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Becca Riggins 🇻🇮 ⛵️🧪
@profriggins.bsky.social
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she/her. Full Prof, AD Educ & Training @LombardiCancer. #lobular, HER2+/ER+ BrCa, #nuclearreceptors, #GBM. Co-founder @nrimpact.bsky.social. When not sciencing, I'm enjoying ⛵️⛺️🏋🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🥃 Skeets my own
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Landed at golden hour ❤️ #STX #home 🏝️
An airplane wing at sunset over the coast of an island with an ocean in the foreground
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I make the final career leap to Professor today 🤗 I wouldn't be here without the incredible support of lab members, colleagues, mentors, friends, and family. Thank you so much! #academicsky 🧪🧬👩‍🔬
July 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Saturday morning ☕️ and dissertation reading with my deck buddies🧪🧬👩🏻‍🔬
A black and tan dog and a black striped tabby cat lying on a deck with a green lawn and trees in the background.
June 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I’m now trapped
Grey tabby cat with black stripes sitting on a person’s lap in a blue gray armchair with a grey coffee mug on the arm of the chair. Background: patterned rug, dark brown coffee table with books, wood floor
December 31, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Yes, you can use a soldering torch to finish creme brûlée 😋 #MerryChristmas #ScientistsWhoBake
Foreground: beige kitchen counter with 4 white ramekins containing light yellow custard covered with sugar. They’re being caramelized with a blue flame coming from a soldering torch held by a man in gray shorts and a black t shirt. Background: large black and brown hound lying on a wood floor I front of a dining truth a red and green tablecloth. Closeup of 4 white ramekins with light yellow creme brûlée with scorched or caramelized sugar on top, sitting on a beige counter.
December 26, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Holiday baking part 1: pecan pie, and chocolate chip banana bread #ScientistsWhoBake
Pecan pie (left) and chocolate chip banana bread right, against a tan tile backsplash with a wave pattern of medium brown and greenish gray.
December 24, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Yeah, cheers!
Foreground: martini glass filled with a semi opaque yellow liquid (Lip Reader cocktail, Craft & Commerce bar, San Diego). Background: slightly blurry bamboo plant in a gray pot, dark brown table and chair
December 21, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Amazing ❤️ volunteers for this year’s 1st day of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Young Scholars Program, a curriculum for elementary school students created by @kidmuseum.bsky.social to ignite interest in STEM through hands-on learning about cancer bio and risk reduction 🧪 #oncsky
Two rows of smiling people wearing navy blue t shirts, standing in front of an orange wall with white graphics and KID on it.
December 17, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Love to see successful @gutumorbiology.bsky.social alums together again @sabcs.bsky.social #SABCS24 #bcsm #OncSky @aileenilianaphd.bsky.social
Foreground: two women standing, one kneeling, all smiling for the camera. Background: display boards with text and shapes in the exhibit hall of a scientific conference
December 13, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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Proud of our Riggins Lab undergrad Dua Mobin for an awesome senior research presentation on imaging approaches to visualize #lobular breast cancer metabolism #bcsm @sbahnassy17.bsky.social @sumanranjit.bsky.social @mjsikora.bsky.social @zmadake2.bsky.social
Woman with long dark hair, blue shirt, and dark pants standing in front of a projector screen showing a purple and pink PowerPoint slide with the words “visualizing invasive lobular carcinoma metabolism via fluorescence lifetime imaging.” Woman with long dark hair, blue shirt, and dark pants standing in front of a projector screen showing her acknowledgment slide, which has a photo of 6 people and the names of researchers who contributed to her study.
December 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Always hard to leave home 🇻🇮
Foreground: palm tree growing at an angle from right to left. Background: blue sky over turquoise water, and a white sand beach,, with an old pier to the right
November 29, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Pre meal snack of fresh papaya with lime juice. Main meal of roasted herbed carrots, butternut squash mash, garlic mashed potatoes, sausage stuffing, turkey breast, cranberry jelly from the can, gravy, and wine. Not shown: apple pie for dessert, or swimming in the pool between main meal and dessert
Bright orange papaya chunks on a white plate with a pink border and silver fork. Set against a tan woven mat and deep green tablecloth Foreground: dining table with deep green tablecloth, covered with dishes containing carrots, stuffing, potatoes, sliced turkey and a bottle of wine. Background: sliding glass doors overlooking a pool, green bushes, hills, and the ocean in the distance.
November 28, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Ha, this is the one in this house’s kitchen and…nah
Close up of a rusty potato peeler held in a person’s hand
November 28, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Quiet Sunday morning coffee view.
Landscape scene through sliding glass doors framed by chairs. Background: light gray skies, ocean, and island coastline. Middle: green bushes behind a turquoise pool and gray pool deck. Foreground: shadowed, straw hat on a wooden table.
November 24, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Homeward 🇻🇮 Bound
Woman with graying brown hair and glasses wearing a dark blue sweatshirt with a white graphic on it that is an outline of the island of St. Croix.
November 22, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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So pretty. Ours peaked around Halloween and I had fun messing around with portraits mode
A branch of mottled red yellow and burgundy maple leaves in the foreground, in focus. In the background, out of focus yellow and green maple leaves, and sunlight through trees A small maple tree with orange leaves in the foreground. In the background, slightly out of focus, several tall tree trunks and a pale blue sky
November 17, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Post-grant submission celebratory ice cream! #academicsky
Bright pink pint sized container of Jeni’s ice cream, brambleberry crisp flavor, in the foreground. Two white bowls with ice cream and spoons in the background.
November 14, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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👋 from Cooper the coonhound (and Rascal the mackerel tabby too, because he thinks he’s a dog).
A grey and black striped cat and a black and brown dog lying back to back on a light brown blanket on a medium brown couch. Brick wall in the background and light wood floor in the foreground.
November 11, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Time to kick the writing into high gear on this collab proposal 🧪 on a new approach to control the emergence of treatment resistance in HER2+/ER+ breast cancer.
In the foreground, a white candle in a glass jar with the words “a prayer for grant funding”. In the background, a small wooden sailboat.
October 24, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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It’s only taken 4 years for the kitty to give you birthday snuggles. Happy 11th (and Gotcha Day), Cooper 🐕
A black and tan coon hound lying on a brown couch with a large tabby cat curled up behind him. A black and tan coon hound wearing a blue harness and standing in grass on a river bank.
September 7, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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Today's the day! Can't wait for the exciting nuclear receptor/glioblastoma science 🧪 that's to come. Grateful to be on this journey (again!) with @profharley.bsky.social - this one's personal too (we lost our grandfather to GBM).
National Cancer Institute R01 grant CA278195 was awarded today!
February 8, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Are you currently a university freshman, sophomore, or junior who is looking for a paid💲 Summer 2024 internship in cancer research? Apply to the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center's Diversity in Cancer Research internship program! Applications close February 16th.
Flyer with black and pink text on a white and pink background advertising Georgetown University's Diversity in Cancer Research summer internship program. For more details, and to apply, https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/education/diversity-in-cancer-research-undergraduate-internship-program/
January 9, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Buck Island Reef National Monument (L), and rain at sea (R), St. Croix, USVI
Rocky cliffs with an arid landscape of scrub brush and cactus above, bright turquoise water below. Grey clouds, at a distance, dropping rain into the sea against a peach colored sunset sky, with the green coastline of an island in the foreground.
December 31, 2023 at 5:40 PM
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Black and white photo of a woman in the foreground wearing a wide brimmed hat and reflective sunglasses, with patio furniture, palm trees, and ornamental grasses in the background.
December 3, 2023 at 2:24 AM
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Congratulations 🎉 Dr. 🎉 Olukoya!! A wonderful thesis defense yesterday - we are very proud of you.
Photo of two smiling, bearded men
November 29, 2023 at 1:42 PM