Professor, Pratt Institute
Links
Below are a series of links to pages that I find useful in my research. I include sections on scientists’ blogs, scientists’ homepages, popular science periodicals, scientific journals, teaching tools, research centers, listservs, and science outreach resources. This is a work in progress and by no means should be considered a comprehensive resource. As I encounter new resources (or just remember to put my most commonly-used ones on here) I add them. Feel free to suggest a link using my contact page.
Personal blogs that focus on scientific issues:
| Blogger’s Name | Blog Name | Blog Overview |
| Ben Allen | Plektix | — |
| Larry Arnhart | Darwinian Conservatism | — |
| Michael D. Barton | The Dispersal of Darwin | — |
| Marc Bekoff | Marc Bekoff for the Huffington Post | — |
| B. Ricardo Brown | Until Darwin: Science & the Origins of Race |
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| Gerry Carter | Social Bat: the web journal of the vampire bat food sharing project |
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| Jason Collins | Evolving Economics | — |
| Jerry Coyne | Why Evolution is True | — |
| Jeremy Fox | Dynamic Ecology | — |
| John Hawks | john hawks weblog | — |
| Norman Johnson | Watching the Detectives | — |
| Massimo Pigliucci | Rationally Speaking | — |
| Artem Kaznatcheev | Theory, Evolution, and Games Group | — |
| Gert Korthof | Towards the Third Evolutionary Synthesis | — |
| Anthony C. Lopez | Evolutionary Politics | — |
| Allan MacNeill | The Evolution List | — |
| Mario Pineda-Krch | Mario’s Entangled Bank | — |
| Razib Khan | Gene Expression | — |
| Andrew C. Revkin | Dot Earth | — |
| Leonid Schneider | For Better Science | Leonid Schneider is a science journalist whose work focuses on how the scientific process and profession can be improved through greater transparency and other reforms. As a cartoonist he has special powers to get his point across. On Twitter he is known for prompting me to make a fool of myself. |
| jeff smith | jeff smith | — |
| Alex Wild | Myrmecos | — |
| David Sloan Wilson | Evolution for Everyone | — |
| Jeremy Yoder | Denim and Tweed | — |
| Carl Zimmer | The Loom | — |
| Matt Zimmerman | Biased Transmission | — |
Forums and aggregator sites that focus on scientific issues:
| Forum Name | Forum Overview |
| Evolution: This View of Life | — |
| Social Evolution Forum | — |
Homepages for scientists whose work interests me:
| Periodical Name | Periodical Overview |
| National Geographic | — |
| Scientific American | — |
| Wired | — |
| Journal Name | Journal Overview |
| Current Biology | — |
| Ecological Modelling | — |
| Ecology and Evolution | — |
| Ecology and Society | — |
| Nature | — |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | — |
| The Quarterly Review of Biology | — |
| Science | — |
| Name of Site/Teaching Tool | Overview of Site/Teaching Tool |
| BEAGLE: Simulated Evolution | — |
| EcoEdNet | — |
| EvoLudo | — |
| Evolution & Games | — |
| HexSim agent/individual-based modeling environment | — |
| Howard Rheingold’s “Introduction to Cooperation Theory” online course | — |
| NetLogo agent/individual-based modeling environment | — |
| SimBio | SimBio is a huge player in the virtual labs business, a for-profit enterprise that produces a lot of very well-realized and sophisticated teaching tools. I have used their How the Guppy Got its Spots and Flowers and Trees labs in my Evolution course, and I recommend them both. |
| StarLogo TNG agent/individual-based modeling environment | — |
| VirtualLabs | — |
| Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) | I use VUE in almost all of my classes. It is a great way to compel students to organize their ideas and to consider the inter-connections that exist between different ideas. What’s great about VUE is that it is free, easy to use, and designed specifically for making concept maps. I don’t just use VUE in my teaching: I also use it to organize my own research and writing, and to plan various projects (I used it to plan this rather complex site!). |
Academic Departments and Think Tanks:
Listservs related to Ecology & Evolution:
| Name of Listserv: | Listserv Overview: |
| Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news | — |
| Evolution Directory | — |
Resources for Science Outreach:
| Name of Resource: | Resource Overview: |
| The Science Network Workshop Series | This series, a project of the Union of Concerned Scientists, provides a variety of different “workshops” to scientists interested in interfacing with the public and the public media. Most of the workshops are YouTube videos of past webinars; the site also contains a calendar of upcoming webinars, which are offered free to interested scientists. |