That's PROFESSOR Reed to you, baby

Posted 2 November 2011 by

Well, it had to happen sometime. Yet another one of our own, veteran TO-poster, long-time PT contributor, hacker, and guru Reed Cartwright, has taken the academic plunge and accepted a tenure-track appointment. (As if it wasn't enough being the current Huxley Faculty Fellow at Rice University!) Reed starts this coming January 2012 as an Assistant Professor with the Biodesign Institute (does that have the D-word in it?) at Arizona State University. He will be sharing his lab space with Prof. Steve Steve, of course. reed_zombie.png Word also has it that, as all good geneticists should, Reed has successfully replicated himself (albeit quite imperfectly, only 50% genetic identity by descent). As you can plainly see above, these life-changing events have had quite an effect on the poor Reed. Congratulations Prof Cartwright!

19 Comments

DS · 2 November 2011

Congratulations Reed.

Good luck.

Douglas Theobald · 2 November 2011

Does anyone else think Reed looks uncannily like a zombie panda?

Robin · 2 November 2011

Congrats!

Mike Elzinga · 2 November 2011

This look would make for interesting freshmen exam proctoring.

Joe Felsenstein · 2 November 2011

Mike Elzinga said: This look would make for interesting freshmen exam proctoring.
Have you seen what his class looked like? Reed said he gave them extra points if they showed up as zombies that day. Apparently that was a substantial motivation for them.

D P Robin · 2 November 2011

Best Wishes Reed!

dpr

Mike Elzinga · 2 November 2011

Joe Felsenstein said:
Mike Elzinga said: This look would make for interesting freshmen exam proctoring.
Have you seen what his class looked like? Reed said he gave them extra points if they showed up as zombies that day. Apparently that was a substantial motivation for them.
I can see it now; someone walking by his room, glancing in, and exclaiming, “Man, that is one tough professor!”

robert van bakel · 3 November 2011

Congratulations. Aaaah, science moving purposefully onward; merit being rewarded, and what have you. However,'BioDESIGN Institute'? Couldn't they change their name to the, 'Biowhatlooks likesomeonedesigneditbutitsreallyRM&NSatwork Institute'.

SWT · 3 November 2011

Congratulations!

Pete Moulton · 3 November 2011

Congratulations, and welcome to Arizona, Reed!

Jonboy · 3 November 2011

Congrats !! If you get bored, roll on down the road to Tucson ( U of A ) and I'll give you a tour.

Karen S. · 3 November 2011

My sincere congratulations! Hope you are happy in your new position.

harold · 3 November 2011

Congratulations on both the job and the genetic replication.

I hope you replicated yourself as an adult, but I suspect you may have taken the easy way out and generated a replicant that is not only a mere 50% match, but also at the neonatal development stage, requiring years of maturation. But they are cute when they're young.

Kevin B · 3 November 2011

Is Arizona close enough to Colorado for Dr Prof Cartwright to drop in and give Atheistoclast's talk for him?

Henry J · 3 November 2011

Is Arizona close enough to Colorado

Maybe if one of them is in the SW corner of Colorado, and the other in the NE corner of Arizona? :p Henry

Karen S. · 4 November 2011

Is Arizona close enough to Colorado for Dr Prof Cartwright to drop in and give Atheistoclast’s talk for him?
If Aclast does show up for his talk, he might end up looking like that picture after he faces questioning from the audience.

bigdakine · 4 November 2011

Imagine what Reed would look like if he was wearing a costume.

Henry J · 4 November 2011

Was he designed that way? :p

Gary_Hurd · 4 November 2011

Congratulations, and best wishes.