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.

After months of work behind the scenes, we’re thrilled to unveil the new OpenCitations website!   Whether you’re a researcher, service provider, librarian, or open knowledge advocate, we want the new site to help you engage more easily and meaningfully with our work. This new website is part of a wider rebranding initiative that began earlier this year.

Peer review is a staple of science, a seemingly inescapable barrier that every researcher must cross in order to share their work with the world. The internet is awash with complaints about Reviewer #2 and long, drawn out review processes. Despite this, most academics believe peer review to be a gold standard process that protects the scientific record from poor quality studies.