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

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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 03/05/2026

Me: its important to remember, always, that the only person I'm competing against when running is some other version of myself Also me when I grab local legend on a Strava segment:

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 10/04/2026

when the @gbif.org boss music starts playing again but the lyrics are in latin

The estimated size of the download is 19 GB. On a 50 Mb/s internet connection, this would take 1 hour to download.

Once you have downloaded the file, you will need approximately 85 GB of free disk space to unzip the data.

The dataset has 157,317,349 data rows.

You will not be able to view or analyse the data in Excel or similar applications. A dataset of this size is difficult to analyse on an ordinary computer. You will probably need access to a distributed computing service or 'Big Data' tools.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 08/04/2026

Little morning run, flying the @qcbs.ca colors

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 31/03/2026

Do you like Maxent? You can now use it within SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl 🎉 We have also added a bunch of dataviz functions, including bivariate and value-suppressing maps. Oh, and conformal prediction for uncertainty quantification. And more coming soon. poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr... 🌏

Comparison of maxent and logistic models

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 11/03/2026

Start treating legends as information! This (work in progress) is a VSUP with model training points overlaid, and it shows that on the training dataset, most points are predicted with low uncertainty.

A map of Corsica showing the output of a SDM using a Value Suppressing Uncertainty Palette. The legend shows the wegde, with model training points overlaid, showing that the model has rather high convidence.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 07/03/2026

When the bug absolutely, positively gotta get fixed

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 16/02/2026

Jusant is a wonderful game. Impeccable esthetic and vibes. Definitely comforting me into my "play more indie games" 2026 challenge.

The protagonist of Jusant looking over a vast expanse of sand and rocks

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 18/01/2026

The last set of minis I painted was in [redacted] during my undergrad, so these didn't turn out awful? Now to finish the many details left over.

Three necron units painted in metallic tones

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/01/2026

8/ House of Open Wounds, by Adrian Tchaikovsy. What if Pratchett's Small Gods was very bleak? The character arcs are all extremely well done, and this book has a perspective on war that is not common enough in the genre (I think).

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/01/2026

7/ The West Passage, by Jared Pechacek. Yeah I'm not sure what this one is about. What if the little freaks in the margins of medieval manuscripts had adventures together? It's served by impeccable prose, and I read it in one sitting.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/01/2026

6/ Blood over Bright Haven, by M.L. Wang. h/t to @alexandraphelan.bsky.social for the suggestion. This is a book about how magic is bad, but it's actually about climate justice.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/01/2026

5/ Lost Ark Dreaming, by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Afrofuturism is consistently outstanding, and this is a tale of greed, climate change, inequality, and sea monsters.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/01/2026

4/ We Speak Through the Mountain, by Premee Mohamed.. A book that I think surpasses the previous one. Spectacular.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/01/2026

3/ Green Teeth, by Milly O'Neill. A little predictable if you know the genre and the literary inspirations of this specific book, but it ultimately doesn't matter because the characters are so likable. Especially the ornery bog lady with sharp teeth. Queen.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/01/2026

2/ The Bright Sword, by Lev Grossman. What if you gave yourself a concussion and then listened to Le Morte d'Arthur as an audiobook? This book is probably the closest you'll come to this. Amazing.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/01/2026

1/ The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James. I love magical realism, and it's a magical realism cowboy story with superb prose. And it's genuinely moving.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 21/12/2025

Running laps in the living room

FNV had STARTED WE'RE BACK WE ARE SO BACK

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 21/12/2025

Furiously praying to the one true god (*) for good luck * Veronica Santangelo

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 17/12/2025

The simulations didn't work and I didn't get as far as I thought on this draft, bug the baking? The baking got done.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13/12/2025

11y.o. decided on tyrannids. We're SO back.

A leg of a tyrannid warhammer mini fig in very, very early stages of painting

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 10/12/2025

"reviewers finish reading a paragraph before commenting" challenge (impossible) Very seriously, my adventures as an author recently suggest that none of you should be complaining about the low reading skills of students. Fix your attention span.

This is described in depth in a later section (more specifically, in the very next sentence).

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 03/12/2025

I was reading about rotation forests, as one does, and then I started thinking; if rotation forests are better than random forest, surely rotation boosted trees would be very good, right? I wasn't ready for how effective they are.

Result of 10-fold cross-validation showing F1 score of ~ 0.96

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 29/11/2025

Damn Google scholar you're a freak

A Google scholar "recommended article" alert that reads "A novel semantic theory of the ass"

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14/11/2025

Pray for my undergrads, nothing wrong with them but they're learning about pairwise invasibility plots today

A photo of some pairwise invasibility plots

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 29/10/2025

Rough draft, obviously, but I think I like this approach to bivariate legends.

A bivariate map showing loss of historical climate / emergence of novel climate, alongside a legend -- the legend is rotated 45 degrees to show the increase of change on the y axis

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 29/10/2025

OK, that's enough dataviz for tonight.

A bivariate map of habitat suitability transitions on the left, with the bivariate legend replaced by a Sankey diagram on the right.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 28/10/2025

I was out of the country for less than 3 days. My reimbursement claim is 24 pages long, for 7 items. By the time I was done, I had spent about 2 hours on it. 🧪

a photo of about 25 pages of travel expenses justification

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 24/10/2025

I surprisingly enjoyed writing my NSERC discovery application this time. Now I need to clean up my CCV. I will enjoy this a lot less.

Screenshot of tabs in a google doc, one for each section of the proposal, all with a check mark in front

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 24/06/2025

A pretty good day for the bike ride in the way that this is a pretty nice rollercoaster, I guess

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 24/06/2025

I am adding a lecture on boosting to my Data Science for Biodiversity class, so I decided to spend a few hours writing AdaBoost from scratch. This was fun!