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Discovering the hidden stories of how the world really works — by Project Brazen.

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iNaturalist

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

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We are an international community of communities bound by a common interest in persistent infrastructure. So far, we have welcomed agencies that manage communities spanning entertainment, standards, the built environment, natural history collections, scholarly communications, and research data.

iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research

Abstract. Participatory citizen science is expanding, with iNaturalist emerging as one of the most widely used platforms globally. However, its application

Food, foragers, and folklore: the role of narrative in human subsistence

Narrative is a species-typical, reliably developing, complex cognitive process whose design is unlikely to have emerged by chance. Moreover, the folklore record indicates that narrative content is consistent across widely divergent cultures. I have argued elsewhere that a storyteller may use narrative to manipulate an audience's representations of the social and/or physical environment to serve his or her own fitness ends. However, my subsequent research suggests that such manipulation results from a broader selection pressure which narrative effectively alleviates: information acquisition. By substituting verbal representations for potentially costly first-hand experience, narrative enables an individual to safely and efficiently acquire information pertinent to the pursuit of fitness in local habitats. If this hypothesis is true, narrative should be rich with information useful to the pursuit of fitness. One class of information integral to the accomplishment of this task is foraging knowledge. In this paper, then, I present evidence that foraging peoples use narrative to transmit subsistence information: specifically, I demonstrate how various narrative devices (e.g., setting, description, mimicry, anthropomorphism) are used to communicate foraging knowledge.

Digital Sanctuaries Mimic a Sense of Community and Belonging. Do They Succeed? | Highbrow Magazine

Discord channels have become the new salons; group chats are our bowling alleys.

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Orca Network’s Whale Sighting and Education Project encourages observation of not just orcas, but all cetaceans that call the Salish Sea home. Awareness of our amazing wild neighbors helps foster stewardship and inspire action to protect critical habitat – while collated sightings data provides invaluable and ongoing insight.

Freedom in a Rocking Boat (Pelican)

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A pioneer of socially conscious storytelling, Participant drives real-world impact and awareness around today's most vital issues.

Museums in the Fediverse: Experiments with Tainacan, ActivityPub, and WebSocial – Ecologia Digital

Below, we present the slides and the text of José Murilo’s presentation, representing Ibram-Museus at the 1st WebSocialBR in Brasília, on December 3, 2025.

Creatures of Story and Song | Reaktion Books

Discover why a beaver was said to bite off its own testicles, why the baleen of a right whale was prized by medieval knights or why you should give your crush the gift of a great auk.Creatures of Story and Song pieces together evocative legends, poems and historical accounts from a thousand years of history […]

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DORA is a global initiative that campaigns for and supports improving ways we assess research and researchers. We encourage all individuals and organizations to sign DORA and join the movement.

Storyteller.fit | Blog your own cycling, running and sport stories. Powered by Strava

Create beautiful stories based on the activities you recorded on Strava. From single activities to entire seasons collect the adventures and achievements of your active life.