Rebecca Suthard
@rsuthard.bsky.social
postdoc in the ramirez lab | 2p imaging astrocyte-neuron calcium dynamics in memory ⭐️| neuro phd from @bostonu | previously mcdannald lab @bostoncollege | she/her
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
🚨🚨🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨🚨🚨
We present StateSpaceDynamics.jl, an open-source Julia package for fitting probabilistic state-space models (SSMs)—including non-conjugate models like Poisson LDS and switching variants (SLDS). Python has had existing packages that have given this functionality...
We present StateSpaceDynamics.jl, an open-source Julia package for fitting probabilistic state-space models (SSMs)—including non-conjugate models like Poisson LDS and switching variants (SLDS). Python has had existing packages that have given this functionality...
Just published in JOSS: 'StateSpaceDynamics.jl: A Julia package for probabilistic state space models (SSMs)' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08077
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🚨🚨🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨🚨🚨
We present StateSpaceDynamics.jl, an open-source Julia package for fitting probabilistic state-space models (SSMs)—including non-conjugate models like Poisson LDS and switching variants (SLDS). Python has had existing packages that have given this functionality...
We present StateSpaceDynamics.jl, an open-source Julia package for fitting probabilistic state-space models (SSMs)—including non-conjugate models like Poisson LDS and switching variants (SLDS). Python has had existing packages that have given this functionality...
check out the @okaysteve.bsky.social lab’s posters (for both neuron and glia enthusiasts) at #SfN2025 on Saturday PM! especially say hello to @siriacoello.bsky.social who is applying to grad school this cycle✨
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
check out the @okaysteve.bsky.social lab’s posters (for both neuron and glia enthusiasts) at #SfN2025 on Saturday PM! especially say hello to @siriacoello.bsky.social who is applying to grad school this cycle✨
thanks so much for hosting me, looking forward to sharing my work! 
On November 7th, DON'T MISS @bostonu.bsky.social's Dr. Rebecca Suthard when she JOINS #MSNSeminars. Hosted by Drs. Brian Kipp, Chloe Lopez-Lee and Rimjhim Tomar, Dr. Suthard will present “A hippocampal astrocytic sequence emerges during learning and memory". @mountsinainyc.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
thanks so much for hosting me, looking forward to sharing my work! 
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just out in Nature! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s41.... New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
Evidence for the Transient Presence of Atypical Astrocytes in Mice Following a Single, Closed-Head Mild Traumatic Brain Injury https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676600v1
September 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Evidence for the Transient Presence of Atypical Astrocytes in Mice Following a Single, Closed-Head Mild Traumatic Brain Injury https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676600v1
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
90% of neuroscience papers are one of:
1. it turns out what we thought was generally true was actually just a special case
2. the thing we think is true contains smaller things that we can measure
3. what we thought was true is still true, but now with lasers pew pew
1. it turns out what we thought was generally true was actually just a special case
2. the thing we think is true contains smaller things that we can measure
3. what we thought was true is still true, but now with lasers pew pew
June 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
90% of neuroscience papers are one of:
1. it turns out what we thought was generally true was actually just a special case
2. the thing we think is true contains smaller things that we can measure
3. what we thought was true is still true, but now with lasers pew pew
1. it turns out what we thought was generally true was actually just a special case
2. the thing we think is true contains smaller things that we can measure
3. what we thought was true is still true, but now with lasers pew pew
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
This is why science funding matters.
We uncovered a hidden signaling system in the brain—one that responds to maternal environment, even to drugs like LSD during pregnancy.
It took 5 years, a brilliant team, and public funding to get here.
Out today in @NatureNeuro: 🧵👇
We uncovered a hidden signaling system in the brain—one that responds to maternal environment, even to drugs like LSD during pregnancy.
It took 5 years, a brilliant team, and public funding to get here.
Out today in @NatureNeuro: 🧵👇
Led by @scienceyael.bsky.social & out today in @natneuro.nature.com: the brain's fluid-secreting organ — the choroid plexus — can reshape neural development through a powerful, little-known process. & it can be hijacked by serotonergic drugs like LSD. 🧠👇 A thread
rdcu.be/eoaSY
rdcu.be/eoaSY
Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development
Nature Neuroscience - The choroid plexus (ChP) provides molecular cues for brain development. However, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. This study identifies an apocrine secretion mechanism...
rdcu.be
May 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is why science funding matters.
We uncovered a hidden signaling system in the brain—one that responds to maternal environment, even to drugs like LSD during pregnancy.
It took 5 years, a brilliant team, and public funding to get here.
Out today in @NatureNeuro: 🧵👇
We uncovered a hidden signaling system in the brain—one that responds to maternal environment, even to drugs like LSD during pregnancy.
It took 5 years, a brilliant team, and public funding to get here.
Out today in @NatureNeuro: 🧵👇
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
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rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry
Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...
rdcu.be
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
1/n
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested.
1/n
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
February 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
Shared some of my recent experiences and thoughts with @callimcflurry.bsky.social of @thetransmitter.bsky.social. In these chaotic times, it’s important that there’s an ability for voices to be heard. I’m very thankful to Calli and The Transmitter for the opportunity.
Over the past few weeks, science funding in the U.S. has become shrouded in uncertainty. Ten trainees with diversity-based funding share how the changes are affecting their research and career plans.
By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social
bit.ly/42Wifxr
By @avaskham.bsky.social @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social
bit.ly/42Wifxr
‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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February 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Shared some of my recent experiences and thoughts with @callimcflurry.bsky.social of @thetransmitter.bsky.social. In these chaotic times, it’s important that there’s an ability for voices to be heard. I’m very thankful to Calli and The Transmitter for the opportunity.
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of every scientist in the US screaming
January 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of every scientist in the US screaming
Reposted by Rebecca Suthard
Delighted to share an update to our preprint, reviewed at @elife.bsky.social, and now sent back for re-review.
Colossal work by the team and driven home by @mathiasgua.bsky.social
Quick 🧵 of what's new -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Colossal work by the team and driven home by @mathiasgua.bsky.social
Quick 🧵 of what's new -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Early-life stress induces persistent astrocyte dysfunction associated with fear generalisation
Early-life stress can have lifelong consequences, enhancing stress susceptibility and resulting in behavioural and cognitive deficits. While the effects of early-life stress on neuronal function have ...
www.biorxiv.org
December 9, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Delighted to share an update to our preprint, reviewed at @elife.bsky.social, and now sent back for re-review.
Colossal work by the team and driven home by @mathiasgua.bsky.social
Quick 🧵 of what's new -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Colossal work by the team and driven home by @mathiasgua.bsky.social
Quick 🧵 of what's new -
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...