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A comment on An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia (2013). Parent comment

Re:An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Acade... by marcosdumay on Thursday April 23, 2015 @01:17PM (#9428245)
That'd require a secretary with a PhD. Looks more like most of it should not be done. But then, I have no idea how to change it.

Teaching is probably the easiest one to solve. Some kinds of classes should be attributed to teachers, not researchers (those are very different kinds of expertize).

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Re:An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Acade... by timelined on Thursday April 23, 2015 @01:45PM (#9428429)
It is increasingly common for large labs in the life sciences (25+ members) to hire multiple support staff (with PhDs) to help offset this load. This is in addition to positions like Senior Research Scientists (senior postdocs) who often serve as 50% "project managers" and 50% independent postdocs.
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