Jeremy B. Yoder

What Chris said — but I'd add that it's not so straightforward to swap between NSF and Experiment. The budget for a typical NSF proposal is much, much bigger than most folks are able to raise through crowdfunding platforms — they usually supports people's salaries or graduate student stipends, an...more

Well, I think most people whose pre-proposals are rejected use the reviewer comments that they receive to revise and resubmit in the next year — or come up with a totally new project to submit instead. (I've done both, really.) But I'm sure there are projects that never get resubmitted.

This would have been, I think, the fourth pre-proposal I've been involved with at NSF. That portion of the process wasn't necessarily bad — it's kind of nice to "pilot" an idea in brief form before putting in the time to build a full detailed proposal — but the whole two-stage process was slower ...more