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Just before I add my comments, let me say how incredible posts I have to inspire me. Mathew and Hugo, congrats once more! You guys have so much to teach and share with us that it always amazes me on the content. As the opposite face of this planet of 'Data use in Neuroscience' (just kidding) I haven't felt much of an impact on my personal works - at least not as much to allow me to come up with a content and a context to share - but I'm surely continuing this thread with some points on how should Neuro navigate into this topic. With patience, with caution and with respect: in my perspective, as long as a common ground is followed - no matter the subject - it means the ethics and the Science is being respected for all of those impacted - directly or indirectly - with the publications and with the results of those informations on their each respective fields.

Well... It might be one of the funniest things to read an undergrad student's post on such article. Hilarious, though? I hope not. Let me share some of my perspective... Unfortunately, time is not limitless, endless or anything we all wish it was. There is no denying! Due to that, we all end up choosing to do things in the face of others. So, hear me out, aren't we kind of always partially retiring? I still remember the first time I told my father I was retired from dance. From those out there who don't have the context: I left my professional dance career for High School, SATs, more exams and now, as an undergraduate of Medical School. It was such an unrealistic sentence that somehow has brought me to this forum today. There's no denying on how we are constantly taking decisions and deciding on our futures, but what about the parts in yourself that you felt like they represent you, like they keep doing such? What it - just as my case - I decide to go back on dancing professionally? Would that mean I un-retired? Is it the lack of interruption that makes something worth of saying it deserves a retirement? Or is it the effort you put into it for years and years of your life? Or is it the passion that resides within the definition of a retirement? Does it still make sense after it has come out of my mind?

Tough question my friends... I believe that we will be free of sharing our data, but not for whatever use. We should be aware of the interest conflicts, the bad use of the data, the appropriation of the data or even the burglary of the projects. All persons that wanted to see the data, they should have access, is the way to demonstrate that the data was obtained in the right way, however when we sharing for reuse we should be clear and make the statement that the data is from another experiment or is used to compare models or results from different experiments. Science it should be clear and directed to the understanding of all natural phenomena, we can't ignore the past, the old experiments, the old data because all of this are the founding of the actual science, that means that we are allowed of compare the data, but we are obligated to use it in the right way... Sharing data in neuroscience is good for many reasons, we can compare experiments, we can run different algorithms to find new perspectives, we can learn about the way in which the data were obtained, etc. However not always its will be in that way, sometimes somebody could use it in bad way, but if we are aware of that possibility and we are prepared to claim the rightness of the data, with back ups of the data, laboratory notes, video recordings, the original projects etc, we can be victorius in this hard, but honorable quest.