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Last updated: June 2026
Social Media:
- Mastodon: unfederated social media with no ads; I recommend joining the server mas.to
- Stoat.chat: unfederated discord-alternative. A great server for reading/writing is Novel.
- Bookwyrm.social: unfederated book tracking and reviews, like Goodreads list
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Science/Education:
- ScienceDaily: Daily updates of science papers and findings.
- Feedly: Free RSS reader to put all your news interests in one place.
- R Color Palette Finder: For generating color palettes for the statistics software R.
- Poke Palettes: Generates a color palette for each pokemon, to use for anything.
- R Pokemon: R color palletes that are pokemon-themed. Choose a pokemon and the number of colors you want.
- Archive.org: Massive media archive for books, videos, etc. Some good choices are listed below.
- Bat Conservation International: Learn about bats and bat research.
- Entomological Society: Mostly a website for an annual research conference. Learn about insects and other bug resources.
- Ecology Supplies: Get supplies for studying/observing insects, like nets, pins, and specimen drawers.
- iNaturalist: Upload your observations of any living thing. Useful to explore what's around you also.
- BumblebeeAtlas: US-specific citizen science project to observed bumble bees. Sign up to do surveys yourself.
- Zotero: Free citation manager, useful for science/academic writing.
- Distribution Explorer: Explore different statistical/math distributions. Useful for doing research stats.
- Books Unbanned: Get access to library cards and banned books. Limited to people <18 or <21.
- Size of Life: Interactive site to compare sizes of organisms. Includes both bumblebees AND Andrewsarchus.
- BioArt: Free science clipart etc to use in presentations. Mostly health science based, proteins, molecules, etc.
- PhyloPic: Free organism silhouettes to use in presentations. All kinds of plants, animals, bacteria.
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Other Blogs:
- patter: Blog about research, education, and academic writing. Written by an education professor.
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