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Aaron Milstein

@neurosutras.bsky.social

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Computational neuroscientist studying learning and memory in health and disease. Dad, yogi, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University.

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · May 27

New #NeuroAI #compneurosky preprint! To better understand how target-directed learning works in the brain, we sought to engineer an artificial neural network capable of solving complex image classification tasks that comprises only experimentally-supported biological building blocks. (1/15)

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited to share that our work (together with co-first author Shanka Subhra Mondal and @neuroai.bsky.social ) on a brain-inspired architecture for planning with LLMs is now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread below)

A brain-inspired agentic architecture to improve planning with LLMs - Nature Communications

Multi-step planning is a challenge for LLMs. Here, the authors introduce a brain-inspired Modular Agentic Planner that decomposes planning into specialized LLM modules, improving performance across tasks and highlighting the value of cognitive neuroscience for LLM design.

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 2d

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THREAT LEVEL ORANGE

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4d

The #MurdochJournal celebrates the illegitimate court, its legitimization of authoritarianism, and the end of democracy.
The Triumph of the Roberts Court www.wsj.com/opinion/chie...

Opinion | The Triumph of the Roberts Court

What the Justices have wrought in his 20 years as Chief Justice.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 5d

Shared how the greater shutdown of NIH science has been underway since January on @msnbc.com today.

We need Congress to stand firm to protect science, democracy and the American people.

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Furloughed NIH worker: Left office with 'pit' in my stomach about future of our country

On day three of the government shutdown, around 750,000 federal employees are furloughed as the White House threatens mass firings as early as today. Furloughed NIH Program Director Jenna Norton joins...

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting new data on BTSP mechanisms from my old Janelia colleague @hiallen72.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ca2+ Plateau Potentials Reflect Cross-Theta Cortico-Hippocampal Input Dynamics and Acetylcholine for Rapid Formation of Efficient Place-Cell Code

A central tenet of Systems Neuroscience lies in an understanding of memory and behavior through learning rules, but synaptic plasticity has rarely been shown to create functional single-neuron code in...

www.biorxiv.org

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 6d

Almost there!

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 7d

I was honored to speak up with my colleagues from across the government to demand Congress fight for the American people.

Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 7d

"As a federal worker, I am here to tell you that every awful thing that would happen in a shutdown—shuttering programs that Americans rely on, damaging our economy, firing federal workers—all of this is already happening."

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Jenna Norton, PhD - (NIH, Bethesda Declaration organizer, mom) *speaking in her personal capacity

YouTube video by Civil Servants Coalition

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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 7d

Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans:

"We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it."

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Mark Histed, NIH Scientist *speaking in personal capacity

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former Director of NIAID, is Fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy in Retaliation for Filing Whistleblower Complaint with the Office of Special Counsel

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 7d

Same

Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 7d

#RepublicansAreTooFascistToCompromiseOrProtectTheConstitution

There, FIFY

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 8d

We need to restore funding for health care, for science, for research, for education, and for our communities.

Democrats will continue to fight for a budget bill that centers working families.

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 8d

Here's who to vote out of office next opportunity
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

See which Democrats broke ranks to fund the government

Several Democrats split with their party to keep the federal government open.

www.usatoday.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 8d

The coordinated Hatch Act violations by the White House confirm the lawlessness of this administration.

They believe they can ignore the law and Constitution with impunity and the lawless Supreme Court will sign off on it.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown

Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

www.thehandbasket.co

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 8d

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years

But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 8d

Deny funding ICE interrogations of citizens, green card and visa holders. Deny funding national guard invasions of states without the formal request of state governors. Include language to guarantee awarded grants and contracts are spent.

Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 8d

2021: RNA is saving millions of lives.
2025: We must stop RNA from curing so many diseases, we deserve the freedom to die in active ignorance!

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 19d

A pair of papers on using holographic optogenetics and compressed sensing for connectomics:

Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing - Nature Neuroscience

The authors develop a new computational system for high-throughput mapping of synaptic connectivity using two-photon holographic optogenetics and intracellular recordings.

www.nature.com

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 9d

It's not about ACA reimbursements, Schumer. It's about fascism. Demand language that ensures the Congressional power of the purse. Fight fascism. There's nothing else to negotiate.

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"Open mutiny": Democrats furiously reject proposed Senate shutdown fix

"I'm not sure why grandpa is doing this," one House Democrat said of Chuck Schumer.

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 10d

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