Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 6hI still haven't found a suitable alternative to fully mapping out a paper on physical paper. 0120
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 22/09/2026Sometimes an academic situation requires the use of my two special powers: high moxie, and high cortisol 021
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 21/09/2026I dunno, skimming the title and just citing the paper in the second paragraph of the intro seems to work pretty well... 130
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 20/09/2026I 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. 2191
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 22/08/2026Turns out Garmin keeps you humble in all sports. Yesterday, this was about "nice docking, dipshit", and this will live forever in the gps trace... 020
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 20/08/2026This 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. 030
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 17/08/2026I'm working on reproducing my classroom activity and compiling notes, and I will share them with you! 000
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14/08/2026I can't even search by vernacular name? WHAT? Everything feel so needlessly complicated. 100
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14/08/2026It's absolutely gorgeous, yes. But it is also making everything I want to do 100x harder right now. I can't believe this was user tested. 111
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14/08/2026Visceral 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? 211
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 10/08/2026they give you superpower but only the white ones, discuss 000
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 09/08/2026One of my favorite thing the game does is give you choices, and give these choices weight. There's a way to finish everything without any violence. But will you feel like a good person doing it? Hell no. 150
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 09/08/2026I'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. 4191
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 07/08/2026just pondering whether he has the energy to deal with the fallout of a fun but salty remark that popped fully formed in his head on this 8:15 am zoom call 010
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/08/2026Similar pricepoint to TWSBI would be Asvine. V200 for a vacuum filler / P36 for a piston filler, both demonstrators, and they're extremely robust for daily carry. Nibs are pretty much the same as TWSBI. Don't know about the other models. 010
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 03/08/2026I'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. 171
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 01/08/2026The 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" 2200
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 02/07/2026It's only biosécurité when it comes from the temperature controlled oyster vending machine region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling food poisoning. 0110
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13/06/2026Spore was such a strange game, and I absolutely adored it. 270
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 12/06/2026What my email says: "[...] , gently, [...]" What my email means: 050
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 10/06/2026New from the brilliant, brilliant team @viralemergence.org - Do bats gets sick from the viruses they carry? 🧪 Writing for children remains the most demanding type of writing. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....kids.frontiersin.orgDo Bats Get Sick From the Viruses They Carry?When you think of bats, you might picture mysterious creatures flying around inside caves and drinking blood in the night, but bats are much more than that! Did you know that bats are the only mammals... 094
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 09/06/2026Update: it's also cheaper on average to FLY there every day. 252
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 09/06/2026I'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. 110
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 05/06/2026Firefox (for many, many years). It's notably using a different engine to render webpages, so google is not in charge of deciding how HTML/CSS work. 000
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/06/2026Dog Days are NOT Over, not by a LOOONG shot, but I get 48 hours of staring at a wall in peace, so that's nice 040
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/06/2026Just sent an email like open.spotify.com/track/1YLJVm...open.spotify.comDog Days Are OverFlorence + The Machine · Lungs (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 2009 120
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 01/06/2026Every year on the anniversary date, I go on Google scholar. He has a 20 years career headstart, and I still outpublish him by like, a lot a lot. Frankly embarrassing. And I've done all that without ever looking at a student and saying "maybe you could become, ew, a technician (derogatory)". 1191
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 01/06/2026The 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. 🧪 3392
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 29/05/2026@colincarlson.bsky.social alternative funding plan: we livestream the garfield game 100
Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 28/05/2026Yes. (actually a tie between Pouligny-Saint-Pierre and Tome des alpages) 020
Reposted by Timothée PoisotÉPICBiodiversity @epic-biodiversity.org · 19/05/2026Join 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/epic-biodiversity.orgJoin us! | ÉPICBiodiversity 079