Staci Bilbo
@sbilbo.bsky.social
Brain-body scientist. Microglia, neurodevelopment, and fetal programming of adult disease. Prof and Interim Chair of Neurobiology at Duke Univ.
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Let’s celebrate women and girls in scientific research! Often underestimated, women drive research in biomedical sciences both intellectually and at the bench. Research should be a “gender-blind” endeavor, but rarely is. Stop bigotry ! Stop unconscious bias ! Go women & girls!
February 11, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Let’s celebrate women and girls in scientific research! Often underestimated, women drive research in biomedical sciences both intellectually and at the bench. Research should be a “gender-blind” endeavor, but rarely is. Stop bigotry ! Stop unconscious bias ! Go women & girls!
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PSA for all #microglia lovers: certain Iba1 antibodies (see our new paper below for details) label not only microglia, but also vasopressin neurons, at least in mice. Brain region and species matter. A friendly reminder to always validate your antibodies! 🔬
www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...
www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...
A Common Iba1 Antibody Labels Vasopressin Neurons in Mice
There are a wide variety of commercially available antibodies for labeling microglial cells based on different protein targets, as well as antibodies for the same protein target made in different spec...
www.eneuro.org
February 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
PSA for all #microglia lovers: certain Iba1 antibodies (see our new paper below for details) label not only microglia, but also vasopressin neurons, at least in mice. Brain region and species matter. A friendly reminder to always validate your antibodies! 🔬
www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...
www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...
Many congrats to the newly minted Dr. Maddie Clark!
December 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Many congrats to the newly minted Dr. Maddie Clark!
Wonderful holiday lab party last night, with very fun white elephant. Lots of stealing commenced. Everyone wanted this adorable mouse in their own little enrichment cage 😂
December 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Wonderful holiday lab party last night, with very fun white elephant. Lots of stealing commenced. Everyone wanted this adorable mouse in their own little enrichment cage 😂
Super excited to share this new story led by @jedziabis.bsky.social where she defines a critical role for microglial innate immune signaling in PV cell and perineuronal net (PNN) development in hippocampus, and consequences for plasticity and behavior in adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Microglial MyD88-dependent signaling influences extracellular matrix development and interneuron maturation in the hippocampus
Parvalbumin interneurons (PVIs) are disrupted across diverse neurodevelopmental disorders, highlighting their vulnerability to developmental perturbations. Inflammation can perturb PVI development and...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Super excited to share this new story led by @jedziabis.bsky.social where she defines a critical role for microglial innate immune signaling in PV cell and perineuronal net (PNN) development in hippocampus, and consequences for plasticity and behavior in adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
oh, hey, just photo boothing with the Provost at the Duke holiday party...😂
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
oh, hey, just photo boothing with the Provost at the Duke holiday party...😂
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⏳ 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
#PNIRS #Psychoneuroimmunology #PNIRS2026 #NOLA #NewOrleans
🚨 Symposium proposal deadline is December 5 — one month away. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your PNI research! #PNIRS2026
Submit your symposia proposals for the #PNIRS2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans! This year's meeting theme is Modifiable Risk Factors Across the Lifespan.
More info and submission site here: mss-abstracts.pnirs.org
More info and submission site here: mss-abstracts.pnirs.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
⏳ 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
#PNIRS #Psychoneuroimmunology #PNIRS2026 #NOLA #NewOrleans
cute gift from a student....😂
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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!
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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...
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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.
I am very grateful for Steve's leadership and excited to step into this new role! www.neuro.duke.edu/news/lisberg...
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
www.neuro.duke.edu
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I am very grateful for Steve's leadership and excited to step into this new role! www.neuro.duke.edu/news/lisberg...
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Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
NYT obituary of Jim Watson.
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
A long and fairly balanced view of a complicated man who participated in one of the greatest discoveries in biology.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions
good question, let me ask Julia
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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!
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
my first #FluorescenceFriday post! Mouse hippocampus showing microglia, a lysosomal marker (CD68), and Aggrecan, a perineuronal net component. 😍 Image by Dr. Julia Dziabis!
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Air pollution from fossil fuels kills 200,000 to 350,000 Americans.
Every year.
Every year.
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4hxHgEh
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Air pollution from fossil fuels kills 200,000 to 350,000 Americans.
Every year.
Every year.
yes a million times yes
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
yes a million times yes
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Deadline for applications- November 1st!
Duke Cell Biology is hiring in AI/ML! @scottsoderling.bsky.social, @rohitsingh8080.bsky.social, and others are building a very active community around ML for discovery science, and Duke is a great place to be.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30509
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30509
Duke University, Cell Biology/Duke University Medical Center
Job #AJO30509, 24903 Tenure - Track Assistant Professor Position - AI/ML for Biology, Cell Biology/Duke University Medical Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Deadline for applications- November 1st!
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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
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
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Bee positive: A demonstrator’s positive attitude toward the potential for a reward is picked up by an observer in 🐝 #neuroskyence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Positive affective contagion in bumble bees
Affective contagion, a core component of empathy, has been widely characterized in social vertebrates but its existence in any invertebrate is unknown. Using a cognitive bias paradigm we demonstrate p...
www.science.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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. 🤩
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. 🤩
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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. 🤩
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!
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Yay!! Congrats Tracy!
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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. 👏
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. 👏
Submissions - ACNP
acnp.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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. 👏
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. 👏
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📣 #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 🙏🏼
🗓️ 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 🙏🏼
October 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
📣 #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 🙏🏼
🗓️ 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 🙏🏼