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The canonical duties of a university professor's job are to contribute to Research, Teaching, and Service. Often these are viewed as conflicting demands, although it has always been clear that, they are treated with diminishing importance, in the order in which we list them, when it comes to promotion or other rewards. But the world is changing, from the young on up. More and more aspects of academic life are being incorporated into a single, dynamic, global online communication system. This may lead to a conceptual syzygy, like those rare events in the heavens, in which the three objectives in our trinity are aligned. In what may be a salubrious turn of events, academics will still be expected to contribute to research, teaching, and service but with online resources, they will often be able to do all three at once, and with comparable impact. Careers, like life, are ephemeral. Except for the exceptional, like Einstein and Darwin, our impact lasts a few decades rather than across lifetimes. Teaching has always had more, if quieter, impact than the vast majority of journal articles, and the social media are now extending that reach. Even in a traditional setting, a professor annually teaching 100 students who will live for 60 more years, can have 6,000 person-years of influence per year-and 240,000 over a 40-year career. And of course online courses can magnify that tremendously, and globally. Despite such numbers, teaching is given lower priority in the RTS trinity than research, but the world is now awash in free or low-cost online courses, lectures, YouTube instructional videos, and so on, vastly increasing academic reach and visibility even beyond the numbers of traditional students. Online classes are attracting tens of thousands of students, with presumably at least some benefits for the majority who may only browse briefly. Choices range in quality, from the very best universities to the lowest for-profit Potemkin versions. Even when not taken for formal course credit, the knowledge spreads. Even if sometimes reluctantly, legitimate universities are giving serious consideration to how BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Research, Teaching, Service: is a new academic syzygy forming?