Antonio Bikić
@antoniobikic.bsky.social
Wahlerdling, Postdoc, Artificial Intelligence, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Neuromorphic Hardware, ANNs, Ethics, Heidelberg University
https://antonio.bikic.io
https://antonio.bikic.io
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Antonio Bikić
@antoniobikic.bsky.social
· Aug 18
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
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...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
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Academic discussions
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Academic discussions
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
“… let’s come back to that”
They never come back to that
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We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
University Assistant/Associate Professor in Control Theory and Systems Biology
Applications are invited for a University Assistant/Associate Professorship in the broad area of Control Theory and Systems Biology. The successful candidate will join the Control Group
www.cam.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
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🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science"
Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...
Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...
Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh): Apocalyptic Technology: AI and the Limits of Science
YouTube video by LSE Philosophy
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology: #AI and the Limits of #Science"
Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...
Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkX...
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Reposted by Antonio Bikić
This Friday, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta will deliver the Lakatos Award Lecture. You can book FREE tickets to attend the lecture (in-person or online. By Following the link below. (1/2)
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This Friday, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta will deliver the Lakatos Award Lecture. You can book FREE tickets to attend the lecture (in-person or online. By Following the link below. (1/2)
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My spicy take would be that neural manifolds may not be disprovable given how the brains we are aware of are built, and the challenges are: (1) whether they give us understanding beyond single neuron descriptions (2) whether they have "causal power"
A recent attempt at this youtu.be/oxQyKByqDSU?...
A recent attempt at this youtu.be/oxQyKByqDSU?...
Juan Gallego
YouTube video by Champalimaud Research
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
My spicy take would be that neural manifolds may not be disprovable given how the brains we are aware of are built, and the challenges are: (1) whether they give us understanding beyond single neuron descriptions (2) whether they have "causal power"
A recent attempt at this youtu.be/oxQyKByqDSU?...
A recent attempt at this youtu.be/oxQyKByqDSU?...
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Reposted by Antonio Bikić
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
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Reposted by Antonio Bikić
🚨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
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
🚨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
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
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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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OamF...
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OamF...
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Reposted by Antonio Bikić
New preprint written with the wonderful philosopher William Ramsey: Mental Representation Without Neural Representation: Understanding The Evidence osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
October 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
New preprint written with the wonderful philosopher William Ramsey: Mental Representation Without Neural Representation: Understanding The Evidence osf.io/preprints/ps...
… 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...
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
… this time also with an excellent Perspective!
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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...
🦖 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
1/5
🦖 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...
🦖 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...
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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
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
OSF
osf.io
August 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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
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
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...
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
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...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
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Novels are just synthetic training data for humans.
July 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Novels are just synthetic training data for humans.
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Space-station specific accents are going to be so cool.
July 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Space-station specific accents are going to be so cool.
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…, 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...
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
…, with such a good Perspective!
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Reposted by Antonio Bikić
ja heul doch bei diesen temperaturen hat platon die politeia geschrieben
July 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
ja heul doch bei diesen temperaturen hat platon die politeia geschrieben
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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
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?