanks to
@DKThomp
for including our experiment in this piece.
Abundance requires innovation.
Innovation begins with science.
But scientific funding in the U.S. is broken—it's too slow, risk-averse, and old.
I wrote about a surprising coalition of tech founders and star scientists who are trying to fix it.
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Are you passionate about
#openscience
? Are you eager to experiment and develop new forms of
#peerreview
? Are you a curiously, service-minded community builder? Then please consider applying to our Discovery Community Manager position! (RTs appreciated!)
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Today on
#meetthearcadianadvisors
:
@Hamdounlab
! Amro will be leading our efforts to identify the key challenges, the under-explored biology, and the next generation of leaders in
#marinebiology
!
🌊🐙🦑🦞🦀🦐🦪🐠🐟🐡🐬🦈🦭🐳🐚🪸🌊
We're excited to introduce our 1st cohort of scientific scouts! Each day this week we will feature one scout and their field of interest. 🧵👇for more on their role, 👀 watch for the quote tweets, and get ready to 👋
#meetthearcadianadvisors
! /1
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Part 2, con't: And special shoutout to the winner of the hackathon,
@AaronEvoDevo
! We absolutely loved his video, as well as the work from the other finalists,
@JustinePinskey
@faythtan
@_heyheyMONET
& Ana Wang. Check it out on our new YouTube channel! /4
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Move over TikTok, we're hosting a Tick Talk! Join
@seemaychou
, Peter Thuy-Boun, &
@trovebiolabs
scientists June 8 @ 9AM PT to discuss tick omics (more info 🧵👇). We'd love feedback/ideas/opinions on our work & how we can help the tick community. Register:
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Mitochondria on the move!
@cdmacquarrie
keeps finding cool protist behaviors, this time in the super long (up to 1 mm!) extensions of Bigelowiella longifila. Anyone ever seen mitochondria transported like this before?
(MitoTracker in yellow, chloroplast in red, DNA in blue)
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Perhaps unsurprising for a company chock full of nerds, but we're big Star Wars fans! Thanks to our awesome office manager, Nikole, for the themed cookies!
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
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Part 2: Speaking of hackathons – We're thrilled to share the results of our first experiment with the form: our "Sci Comm Hackathon"! Check out the announcement post by
@lr_bio
here: /3
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👀 New job ad up! 👀We're looking for a Director of Operations!
Are you adept at managing complex & fast-paced projects? Do you have deep experience in scaling teams in tech/biotech? Are you equally passionate and pragmatic? Learn more: RT's appreciated!
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As a meta-science experiment, we're testing new ways of supporting science and scientists, including during recruitment and hiring. And as an experiment, we evolve our approach based on new data! Check out the updated blog post for our latest adaptations:
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Tick tick 💥boom💥!
We moved our tick work in-house at
@BioEnginuityHub
this week. We're so excited to continue learning how these little "master scientists of our skin" (as
@seemaychou
says) do their work!
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Aaaaand 15h later we have our first set of 20 groups signed up to iterate on this process together! More on the results of this first joint community experiment soon 👩🏻🔬🧑🔬👨🏾🔬👩🏽🔬🧑🏻🔬👩🏼🔬
Announcing! 🥁The
@ArcadiaScience
Pizza Preprint Party Giveaway! We will give $200 in 🍕 bucks to each of the first 20 crews to commit to hosting their own preprint review pizza party this month! Please reply in comments tagging CSO
@PracheeAC
to sign up 👇
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Our advisors are top-notch.
@beckypferdehirt
is a partner on the
@a16z
bio investing team. She's a whip-smart scientist, keen strategist & big picture thinker & her super power is connect disparate dots, getting the right people in the right room & forging strong partnerships/5
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Journal titles, closed peer review, and impact factors fail to reflect the utility and rigor of scientific work. Join
@PracheeAC
,
@RobertRoth57
, and
@JACoates
on May 29th at 9 am PT for a virtual discussion about how we can gauge the impact of science.
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Today on the blog: we lay out our
#openscience
initiatives & our collaboration with ICOR () to ensure that what we learn in the process of developing and implementing our open science experiments is maximally useful to the community:
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Another day, another new opportunity at Arcadia!
We're looking for a Cultivation Technician. If you love culturing, cultivating & cryo-preserving all kinds of cool cells and organisms, this job's for you!
Check out the job ad & please share widely!
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Vote for this Arcadian's awesome arthropod model organism Lego design! 🪰🦗
A tad late for
#InverteFest
, but I submitted a set of my arthropod Lego designs to
@LEGOIdeas
!
My set idea "Arthropod Model Organisms" features models for a fruit fly, amphipod crustacean, red flour beetle, and two-spotted cricket.
Vote here:
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📣 Results from our first Preprint Pizza Party: 11 preprints📰, 77 comments💬, 5 pizzas🍕, and 21 new groups👋set up with pizza money on the way to host their own events soon! Host your own and post pics with
#PreprintCommentClub
🎉🎉🎉
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Congrats to our super intern
@jasmineyxng
for winning the "best pitch" as part of her Masters in Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization program at
@McMasterU
! We're so lucky to have you on the team!
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If you're excited by our work to reimagine scientific publication – and especially the post-publication community review aspect – be sure to check out our open role: Discovery Community Manager! (More details 🧵👇)
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✨Founder Feature!✨
@seemaychou
is one of
@endpts
"20 Under 40 in Biopharma". Check out the article to learn how this roller-blading, Houston kid evolved into our professor-turned-CEO. Beyonce would be proud!
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We really do love our protists around here!
@cdmacquarrie
captured this Bigelowiella longifila's successful hunt today! 🦠 versus 🦠!
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Arcadian
@GaloGarciaIII
is studying how organisms survive (and thrive!) in extreme environmental conditions. Check out the thread with an update on his work with
@TanFad
, imaging single-cell organisms that form protective casings daily to save themselves from drying out
Update on my project
@ArcadiaScience
! I'm working with
@TanFad
to look at a bunch of desiccation-resistant protists under the microscope, and we've found some revolutionary (pun-intended) stuff! see the thread below!
#Project_Dormant_Protist
[12 x video]
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Getting our fall vibes on w some pie and fresh pressed cider 🥧 🍎
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Part 1: Curious about we are re-thinking hiring paradigms in science? Check out this blog post by
@seemaychou
and
@PracheeAC
on "Hiring at Arcadia", and in particular our use of hackathons to unearth unexpected candidates: /2
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Welcome to the team,
@BiggeBrae
!
Super duper excited to share that I’m joining all the brilliant people
@ArcadiaScience
as a discovery scientist!!!
#firstdayselfie
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We love folks who are biased towards action - it's easy to criticize, much harder to try 💪
I always told everyone it’s cool to write about deeptech but it’s way better to put it in action
Building
@ArcadiaScience
makes me excited for the future
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It’s not really Arcadia fire safety training if it doesn’t involve actual 🔥 and of course a party bus
#letsgooo
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We've had a busy Summer of Pubs! First, exciting work from our
#ArcadiaGenetics
team:
-modeling of genotype-phenotype nonlinearity
-applying information theory to genetics
-a workflow to conduct phylogenomic analyses
Read 'em & leave feedback ⬇️
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It’s time for our monthly preprint comment party!
Interested in commenting on preprints but unsure of how to do so? Consider writing modular comments that focus on specific areas that relate to your expertise. Check out our how-to guide to get started 👇
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Research is most impactful when others can see and build on it, so we’re putting our money where our mouth is 🤑. Anyone who leaves a substantial comment on any of our pubs during
#cellbio2023
will get a treat of their choice and we’re not just talking about swag… 1/3
Comment on any of our pubs and stop by our booth (
#434
) for some Arcadia swag. Or, even better, let us know if you’re actively looking for feedback on your preprint and we may be able to incorporate your work into our next preprint comment party! 2/3
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