Staci Bilbo

oh, hey, just photo boothing with the Provost at the Duke holiday party...😂

⏳ Just 10 days remaining to submit your symposium proposal for #PNIRS2026. Don’t miss the opportunity to highlight your work!

#PNIRS #Psychoneuroimmunology #PNIRS2026 #NOLA #NewOrleans

cute gift from a student....😂

My niece is obsessed with bugs and creepy crawly things right now, so I'm working on this jumping spider for her. I think he's pretty cute!

ha ha, you aren't kidding. adjusting the focus on the 60x objective is STRESSFUL. that thing cost more than my car...

Spending the last precious weeks of my sabbatical doing ACTUAL LAB WORK! Hooray! here are confocal images of very angry microglia (red) attacking amyloid plaques (teal) in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (left photo), and synaptic staining in young brains. #fluorescencefriday 1 day early.

Lisberger to step down as department chair; Bilbo named interim leader Stephen Lisberger, PhD, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research in Neurobiology, will step down from his role as

I am very grateful for Steve's leadership and excited to step into this new role! www.neuro.duke.edu/news/lisberg...

Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions

good question, let me ask Julia

my first #FluorescenceFriday post! Mouse hippocampus showing microglia, a lysosomal marker (CD68), and Aggrecan, a perineuronal net component. 😍 Image by Dr. Julia Dziabis!

Air pollution from fossil fuels kills 200,000 to 350,000 Americans.

Every year.

yes a million times yes

Deadline for applications- November 1st!

Deadline TODAY at 5pm Central! ACNP Promising Targets Submissions are open for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. For more information, visit: tinyurl.com/4euj9bca #ACNP2026

LOVE

For 10 weeks starting in mid-July, NIH went on a tear.

They issued 23,436 grants worth $14.9 billion—5k grants & $5 billion more than the same 10 weeks in FY24.

In fiscal week 46 alone (mid-Aug), they awarded $2.1 billion in grants, nearly double their best week in FY24.

NIH staff are amazing. 🤩

Yay!! Congrats Tracy!

acnp.org/annual-meeti...

Promising Targets at @acnporg.bsky.social ! 💊 This a great way to ensure your late breaking pharmacology - clinical trial unblinding, drug study or preclinical pharmacological study gets attention! Was a very hot session last year. 👏

PNIRS 2026

📣 #PNIRS2026: Save the Date‼️

🗓️ June 22–25, 2026
📍 New Orleans, Louisiana 🇺🇸

✨ Whether your PsychoNeuroImmunology research emphasizes the P, N, or I — we look forward to seeing your work and connecting in The Big Easy!

📻 Stay tuned for more info re: call for abstracts. Please spread the word 🙏🏼

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

I find this really insightful (and scary). Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

It's always such a joyful day when students defend! Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Julia Dziabis on a brilliant thesis. We are so proud of you!

Rhythmic metabolites in the E19 SCN peak during the day. Majority of rhythmic lipids and polar metabolites in the E19 SCN peak during the day, while there are more diverse phase clusters in the developed P28 SCN postweaning. Polar metabolites and lipids identified as rhythmic in E19 SCN (E19 clusters 1, top, and 2, bottom) were divided into subgroups based on hierarchical K-means clustering. Line plots on the left show traces of the normalized level of each rhythmic compound in each corresponding cluster. Bar plots on the right represent the lipid classes and polar metabolites in each rhythmic cluster.

How are #circadian rhythms established during development? This study shows that maternal metabolic signals oscillate in the fetal #SCN before the endogenous #clock becomes functional, offering a plausible mechanism for maternal entrainment of the developing clock @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VD45fZ

A Pill to Heal the Brain Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

Always happy to share hopeful science. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/s...

Advice | How to Get Through The Year, and Maybe Even Thrive Four ways to nurture academic well-being in these uniquely challenging times.

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

I Came from Rural Texas to Harvard’s MD-PhD program. Now, Trump Defunded that Program. These decisions affect not just the archetypal Ivy League student many imagine—they affect people who grew up in places like Lindale.

Last week: Both NIH grants that support the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program were terminated as part of a broader attempt by the federal government to terminate direct NIH funding to Harvard Medical School. 32 students who spent countless hours applying for and earning fellowships saw their awards vanish.

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n... via @statnews.com

Future of NIH in the hands of five senators.

Write to them if you are in
PA -McCormick
WV - Moore Capito
ME - Collins
AL - Britt
LA - Cassidy