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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D.

@yessicasantana.bsky.social
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Neuro Ph.D. Grad with @kevinmawright @ngpohsu | HHMI Gilliam‘23 | Undergrad @ UCSB Global Studies #firstgen 🇲🇽🇬🇹 @ucsbpsych & @ucsbglobal alumna

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In honor of #FluorescenceFriday here is an image from a MafB-cre retina injected with Cre-dependent AAV, which results in labeling of 6 distinct RGC subtypes.
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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Excited to release the newest preprint from the lab into the wild. Super proud of @ninaluong.bsky.social, who did 99% of the experiments in this beast of a paper. Want to know more about some novel RGC subtypes? Buckle up! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9
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A pooled genetic approach provides multimodal access to uncharacterized retinal ganglion cell subtypes
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the sole output neurons of the retina, responsible for transmitting visual information to the brain. Recent transcriptomic studies have revealed extensive molecular d...
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Headed to the Visual Development GRC/GRS tomorrow! Excited for my last science conference of my Ph.D. I will be giving both a poster and a talk (Thursday at 12:15pm) on my dissertation work that I completed with @kevinmawright.bsky.social.
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Cousins and Gilliam fellow @hhmi-science.bsky.social on his successful defense! Learned a lot about PNW salamanders and how local geography shaped their evolution.
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Accidental outfit matching too!!
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Fell asleep on public transit today
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Dissertation is pretty much done (!!) Doing some fun refining the discussion tonight and I'm spiraling cause of how little we know about how neurons keep doing their job over decades :)))))
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Plugging in the writing method that saved me from writer's block: jsomers.net/blog/the-mcp...
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The McPhee method « the jsomers.net blog
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Is it weird to say my half marathon training helped me prepare for this?
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Dissertation writing is tedious but it’s a weird silver lining amongst…well, everything going on.
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Zak Taylor @zakkts.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Having Latin culture on FULL display quite literally makes me wanna cry. #SuperBowl
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Feeling patriotic today 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Portland Art Museum is free this weekend for their re-opening!
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Final hours of my 20’s 😳
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Maybe it’s the relentless downpour of tragic news but this one hit me very, very hard.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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.
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
No one tells you that the last year of the PhD is when you accumulate the strangest side quests.
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
LFG!!!!!
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
@ohsunews.bsky.social @ohsubrain.bsky.social @volluminstitute.bsky.social Congrats to Tony and his PI, Dr. Murthy!
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jp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 06/08/2025
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!
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Business idea: Reductress (or The Onion) styled satire calendar but for snarky remarks on academia
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/07/2025
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
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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 😂
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My biggest takeaway from #BIO2025 regarding job applications is that it’s truly who you know, not what you know.
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Vollum Institute @volluminstitute.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Greetings from all over the state of Jalisco, Mexico 🇲🇽
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Visiting family in 🇲🇽 The food offsets the fact that we’re in a heatwave right now ❤️😭
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Check out the lab’s latest preprint!
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
So cool, just put in my order!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨 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
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Finally got some good, reassuring news this morning. A glimmer of support and hope and one less thing to worry about.
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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Some retinal #SciArt
Green amacrine cells over a murky puddle
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#SciArt
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Any one know of a directory of science artists? Hoping to commission someone for a neuroscience beer label 👀
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Excuse me while I mention this essay non-stop. This is a must-read for every biologist: jsomers.net/i-should-hav...
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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.
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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a man in a black jacket and khaki pants is walking in the dirt
ALT: a man in a black jacket and khaki pants is walking in the dirt
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I need a "Cunk on Life" spinoff except Philomena interviews biomedical scientists
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Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 08/04/2025
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Crushed my annual WIP while running on minimal hours of sleep. Finally got data that have been waiting two years to get. Celebrating in the best way possible with Salvadorian food 🙂‍↕️
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"As she has expressed her disappointment over potentially losing her dream job, some members of her mostly conservative family have unfriended her on social media. Others are giving her the silent treatment. Nearly all favor such cuts even if she’s a victim of them."
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Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
Some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government’s waste.
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Yeah we’re ready #standupforscience2025
Poster saying “To abandon science is to abandon freedom #standupforscience”Poster saying “Requirements to run the NIH/HHS under Trump: 
✅ a brain worm
✅ a ketamine addiction
✅ a podcast
✅ no track record of NIH/NSF grants
✅ sell your soul for profit
✅ be a bootlicker
Loyalists ≠ “meritocracy” ….thanks for curing my imposter syndrome tho!”Poster saying “Elon isn’t even a scientist”
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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I want to do a project where I go a little deeper on scientific papers that get picked up in the news. If you see anything that might be a good candidate, hit me up!
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 27/02/2025
Next week, I'll have a chance to question the nominee for NIH director, Dr. Bhattacharya, during the Senate HELP hearing as federal research faces drastic cuts. What do you want me to ask?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Look at this leader. Lift her up.
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Rep. Kevin Mullin @kevinmullin.house.gov · 26/02/2025
After 3 surgeries, a blood clot, infection & being hospitalized for over a week, the moment I was discharged I rushed to the airport so I could get on a plane to DC & vote NO on Republicans’ disastrous budget plan. Rep. Pettersen traveled from Colorado with her newborn son so she could vote NO. 🧵
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Yessica Santana Agreda, Ph.D. @yessicasantana.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
For Oregon folks! Rally in Salem from 12-4pm on March 7th. Coincidentally I have a department talk to give but alas…
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