This is the August 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

Three blogs were added in August, with a few more in progress, requiring additional work. Welcome everybody! This brings the number of participating blogs to 172, and the number of archived posts to 46,355.

Adriano Rutz

Personal website of Adriano Rutz.
Natural sciences, English.
https://adafede.github.io

MALIS-Projekteblog

Folgen Sie den neuesten Praxisprojekten aus dem MALIS-Studiengang.
Computer and information sciences, German
https://malisprojekte.web.th-koeln.de/wordpress/

Bioconductor community blog

Biological sciences, English.
https://blog.bioconductor.org/

Technical Updates

On August 4, Rogue Scholar citation tracking launched to production, with a fully automated workflow and weekly updates of cited blog posts. Currently there are 1,392 citations of 766 blog posts.

On August 12, Rogue Scholar announced that it will disable login via local passwords on September 15. Going forward, authentication requires login via ORCID or the new Rogue Scholar passkey authentication launched in July. This will simplify account management both for Rogue Scholar and for users.

On August 18, Rogue Scholar added internal linking via DOI and ORCID, to show all blog posts by the same author, or to show the blog post, plus all blog posts referencing the same blog post or other scholarly work.

Last week, Front Matter published an updated kcite WordPress plugin to make it easier for WordPress authors to cite other scholarly works via their DOI. The kcite plugin was originally published more than 10 years ago, but it stopped working with current versions of WordPress and PHP.

Community Update

The Rogue Scholar Slack continues to be helpful for answering support questions and for community feedback. In August we discussed Zulip as an alternative to Slack to allow anonymous read access to messages, but decided that for the time being most users are comfortable with Slack, and switching to Zulip would mean learning to use yet another platform. The Rogue Scholar Slack also had interesting discussions on expanding JSON Feed with extensions, and on CITO, the Citation Typing Ontology.

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References

  1. Fenner, M. (2025, August 4). Rogue Scholar citation tracking launches to production. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/zyg15-qv911
  2. Fenner, M. (2025, August 12). Rogue Scholar moves beyond passwords. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/qkhhf-jnr10
  3. Fenner, M. (2025, August 18). Rogue Scholar links records via ORCID and DOI. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/yjq4w-5yr32
  4. Fenner, M. (2025, August 25). Adding references to Wordpress posts: Updated kcite plugin. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/326tr-95k32