# [DRAFT] Op-ed for Upstream Blog: Something about usable software being important and what we can do to make more of it
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## Introduction
Software has an increasing role in science.
* [Software is changing. Scientists are no longer building for themselves. Science is being democratized in all sorts of ways.]
* [Today, more and more science can happen thanks to xxx ]
* [While the proliferation of software for science is awesome, there are growing challenges.]
* [Specific challenges include xxx.]
* [The consequences of hard to use scientific software range from inconvenience/annoyance to inablity to reproduce science]