This is the July 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

Thirteen blogs have been added in July, making it one of the busiest months yet for Rogue Scholar. Welcome everybody! This brings the number of participating blogs to 168, and the number of archived posts to 46,178.

Existential Crunch

Thoughts about existential risk, history, climate, food security and societal collapse.
Social and economic geography, English.
https://existentialcrunch.substack.com

The Bibliomagician

Comment & practical guidance from the LIS-Bibliometrics community.
Computer and information sciences, English
https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/

Open Access Network

Other social sciences, German.
https://open-access.network/

geocompx

geocompx hosts free resources on reproducible geographic data analysis, modelling and visualization with open source software.
Earth and related environmental sciences, English.
https://geocompx.org/

Public Knowledge Project

Social science, English.
https://pkp.sfu.ca/news/

Imperfect notes on an imperfect world

Japan-based scholar Christopher Hobson reflects on how we can live and act in conditions that are constantly changing and challenging us. Pursuing open thinking.
Philosophy, ethics and religion, English.
https://imperfectnotes.substack.com/

Oxford iHealth

Fostering innovation, research, and education in the field of computational sciences for health.
Health sciences, English.
https://oxford-ihtm.io/blog

WiNoDa Knowledge Lab Journal en – WiNoDa Knowledge Lab

Wissenslabor für naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen und objektzentrierte Daten.
Other natural sciences, German.
https://winoda.de/

Væl Space

Social science, English.
https://jofrhwld.github.io/blog/

Dr. Joaquin Barroso's Blog

Scientific log of a computational chemist - "Make like a molecule and React!"
Chemical sciences, English.
https://joaquinbarroso.com/

Adapt Research Ltd

Health, technology, and global catastrophic risk.
Other social sciences, English.
https://adaptresearchwriting.com/

The 20% Statistician

A blog on statistics, methods, philosophy of science, and open science. Understanding 20% of statistics will improve 80% of your inferences.
Psychology, English.
https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/

SciComp Blog

Natural sciences, English.
https://mpievolbio-scicomp.pages.gwdg.de/blog/

As always, the blogs cover a variety of disciplines, use a diverse set of blogging platforms, and not all write in English. The Rogue Scholar dashboard has the breakdown of the numbers, including the number of posts (1285) published in 2025 so far.

Technical Updates

In July, Rogue Scholar saw a major update in both software and hardware, upgrading to the next major release (v13.0) of the InvenioRDM repository software, and migrating to dedicated server hardware. Also part of this update was the launch of a new authentication option, login via passkeys, using a self-hosted Pocket ID service.

This week Rogue Scholar made full-text search the default search option and added basic blog self-management functionality.

Community Update

Earlier this week Peter Suber announced that Rogue Scholar has archived Open Access News:

I'm very happy to announce that he's now captured my old blog, 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨 -- more than 16.4k posts, 2002-2010.
https://rogue-scholar.org/communities/oan

You probably noticed that the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) blog was also added this month. PKP is behind the most popular open source publishing journal publishing platform Open Journal Systems (OJS) and they join a growing list of open scholarly infrastructure organizations (including OpenCitations, rOpenSci, Journal of Open Source Software, Research Software Alliance, Liberate Science, Research Graph, DataCite, ROR, Make Data Count, Crossref) who have joined Rogue Scholar. Open Infrastructure is one of the Rogue Scholar topic communities that aggregate blog posts by topic.

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References

  1. Fenner, M. (2025, July 23). Rogue Scholar relaunches today. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/8dg89-gnc10
  2. Fenner, M. (2025, July 30). Rogue Scholar Updates: Full-text search as default and basic blog self-management. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/jeatk-t8t07