Beamline questions

The queue is a public instrument, not a promise that every question becomes a paper.

Question record

Each investigation should identify its question, why now, initial hypothesis, first evaluation, method, evidence, unknowns, publication status, and falsifier.

Status vocabulary

• Intake — worth looking at; not yet evaluated.
• Evaluating — first evidence is being gathered.
• Exploring — the question survived the first gate.
• Published — a paper or artifact is public.
• Corrected — the published record changed.
• Parked — not enough signal or capacity right now.