This chapter opens by examining the dominant linearities in academia—powerful imaginaries that guide and shape scholarly action. While offering a critical lens, it also recognizes the coherence, purpose, and logic inherent in each linear pathway, reflecting visions of progress, achievement, and value creation shaped by specific contexts and temporal conditions. To deepen understanding of the evolving temporalities of academic research, the chapter introduces two key concepts: timescapes and temporal regimes. Drawing on Barbara Adam’s work, timescapes illuminate the multiple, interwoven forms of time that characterize academic work. Meanwhile, temporal regimes conceptualize time as an exercise of power, revealing the institutional actors and contested dynamics that shape the temporal structures imposed on academia.