This new generation don’t work like we did.  They don’t get it. One of my post-docs took a day off for a breakup. And a heavy period. And some grief. All in the same week.

You’re working six days a week, checking emails in the evenings and on weekends, because the admin pile-up just won’t stop. When it comes to admin overload in academia, two forces drive the problem.

I met this professor at a women in leadership event, and she was telling me about the time she spent her entire morning looking for these name tags and a welcome banner for the departmental open day.

A friend at another institution recently told me about their latest hiring process. They passed on an eccentric genius—someone with amazing research…