Yessica Santana Agreda
@yessicasantana.bsky.social
Neuro Ph.D. Candidate with @kevinmawright @ngpohsu | HHMI Gilliam‘23 | Undergrad @ UCSB Global Studies
#firstgen 🇲🇽🇬🇹 @ucsbpsych & @ucsbglobal alumna
#firstgen 🇲🇽🇬🇹 @ucsbpsych & @ucsbglobal alumna
Maybe it’s the relentless downpour of tragic news but this one hit me very, very hard.
TRAGIC: María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez—a 32-year-old mother of four who immigrated to the U.S. from Guatemala—was senselessly shot and killed after showing up for work at the wrong home in Whitestown, Indiana. She should still be here.
Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Maybe it’s the relentless downpour of tragic news but this one hit me very, very hard.
Reposted by Yessica Santana Agreda
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
No one tells you that the last year of the PhD is when you accumulate the strangest side quests.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
No one tells you that the last year of the PhD is when you accumulate the strangest side quests.
@ohsunews.bsky.social @ohsubrain.bsky.social @volluminstitute.bsky.social
Congrats to Tony and his PI, Dr. Murthy!
Congrats to Tony and his PI, Dr. Murthy!
Congratulations 2025 Gilliam Fellows and Advisors! 🎉
The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.
The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.
August 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
@ohsunews.bsky.social @ohsubrain.bsky.social @volluminstitute.bsky.social
Congrats to Tony and his PI, Dr. Murthy!
Congrats to Tony and his PI, Dr. Murthy!
Reposted by Yessica Santana Agreda
Brewing our Loopapalooza Pale Ale at Steel String Brewery! @dphansti.bsky.social
Loopapalooza will have a science research-inspired label. It showcases the work we do in genome organization!
Soon, @sciforgood.bsky.social will be launching this initiative at 11 pilots across the country
🍻 cheers!
Loopapalooza will have a science research-inspired label. It showcases the work we do in genome organization!
Soon, @sciforgood.bsky.social will be launching this initiative at 11 pilots across the country
🍻 cheers!
August 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Brewing our Loopapalooza Pale Ale at Steel String Brewery! @dphansti.bsky.social
Loopapalooza will have a science research-inspired label. It showcases the work we do in genome organization!
Soon, @sciforgood.bsky.social will be launching this initiative at 11 pilots across the country
🍻 cheers!
Loopapalooza will have a science research-inspired label. It showcases the work we do in genome organization!
Soon, @sciforgood.bsky.social will be launching this initiative at 11 pilots across the country
🍻 cheers!
Business idea: Reductress (or The Onion) styled satire calendar but for snarky remarks on academia
July 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Business idea: Reductress (or The Onion) styled satire calendar but for snarky remarks on academia
Reposted by Yessica Santana Agreda
Are you or were you participating in a medical study that has been affected by federal funding cuts?
Our reporters want to hear from you. You can share your experience by:
✉️ Emailing healthfunding@propublica.org
☎️ Calling 301-388-5405
📱 Sending a message on Signal to 917-512-0201
Our reporters want to hear from you. You can share your experience by:
✉️ Emailing healthfunding@propublica.org
☎️ Calling 301-388-5405
📱 Sending a message on Signal to 917-512-0201
July 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Are you or were you participating in a medical study that has been affected by federal funding cuts?
Our reporters want to hear from you. You can share your experience by:
✉️ Emailing healthfunding@propublica.org
☎️ Calling 301-388-5405
📱 Sending a message on Signal to 917-512-0201
Our reporters want to hear from you. You can share your experience by:
✉️ Emailing healthfunding@propublica.org
☎️ Calling 301-388-5405
📱 Sending a message on Signal to 917-512-0201
Best friends since our post-bacc days in 2019. Now 5th years in our program and we’re joking about defending around the same time and working at the same company post-PhD 😂
June 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Best friends since our post-bacc days in 2019. Now 5th years in our program and we’re joking about defending around the same time and working at the same company post-PhD 😂
Reposted by Yessica Santana Agreda
On Friday, June 20, Teva Bracha will present his Dissertation Defense: "Pten regulates the development of stereotyped dendritic architectures" at 1pm in Vollum's M1441. #OHSUResearch
cc: @kevinmawright.bsky.social
cc: @kevinmawright.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
On Friday, June 20, Teva Bracha will present his Dissertation Defense: "Pten regulates the development of stereotyped dendritic architectures" at 1pm in Vollum's M1441. #OHSUResearch
cc: @kevinmawright.bsky.social
cc: @kevinmawright.bsky.social
Greetings from all over the state of Jalisco, Mexico 🇲🇽
May 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Greetings from all over the state of Jalisco, Mexico 🇲🇽
Visiting family in 🇲🇽
The food offsets the fact that we’re in a heatwave right now ❤️😭
The food offsets the fact that we’re in a heatwave right now ❤️😭
May 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Visiting family in 🇲🇽
The food offsets the fact that we’re in a heatwave right now ❤️😭
The food offsets the fact that we’re in a heatwave right now ❤️😭
The silverlining, I guess, is that I don't think I've gotten this much clarity in my career than these past few months. Perhaps I can marry my two academic training backgrounds more than I thought.
May 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The silverlining, I guess, is that I don't think I've gotten this much clarity in my career than these past few months. Perhaps I can marry my two academic training backgrounds more than I thought.
Check out the lab’s latest preprint!
With all the chaos and destruction of academic research going on in the US right now, it feels a little weird to post this. But....
New preprint from the lab is now live: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New preprint from the lab is now live: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n
PTEN regulates starburst amacrine cell dendrite morphology during development
Neurons are subject to extensive developmental regulation to ensure precise subtype-specific morphologies that are intimately tied to their function. Starburst amacrine cells (SACs) in the mammalian r...
www.biorxiv.org
May 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Check out the lab’s latest preprint!
So cool, just put in my order!
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So cool, just put in my order!
Reposted by Yessica Santana Agreda
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Reposted by Yessica Santana Agreda
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Finally got some good, reassuring news this morning. A glimmer of support and hope and one less thing to worry about.
May 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Finally got some good, reassuring news this morning. A glimmer of support and hope and one less thing to worry about.
Any one know of a directory of science artists? Hoping to commission someone for a neuroscience beer label 👀
April 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Any one know of a directory of science artists? Hoping to commission someone for a neuroscience beer label 👀
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Any one know of a directory of science artists? Hoping to commission someone for a neuroscience beer label 👀
Excuse me while I mention this essay non-stop.
This is a must-read for every biologist: jsomers.net/i-should-hav...
This is a must-read for every biologist: jsomers.net/i-should-hav...
jsomers.net | I should have loved biology
In biology class, biology wasn't presented as a quest for the secrets of life. The textbooks wrung out the questing.
jsomers.net
April 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Excuse me while I mention this essay non-stop.
This is a must-read for every biologist: jsomers.net/i-should-hav...
This is a must-read for every biologist: jsomers.net/i-should-hav...
