Academics with too much time on their hands?

One of the blog feeds I have inadvertently picked up told me I should read a blog by an eminent lady Professor of Physics on ‘What does it take to get to the top?’ for women. Only women, of course, can’t get to the top in Academia (some readers of this blog will know this isn’t true). Anyway, here’s the blog post: http://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/2014/02/20/what-does-it-take-to-get-to-the-top/

The blog is called ‘Occam’s Typewriter’. That’s William of Ockham, of course: scientists use the medieval spelling of his name. But I digress… I’m particularly struck by the vast amount of blogging that this Professor does. Does she have no marking to do, no colleagues to care for, no classes to teach, no papers to write, no meetings to attend? Surely she does. So does she write much more quickly than I do? However does she get time for so much blogging?

Perhaps she’d like to do some marking for my department? It’s not her specialist subject, of course, but surely a brilliant blogger can do anything?