This is the February 2026 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

No blog was added in February. This leaves the number of participating blogs to 190, the number of archived posts has grown to 49,342 – Rogue Scholar is getting closer to the big milestones of 200 participating blogs with 50,000 posts!

The a backlog of new blog submissions is still not resolved, so please be patient. 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 February was on translations – the Rogue Scholar website is now translates into 11 languages with blog posts in nine languages. The translations still need lots of refinements but include many areas that were previously not translated, e.g. the sidebar on the homepage, footer, and subject areas. The homepage now shows the most recent posts in the selected language:

As you can see in the screenshot, the landing page now also shows summary statistics that were previously available on a separate dashboard page. All numbers use live data, and clicking on them returns a search result for that data.

Community Updates

Rogue Scholar is powered by the InvenioRDM open source repository software, and last week the InvenioRDM community met for its annual partner meeting in Graz, Austria. Watch the Invenio blog – also archived in Rogue Scholar – for a report in the coming weeks. One important topic was the next major release (v14) of the software in June. Rogue Scholar is running the latest pre-release version of the software – see the Rogue Scholar footer for the current version.

Please use Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments.

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References

  1. Fenner, M. (2026, February 16). Rogue Scholar speaks more languages. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/1cy73-6m923