An icon logo of golds and blues. The border is a gold DNA-style lattice frame. On the left, four blue outlines from different human unisex profiles show the progress of age from childhood to adulthood. In the back, a tree of life represents the vasculature of the kidney and placenta. In the front right, a mountain and a bridge represent Portland. Finally,a light blue mouse represents the mouse models respectfully used by the Hebert Lab.

I had several folks ask me at @sriwomenshealth.bsky.social about the icon that I used to introduce my research interests at the beginning of my talk. As I mentioned, it's not AI (don't use that please) but the work of @valentinebarker.com, who can make one FOR YOU! #scicomm #SRI2026 #TeamPlacenta

Lounge stop before boarding. PDX-MSP-SJU. See you soon, @sriwomenshealth.bsky.social! My talk is Thursday in Preeclampsia I! #SRI2026 #TeamPlacenta

"Thank god the uterus doesn't have bones." @rose-hill.bsky.social spreading the gospel. #TeamPlacenta

A fun collaboration with wonderful colleagues in Evanston IL linking DNAme and placental vascular pathology. #teamplacenta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did a Grand Rounds talk for CU Anschutz today and I forgot what it felt like to feel GIDDY after a talk because the response was so good. Great questions, excited collaboration ideas, I feel hopeful for #KidneyCrew and #TeamPlacenta.

In a week that's been ROUGH for science, this was so needed.

Congrats Wendy!!
Such important research for #teamplacenta!

It’s gutting to see these success rates, and especially so for research areas and populations like pregnancy, women’s and children’s health that are already neglected.

Grateful you can continue to break ground with your new funding!

It's not the same as Twitter, sure. #TeamPlacenta there was a tight-knit group and here it's more a loosely associated one, but we find each other. But #NephJC rocks! There are #Medsky folks! #scicomm and #sciart are alive with feeds and lists!

So tell your friends who are still there: it's time.

The whole mantra of my lab is "Healthy parents, healthy babies, health for life." This is all part of that. #scicomm #TeamPlacenta

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As we reach the close of a long Thanksgiving weekend, I just want to say thank you to the folks and communities that make Bluesky my online home now. To the people who follow, engage, and speak put for #scicomm, #justice, #TeamPlacenta, #sciart, #Nephrosky, and more: so much love.

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Sometimes having weird areas of specialty means I get THE BEST emails and they make my whole week. YES, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PLACENTAS. #TeamPlacenta

My graduate advisor is guest teaching the pancreas section to my physiology students. For those of you who know Terry, he's already done two Mormon swears. "Bolshevik" count is at 1.
#TeamPlacenta

The Hebert Lab got its first student today! She's an undergrad doing a year-long thesis project and I'm so excited to get to work with her. Now we are three in the lab! :) #TeamPlacenta #KidneyCrew

Picture of a figure: crescent formation in preeclampsia

Hudson is helping me get some reading in. He says this is whales swimming in water. #TeamPlacenta #KidneyCrew

In our next meet the member of our series, here’s the talented Thaina, who is soon finishing her PhD with us & a proud #teamplacenta member!

Thaina hails from 🇧🇷 & has been an amazing mentor to many junior students in our lab over the years! 🙌🏼

Thank you to the @usdohad.bsky.social for inviting me to be a presenter on science communication and publishing on Wednesday! Such a delightful chat with panelists Kelly Lenox and @drkiki.bsky.social and the wonderful trainees! #DOHaD #TeamPlacenta #scicomm

Fun day at the Rosehill College Hauora expo sharing our love of all things placenta, and our work aimed at better interpreting ultrasound in pregnancy to improve detection of at risk babies. New hologram was a hit (looks better irl), and tons of kids through 😃 #teamplacenta #pregnancymodellinggroup

MEETINGS | anzpra

📣 Abstracts for #ANZPRA2025 due TOMORROW 5pm AEST!

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#placenta #teamplacenta #reprosky

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In other Very Good news: I've received a Research in Emerging Areas Critical to Human Health Loan Repayment Program award! This special program helps scientists in areas ripe to transform human health repay their student loan debt. THANK YOU, NIH NIDDK!!! #TeamPlacenta #Kidney #Scicomm

A mathematical perspective on the placenta Unique growth model offers more insight into the placenta’s role and functioning.

🙌🏻 Great highlight of new research that mathematecally models the #placenta to uncover new insights into its growth & function in healthy & complex pregnancies! 🤰🏾

#teamplacenta
#DOHaD
#maternalhealth

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📢 Going to #SRB2025? Be sure to stick around for the ANZPRA Satellite in Fremantle! Abstracts due in 2 WEEKS on 18th July
🔗 anzpra.org/anzpra-satel...

#teamplacenta #placenta #reprosky #ANZPRA #ANZPRA2025
@reproductionsrb.bsky.social

🎤 Calling all student and ECR ANZPRA members!

The SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award is open for submissions until 11th July.

If you're submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
🔗 www.anzpra.org/awards
#teamplacenta #reprosky

ICYMI: I've got some academic news to share and I wrote a big long but I hope funny post about how June 18ths have stacked up to get here. #scicomm #TeamPlacenta

Think good thoughts for my NIH K01 grant, being discussed somewhere today I hope by some cool smart scientists who think I should get funded. Fingers crossed. #TeamPlacenta #KidneyCrew

Even at a room with a mixture of nephrology and chemical physiology faculty, the two placenta researchers who don't know each other naturally sit right next to each other.
#TeamPlacenta #scicomm #letscollaborate

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That's a good looking poster. S785 tonight for how parental kidney issues make their adult kids have kidney issues! #KidneyCrew #SciComm #TeamPlacenta #APS2025

A blonde woman in glasses and a blue and black dotted dress gestures at a book with photomicrographs of placental structures

Met up with a new colleague for coffee. "I have to know, do placentas have nerves?" "I...don't think so. But now I have questions."

Now we're doing a full on literature search. I pulled down my Boyd and Hamilton "Human Placenta" from the famous Serbian book search earlier this year. #TeamPlacenta

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Last week: "Do I really know enough about mechanisms of proteinuria to teach clinical fellows? FOR CLINIC?!?"
Today: "Projector's down? No worries, folks, strap in, we're going to chalk talk this."

Yeah, I might actually know a thing or two about proteinuria. :D #KidneyCrew #TeamPlacenta

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I make stupid mouth pipetting faces. #TeamPlacenta

Badge with picture of woman and OHSU symbol, reads Dr. Jessica Hebert, Assistant Professor. Pronouns she/her

So it's official: I've been promoted to Assistant Professor in the OHSU Division of Nephrology and Hypertension! Very grateful to Neph for supporting me to this next stage! @ohsunews.bsky.social #TeamPlacenta #Kidney #DOHaD

"I really don't think I have enough to say for a 3 page introduction to the grant to respond to reviewers."

Two hours later: "Holy crap how am I going to cut this down"

#GrantWeek #KidneyCrew #TeamPlacenta