Timothée Poisot

Timothée Poisot

@ctrlalttim.com

Almost certainly one of the ecologists of all time. AI/ML, biodiversity monitoring, viral emergence, open science, methodological anarchism he/they 🧪 https://epic-biodiversity.org/

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Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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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Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

The entire series is fantastic. I really like how it reads like an anthology more than a linear series (although it is). Special shoutout to House of Open Wounds.

An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social

The Grave Of Perfection by @aptshadow.bsky.social is full of a sly wit that keeps bringing to mind Discworld. Not as comedic, but the same joy in language Rincewind might not find himself at home on the streets of Ilmar, but he would at least understand the wry irony of the local Maric patois.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

I think One Health is creating a lot of problems that it was initially claiming to solve, and I'd like to suggest the template of how this happens, because if this keeps going, we'll have (1) more disconnect between One Health and the real world and (2) less policy action.

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Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

These are not fighting words. I do One Health professionally both in academic research and scientific diplomacy contexts. But we need to be an order of magnitude better, and this means being an order of magnitude humbler. The purpose of OH is not hegemony in all environment-adjacent policy making.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

I think One Health is creating a lot of problems that it was initially claiming to solve, and I'd like to suggest the template of how this happens, because if this keeps going, we'll have (1) more disconnect between One Health and the real world and (2) less policy action.

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Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

5. As this problem is now officially a One Health problem, any group for which OH is not a core part of their mandate feels less inclined to work on it. This has become no one's responsibility. 6. OH groups complain about low policy will to act on this topic.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

7. OH discussions re-coalesce around endless governance talk, and silos, and woe-is-us narratives. The problem goes unsolved, or concrete actions that are not explicitly advancing a OH agenda are discounted as not effective, not integrative. 9. Repeat.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

I think One Health is creating a lot of problems that it was initially claiming to solve, and I'd like to suggest the template of how this happens, because if this keeps going, we'll have (1) more disconnect between One Health and the real world and (2) less policy action.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

1. There is a complex problems with root causes that are shared between fields and/or governance and policy-making bodies. In 2026 this is most problems that involve the environment. 2. There is policy action, although fragmented, and research efforts, although fragmented, on this problem.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

3. One Health practitioners claim this problem as their own, and make two possibly counterproductive assumptions: - that this problem is now solvable only through a OH lens - that the OH intervention of this problem is the most/only effective one 4. People buy it (this is where it all breaks down)

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Vincent Arel-Bundock
@vincentab.bsky.social

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Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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.

Adam Schiffer@adamschiffer.bsky.social

This is why I get so annoyed with university admins who insist we must teach AI or our students will be left behind. Fine, then require one class and leave the rest of us alone. (After about two weeks in the class, they’ll be like, “shit, what do we do now?” but that’s not my problem.)

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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"

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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

Design Room@designroom.site

We've got a big one today. Almost 20 years after Maxis released Spore, we talked to eight people -- including Will Wright -- about the studio's big experiment.

designroom.siteSpore: An oral historyA wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...
Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

New 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...
Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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

Timothée Poisot@ctrlalttim.com

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.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

So overwhelmed with rage I passed out

Eos@eos.org

Doing so will make research more reliable, trustworthy, and efficient, she said. “Robots work 24 hours a day. Your graduate students probably only work 20, so this is an advantage."

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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

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)".

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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

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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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

Replying to @enirenberg.bsky.social

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.

Timothée Poisot
@ctrlalttim.com

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

Edward Nirenberg@enirenberg.bsky.social

My entire day: Several group chats with disjoint membership: I think you have impostor syndrome. phone call with a colleague: I think you have impostor syndrome. Made me think of this: