What if competition for MADS is high, how will its distribution be decided?
This is an interesting question and one the executive committee will need to discuss in detail soon. We guess we will have to gauge demand at first. In terms of the reader, the more notice they can give then the more likely they are we can get something organised. I (JJB) suggest that any request for MADS be accompanied by a research proposal detailing the experiment or investigation. These can be assessed by a peer-review process and MADS deployed to the project deemed the better one. Here the term ‘better’ does not refer to the biases of the reviewer, but to the clearest proposal made which demonstrates a clear understanding of how MADS would be used and how the data would be interpreted. We can help with the submission process as well. This again would ensure that MADS is employed where it is needed most. Of course it will also be available for the spontaneous case from time to time so it would always be worth checking. This is just a proposal at present.
