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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 6h

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 · 21/09/2026

I dunno, skimming the title and just citing the paper in the second paragraph of the intro seems to work pretty well...

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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 · 17/08/2026

I'm working on reproducing my classroom activity and compiling notes, and I will share them with you!

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

I can't even search by vernacular name? WHAT? Everything feel so needlessly complicated.

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

It'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.

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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 · 10/08/2026

they give you superpower but only the white ones, discuss

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 10/08/2026

yeah it's about biosafety (you can eat rats)

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

One 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.

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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 · 07/08/2026

just 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

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

Similar 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.

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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

That's probably what I'll end up doing, yeah.

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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 · 07/06/2026

This is an incredible book. Loved it.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 05/06/2026

Firefox (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.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 04/06/2026

Dog 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

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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

Unexpected twist that I should have seen coming!

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

Every 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)".

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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 · 30/05/2026

whatever it takes to prevent heel striking

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

@colincarlson.bsky.social alternative funding plan: we livestream the garfield game

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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/

epic-biodiversity.org

Join us! | ÉPICBiodiversity

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