Blogs added to Rogue Scholar

One blog was added in April. This increases the number of participating blogs (after adjusting for retired blogs) to 187 , the number of archived posts has grown to 49,876 – at the current rate Rogue Scholar will reach 50,000 posts in May!

Medical Education Scientist Blog

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, English.
https://medical-education.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/research/mes-blog/blog.html

The a backlog of new blog submissions is still not resolved, so please be patient. Rogue Scholar started out with the core feature that archiving science blogs should be easy and affordable, but the increasing use of artificial intelligence in scholarly communication makes me reconsider that value proposition. The Rogue Scholar FAQ clearly says that Rogue Scholar does not accept blog posts that are primarily or entirely generated by AI (artificial intelligence) and I need to spend more time finding blog submissions with authors that have a genuine voice and something substantial to say. You can always reach out via Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky to ask about the status of your submission.

Technical Updates

One focus of the technical work in April was on improving the weekly newsletters. On April 7 a weekly newsletter of featured English-language posts was launched, the submission forms for the weekly newsletters (all posts in German, Spanish or French, and featured posts in English) were improved to better protect against spamming. You can sign up to weekly newsletters via the form on the Rogue Scholar homepage or at https://listmonk.rogue-scholar.org/subscription/form.

The following week, Rogue Scholar started registering DOIs for its blogs, in addition to the blog posts it is registering since 2023. The DOIs register the content type Journal and use DOI prefix with the Rogue Scholar blog slug, e.g. https://doi.org/10.53731/front_matter for this blog, and resolve to the blog homepage. If the blog has registered an ISSN, the ISSN is included in the DOI metadata.

Community Updates

This month has been relatively quiet with community discussions via Slack and email, but that shouldn't stop you from reaching out via Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments.

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References

  1. Fenner, M. (2026, April 7). Rogue Scholar launches a Featured Posts Newsletter. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/yaq8z-te090
  2. Fenner, M. (2026, April 16). Rogue Scholar starts to register blog DOIs. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/ys8cq-f7659