Becca Riggins 🇻🇮 ⛵️🧪

The ways I had to unlearn some of these responses to be able to both mentor and parent appropriately

Palbociclib for Hormone-Receptor–Positive, HER2-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

phase 3 trial, adding palbociclib to maintenance HER2-targeted🎯 &ET significantly improved progression-free survival in patients with HR+, HER2-+🧬 metastatic #BreastCancer

Given this? Most definitely bsky.app/profile/coop...

But! Mice made a nest in our snowblower over the summer and it won’t start. And we’re expecting double digit snow this weekend. Should’ve tried that before 🙄

I am trying to do all the work I can during whatever space-time I have left. I don’t know how much that is, but I know it’s shrinking. I hope to leave behind work that is useful to the future.

Flush the ice cubes, spoon in the freezer, pajamas inside out. Though the MidAtlantic has had quite the snow drought of late, so ymmv.

House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now.
- $400M increase
- Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels.
- No line item for BRAIN Initiative

text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).

Good Sunday, all! Here is the curated weekly collection of papers in #cancermetabolism and #mitochondrialbiology. Don't miss it; find it here: biomed.news/bims-camemi/... Biomed News #keepreading

"It's very simple to be happy. But it's very difficult to be simple." - Rabindranath Tagore

Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer - Nature How the complex interplay between multiple nutrients within the microenvironment dictates potential sites of metastatic cancer growth is explored.

'We engineered breast cancer cells with broad metastatic potential to be auxotrophic for specific nutrients and assessed their ability to colonize different tissue sites. We then asked how tumour growth in different tissues relates to nutrient availability and tumour biosynthetic activity.'

Thank you!

Waiting to board a small regional plane with, then sitting two rows away from, Muhammad Ali.

Excellent news. The NIGMS Building Undergraduate Research Training (BURT) T34 NOFO is published. First due is Feb 25th, for December 26 funding. This condenses previous UG NOFOs so reach out to email/previous PO if you have Qs. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,

🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨
AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐
In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!?

20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers
🗓️ June 4-18 2026

✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️

🔁 pls!!

www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...

We wrote two reviews on cell migration, published today in Nature Methods.

They provides practical guidelines how to select a cell-migration assay and how to analyze cell-migration data

Review 1: nature.com/articles/s41...

Review 2: nature.com/articles/s41...

It is Friday. Time for a new edition of #Autism: the #evidence. After spending some time talking about the consensus on what is behind the increase in #prevalence, and what does NOT cause autism, this week I am going to talk about what does, starting with #genetics

University of Richmond Chemistry Professor Julie Pollock Receives National Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research Pollock is a recipient of the 2025 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

Nice writeup on Dr. Julie Pollock of University of Richmond's 2025 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award!

https://news.richmond.edu/releases/article/-/27331/university-of-richmond-chemistry-professor-julie-pollock-receives-national-award-for-excellence-in-teaching-and-research.html

One of the things I was most excited about 1yr ago was joining 1 of the MOSIAC UE5s as a project scientist to work with those ECRs assigned to it. The opportunity to serve our greater communities.

Truly a program that supported people across broad institutions, unlike the parent.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Sea turtles
Black tip sharks
Moray eels
Conch
Flying fish

Hmm, no. I hadn’t thought about what to do with those. It doesn’t look like the sponsor provides an other support document either.

Hear you! I’m putting it in my biosketch and referring to that in the Sponsor Statement. I so wish we had insight from the October reviews of the June submissions but, welp, here we are. Good luck!

newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

Interested in Zebrafish brain imaging? We released a 3D printed mold that's is super helpful for us. Check it out

Customizable FDM-based zebrafish embryo mold for live imaging
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Work by Marcela and Jaakko in the lab

Thats 216 biomedical PhD students for their whole degree, or 140 2 year R21 grants, or 30 5 year R01 grants, or one fired football coach...

Getting the most of out a scientific conference A slightly unconventional guide to your first time

A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.

scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

An airplane wing at sunset over the coast of an island with an ocean in the foreground

Landed at golden hour ❤️ #STX #home 🏝️

THIS IS BIG

For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

And someone else should be taking on those teaching obligations

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Today I am starting a weekly post titled "Autism: The Evidence". I hope it helps someone fight the colossal wave of misinformation that is drowning us. Part 1: I heard Autism prevalence has gone up. Is that true? If so why?