FemaleScienceProfessor

Perhaps you have heard the expression, "If you want something done, ask a busy person." Some people are able to get a lot done, a...

This is my blog-reply to an e-mail I recently received from Andrew Hacker, one of the authors (with Claudia Dreifus) of Higher Education? H...

How much do you work? More than you want to? As much as you want to? Whatever your answer, do you get to decide or do you feel you have no c...

One of my colleagues is currently immersed in a discussion with his graduate students about how much they should work on their research. Th...

In the novel Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, the protagonist's wife and son move to London, leaving him in New York: My family, the s...

Last weekend, amidst working on a couple of manuscripts and reviews etc. in the office and at home (not to mention doing some overtime think...

Not long ago on a Monday, a colleague said to a group of his graduate students something like "I was thinking about this [research proj...

Time is a perennial issue ( How many hours do you work/week? 2. A new assistant professor (with a minimal teaching and administrative load i...

How much grad students 'should' work (other than the 20 hours of teaching/research on which their salary is based), is one of those ...

"How many hours do professors work" keeps showing up in the list of keywords used by people who find this blog, and it has come up...

Working at home just doesn't work for me -- it never has. I need to be in my office, surrounded by all my office stuff, without the home...

A recent op-ed essay in the NYT about the end of summer noted that most academics work a lot more than 40 hours a week, though we have somew...