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Cut the Rope 2 v1 1 2 Mod

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This morning, the Boston Globe published an email exchange between a male neurobiologist and a young femaleneurobiologist to whom his department made a job offer. (Go read the Globe article! You can download the email exchange as a word document and then feel better about your own situation, whatever it may be.) His goal was to dissuade her from joining his department on the grounds that they would compete with each other. Pa ha ha ha ha! Lets enter him into Scarlets televised competition, "So You Think You Can Get an Outside Offer!" (Boom ba-boom ba-boom boom!) Okay, he is (or, perhaps the appropriate word is was) a Nobelaureate, Susumu Tonegawa, but I think that verb tense is the point about gender and competition from senior faculty who, in a more-perfect world might serve as mentors. We ought to keep each other and our disciplines active, but it doesnt always work that way.

A couple years ago, I had the privilege of sharing a meal with a leading scholar in my field who heads a lousy department in a big powerful university (which shouldnt have a lousy department, but history does these things). This guy has a national reputation, not only for the (sometimes) stellar quality of his own work, but also for his exceptional mentorship of graduate student. But his department eats junior faculty for breakfast. One of my colleagues had the beautiful audacity to ask him about a recently failed tenure case over our third glass of wine, and he gave us all these reasons the candidate (who had doubled most research-one expectations) wasnt good enough. Yes, I told him about his mentorship imballance, but people with egos that big (and three glasses of wine) usually forget things like that. (I hope.)

Now back to gender. When I wrote about my strategically incompetent female colleague, Clear, whose profile says hes male, chimed in to say he probably does too much photocopying. But it didnt take long for the discussion to conclude that women are expected to do photocopying more often than men. Im sure thats right, but Im concerned about two things, especially given the somewhat frightening Picture Secret XV:
1. how we react (differently) to similar behaviours from men vs. women (e.g. Should we expect the women who fought their way into the academy to act less competitively than their male colleagues?), and

2. how we might be mistreating each other because we might not know our genders, among other things.The Globe says the young biologist took a job at Virginia to avoid conflict at MIT. Thats the South! I guess well find out later whether its also the metaphorical frying pan for her. According to wunderground.com, at 11:30 am Eastern time, the temperature is Boston is 77 F and Charlottesville, VA is 89 F.

Heres to making everyone dance for the camera!

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