r/AskAcademia
2.1M members
r/AskAcademia is a subreddit with 2.1M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses phd, research, job, struggling, and writing, and they frequently recommend/review dictation software, statistics book, and ebook.
This subreddit is for discussing academic life, and for asking questions directed towards people involved in academia, (both science and humanities).
Popular Themes in r/AskAcademia
#1
Advice Requests
: "Anyone make a more successful soft money career than hard money?"
11 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "A deeply disappointing experience with BMC Medical Education: 20+ months and still no decision"
4 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "How do you publish manuscripts without an active grant, and your university has no funding pool for publishing research?"
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "2nd year life sciences undergrad, professor wants "ideas" for a microbiology/bioinformatics project & I have zero clue where to start"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/AskAcademia
#1
Phd
: "Calling a Phd consultant "Doctor x" vs "first name" outside of the academic environment?"
51 posts
#2
Research
: "how do you turn a long Research paper into a short talk?"
34 posts
#3
Job
19 posts
#4
Struggling
12 posts
#5
Writing
8 posts
#6
Thesis
: "For those who have written a Master’s Thesis, how did you feel during the actual writing process?"
8 posts
#7
Postdoc
6 posts
#8
Professor
: "Professor who is my mutual on Tiktok took concept I created in my video and is using them in $400 USD course"
6 posts
#9
Masters
: "As a Masters student, is it appropriate to reach out to former lab members of a PI I’m interested in working with?"
6 posts
#10
Frustrating
5 posts
Products Discussed in r/AskAcademia
Dictation Software
18 reviews
#1
Dragon
3.6★ from 7 reviews
#2
Microsoft Word
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
Automatic Transcribing Apps
4.0★ from 1 review
Statistics Book
8 reviews
#1
Jan Kmenta
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Richard McElreath
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Salkind
4.0★ from 1 review
Ebook
5 reviews
#1
Apple
4.5★ from 2 reviews
#2
Remarkable
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Microsoft Surface Pro
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/AskAcademia
#1
STEM
: "At what point does another postdoc actually stop helping your academic career?"
49 posts
#2
Interpersonal Issues
: "Conference with uncomfortable romantic advance"
16 posts
#3
Social Science
: "Would you reject a paper for a single false citation"
14 posts
#4
Humanities
: "Is it inappropriate to finish my conference presentation by saying I am looking for a PhD position? (EU Academia)"
11 posts
#5
Administrative
: "ERC Starting grant 2027 budget"
11 posts
#6
Interdisciplinary
: "Calling a PhD consultant "Doctor x" vs "first name" outside of the academic environment?"
6 posts
#7
Professional Fields - Law, Business, etc.
: "Remote Jobs or Side Hustle Ideas for Someone With a Biomedical Science Background?"
5 posts
#8
Professional Misconduct in Research
: "Peer review conundrum"
4 posts
#9
Meta
: "Why is it verboten to change the research question to fit the data?"
3 posts
#10
Admissions - please post in /r/gradadmissions, not here
: "Master’s Chemical Engineering thesis: looking for research topic ideas :"
3 posts
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Last updated: September 19, 2026