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Now, this is Open Science!

By clock on May 14, 2009.

One by one, brave people are opening up science, serving as examples of how things can and should be done openly with no ill consequences.

Today - examples of two such pioneers.

First, Bryan Perkins published his research on his blog. Go and read it and post comments, ask questions, help him improve the work. If the feedback is good, who knows, he may submit it to a peer-reviewed journal. In any case, it is much better for data to be out in the open, available to anyone who knows how to use Google search, than gathering dust in some manila folder.

Second, Darren Begley, a graduate student at University of Washington will livestream his PhD defense on Tuesday May 19th at 4 p.m. PT (1pm EST). You can watch his defense live on UStream. I am not sure if anyone in the room will be checking UStream during the defense to see if there are questions from the online audience, but that would be so incredibly cool if they did and if Darren actually answers them at the end of his defense.

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