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There’s COVID-19 research, and then there’s meta COVID-19 research–that is, research about research in the era of COVID-19. Scientists, specifically principal investigators, were surveyed about time spent on various job activities. No one will be surprised to learn that productivity has been lost, particularly in disciplines dependent on shared equipment and/or student labor. Likewise, it is not shocking to discover that parents who have to care for small children are disproportionately affected. It’s good to confirm these things; the world can defy expectations sometimes. More importantly, it is good to quantify them so that efforts to intervene and remediate disparities can be assessed for effectiveness.
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