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Antonio Bikić
@antoniobikic.bsky.social
Wahlerdling, Postdoc, Artificial Intelligence, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Neuromorphic Hardware, ANNs, Ethics, Heidelberg University

https://antonio.bikic.io
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You know how you once wondered how artificial and biological neurons differ? And what that might mean for AI systems? Luckily, we wrote the definitive paper on this @cp-patterns.bsky.social:

www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
The cost of unmodeled biological complexity in artificial neural networks
This perspective argues that artificial neural networks (ANNs), while effective as function approximators, omit biologically relevant structures, such as ion channels, that introduce intrinsic randomn...
www.cell.com
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It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:

Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🚨Job alert🚨

The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour

This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Selten hab ich eine so intelligente Lösung gesehen, wie man den Eigentümer eines Geldbeutels kontaktieren kann.
Chapeau!
(Netzfundstück)
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Next up in the talks from the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium: Sandra Mitchell @sandradmitchell.bsky.social on Biological Complexity and Scientific Practice, with comments from Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OamF...
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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New preprint written with the wonderful philosopher William Ramsey: Mental Representation Without Neural Representation: Understanding The Evidence osf.io/preprints/ps...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
… this time also with an excellent Perspective!
Our October issue is now live!
www.cell.com/patterns/iss...

Featured on the cover this month is a paper presenting LigUnity, a foundation model for predicting small molecule binding affinity for drug discovery and optimization applications www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
October 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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🦖 Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park (1990) turns 35 in November. In a new preprint, I argue that it was a prescient meditation on evolutionary genetics, complexity, & control. I also examine analogous efforts of today (e.g. “de-extinction.")

Select points below:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

If you like music, music theory, cognitive science, and new ideas, this merits a look

@omriraccah.bsky.social, Michael Seltenreich, Claire Pelofi, plus Fred Lerdahl & me
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August 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You know how you once wondered how artificial and biological neurons differ? And what that might mean for AI systems? Luckily, we wrote the definitive paper on this @cp-patterns.bsky.social:

www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
The cost of unmodeled biological complexity in artificial neural networks
This perspective argues that artificial neural networks (ANNs), while effective as function approximators, omit biologically relevant structures, such as ion channels, that introduce intrinsic randomn...
www.cell.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Novels are just synthetic training data for humans.
July 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Space-station specific accents are going to be so cool.
July 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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July 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
…, with such a good Perspective!
Our July issue is now live!
www.cell.com/patterns/iss...

Several papers in this issue highlight #opensource software and the crucial role it plays in #datascience. Check out our related editorial: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
July 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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ja heul doch bei diesen temperaturen hat platon die politeia geschrieben
July 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Why do humans (and other animals) blink synchronously with both eyes? Would life not be less dangerous if at any point of time at least one eye could see?
June 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Philosophische Fragen mathematisch lösen? Dem ging schon Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz selbst nach. Der Mathematiker und Philosoph Prof. Hannes Leitgeb @lmumuenchen.bsky.social hat konkrete Antworten gefunden - und erhält dafür den #LeibnizPreis 2025 der #DFG. Sein Kurzportrait: youtu.be/DfpbZSv3xBU?...
Hannes Leitgeb - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preisträger 2025 im Portrait
YouTube video by DFG bewegt
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April 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Hey, you’re a fun guy.

I’m a fungus. It’s singular.
May 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Just out: my new paper on emulating sensation in neuromorphic hardware. Probably the most compassionate thing you’ll ever read about hardware and subjective experience!
April 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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True Facts: Fireflies Need Your Help!
youtu.be/czt_io0h-CA
True Facts: Fireflies Need Your Help!
YouTube video by Ze Frank
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March 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Postdoc position! "The Courant Institute at New York University and the Center for Data Science seek highly motivated postdoctoral researchers to work on a new generation of global climate models augmented with AI, as part of the international project, M²LInES"
apply.interfolio.com/140348
#ccai
February 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
„Would you like to have your fries with ketchup?“

„I think Plato said everything that is considered to be relevant in terms of potatoes.“
January 16, 2024 at 6:01 PM