Links

Stats with R

Interactive starter course on lifespan-analysis in R for biologists (developed by Felix & Susi Zajitschek): https://lifespa n analysis.zajitschek.net
Interactive starter course on meta-analysis in R for biologists (developed by Susi & Felix Zajitschek): https://metaanalysis.zajitschek.net
Survival analysis resources: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Survival.html
Basic R commands: http://www.statmethods.net
Search for R help files: http://www.rseek.org

Mixed (taxonomy, diet, sex, death etc.)

Online guides to the insects of Australia

The dietary restriction gene database (C. elegans, D. melanogaster, M. musculus, S. cerevisiae, S. pombe) and AnAge: The Animal Ageing and Longevity Database

Some resources on aging research

http://www.sageweb.org

Extensive collection of classic biology literature, scanned in and pdf’d

http://www.biolib.de

Animal models and implementations in ASREML, MCMCglmm and Wombat

http://www.wildanimalmodels.org

EvolDir: the Evolution Directory (essential mailing list for job ads)

http://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html

Academic jobs wiki: advice and job boards (scroll down to ‘Application year’ to find the link to bio/evo/eco jobs listing)

http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Jobs_Wiki

Darwin’s complete works, including original and transcribed notes

http://darwin-online.org.uk/

List of people aged 110 and over and still alive

http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM

Human Mortality Database (MPI Rostock, UC Davis, INED Paris) and the Human Life-Table Database

http://www.mortality.org and http://www.lifetable.de/

SJR (SCImago Journal & Country Rank): Freely accessible alternative to Thomson Reuters Impact Factors, based on Elsevier’s Scopus database.

http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php

UbbLE – the UK longevity explorer (based on this article)

http://www.ubble.co.uk/

lifespan.io – a crowdfunding platform for anti-aging research

http://www.lifespan.io/

Youth

Nice page about all things biology from Arizona State University

https://askabiologist.asu.edu (especially the ‘Meet our biologists’ page is very good: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/biologists)

Graphics freeware

for raster graphics: http://www.gimp.org (substitute for Photoshop)
for vector graphics: http://inkscape.org (substitute for Illustrator)

Multilingual bird species lists

http://www.knutas.com/birdsearch/
http://www.megabytedata1.co.uk/MB064u/langsel.asp (can be set up as a bilingual list)

Relevant selected journals

Evolutionary Ecology

Aging

Behaviour

Multidisciplinary

Work-life balance and integration

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