Five questions · about ten minutes
Nothing here has to be right. It has to be roughly true. Your answers assemble into a short paragraph at the bottom — send that back and everything else on the site gets easier to write.
Four made-up examples, so you're reacting to something instead of starting from nothing. None of these are real proposals. They're different in kind, not just size — pick the shape that feels closest, or argue with all four.
Do thoracic cholinergic interneurons shape postural drive independently of locomotor rhythm?
One MSc student, existing rig, 18 months. Nobody's rehab changes as a result — it's groundwork, and that's allowed. Roughly $60–90k.
Does the trunk-control circuit we can map in mice respond to transcutaneous stimulation in people with mid-thoracic injury?
Eight to ten participants, EMG and posturography, part-time engineering support, two years. For someone who transfers independently but can't hold a seated posture through a meal. Roughly $250–400k.
What actually changes, and in what order, across motor, sensory, and autonomic measures in the first two years after injury?
Not a study — a measurement capability every later study borrows, including other people's. Staff, protocol, governance, five years. Roughly $1.5–2.5M.
What do twenty years of fictive locomotion recordings predict about which circuits are worth stimulating in people?
Existing data, a computational trainee, two to three years. No new animals. Roughly $150–250k.
Not the most cited one. The one you'd bring up at dinner.
Finish both halves. Complaining is easier than strategizing.
Pick the closest. Nobody is holding you to it.
One real person. Not a population.
A placeholder is fine. It only has to survive one email.
Your answer, assembling
Answer anything above and it starts writing itself here.
Answers aren't saved anywhere. If you close the tab, they're gone — so send or copy before you go.