This is the September 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

One blog was added in September. Welcome! More blogs are on the waitlist, and I hope to add them all at the beginning of October. I got distracted by summer vacation, a wonderful Dagstuhl seminar on Open Scholarly Information Systems, and by important technical work (see below). Please be patient if you submitted your blog. This brings the number of participating blogs to 173, and the number of archived posts to 46,585.

UK ACM SIGCSE

UK ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education.
Computer and information sciences, English.
https://uki-sigcse.acm.org/

Technical Updates

In September, Rogue Scholar launched a new workflow with Crossref DOI registration built into the InvenioRDM platform, including versioning of blog posts. While versioning is less important for science blogs compared to data and software, it is useful for major new versions, e.g. after peer review.

On September 15, login via local usernames/passwords into Rogue Scholar was retired, as announced in August. Local accounts were far too often never verified by users, creating a significant burden on account management. Please use authentication via ORCID and/or passkeys going forward if you manage a blog with Rogue Scholar.

Community Update

In September, the GigaScience editorial team based in Hong Kong was retired, and outgoing Editor in Chief Scott Edmunds summarized the 15-year Open Science journey of the platform in a personal farewell post. The GigaBlog was one of the first blogs joining Rogue Scholar in February 2023, and a perfect example of why science blogging adds an interesting and important dimension to scholarly communication.

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, September 11). Rogue Scholar now registers DOIs with InvenioRDM. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/pk03d-24338
  2. Fenner, M. (2025, September 29). Rogue Scholar starts supporting versioning. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/nxp08-a9947
  3. Marcum, C. S. (2025, April 8). Peer-Review for a Blog Post? My Experience with MetaROR. Upstream. https://doi.org/10.54900/bymaz-4fw37
  4. Edmunds, S. (2025, September 17). And it’s goodbye from me. GigaBlog. https://doi.org/10.59350/hzfr4-z0881