This is the July 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 Thirteen blogs have been added in July, making it one of the busiest months yet for Rogue Scholar. Welcome everybody!

TLDR/Summary Two critical government consultations The New Zealand government has called for submissions on drafts of two major plans pertaining to national infrastructure and fuel security. The NZ Infrastructure Commission and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) have asked how we can future-proof the systems that keep our country running. Our non-partisan independent … Continue reading "Building Real Resilience: Our Submissions on NZ’s Fuel and Infrastructure Plans"

The last note shared a manuscript I made available through SocArXiv.org, an open archive for the social sciences: Christopher Hobson, ‘Memes and monsters of the interregnum: Gramsci between the times’, Manuscript, 2025.

I’m not sure when I first came across his stuff, but I’ve really admired Andrew Heiss’ public scholarship, including his blog, which is full of handy stuff. At some point I noticed he had post-level DOIs minted. I knew you could mint repository-level DOIs with GitHub and Zenodo, but maintaining each post as a repository and adding them as submodules to a blog is… a lot.

The Long Night of Science (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften - LNdW) is one of the most well-known public science events in Germany, providing research institutions with a platform for science communication. During this annual event, researchers present their work to an interested and engaged public.

This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has received two important updates: full-text search becomes the default search configuration, and blog authors can now self-manage basic settings of their Rogue Scholar blog community.Full-text search as default Rogue Scholar has long supported full-text search of all its content.

The LIS-Bibliometrics community is excited to announce its upcoming in-person conference, scheduled for Wednesday, November 26, 2025 , at the historic St Martin’s House Conference Centre , Leicester, UK. Conference Theme: Bibliometrics in Action This year’s focus is on practical, hands-on use of bibliometrics —highlighting how bibliometric tools and

If doing your job requires constant applications to keep doing it, is that really a “job”?  Why do we need to keep “auditioning” for work we’re already performing? Let’s first agree that there isn’t a typical career trajectory in academia. But there are some recurring steps one usually has to go through. Getting the job There are definitely some unwritten laws about getting jobs in academia.

I have been involved in the open science movement for nearly 20 years now. By now, it seems to me the problems have been clearly recognized and formulated, the experts agree on the necessary technical solutions (replacing the journals) and the funding is available.

Let’s start with the information you need most: Dougal Dixon’s speculative evolution classic The New Dinosaurs , which imagines the biota of today if the K-Pg extinction event had never happened, is being reprinted in a handsomely-produced new edition from Breakdown Press. Here’s the website, open for pre-orders (link); the book ships on August 11. Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of this absolute banger.