Timothée Poisot·Jan 20, 2017The exhausted academicEvery so often, academic twitter is all, well, a-tweeting, with the question of “How many hours should an academic work every week?”. For…
Timothée Poisot·Dec 18, 2016One simple trick to become a good ecologistLast week, someone gave me the one true secret to become a good ecologist. Since you are understandably eager to hear it, here it is: you…
Timothée Poisot·Dec 12, 2016Should we cite blog posts during peer review?No.A response icon2A response icon2
Timothée Poisot·Oct 17, 2016Generalised Academic DisorderOne thing I tell students, especially graduate students that are just starting, and experience their first personal crisis, is that losing…
Timothée Poisot·Oct 13, 2016Stop submitting papers.I woke up to three requests for review, and two papers to handle as a subject editor. It is unusual, but it happens. I declined to do all…A response icon5A response icon5
Timothée Poisot·Aug 25, 2016Science is about failureYou know it’s true. Academic science in particular is a near-constant stream of not-quite-succeeding that is sometimes broken by a rare…A response icon1A response icon1
Timothée Poisot·Aug 23, 2016Free and Open Source ScienceWe made it. The only piece of proprietary software that my research group uses is the driver for our network printer. The rest, all the…A response icon3A response icon3
Timothée Poisot·Jul 7, 2016Write. Don’t type.These last months, because of a combination of projects being completed, grants being due, and students’ manuscripts shaping up, I spent an…
Timothée Poisot·Jun 9, 2016Don’t sweat the 2–2–2 rule of publishingThere is a common bit of folksy wisdom passed among academics that, if order to be deemed productive, you must follow the 2–2–2 rule of…A response icon1A response icon1
