Aaron Milstein

As promised. @annaschapiro.bsky.social

I was a bit frustrated that Iranian regime’s role in this war is being minimized and people’s historical struggle is ignored so I made a game for you to be the people and see where your decisions take you instead:

kuffmode.github.io/mirage/

NIH Office of Extramural Research announcements of feedback sessions for NIH-wide strategic plan for March 16 and April 8.

IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT---IMPORTANT

NIH is seeking input for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan. Open to everyone but Registration is Required!

Your chance to listen and get your 2 or more cents in.

grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Friends in central NJ, come out this lovely weekend to help me qualify for the ballot! Send an educator and scientist to Congress!

Canvassing for signatures in Princeton and Montogomery:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NIH is not issuing awards. You may think that it's because they it is coming up with new directions of research...The apposite is true.

Here is a graph showing how many fewer new funding opportunities that NIH has posted over time.

-91%, a trend that started on Jan 2025.

Congrats! Quite the accolade these days

which occurred when dendritic inhibition exceeded vectorized top-down excitation. Mark found here that the task was solved mostly be depressing the activity of one of the neuron populations, induced when dendritic voltage was less than the soma! What is this learning rule! Not BTSP.

You know what's the most interesting aspect for me? In our recent paper we considered high dendritic voltage to be for positive error signals that drive calcium spikes and strengthen synapses. But we had to pull out of a hat depression induced by low dendritic voltage for negative error 1/2

I asked Google to read my latest manuscript and generate a striking illustration that captures the themes and concepts to use as cover art for the journal, only to realize they don't allow AI-generated images. Cool looking though.

Meet the neuroscientist running for Congress Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been interested in “fixing bugs in democracy” for decades.

@samwang.bsky.social , an autism scientist who made headlines for his data-based analyses of congressional districts, is running for a House seat in New Jersey.

By Lauren Schenkman

www.thetransmitter.org/policy/is-th...

I'm going to a desert island to rant and rave like a lunatic in front of a chalkboard for a week #NeuroAI

Cool! This is generative inference’s prediction for human perception in this illusion: the squares are no longer squares!
Try it for yourself here:
huggingface.co/spaces/ttoos...

Ya lost me. How are "different spike patterns" the result of "the same network input" ?

What's the TLDR about dendrites?

Latest cool fruit obsession - raspberry oranges

Dr. Diana Bautista — Stories of WiN Talk from SfN 2025

Our next episode is here! At our in-person event, Dr. Diana Bautista (@dianambautista.bsky.social) discussed her winding path—from art school and bartending to uncovering how our sensory & immune systems work—proving creativity belongs in science. Listen below!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District.

By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come!

samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

It means the proportion of new grants that are funded one year at a time versus all years at once will remain at the harmful unprecedented levels they were at in 2025, but not get worse as originally planned.

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Graphic helps visualize how MYF funds FEWER grants despite the increase in budget approval by Congress. https://www.researchamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ACT-for-NIH-Multi-Year-Funding-One-Pager_October-2025.pdf

🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26.

Buried in the bill-
Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr.

Russel Vought is behind this.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

It's a doozy

US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas.

Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.

My ego is thoroughly destroyed by reviews once again - probably a sign the process is working as intended.

Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

Does shift+enter work to enter a carriage return?

Strange, I copy pasted from an old Word doc and didn't encounter any strange formatting issues.

Letter of resignation | Jennifer Troyer Reposting: As many of you know, I recently chose to leave the position I worked hard to achieve, the work that I love, and the team of people that could not have been better to do this work with. It ...

Letter of resignation from @jennifer-troyer.bsky.social former Dir of Extramural Ops at NHGRI

"The NIH is not only no longer the organization that I love but is now an organization that I can no longer be a part of and retain my integrity and self-respect."

www.linkedin.com/posts/jennif...

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