Links:

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

Fun/Games:

• Neopets: Virtual pet website dating back to 1999. Lots to explore.
• Dr. Sloth's Image Emporium: Searchable Neopets image database, useful for creative stuff.
• The Neopian Post: Neopets fansite for hosting creative work, updates monthly. Submit your work!
• Postcrossing: Exchange postcards with people around the world.
• Animalist: List animals until you run out.
• Nested: Explore dropdown menus of the entire universe.
• Animal Crossing Local Music: AC music of your current time.
• Metazoa: Like Wordle but for animal species.

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.
• Walking with Dinosaurs: Full documentary to watch for free.
• Life in the Undergrowth, by Attenborough: Full eBook by David Attenborough on insects.
• The Private Life of Plants, by Attenborough: He also wrote this popsci book on plants.
• Princeton Guide to Mammals: eBook for a huge mammal encylopedia.
• Princeton Guide to Ecology: eTextbook on ecology.
• Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: eTextbook on dinosaurs.
• The Dog: A Natural History: ebook about dog evolution, breeding, biology, and more.
• Population Ecology: First Principles: eTextbook, 2003.
• A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology & Evolution: eTextbook, 2007. How to start quantitative modeling.
• 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.
• Digital Morphology Library: Animal skull morphology and CT/Xray scans.
• Essential Papers, Ecology: Article on important papers in ecology.
• The Thylacine Museum: E ducational resource on the extinct Tasmanian tiger.
• David Attenborough Archive:Archive of every documentary he has been a part of and where to watch it.
• Pollinator Partnership: Learn about pollinators, how to help, native plant resources, download brochures, etc.
• Merlin Bird ID App: Phone app for identifying bird species by their song/call. Find out what birds are around you!

Genetics-Specific:

• Learn Genetics Utah: AMAZING resource for basic genetics concepts. Includes videos. Great for beginners.
• DNA Learning Center: Resources to learn genetics, including videos, animations, apps, and more.
• DNA From the Beginning: One resource from above site. About experiments forming the foundation of genetics.
• Genomics, 2nd Ed., Brown, 2002: Online textbook on genomics.

Art/Culture:

• Access O'Keefe: View all of Georgia O'Keefe's artwork.
• Edgar Allen Poe Literature Online Short stories, poetry.
• Rady Bradbury Short Stories Collection of classic scifi short stories. You have to read: A Sound of Thunder, The Veldt.

Other Blogs:

• patter: Blog about research, education, and academic writing. Written by an education professor.
• The Electric Typewriter: Great Articles & Essays Interesting articles to read.
• Linkfest: Newsletter with links to the best Internet reading, every 2 weeks. Dozens of interesting things every issue.

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