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Reproducibility is considered one of the cornerstones of science: to count as scientific, an observation or prediction has to be verifiable by others. However, over the last 20 years, researchers in many disciplines of science found that a large number of published scientific studies is not reproducible. This has been called the ""reproducibility crisis"".

Konrad will start by illustrating this phenomenon using a few examples, and explain the double role that computing has played in the crisis. Then Konrad will provide a deeper analysis of computational reproducibility, one of the three categories relevant for science. Technically, it is the same problem as reproducible builds, and that means that functional package management as implemented in Nix and Guix is an important part of a solution. However, both Nix and Guix lack some tooling and documentation to make them useful to and acceptable by a wider community of researchers.

Special thanks to the NLnet Foundation, the European Commission, the NixOS Foundation, and Tweag for making this event a reality!

The continued discussion for the lecture series is happening over here:
https://matrix.to/#/#son2022-lectures:matrix.org

More information about the Summer of Nix can be found on the website:
https://summer.nixos.org