This is the November 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 Two blogs were added in November. Welcome!
I'm not going to listen to opinions about AI from people who don't use AI.
Kürzlich erschien das Buch Traum Grenzuniversität. Texte und Kommentare aus drei Jahrzehnten zur Geschichte des Collegium Polonicum von Krzysztof Wojciechowski (Europa-Universität Viadrina) im Open Access. Die Veröffentlichung wurde durch den Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg gefördert.
I’m a music fan who is anti-streaming and instead I stubbornly maintain a large music collection. At this time of year, streamers receive a round-up of their year’s listening in a “wrapped” report.
ancestro (m.) [fr. medieval ancestre , del lat. antecessor , antepasado, predecesor]. 1. Testimonio del cual descienden, directa o indirectamente, uno o más testimonios. Puede sobrevivir o tratarse de un testimonio hipotético;
R updates (R Data Scientist, R+AI conference, RWeekly, rOpenSci), Posit open source investments, AI in academia, science, biology, and labor, science funding cuts, bedder bedtools, many new papers
I am pleased to share a new preprint that has just been posted on arXiv: “Who Owns the Knowledge? Copyright, GenAI, and the Future of Academic Publishing.” The text grew from my contribution to the 20th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics and is now substantially expanded, both in terms of legal analysis and policy implications.
Ha ha, I lied. Book Week will continue until morale improves. Mike has made the point to me more than once that there are papers I could and probably should write, but haven’t, because they’re things that I just assume everyone else knows.
BOSC 2026 is planned for July 14-15, 2026, as part of ISMB 2026 in Washington, DC. We invite our community to nominate potential keynote speakers who would be of interest to our community. You may submit as many nominations as you wish. The form may be filled out multiple times. Please submit nominations by December 15, 2025 . Why this matters Keynote talks are always a highlight at BOSC.
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.