Not Exactly a Lab Note, but Worth Noting

So excited to see Experiment.com 's Cindy, and Christina visit the University of South Carolina  campus yesterday. These remarkable young people have opened another door for researchers to acquire research funding through a crowd funding mechanism. In our two projects on experiment.com ("How much fertilizer do we really need?" and "No but seriously now, how much fertilizer do we really need?") we raised $5,022 and $20,199 to do farm-based fertilizer trials. Many of our supporters are farmers and it's doubtful that we would have found any of this funding through the regular channels. Ours is but a tiny part of their story and I believe they have done very well in challenging some of the established research paradigms. One of the more exciting ideas is to make research more real-time and transparent. So please to have met them! Pic is with Cindy and Christina with my guys Stacie and Gabe in the lab.

 

Stacie, Christina, Cindy, Buz and Gabe in Buz's lab.