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“Time is everywhere and it permeates everything” is the statement with which Barbara Adam opens the preface to this book. She highlights the importance of engaging with taken for granted, often tacit, assumptions about time, pointing to how the diversity of times is woven into complex timescapes (Adam, 1998)–an argument as relevant to academia as much as it is to everyday life. To understand and research academic times, Adam argues, means questioning how “the incompatible time logics that currently stress and stretch our lives and entails rendering explicit what is currently known implicitly” can be “combined into a coherent whole”(Adam, this book). This collection of chapters has taken important steps in this direction. The reader was taken into many corners of academic lives and work relations, investigating them from time-sensitive perspectives. We were incited to reflect on the uneven distributions and …