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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 2h

I still haven't found a suitable alternative to fully mapping out a paper on physical paper.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 22/09/2026

Sometimes an academic situation requires the use of my two special powers: high moxie, and high cortisol

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 20/09/2026

I just received an email from a predatory journal addressed to ' "Professor" Poisot'. Moving forward, I will do air quotes when mentioning my title. As a bit.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 22/08/2026

Turns out Garmin keeps you humble in all sports. Yesterday, this was about "nice docking, dipshit", and this will live forever in the gps trace...

GPS track of the docking part, where I clearly had to reverse a bit and try again

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 20/08/2026

This is true, but the point of teaching AI is not to train students. It's that the know-nothings who rely on AI to function at the most basic level can finally feel vindicated by their total lack of intellectual engagement, curiosity, or ability to learn, understand, or create.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14/08/2026

Visceral reaction of disgust at the @gbif.org re-design. Why can't I see all the filters that used to be on the occurrence search page?

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 09/08/2026

I'm finally playing Dishonored past the first mission. And it clicked. What an incredibly well made game. The mechanics, the art direction, the narrative, you really feel that every one on this team was in full command of their craft.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 03/08/2026

I'm tweaking something in the config for foot, my favorite Linux terminal emulator, and it turns out that "foot images" and "foot images sixel" give WILDLY different results.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 01/08/2026

The local male northern cardinal decides to stand on our bedroom windowsill every day at 4:15am to scream its cloaca off. It's been going on for over a week. Related news, I'm making great progress on my next perspective paper: "Biodiversity: it's bad for mental health, actually"

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 31/07/2026

Still putting my wetlab skills to good use

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 02/07/2026

It's only biosécurité when it comes from the temperature controlled oyster vending machine region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling food poisoning.

Believe it or not, an oyster vending machine

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13/06/2026

Spore was such a strange game, and I absolutely adored it.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 12/06/2026

What my email says: "[...] , gently, [...]" What my email means:

Screenshot of Picard - "You may test that assumption at your convenience"

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 09/06/2026

Update: it's also cheaper on average to FLY there every day.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 09/06/2026

I'm looking at accommodation options for the #EFI2026 Toronto meeting, and it would be cheaper to commute by train every day. Which I won't do because it's 6 hours, but still. Academic conferences are not going to remain sustainable for long.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 03/06/2026

So overwhelmed with rage I passed out

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 01/06/2026

The head of admissions for my dream graduate program told me the only contribution I'll make to science would be as a lab tech at best. I can't emphasize enough: this is my academic origin story. 🧪

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 29/05/2026

once again vanilla ice is under pressure

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 28/05/2026

Yes. (actually a tie between Pouligny-Saint-Pierre and Tome des alpages)

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ÉPICBiodiversity @epic-biodiversity.org · 19/05/2026

Join us! We are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on the response of ecological network structure to environmental drivers; this line of research can be adapted to questions on climate change, phylogenetic conservatism, and more! 🧪🌎 epic-biodiversity.org/opportunities/

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Join us! | ÉPICBiodiversity

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 19/05/2026

Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org 🌎🧪

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 24/05/2026

I'm maybe 20% into "Everything for everyone", and you know this feeling that there will be a 'before' and an 'after' reading a specific book? Well, I got that.

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Excited to share that I will be joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2027! I’m thrilled to build my lab at FSU in the Ecology & Evolution Division within the Department of Biological Science — stay tuned! A huge thank you to my village for all the support!

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 22/05/2026

Everything was happening too much today, so I put my phone in airplane mode and went to this spot to eat my lunch in complete silence. 10/10

A view from Mont Royal, overlooking Montreal

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/05/2026

When I get impostor syndrome my take is that whatever I am doing, pretence or not, it is clearly working out great for me, much better than anyone could’ve anticipated, so I should obviously just keep doing it.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 20/05/2026

After over 15 years, I have settled on: the universe gave me severe impostor syndrome to give everyone else a fighting chance.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 19/05/2026

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 18/05/2026

Today the twins got into an argument about herp ID, complained that we didn't see any cool birds, found it unfair that I didn't want to stick my hand in the underbrush to show them a tick in its natural habitat, then ranted for a good 5 minutes because other people on the trail were yelling.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14/05/2026

"Oh no, poor authors", said absolutely no one.

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is why it is not merely cringe, but policy malpractice for countries like Canada to pretend the collapse of US science is an "opportunity" and waste money trying to poach a few stars, most of whom will STILL just use you for local leverage or leave as soon as the big upfront bribe is spent.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14/05/2026

Something we have been working on for a long time, and that I would summarize as: #OneHealth, please take biodiversity seriously (both as a science and a governance object), it will help you more than you can imagine. 🧪🌎😷

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Alexandra Phelan 余雪莲 @alexandraphelan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The MV Hondius incident demonstrates the importance of global health law and finalizing a PABS Annex that clearly defines the obligations and terms for sharing samples, sequences, and benefits. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/hant...

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Hantavirus Outbreak Tests Global Health Law Amid WHO Crisis | Think Global Health

As international negotiations stall around pathogen access and benefit sharing, the Andes virus outbreak exemplifies why the system is needed

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 12/05/2026

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 12/05/2026

New preprint by @gabdans.bsky.social, which is also the last chapter of an absolutely impeccable body of doctoral work.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 12/05/2026

My wonderful colleague @andreapaz.bsky.social and I are running a one-week intensive class on species distribution models for @qcbs.ca students. More info and application here: qcbs.ca/intensive-co... 🌏

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Intensive course - Species Distribution Models (SDMs) - Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec / Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 11/05/2026

I have been tinkering with environmental novelty for the past few weeks, and I finally managed to get to what I wanted: a map of expected model performance based on distance to the data used for training. Now to write the paper when I have a moment (like... dec. 2028).

A map showing the expected performance of a model based on environmental novelty

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 10/05/2026

This is lab policy at @epic-biodiversity.org - the abridged version of our policy on generative AI is "no". This is not a guideline or an aspirational document. It's part of our rules of behavior and good academic conduct. epic-biodiversity.org/generative-ai/

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Use of generative artificial intelligence | ÉPICBiodiversity

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 08/05/2026

The sudden realization that I work exactly 10km from home and that I can run this distance in 10 more minutes than it takes by rail, or 15 more than by bike, is very welcome. 🏃🏃🏃

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