Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science

Ecol Evol. 2024 May 31;14(6):e11341. doi: 10.1002/ece3.11341. eCollection 2024 Jun.

Abstract

To address our climate emergency, "we must rapidly, radically reshape society"-Johnson & Wilkinson, All We Can Save. In science, reshaping requires formidable technical (cloud, coding, reproducibility) and cultural shifts (mindsets, hybrid collaboration, inclusion). We are a group of cross-government and academic scientists that are exploring better ways of working and not being too entrenched in our bureaucracies to do better science, support colleagues, and change the culture at our organizations. We share much-needed success stories and action for what we can all do to reshape science as part of the Open Science movement and 2023 Year of Open Science.

Keywords: climate change; cloud computing; flywheel; growth mindset; open science; open source software; psychological safety.