Agreed. Once I think I know the order of figures, I write. In writing, I often find figs are out of order or missing pieces of the argument I want to make.

I always tell people it’s like a guy named JR where that’s his full name.

Thank you so much for the compliment! Indeed, we also think it aligns well with Gao&Ganguli's theory, while highlighting the role of state-feedback control in low-D dynamics. We have updated the preprint to include more comparisons with M1 recordings.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just fyi if you are trying to get bridge funds from your
University they might offer them only for grants that got discussed (has been true at Duke). ND can be a death-knell for a program.

I take it all back!!

Agree. That said, "distinguish among" isn't a thing though because reviewers don't compare proposals to one another in study section.
I wonder if the policy is simply a response to an increased number of proposals and a sharply truncated time in which to review them all.

Fair enough. But on the (dubious?) theory that more discussion time leads to more informed scores, maybe we reduce some noise.

I agree that a clogged system is likely the driving force.