This is the July 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive (the June newsletter was skipped for personal reasons). 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

Two blogs each were added in June and July. This increases the number of participating blogs to 195, the number of archived posts has grown to 53,401. Three of the four newly added blogs have been publishing for a long time (since 2006, 2008, and 2009 respectively) and the forth blog is co-authored by an author that I have followed for at least as long. Lots of interesting reading material, and as always you can import all Rogue Scholar blogs into your favorite feed reader as an OPML feed.

j.g. pausas' blog

Notes on fire ecology, mediterranean ecology, and other things ...
Ecology, English.
https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/

Asimov's Addendum

A publication by Tim O'Reilly and Ilan Strauss on AI commercialization risks and governance. Disclosure and protocols for healthy AI ecosystems.
Artificial Intelligence, English.
https://asimovaddendum.substack.com/

Sounding Out!

Pushing sound studies into the red since 2009.
Music, English.
https://soundstudiesblog.com/

petermr's blog

A Scientist and the Web.
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, English.
https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/

Technical Updates

On June 15, Rogue Scholar launched author profiles, showing all blog posts of that author on a single page and linked to their ORCID page, with optional affiliations and biography pulled from the public ORCID profile.

On July 14, Rogue Scholar added support for Crossref Metadata schema 5.5 that was launched the week before. Most import for Rogue Scholar bloggers is the new dedicated content type for blog posts (as posted_content with subtype blog), plus some other changes and additions.

On July 15, I released the first release candidate for v1.0 of the commonmeta schema. Commonmeta is a metadata conversion library heavily used by Rogue Scholar, for example to implement Crossref DOI registration in the InvenioRDM backend service. Going forward this will make it easier for Rogue Scholar to automatically generate author profiles, and to collect citations of Rogue Scholar blog posts.

Community Updates

The Rogue Scholar Slack community continues to have good information and discussions, including the new Slack channel for new blog submissions. Last week I was co-author of a blog post also submitted to a journal about ten simple rules for scholarly blogging.

I hope that all members of the Rogue Scholar community enjoy the summer and time away from their computers.

Please reach out via Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments.

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References

  1. Fenner, M. (2026, June 15). Rogue Scholar launched author profiles this week. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/204cn-q6m42
  2. Fenner, M. (2026, July 14). Rogue Scholar supports Crossref schema 5.5. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/kct5e-8fn82
  3. Fenner, M. (2026, July 15). Announcing the commonmeta schema 1.0 release candidate. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/kdqkf-nf052
  4. Ochsner, C., Pampel, H., & Fenner, M. (2026, July 28). Ten simple rules for scholarly blogging. Upstream. https://doi.org/10.54900/xn57k-gyw73