loading . . . Rogue Scholar Newsletter October 2025 This is the October 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
Ten blogs were added in September. Welcome! More blogs are on the waitlist and will be added soon. This brings the number of participating blogs to 184, and the number of archived posts to 47,385.
### qec.Codes
Quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures at the University of Edinburgh.
_Computer and information sciences, English._
https://qec.codes/
### Blasted Bioinformatics!?
Bioinformatics lessons learned the hard way, bugs, gripes, and maybe topical paper reviews too...
_Biological Sciences, English._
https://blastedbio.blogspot.com/
### Bio <-> Chem
Technical notes from the interface between bioinformatics and cheminformatics by Chris Southan.
_Biological Sciences, English._
https://cdsouthan.blogspot.com/
### Anil Madhavapeddy's feed
_Computer and information sciences, English._
https://anil.recoil.org/notes
### Commonplace Lab
Notes on nature poking _.
Biological Sciences, English._
https://naturepoker.wordpress.com/
### Antoine Vernet's blog
_Social science, English._
https://antoinevernet.com/blog/
### Cormac Monaghan's blog
_Computer and information sciences, English._
https://c-monaghan.github.io/posts/
### Steve Martin
_Economics and business, English._
https://marberts.github.io/blog/
### Data Art & Science Blog
Exploring the art and science of working with development and humanitarian data.
_Social science, English._
https://juan-torresmunguia.netlify.app/blog/
### évologie
Réflexions sur l'évolution, la biodiversité et la vie.
_Natural sciences, French._
https://evologie.netlify.app/
## Technical Updates
This week, Rogue Scholar added support for contributions beyond authorship in collaboration with the _ropensci_ blog. The contributor roles _editor_ , _translator,_ and _interviewee_ are now supported in Rogue Scholar (all) and Crossref (editor, translator) metadata.
The blog post describes the work needed in the blog Atom or JSON Feed to include these new contributor roles. Over the coming months, more roles will be added, including roles from the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CrediT). Crossref is planning to add CrediT support to its metadata schema in 2026.
## Community Updates
On October 20, Rogue Scholar published a self-assessment using the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI), summarized below:
Major gaps exist in the areas of governance and sustainability, and work is underway to improve this. Stay tuned for a blog post next week.
The project _Infra Wiss Blogs_ in October published two papers (one English and one German) studying science blogs in Germany. They found that the majority of science blog in Germany are from the Humanities and Social Sciences, in part because a large number of blogs from de.Hypotheses.
****Figure 1**** Overlap of disciplines. Source: Authors’ own work
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## References
1. Fenner, M. (2025, October 27). Supporting blog contributions beyond authorship. _Front Matter_. https://doi.org/10.53731/9t6xx-kht30
2. Salmon, M., Bellini Saibene, Y., & LaZerte, S. (2025, October 14). Recognition Beyond Blog Post Authors. _rOpenSci - Open Tools for Open Science_. https://doi.org/10.59350/510pg-zzf58
3. Fenner, M. (2025, October 20). Rogue Scholar follows the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). _Front Matter_. https://doi.org/10.53731/m65a8-6sm21
4. Ochsner, C., & Pampel, H. (2025, October 26). Wissenschaftsblogs als integraler Bestandteil der Open-Access-Landschaft. _Infra Wiss Blogs_. https://doi.org/10.59350/0zep3-5px78
5. Ochsner, C., Pampel, H., Höfting, J., & Rothfritz, L. (2025). Scholarly blogs: An analysis of infrastructural aspects based on German scholarly blogs. _Journal of Documentation_ , _81_(7), 520–544. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2025-0053
6. Ochsner, C., Pampel, H., Höfting, J., & Rothfritz, L. (2025). Wissenschaftsblogs in Deutschland: Eine Analyse infrastruktureller Aspekte. _Bibliothek Forschung Und Praxis_. https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0028
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/rogue-scholar-newsletter-october-2025/
