Back in early 2012, I pondered about the relationships between a science-based blog post and a science-based journal article[cite]10.59350/3pbz1-vcd67[/cite]. This was in part induced by my discovering a blog plugin called Kcite, which allow a journal articles to be appended to the blog in the form of a numbered reference list. The only required input for Kcite was the DOI of the article (as you can see earlier in this paragraph). For around 500 posts after that moment, I always strove to add such references to my posts. Around 2016, I started including references to data in the form of repository DOIs to sit alongside the journal references, but this feature stopped working a year or two later because of changes in the metadata resolved by the DOI. Kcite itself lasted until January 2024 for this blog, when a required update to the software running the blog (WordPress) meant that it no longer worked and had to be removed as a plugin. Two years ago, Rogue Scholar (Science blogging on steroids) started coming along to the rescue.[cite]10.53731/axtz227-73n18e7[/cite] ,[cite]10.53731/4bvt3-hmd07[/cite] It provides some amazing automated features and infrastructure to blogs; I will illustrate from those listed on the top page of Rogue Scholar itself: (more…)