Rogue Scholar Newsletter October 2025

By Martin Fenner | October 31, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.53731/d0wwa-gwz14

This is the October issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.

Blogs added to Rogue Scholar

Ten blogs were added in September. Welcome! More blogs are on the waitlist and will be added soon. This brings the number of participating blogs to 184, and the number of archived posts to 47,385.

qec.Codes

Quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures at the University of Edinburgh.
Computer and information sciences, English.
https://qec.codes/

Blasted Bioinformatics!?

Bioinformatics lessons learned the hard way, bugs, gripes, and maybe topical paper reviews too...
Biological Sciences, English.
https://blastedbio.blogspot.com/

Bio <-> Chem

Technical notes from the interface between bioinformatics and cheminformatics by Chris Southan.
Biological Sciences, English.
https://cdsouthan.blogspot.com/

Anil Madhavapeddy's feed

Computer and information sciences, English.
https://anil.recoil.org/notes

Commonplace Lab

Notes on nature poking.
Biological Sciences, English.
https://naturepoker.wordpress.com/

Antoine Vernet's blog

Social science, English.
https://antoinevernet.com/blog/

Cormac Monaghan's blog

Computer and information sciences, English.
https://c-monaghan.github.io/posts/

Steve Martin

Economics and business, English.
https://marberts.github.io/blog/

Data Art & Science Blog

Exploring the art and science of working with development and humanitarian data.
Social science, English.
https://juan-torresmunguia.netlify.app/blog/

évologie

Réflexions sur l'évolution, la biodiversité et la vie.
Natural sciences, French.
https://evologie.netlify.app/

Technical Updates

This week, Rogue Scholar added support for contributions beyond authorship in collaboration with the ropensci blog. The contributor roles editor, translator, and interviewee are now supported in Rogue Scholar (all) and Crossref (editor, translator) metadata.

The blog post describes the work needed in the blog Atom or JSON Feed to include these new contributor roles. Over the coming months, more roles will be added, including roles from the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CrediT). Crossref is planning to add CrediT support to its metadata schema in 2026.

Community Updates

On October 20, Rogue Scholar published a self-assessment using the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI), summarized below:

Major gaps exist in the areas of governance and sustainability, and work is underway to improve this. Stay tuned for a blog post next week.

The project Infra Wiss Blogs in October published two papers (one English and one German) studying science blogs in Germany. They found that the majority of science blog in Germany are from the Humanities and Social Sciences, in part because a large number of blogs from de.Hypotheses.

Figure 1 Overlap of disciplines. Source: Authors' own work

The Rogue Scholar Slack continues to have interesting discussions on a variety of topics. Please use Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments regarding this monthly newsletter.

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References

  1. Fenner, M. (2025, October 27). Supporting blog contributions beyond authorship. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/9t6xx-kht30
  2. Salmon, M., Bellini Saibene, Y., & LaZerte, S. (2025, October 14). Recognition Beyond Blog Post Authors. rOpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.59350/510pg-zzf58
  3. Fenner, M. (2025, October 20). Rogue Scholar follows the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/m65a8-6sm21
  4. Ochsner, C., & Pampel, H. (2025, October 26). Wissenschaftsblogs als integraler Bestandteil der Open-Access-Landschaft. Infra Wiss Blogs. https://doi.org/10.59350/0zep3-5px78
  5. Ochsner, C., Pampel, H., Höfting, J., & Rothfritz, L. (2025). Scholarly blogs: An analysis of infrastructural aspects based on German scholarly blogs. Journal of Documentation, 81(7), 520–544. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2025-0053
  6. Ochsner, C., Pampel, H., Höfting, J., & Rothfritz, L. (2025). Wissenschaftsblogs in Deutschland: Eine Analyse infrastruktureller Aspekte. Bibliothek Forschung Und Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0028

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