Anthony Yáñez
@yanezanthony.bsky.social
phd student @ johns hopkins 🧠🔬. nsf graduate research fellow. views my own. he/him. 🇬🇹🇺🇸
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Inwardly rectifying potassium channels promote directional sensing during #neutrophil chemotaxis, say Tianqi Wang, Daniel Kim, Chang Ding, GuangJun Zhang, Qing Deng, and colleagues (Purdue University) rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Migration #motility #Immunology
#Migration #motility #Immunology
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Inwardly rectifying potassium channels promote directional sensing during #neutrophil chemotaxis, say Tianqi Wang, Daniel Kim, Chang Ding, GuangJun Zhang, Qing Deng, and colleagues (Purdue University) rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Migration #motility #Immunology
#Migration #motility #Immunology
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Happy to share our new paper, just published in @cellpress.bsky.social. We show that our zap&freeze approach can be used in human brain tissues to study synaptic membrane dynamics! Our brain is ultrafast after all! nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Happy to share our new paper, just published in @cellpress.bsky.social. We show that our zap&freeze approach can be used in human brain tissues to study synaptic membrane dynamics! Our brain is ultrafast after all! nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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We’ve thought a lot about how 💊 drugs act on dendrites of neurons, but what about when it is a 🧬 mutation that affects dendrites?
PhD student Hao Wu studied #Scn2a deficiency in mice. Just out at @pnas.org, her research led to two major findings.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PhD student Hao Wu studied #Scn2a deficiency in mice. Just out at @pnas.org, her research led to two major findings.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
1/6
Autism-associated Scn2a haploinsufficiency disrupts in vivo dendritic signaling and impairs flexible decision-making | PNAS
SCN2A is a high-confidence risk gene for autism spectrum disorder. Loss-of-function
mutations in Scn2a reduce dendritic excitability in neocortical...
www.pnas.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We’ve thought a lot about how 💊 drugs act on dendrites of neurons, but what about when it is a 🧬 mutation that affects dendrites?
PhD student Hao Wu studied #Scn2a deficiency in mice. Just out at @pnas.org, her research led to two major findings.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
1/6
PhD student Hao Wu studied #Scn2a deficiency in mice. Just out at @pnas.org, her research led to two major findings.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
1/6
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GABA-glutamate corelease is a mechanism for state-dependent neurotransmission https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.19.689286v1
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
GABA-glutamate corelease is a mechanism for state-dependent neurotransmission https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.19.689286v1
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Thoreson et al. find that the architecture of invaginating rod synapses slows glutamate diffusion and shapes synaptic responses. rupress.org/jgp/article/...
📙 In #Neuroscience collection 👉 rupress.org/jgp/collecti...
#SfN25
📙 In #Neuroscience collection 👉 rupress.org/jgp/collecti...
#SfN25
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thoreson et al. find that the architecture of invaginating rod synapses slows glutamate diffusion and shapes synaptic responses. rupress.org/jgp/article/...
📙 In #Neuroscience collection 👉 rupress.org/jgp/collecti...
#SfN25
📙 In #Neuroscience collection 👉 rupress.org/jgp/collecti...
#SfN25
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Living car-free in Baltimore, by choice or necessity, as told by those who do it
Living car-free in Baltimore, by choice or necessity, as told by those who do it
Roughly a third of Baltimore residents don’t have a car in a city where getting around without one can be an exercise in planning ahead, or, at worst, a serious barrier to work and life.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Living car-free in Baltimore, by choice or necessity, as told by those who do it
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Baltimore-based Volo Kids Foundation celebrates 10 years of bringing free sports to kids
Baltimore’s Volo Kids Foundation celebrates 10 years of free sports for kids
In the 15 years since its founding, Volo Sports has grown to be the largest provider of social sports in the nation. And the company’s nonprofit arm, launched in 2015, has grown too.
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September 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Baltimore-based Volo Kids Foundation celebrates 10 years of bringing free sports to kids
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🚨Our preprint is online!🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨Our preprint is online!🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
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The new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine is out!
A clinical study identifies people at risk of renewed COVID-19 infections after mRNA vaccination, researchers probe differences in the viral reservoir between men and women living with HIV, and more. https://scim.ag/3I301m5
A clinical study identifies people at risk of renewed COVID-19 infections after mRNA vaccination, researchers probe differences in the viral reservoir between men and women living with HIV, and more. https://scim.ag/3I301m5
September 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The new issue of #ScienceTranslationalMedicine is out!
A clinical study identifies people at risk of renewed COVID-19 infections after mRNA vaccination, researchers probe differences in the viral reservoir between men and women living with HIV, and more. https://scim.ag/3I301m5
A clinical study identifies people at risk of renewed COVID-19 infections after mRNA vaccination, researchers probe differences in the viral reservoir between men and women living with HIV, and more. https://scim.ag/3I301m5
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Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11
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we have a new manuscript out! 🧵Lead by @sarayconley.bsky.social with significant contributions by @sarahsizer.bsky.social @madiganbedard.bsky.social and Sara Faccidomo and Clyde Hodge. We describe a tonic excitatory conductance in the BNST! link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Glutamate delta-1 receptors regulate a tonic excitatory conductance in the mouse bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and influence neuronal function
link.springer.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
we have a new manuscript out! 🧵Lead by @sarayconley.bsky.social with significant contributions by @sarahsizer.bsky.social @madiganbedard.bsky.social and Sara Faccidomo and Clyde Hodge. We describe a tonic excitatory conductance in the BNST! link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
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A natural experiment provides evidence for promoting moderate-vigorous physical activity: the importance of walkable cities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...
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August 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A natural experiment provides evidence for promoting moderate-vigorous physical activity: the importance of walkable cities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 come be my colleague! 🧠
Bowdoin is hiring a tenure track position at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI! Application review starts 9/9!
Supported by our new Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity - we’ve got amazing colleagues, students, and resources!
careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16669
Bowdoin is hiring a tenure track position at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI! Application review starts 9/9!
Supported by our new Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity - we’ve got amazing colleagues, students, and resources!
careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16669
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (AI)
Bowdoin College’s Program of Neuroscience invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in Neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2026. We seek applic...
careers.bowdoin.edu
August 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🚨 come be my colleague! 🧠
Bowdoin is hiring a tenure track position at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI! Application review starts 9/9!
Supported by our new Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity - we’ve got amazing colleagues, students, and resources!
careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16669
Bowdoin is hiring a tenure track position at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI! Application review starts 9/9!
Supported by our new Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity - we’ve got amazing colleagues, students, and resources!
careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/16669
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Spending a few days with intramural researcher at NIH has me thinking about the old Bell Labs, the storied research institute where major breakthroughs in physics, chemistry and mat sci (and associated @nobelprize.bsky.social awards) were made in the 70s-80s 1/n
June 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Spending a few days with intramural researcher at NIH has me thinking about the old Bell Labs, the storied research institute where major breakthroughs in physics, chemistry and mat sci (and associated @nobelprize.bsky.social awards) were made in the 70s-80s 1/n
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Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
June 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Our work, out at Cell, shows that the brain’s dopamine signals teach each individual a unique learning trajectory. Collaborative experiment-theory effort, led by Sam Liebana in the lab. The first experiment my lab started just shy of 6y ago & v excited to see it out: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Exclusive: Confusion over new DEI language from NSF and NIH leads Williams College to be first institution to pause accepting any grants www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. college is first to decline federal science grants because of new DEI language
Williams College says NSF and NIH requirement related to discrimination “undermines” academic freedom
www.science.org
June 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Exclusive: Confusion over new DEI language from NSF and NIH leads Williams College to be first institution to pause accepting any grants www.science.org/content/arti...
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Want to build a house? Renovate your store?
You're going to need a building permit.
This year Baltimore has been worse at approving new ones than in any since at least 2015.
@halliemiller.bsky.social , @emilyopilo.bsky.social and me on the new process.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
You're going to need a building permit.
This year Baltimore has been worse at approving new ones than in any since at least 2015.
@halliemiller.bsky.social , @emilyopilo.bsky.social and me on the new process.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
Baltimore's permit backlog was bad. A new system made things worse.
So far, the promised overhaul of Baltimore's permit backlog hasn't worked, according to city data.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Want to build a house? Renovate your store?
You're going to need a building permit.
This year Baltimore has been worse at approving new ones than in any since at least 2015.
@halliemiller.bsky.social , @emilyopilo.bsky.social and me on the new process.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
You're going to need a building permit.
This year Baltimore has been worse at approving new ones than in any since at least 2015.
@halliemiller.bsky.social , @emilyopilo.bsky.social and me on the new process.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Johns Hopkins University pauses pay increases, freezes hiring amid federal cuts
Johns Hopkins pauses pay increases, freezes hiring amid federal cuts
The Johns Hopkins University will freeze staff hiring and pay increases as it deals with federal funding losses
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June 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Johns Hopkins University pauses pay increases, freezes hiring amid federal cuts
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We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions
June 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions
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Our PhD student Louis Romette is optimizing long-term live-cell imaging. He just casually dropped this 65-hour movie of a growing neuron (div 3 to 6) with knocked-in actin 🔥🕶️ #realtimemicroscopy
April 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our PhD student Louis Romette is optimizing long-term live-cell imaging. He just casually dropped this 65-hour movie of a growing neuron (div 3 to 6) with knocked-in actin 🔥🕶️ #realtimemicroscopy
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In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su
April 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su
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The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli...
Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
2026 Basal Ganglia Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Basal Ganglia will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The preliminary program for the 2026 Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference is up! www.grc.org/basal-gangli...
Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
Super excited about this program and to move the meeting to Europe for the first time - come join us in Tuscany!
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BREAKING: More international graduate students at Johns Hopkins University have lost their student visas. The total is now "several dozen," up from around 12. We are the first outlet to report on this, here is what you need to know:
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
‘Several dozen’ Johns Hopkins student visas revoked
Days earlier, that number was closer to 12.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
BREAKING: More international graduate students at Johns Hopkins University have lost their student visas. The total is now "several dozen," up from around 12. We are the first outlet to report on this, here is what you need to know:
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
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The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half
US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.
www.nature.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Stepwise photobleaching of the economy
April 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Stepwise photobleaching of the economy