Rogue Scholar Newsletter May 2026

This is the May 2026 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

Five blogs were added in May. This increases the number of participating blogs to 192 , the number of archived posts has grown to 50,294. I am again impressed by the diversity in subject areas and geographical location of these new blogs.

Abraham Samuel Finny | Analytical Scientist

Analytical Chemistry, English. https://abrahamfinny.substack.com/

Nick Bearman

A blog on my teaching, open source GIS, travel and life. Global and Planetary Change, English. https://nickbearman.github.io/blog.html

The Dragonfly's Gaze

Computational Literary Studies. Literature and Literary Theory, English. https://dragonfly.hypotheses.org/

GF's blog

Soil Science, Portuguese. https://gustavofrosi.com.br/rss.html

Audiovisuelle Soziologie

Videos verstehen. Sociology and Political Science, German. https://audiovisuelle-soziologie.de/

Technical Updates

On May 18, Rogue Scholar started an OPML feed of all active Rogue Scholar blogs. OPML is the standard file format to manage feed reader subscriptions, and this makes it easier to follow along new content from Rogue Scholar science blogs. The blog feeds are grouped by OpenAlex subfield. If you don't use a feed reader and/or want to read the Rogue Scholar feeds in a browser, you can use the Rogue Scholar feed reader launched in parallel with the OPML file.

Last week I changed the Rogue Scholar submission workflow for new blogs, as addions of new blogs have slowed to a crawl the last few months. The changes include two new questions in the submission form, and posting the submission in the Rogue Scholar Slack community for feedback and discussion.

Community Updates

The big community news in May was Rogue Scholar reaching the milestone of 50,000 archived blog posts. The blog post has some numbers, as well as thoughts on how Rogue Scholar will move forward beyond this milestone.

Please reach out via Slack, email, Mastodon, or Bluesky if you have any questions or comments.

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References

1. Fenner, M. (2026, May 18). Launching the Rogue Scholar Feed OPML file and Feed Reader. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/fzyp4-7sj47
2. Fenner, M. (2026, May 21). Changes in the Rogue Scholar blog submission workflow. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/fk0rs-6z338
3. Fenner, M. (2026, June 2). Rogue Scholar has now archived 50,000 science blog posts. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/vbfpd-vg206