The science blog archive Rogue Scholar started the process of becoming a German non-profit organization in 2026. This blog post summarizes the reasoning and the main steps needed to achieve this. Two weeks ago, I published a self-assessment of how Rogue Scholar adheres to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Major gaps were identified in the areas of governance and sustainability.
WIRED published a special issue with 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age
Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw.
ResearchRabbit shipped its biggest update in years: a cleaner iterative “rabbit hole” flow, a more configurable citation graph, and an optional premium tier.The company now “partners’ with Litmaps, which shows up in features and business model
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The Publication Facts Label Is Now Freely Available for the 34,000 Journals Using OJS (V. 3.3 – 3.5) There’s no better way for journal publishers and editors to address today’s questions of research integrity than to implement PKP’s Publication Facts Label (PFL) in their instance of OJS (versions 3.3 – 3.5). The open source PFL Plugin […] The post This label will put your journal’s research integrity in black and white appeared first on
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.
59 new software packages, updates for genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, spatial omics, QC tooling, core I/O, GFF/CIGAR handling, much more.
It’s always bloody Doctor Who isn’t it? The show about the police box that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Fig. 1. Still from S3E1, ‘Tomorrow’, The Bear (FX on Hulu, 2022–) There is nothing new about filler or bottle episodes; when I hear the latter term, I always think of Abed (Danny Pudi) from the NBC sitcom Community complaining about how, in ‘Cooperative Calligraphy’ (S2E8), they (the characters) are becoming stuck in a bottle episode. It is a trope so common it can be used for comedy – and that was 15 years ago.
This year, the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) took place in Tampere, Finland, from September 23–26. I attended the conference together with Sarah Oberbichler from the DH Lab to present our joint paper, “Studying Model Design Biases in LLMs for Multilingual Historical Newspaper Extraction;