Geoffrey MillerVerified account

#ThanksForTyping highlights how intellectual work of male academics benefited from the unpaid, uncredited research assistance of wives 2/n

Fast forward to now, and academics of all genders are expected to be as productive, but no longer benefit from this invisible assistance 3/n

It's no wonder that today's early- and mid-career academics have trouble measuring up to the achievements of their antecedents 4/n

One response would be to reduce our expectations of modern academics to recognize their decreasing levels of career support 5/n

But I think that's the wrong response 6/n

IMO the right thing to do is to extol and elevate the value of the people who support the people doing the intellectual work 7/n

Let's recognize and prize and reward the typists, lab techs, data managers, assistants & childcaregivers who make intellectual work possible

Let's recognize that intellectual work doesn't take place in a vacuum. It takes a village to advance knowledge 9/n