Jekyll2026-10-18T18:29:06+00:00https://examen-silentii.github.io/feed.xmlExamen SilentiiExSil: an open journal of independent, reproducible examinations of scientific software and public research data.The Inaugural Editorial2026-10-18T00:00:00+00:002026-10-18T00:00:00+00:00https://examen-silentii.github.io/news/2026/10/18/inaugural-editorialThe journal’s first publication is out: the inaugural editorial, Silent Failures in Scientific Software: On the Founding of Examen Silentii. It sets out why the journal exists, what counts as a silent failure, and what kind of work it will publish. It’s archived on Zenodo with its own DOI and listed on the Articles page.

The first examination articles are next. If you’ve found a case where scientific software or a public dataset gets something wrong without saying so, the submissions repository is open, and so is the form to volunteer as a reviewer or editor.

Noah Parsons, Founding Editor

]]>Introducing Examen Silentii2026-10-10T00:00:00+00:002026-10-10T00:00:00+00:00https://examen-silentii.github.io/news/2026/10/10/examen-silentii-foundedExamen Silentii now exists. It’s an open journal for one specific kind of work: careful, repeatable tests showing that a piece of scientific software or a public dataset gets something wrong without saying so.

The website, the submission form and the archive are all set up, and the scope and policies are on this site. They’re not final, so if something in them looks wrong or unworkable, I’d like to hear about it before submissions open.

Right now I’m putting together the editorial board and looking for the first reviewers. If you’d be interested in either, or you already have something you’d like to submit, use the Volunteer to review or edit form in the submissions repository.

Noah Parsons, Founding Editor

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