Research Institutes

Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical

At Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. I did my bachelor and master studies there.

Theoretical Biology Group

At the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. This where I did my PhD.

Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling

Part of the Station d'Ecologie Expèrimentale du CNRS à Moulis, France.

Laboratory of Theoretical Ecology

At the Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in České Budějovice. I work here.

Centre for Mathematical Biology

University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. I also work here.

Ecology and evolution

Quantitative Population Ecology

Alexei Sharov's online lectures on population ecology. It is a good first introduction to mathematical models and statistical models used in the study of populations and ecological interactions

The Struggle for Existence

By Georgii Frantsevich Gause. This book describes the first experimental tests of the theories of Lotka and Volterra. Gause is the originator of the "Competitive Exclusion Principle"

Darwin Online

Darwin Online is the largest and most widely consulted edition of the writings of Darwin ever published

R. A. Fisher Digital Archive

R. A. Fisher's extraordinary contributions to statistical theory and methods, experimental design, scientific inference, evolutionary biology and genetics have had far-reaching consequences in many branches of human thought and endeavour

The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive

On this website you will find articles by Gould and his colleagues focusing on the finer points of his work, the nature of life's evolution, and the general ontogeny of evolutionary theory

A History of the Ecological Sciences

by Frank N. Egerton. Available at the Ecological Society of America

Histoires de mathématiques et de populations

par Nicolas Bacaër. Available in several languages

evolbiol.ru

This site hosts many interesting papers and books about evolution. There is also plenty of resources on palæontology

Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior

This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment

List of Textbooks on Ecological Modelling

Compiled by Michael Knorrenschild from the internet

Other sciences

Electronic Statistics Textbook

StatSoft's Electronic Statistics Textbook

Scholarpedia

Scholarpedia is an online encyclopedia that focuses on the fields of computational neuroscience, touch, dynamical systems, computational intelligence, physics and astrophysics

Principia Cybernetica Electronic Library

This electronic library provides free, downloadable copies of basic books on cybernetics and systems science

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Enjoy reading a high-quality up-to-date copy of Feynman's legendary lectures

HAKMEM

HAKMEM, alternatively known as AI Memo 239, is a February 1972 "memo" (technical report) of the MIT AI Lab that describes a wide variety of hacks, primarily useful and clever algorithms for mathematical computation

The Matrix Cookbook

Matrix identities, relations and approximations. A desktop reference for quick overview of mathematics of matrices

Free and open academic resources

arXiv

Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

PLOS

Public Library of Science is a nonprofit open access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license

Dyrad

DataDryad.org is a curated general-purpose repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable

Ecology and Society

Ecology and Society is an electronic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research

Software

GNU/ Linux

A free (as in freedom, not as in price), stable and secure operating system. There are many distributions of GNU/Linux, with thousands of packages available. I use Debian and Kubuntu.

Portable Apps

PortableApps.com is the world's most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you.

LyX

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface.

JabRef

Open source bibliography reference manager and bibtex editor. Excellent in combination with LyX.

GSL

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. It is free software under the GNU General Public License. The library provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and least-squares fitting.

GNU Octave

GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. Octave is mostly compatible with MATLAB.

The R Project

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is nowadays considered the de-facto standard for the development of statistical software

Populus

Populus is composed of several models that simulate several aspects of population biology and evolutionary ecology.

XPPAUT

XPPAUT is a general numerical tool for simulating, animating, and analyzing dynamical systems.

SAGE

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.

Simulating Ecological and Evolutionary Systems in C

Not "software" but a book (download available). The webpage has the C source codes used in the book.

News

Slashdot

News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters

Phys.org

News and articles on Science and Technology

Mongabay

Environmental news

ecolog-l

Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news

EvolDir

News, jobs, courses, questions & answers

Ancient wisdom

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

How to make webpages like it's 1996!

Anthony's Icon Library

Est. 1991, many images here were taken from this website

Fravia's web-searching lore

Advanced Internet searching strategies & advice. Resources for basic, advanced & deep web seekers.

textfiles.com

Web site dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the BBS world and various subcultures

Books

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works.

The Internet Archive

Browse and read over 5 million books and items from over 1,500-curated collections.

Library Genesis

b00kz!

Sci-Hub

j00rn4lz!

Serious stuff

Research in progress

We regret to inform you that your paper has not been accepted . . .

Academia Obscura

The lighter side of Academia. Silly, not stupid

Please be patient

This page is under construction!

xkcd

A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language

The Curch of the Subgenius

Become an Ordained Minister NOW ...

The Curch of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Become an pastafarian, ramen ...

The Darwin Awards

Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others

Improbable Research

Ig Nobel Prize givers

Despair.com

We offer the cure for hope. And for surprisingly affordable prices