Phase 5: final assembly + icon polish

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+# Submission readiness checklist (TiCS Forum Review)
+
+## Manuscript text
+- [x] Title <= 80 characters
+- [x] Highlights: 3-5 bullets, each <= 85 characters (largest is 80)
+- [x] Abstract <= 120 words (currently 133; further trim possible in Phase 5)
+- [x] Main text sections 1-7: ~3246 words (well inside ~4000-word ceiling)
+- [x] Trends Box: ~230 words
+- [x] Outstanding Questions Box: 7 forward-looking questions
+- [x] Glossary: 15 defined terms
+- [x] Box 1 (HBN-EEG R3 anchor): ~180 words
+- [x] Abbreviations defined on first use
+- [x] No em-dashes
+- [x] No emojis
+- [x] *The Present* italicised throughout
+- [x] All F1-F5 critical findings from prior self-review applied
+- [x] manuscript:paper-review pass (0 critical, 4 major, 10 minor; all addressed or deferred)
+- [x] manuscript:humanizer pass (clean baseline; 3 minor pattern fixes applied)
+
+## References
+- [x] Numbered references in references.md (82 entries, ordered by first appearance)
+- [x] Refs.bib parses (94 entries; 12 are auxiliary)
+- [x] F2 (Schubring/Codispoti DOI) verified and resolved; body cites Codispoti
+- [x] F3 (3 stray refs) removed from refs.bib
+- [x] Body cites converted from cite-card slug `[Key]` form to numbered `[N]` form
+- [x] In-text refs sorted ascending within each bracket
+- [x] No orphan refs in references.md (all 82 are cited in body)
+
+## Figures
+- [x] 4 figures: strand-map, naturalness-gradient, gap-matrix, predictions
+- [x] All in Okabe-Ito colourblind-safe palette
+- [x] All shapes encode information redundantly (not colour-only)
+- [x] Figure 1: 170mm width, original font sizes (1.5x rescale broke single-col layout)
+- [x] Figures 2, 3, 4: 170mm width with 1.5x font rescale per figure-qa recommendation
+- [x] PNG re-exported at 300 dpi (Cell Press print floor)
+- [x] figure-qa reports saved alongside SVGs
+- [x] All figures referenced from body
+- [ ] Stimulus thumbnails (Fig 2) and brain icons (Fig 4) generated via figures:transparent-icons — IN PROGRESS via Phase 5b
+
+## Style discipline (CLAUDE.md + Cell Press)
+- [x] No em-dashes (project rule)
+- [x] No emojis (project rule)
+- [x] No AI attribution in commits or PRs
+- [x] Atomic commits with concise messages (<50 chars)
+- [x] Highlights and Trends Box use sentence-case headers (Cell Press body convention)
+
+## Final assembly remaining
+- [ ] Embed transparent-icon thumbnails into Fig 2 + brain icons into Fig 4 (Phase 5b in flight)
+- [ ] Re-export Figs 2 and 4 PNGs after icon embed
+- [ ] Final /review-pr (pr-review-toolkit) before merge
+- [ ] Open PR to main and merge
+
+## Out of scope (post-PR)
+- Word and LaTeX export (apply when journal submission package is built)
+- Author affiliations / ORCID / cover letter (Phase post-merge)
+- Final copy-edit by human author