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Timothée Poisot

@ctrlalttim.com

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Almost certainly one of the ecologists of all time. AI/ML, biodiversity monitoring, viral emergence, open science, methodological anarchism he/they 🧪 https://poisotlab.io/ 📰 https://buttondown.email/ctrl-alt-tim

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · Feb 25

I am now fully onboard with the idea of using the legend of a map to provide additional information about the data.

A map showing project time of arrival of some species for Québec, with the legend replaced by a barplot giving the proportion of the landscape additionally gained at each year

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 2h

Very sincerely, we don't do the "lay piles of paper on the ground" type of research enough anymore. This was peak research.

⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 2h

Researchin'

A hirsute and bewiskered dork sits at a messy desk overflowing with various books, notes, and tea. Arranged on the floor in organized (and labelled) piles are papers on various topics.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 2h

Ooof Gift of the Gloaming sounds wonderful

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14h

10/10 no notes

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14h

I don't think anything can replace my note taking setup (pen and paper for life), but as a knowledge base + project management tool, it's replacing a lot of other software I needed to buy a subscription to.

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 15h

I spent the last 3 years or so thinking that Obsidian was meh. I was wrong. I was so deeply, fundamentally wrong. Obsidian is my life now.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 1d

"You don't have wifi because you're on Linux"

No, IT guy, I don't have wifi because my desktop doesn't have a wifi card. I don't think running windows would help with that.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 7d

_scratch.whatever

Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 8d

Something I jokingly said at work, but dang if it isn't actually true:
"Everyone needs an emotional support R script."

You know, those R scripts in your project where you test your freak code before you're confident it works?
#RStats

Screenshot of the top corner of the Positron IDE with three files open and their tabs are named "todo," "violence.qmd," and "play.R." The third one is circled with a pink line.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13d

oh no it's aspyr

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13d

I did, in fact, ask for this.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 13d

Deux Ex Remastered announced (Aspyr), out Feb 5

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13d

wow ok

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13d

Sadly, as I'm not an over-eager grad student or an emeritus faculty, I don't think I'm allowed to write this paper!

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13d

The very bad news is that the paper is about co-occurrence. You can't always get what you want.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 13d

I went to sit in the forest and enjoy the autumn sun, and did one (1) math. What I suspected might be a vaguely interesting idea is now turning into an actual draft. Touching grass works.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14d

Hilbert's tab bar

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14d

yup just googled it I was right

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14d

no but by the sound of it, you can put one into a French Taco ™ to die instantly

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14d

It most certainly will not

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14d

Jeremy that is one of the most stunning condemnation of any dish I can think of, second only to replacing "in Berlin" by "in the UK"

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · Mar 28

hey i just got an alert saying your personal info was found on the dork web

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 17d

It always boggles my mind to consider the number of decades that his publishing record spans. His first papers were in the mid-60s.

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 18d

In community ecology, this is called the "Appendix XVII of a Peter Abrams paper" effect

José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 18d

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 19d

I think about these two lines from Introvert by Little Simz at an alarming frequency

Angel said, "Don't let you ego be a disturbance"
Inner demon said, "Motherfucker, you earned this"

The single hardest part of being an academic might be reconciling our impostor syndrome and our accomplishments

Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 19d

Me staring at the ceiling at night: Maybe I'm done having ideas? What if one day I have no idea what the next research question is. Does everyone know I have peaked long ago and didn't realize it?

Me planning a grant: In conclusion, this is why I need 12 PhD students over the next 5 years.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 20d

Our software paper on SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl is now published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social - peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

A Julia toolkit for species distribution data

peercommunityjournal.org

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 20d

I just finished "The West Passage" by Jared Pechačekz, and this may be my favorite fantasy book of the year so far. One of the things it does really well is making a world so chaotic and impredictable feel so consistent and real. Impeccable worldbuilding.

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