I say “semi-spoileriffic” because I’m not going to go out of my way to give away any plot points or creature details you couldn’t get from watching the trailers and TV spots, but if you want to keep yourself pure as the driven snow, you might want to save this post for later.

All your dreams are made, when you’re chained to the lesson and the teaching trade. Was that lecture, lab or lesson just a dream? Exactly what did you learn from the experience? When you reflect on it, how will you tell yourself and others the stories of your study? The stories students tell about what they have learned, the teaching they experience and research they are exposed to are a key part of the story of every University.

Expanded from a post on X, which I felt didn’t do a good job expressing all of what I meant.

This is the June 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 June. Welcome everybody!

Geflüchtete sind in vielfältige transnationale Netzwerke eingebunden. Im langen Sommer der Migration nutzten viele diese Kontakte für die Flucht, wie auch dieser Beitrag zeigt. Inzwischen leisten viele in Deutschland lebende Geflüchtete wichtige Unterstützung für Angehörige in Kriegs- und Krisengebieten.

It crept out quietly under cover of darkness, but I’m pleased to say that today saw the publication of a new paper: Van der Linden, Tom T. P., Michael P. Taylor, Amy Campbell, Brian D. Curtice, René Dederichs, Lucas N. Lerzo, John A. Whitlock, D. Cary Woodruff and Emanuel Tschopp. 2025. Introduction to Diplodocoidea.

Jay Odenbaugh reviews From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics, edited by William C Bausman, Janella K Baxter &

Nuria Román,  DR © Barro, raíces y cuerda Menorca, España. 2014. Parte de la colección Coser la Tierra Sitio de la autora Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original proporcionada por su autor o propietario. Todos los derechos están reservados por la artista.

As the wave of LLM generated research swells, how can you tell whether it is legit? A fast growing proportion of science contains results generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) and other forms of generative AI. Researchers rely on virtual assistants to do their literature reviews, summarize previous research, and write texts for journal articles (Kwon, 2025). As a result, AI generated research swells to immense proportions.

L’actualité liée aux fortes chaleur en Juin 2025, nous rappelle que les écoles en France sont très vulnérables à la chaleur, et qu’en France, les maigres efforts de rénovation se concentrent sur l’efficacité énergétique.

A few days ago, on Sci-Fi Friday, you met Dr. Samara Makinde. You didn’t know it then, and neither did she, but her story wasn’t a standalone. What you read on Friday wasn’t just another TCIP short story. It was Chapter One of my debut novel — On the Wings of a Pig — and the opening act of a story I’ve been dreaming about for years.