More looking for stuff in the vein of how to sign up to be a guinea pig in an experiment or logging the animals I see in nature or something, but other answers are welcome too!
I don’t really use Reddit much anymore, unless I’m looking for specific things (like a preexisting answer to tech question, I want to do due diligence and seek an answer myself before asking for help online). But I do poke my head in r/samplesize from time to time to fill out both academic and “just for fun” surveys. I also used to sign up for psychological studies, both just questionnaires/surveys and things you actively come in lab for, while in college. I am no longer living on a college campus. Aside from keeping on keeping on with r/samplesize, hooking up with and driving to the nearest college campus for their studies, and trying to keep in touch with my old college for their surveys, what are my options here?
Help seed annas-archive.org, which provides free access to a vast repository of academic papers, research articles, and scientific books
boinc.berkeley.edu and foldingathome.org to contribute to scientific computations
+1 for the second paragraph, I do both. !boinc@sopuli.xyz
iNaturalist was already mentioned.
Zooniverse is a great citizen science project.
*I see you said no campus stuff, but look at local colleges for drug studies or brain imaging studies. There’s usually some criteria they need participants to meet- diagnosed with (x) or no history of (y)- but some are quick and compensate with cash.
First time I’m hearing about this one, but Zooniverse looks awesome. Definitely a lot of projects in there to satisfy the interests of any individual.
It’s a lot of fun, and there are wildly different projects for different tastes. I like the transcription projects, and any fish/mollusk surveys.
or logging the animals I see in nature or something
iNaturalist is a great way to contribute in this way:
https://www.inaturalist.org/Just be sure to go into your settings and change the default license to something less restrictive (or whatever you’re comfortable with).
It was introduced to me by a zoologist that specializes in Reptiles and I know it’s a tool that researchers (or anyone depending on the license of the observation) can use.
I love it, too bad I degoogled my phone years ago and I’m not googling back.
You don’t need Google to contribute.
While they do have an app on the Play store, you can also just use the website.I’ll take another look at the website then, first time I missed it.
Probably donate to your local food bank more often.
So I thought my town did not have any food pantries, but I went to look it up anyways because of your comment. Oh wow was I wrong. Donation made partially because of your comment!