Achyut Kumar Banerjee

Academic events​

1. CONAL

2. EWRS coming events (upcoming events listed the European Weed Research Society website) 

3. APWSS upcoming events (upcoming events of the Asia Pacific Weed Science Society website)

4. ESENIAS (events on invasive alien species and biodiversity listed in the East and South European for Invasive Alien Species website)

5. INVASIVESNET (upcoming events on invasive species)

6. USDA (Conferences and events listed in the US Department of Agriculture website) 

Newsletters and Periodicals

1. Aliens: The Invasive Species Bulletin (published by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, IUCN)

2. The Scientist

3. Mongabay

4. Invasives Newsletter by CABI

5. INVASIVES (Newsletter of the Asia-Pacific forest invasive species network)

6. IUCN's e-newsletters

7. The TRAFFIC bulletin

Jobs and fellowships

1. Scholarship positions 

2. NCBS RDO (available funding opportunities from major sources primarily for Indian researchers)

3. India Bioscience (for science outreach in the Life Science sector in India)

4. AcademicJobsOnline (online recruiting site for academic institutions worldwide in all disciplines)

5. Mailing lists: YETI, ALIENS-L

Please note: These links are general in nature and obviously nowhere near to exhaustive​. This list also lacks specific fellowship opportunities (like Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Royal Society Fellowships, Humboldt Research Fellowship), those offered by the universities worldwide, and job opportunities posted on the relevant employer's website (e.g. CABI, WWF-India). However, the above-mentioned portals allow users to subscribe for email alerts through which we can update ourselves with new openings and opportunities.

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Mobile apps for ecologists 

1. Open Data Kit (ODK) Collect (data collection on the field - Android only)

2. GPS Essentials (complete GPS tool for recording location information - Android only)
3. iNaturalist (Data entry, recording observations, citizen science and much more - Android, IOS)
4. MapNat (Citizen Science - Android)
5. Productivity, workflow and data storage: Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Evernote, Researchgate, Mendeley, Irista

Have a look at these links for more information on mobile apps for ecologists: Link 1, Link 2

Online essentials 

1. Project Gutenberg (A huge database of free downloadable books)

2. LibraryThing (Personal library cataloguing, a social networking site for book lovers)

3. TinyURL (URL shortener)

4. RapidTables (Online calculators and tools - I use it for latitude-longitude conversion)

5. Online-Convert (Free online converter - I use it for ebook format conversion)

6. ReduceImages (Online resizing of images)

7. Cognito Forms (Powerful form builder; in addition to Google forms, Jotform)​