Good piece and a vital point. One issue that gets less attention (unless I missed): researchers crave uninterrupted time, and for most, that& #39;s only in summer. V tough for people with kids. Gotta figure out camp--this year, no camp (and never camp in Aug when unis start). 1/ https://twitter.com/dmedelstein/status/1313444287963693056">https://twitter.com/dmedelste...

Policies to make teaching more flexible so those who want to teach in summer & research in another term (course banking, on-load in summer, etc) would help. Say some kids don& #39;t go back to school til Fall 2021. What could uni do to help parents focus on research in Fall 2021? 2/

I& #39;m lucky to have tenure but remember the feeling on t-track of knowing when summer came around I had to buckle down and it wouldn& #39;t come around again til next year (still feel that!). But routines diff, kids get sick, etc. And I was v lucky and it was still hard. 3/

Now so many facing this and if unis can help make research time available when it& #39;s available, rather than only in summer, that might help with other Q& #39;s like tenure clocks. Of course, I& #39;m not an admin and have zero experience, so these are just musings, FWIW. 4/4