| Why don’t we share? Bridging the gap between technical tools and cultural barriers in open and reproducible geoscience
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Why don’t we share? Bridging the gap between technical tools and cultural barriers in open and reproducible geoscience
Convener: Matthias Schlögl | Co-convener: Alexander Brenning

Geoscience is critical to environmental decision-making. For scientific evidence to be trusted, challenged, reused, and communicated responsibly, the research behind it must be as open, transparent and reproducible as possible. While the technical building blocks for computational reproducibility are well-established, their adoption remains uneven, and sustaining reproducible workflows in daily research and operational settings remains challenging. Ultimately, open science requires more than just technical tooling; it demands a cultural shift in how scientific knowledge is created, shared, and evaluated.

This session bridges technical solutions and daily research practice, exploring both practical approaches to reproducibility and the human factors that shape their adoption. We invite contributions that move beyond the basic "how-to" of reproducibility tools to explore how we can support widespread, sustainable, and equitable use across the geosciences.

Topics may include:

» Reproducible workflows in practice: Approaches to data governance, analysis design, documentation, automation, and long-term access to geospatial code and data.
» Culture, community & vulnerability: Concerns around sharing (e.g. public scrutiny, imposter syndrome, data ownership, credit) and ways to normalize sharing non-traditional research outputs.
» Incentives & evaluation: Assessing how institutional structures (i.e., funding, hiring, promotion) can better reward research robustness and reproducibility alongside scientific novelty.
» Global equity & infrastructure: Digital and governance disparities, resource constraints, and the often invisible work required to make research reusable across communities and regions.
» Education & capacity building: Integrating computational literacy, open-source practices, and reproducibility principles directly into geoscience education.
» Systemic & institutional change: The roles of journals, publishers, funders and science communication in moving beyond checkbox compliance to foster a vibrant open science ecosystem.

We welcome technical guidelines, case studies, qualitative and interdisciplinary research, institutional strategies, practitioner perspectives, communication approaches, and honest accounts of reproducibility challenges, failures, and lessons learned. Together, we aim to spark constructive dialogue on how we can collectively move toward a more transparent, collaborative, equitable, and socially impactful geoscience ecosystem.