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PNIRS @pnirs.bsky.social · 2d

📣 #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 🙏🏼

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 4d

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...

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

www.nytimes.com

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 5d

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!

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 9d

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

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.

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · 28d

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

A Pill to Heal the Brain Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

www.nytimes.com

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social · Aug 25

When the PI hasn't worked in at the bench in years but needs to do something in the lab for a photoshoot

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · Aug 13

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 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.

www.texasobserver.org

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

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...

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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

www.statnews.com

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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 16

All science needs an evolutionary perspective....

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 16

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 12

👏👏 thank you for writing this article Jason

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 11

not just you. I posted this a few days ago: For every 1 animal used in research, there are hundreds to thousands used for food.

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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · Jul 5

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · Jul 11

Yesterday, marked 1 month since we sent the #BethesdaDeclaration.

So, has anything changed? 🧵 1/n

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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · Jul 8

Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award

Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

grad.uwo.ca

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · Jul 8

Public comment on this new "no animal only studies" is open here:

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

It closes next Monday.

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 8

and we don't have to eat animals to live. We need whole animal options to understand biology, at least for now.

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 8

For every 1 animal used in research, there are hundreds to thousands used for food.
Research animals globally: Estimated 50–100 million/year (most are mice, rats, and fish).
Animals killed for food globally: Over 70–80 billion land animals per year, plus trillions of fish.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jul 8

The double standard here is stunning. Universities are losing grants, student aid, and endowments for being "too woke." But churches (which also receive federal funds, eg, for school vouchers, food banks, and marriage promotion programs) are now allowed to openly endorse political candidates.

I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members.

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 2

Neuro-Immune Link Could Shape Brain Development, Study Finds medschool.duke.edu/news/neuro-i...

Neuro-Immune Link Could Shape Brain Development, Study Finds

Long seen as defenders against disease, immune cells in the brain are now emerging as architects of early brain development.

medschool.duke.edu

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 2

Taken together, we hypothesize that IL34 is a signal that neurons can use as a brake to decrease pruning once neural circuits have stabilized, and disruptions in its expression can have significant consequences for neural development (and neurodegeneration, e.g. Alzheimer's disease)

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Staci Bilbo @sbilbo.bsky.social · Jul 2

Blocking IL34 beyond the critical period of pruning reopens pruning and decreases total synapse number, and over-expression of IL34 prior to the period of pruning prevents proper pruning.

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