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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 · 9h
Another Nobel prize for neuroscience this morning
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good blog on AI cheating. yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/why-...
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Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped thei...
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Naima Dahir @naimadahir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Howdy! 🤠 We’re hiring two research technicians to study sensory physiology, feeding behavior, and body-weight regulation using slice electrophysiology and viral-mediated circuit manipulations. No prior ephys experience needed, we’ll train you! Please reach out if interested 😊
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New, from me: The Kennedy Center and NIH don't appear to have much in common, but both reveal what happens when nonpartisan institutions clash with a personalist regime. The inherent contradictions between competence and cronyism soon reveal themselves. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-art-an...
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The art and science we deserve?
Both the Kennedy Center and NIH are crumbling under the weight of Trump’s ego
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Good news! The Trump admin was trying to limit grad students to a 4-year cap on their visa. But a judge blocked it. www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/c...
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Judge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocs
A federal judge halted a Trump administration plan to place a four-year cap on the kinds of visas used by graduate students and postdocs
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
These Reviewers are out here challenging us to always step up the rigor holy shit
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a major win for voters, the Supreme Court Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to reinstate its mail voting restrictions ahead of November’s pivotal midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to revive mail voting restrictions ahead of midterms, in huge win for voters
Read more here.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨 von Glahn v. Hoskins
Learn more here.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PSA: you can find out which of your likes caused For You to show any given post at foryou.club/explain Just enter the post URL and hit "Explain":
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
*retires*
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2608.23251
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Dendritic structure enables powerful plasticity
Over the past decades, it has become increasingly clear that the complex morphology of cortical neurons is more than just a quirk of evolution, and that dendritic compartments serve as computational e...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
sorry if I seem weird and intense now, it’s because I’m now weird and intense
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@accessforci.bsky.social Flexible compute resources funded by NSF has been as important as research grant funding for my group's computational neuroscience research! Thank you so much!
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Look at this beautiful creature visiting my dahlia!
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Intentional disenfranchisement of citizens is their goal. The Spector of illegal immigrants voting has always been a smokescreen. Supreme Court upholds Trump's order to overhaul mail-in ballots www.axios.com/2026/08/24/s...
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Supreme Court upholds Trump's order to overhaul mail-in ballots
The decision will upend midterm elections, putting election officials on a tight deadline to comply with the rule changes.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of injecting “chaos and uncertainty” into the 2026 midterm elections Monday after the Court lifted one injunction blocking Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Jackson slams Supreme Court majority for injecting ‘chaos’ into midterms as voting advocates blast mail ballot ruling
Jackson said the decision creates a new bind for states and voting rights groups seeking to challenge last-minute election changes. They can be told they sued too early before a final rule is issued, ...
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
TFW a smart reviewer's comments make you re-evaluate the whole premise
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A scandalous number and variety of plumcots are being delivered to my door in an hour.
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#neuroskyence
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our new preprint #manuskrypt is a labor of love and has a profound story behind it. @gritz122.bsky.social @argalloni.bsky.social (1/11) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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GIRK Channel Loss of Function Increases Dendritic Excitability in a Mouse Model of GNB1 Encephalopathy
GNB1 encephalopathy (GNB1-E) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder associated with motor dysfunction, epilepsy and learning disability caused by mutations in the gene encoding the G protein subunit Gβ...
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
That waiting for bioRxiv approval though
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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
At a time when measles outbreaks are already threatening communities across the country, making vaccination more complicated and burdensome risks leaving more children vulnerable. Our response to the vaccine executive order: www.idsociety.org/news--public...
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Aha! How about we use "manuskrypt" for the bluesky version of "tweeprint"?
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Science, truth and evidence are often wrong, but lies and ignorance are always wrong.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.
Children’s immunization schedule
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The President is not a doctor and he’s surrounded by conspiracy theorists and quacks. This is a reckless pronouncement built upon lies and misinformation. *Posting from vacation in my personal capacity www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I mean in the U.S. we’re in the midst of the worst measles outbreak in decades and the President decides that it’s critical, right at this very moment, to further undermine trust in the MMR vaccine.
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Dascal Lab has been studying my daughter's neurodevelopmental disorder. This epic work characterizes human and mouse epilepsy and performs comparative RNAseq to identify candidate pathways for intervention. Stay tuned for my lab's companion slice physiology study! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cross-species analysis of GNB1 I80T encephalopathy: conserved developmental, epileptic and neuronal transcriptome signatures
GNB1 encephalopathy (GNB1E) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in GNB1 gene encoding the G protein subunit Gβ1. Mechanisms linking these variants to neurological dysfunction rem...
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Racist and criminal. Because the opposite of equity has always been bigotry.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Senate Intelligence Committee vice chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the real reason for Trump’s speech was to signal the president’s own intentions to interfere with November midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Sen. Warner: ‘Trump intends to interfere in this year’s elections … This was the opening shot’
According to Warner, Trump's speech was less about foreign interference in U.S. elections, and more about the president's own interference.
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Tomorrow morning breakfast competition - aprium v plumcot
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 13/07/2026
Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
Screenshot text: Between May 29 and July 9, roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov (and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published). The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided: about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it, with fewer than one percent marked as unclear. The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign. Support for the rule, by contrast, was almost entirely organized: nearly nine in ten supportive comments (about 2,500) came from a single form-letter campaign. Opponents mostly wrote their own comments; supporters mostly signed the same form-letter.
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Synaptojanin1 regulates synaptic dopamine release and axonal integrity via retromer-dependent endosomal sorting
Synaptic dysfunction is increasingly recognized as an early feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD); however, synaptic mechanisms contributing to early dopamine release defects and neurodegeneration remai...
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is the type of illegal shit he's going to keep doing in advance of the election. Get out there and vote, end this forever. azmirror.com/2026/07/09/t...
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Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act
President Donald Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A statement from the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the proposed OMB regulations. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/3
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Sen. Collins Asks OMB to Withdraw Parts of Grant Rule, Extend Comment Period | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Emily A. Aery Jones @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My main postdoc work is now published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...! We (myself, Isabel Low, Frances Cho, and @lgiocomo.bsky.social) discovered task-relevant remote representations in entorhinal cortex independent of CA1. #paperthread below! 1/13
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Entorhinal cortex represents task-relevant remote locations independently of CA1 - Nature Neuroscience
Neurons in medial entorhinal cortex collectively represent discrete nonlocal positions during immobility. During this nonlocal coding, CA1 is uncoupled from entorhinal cortex. These representations ar...
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The intentional division and immorality and narcissism of this administration has obviously soured the day, but I can still sincerely say without cynicism that I am proud of this resilient and progressive nation and look forward to the path to a bright future being restored, starting in November.
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Andrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Every single Democratic Senator has asked OMB to rescind OMB-2026-0034. Now we just need some Rs to join the party. Comments are working people!!! Keep em up! People are paying attention! www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
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Murray, Peters, Schumer, & Merkley Lead All Senate Democrats in Demanding OMB Rescind Rule Giving President Sweeping Power to Politicize Federal Grants | United States Senate Committee on Appropriatio...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Live now! 🧵
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: A rare voting rights win 5-4 — SCOTUS protects mail-in ballot grace periods in 15 states. Ballots postmarked by Election Day can still be counted after arrival. This is good news, folks.
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Excited to share this preprint from @ianoldenburg.bsky.social . To evoke movement with holo stim, you need the right pattern at the right time! Interestingly, the preparatory state before spont motion is not the same as the state permissive for evoked motion. Dig in! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The Importance of Synchrony in the Neural Control of Movement
Throughout the mammalian cortex, populations of neurons must work together to enact behaviors. While population recordings in motor cortex have revealed many aspects of when neurons fire during behavi...
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Correct. It's called consequences.
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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"This will ... require ... transferring [executive functions] back to the legislature (who are more direct representatives of the people), and granting agencies the autonomy they need to effectively carry out their respective missions." knightcolumbia.org/blog/address...
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Addressing Power Concentration: What to Do About the Office of Management and Budget?
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