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r/AskAcademia
2.1M members
r/AskAcademia is a subreddit with 2.1M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size, and has crazy activity.
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
: "What’s a field of study that is so fundamental that knowing it makes everything else in life easy to understand?"
18 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "I'm a public school teacher- University of Kentucky, College of Medicine plagiarized my work and won’t respond"
10 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "How do you keep track of research papers, ideas, notes, and interesting topics? What tools do you use?"
6 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "Is It Worth Pushing Back? Received the Wrong MacBook Size from Startup Purchase"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Hiring Freeze and Faculty Recruitment Process"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/AskAcademia
#1
Research
: "What Research ISN'T being targeted by the administration?"
16 posts
#2
Phd
: "Finished my Phd, now I'm just back to be unemployed."
15 posts
#3
Academic
: "Australian Academics: Did we slog through years of research just to become overworked teachers?"
13 posts
#4
Advice
: "Just got offered PhD - general Advice?"
11 posts
#5
Postdoc
: "Professors: When a Postdoc candidate emails you, do you prefer a quick intro call or just a CV?"
9 posts
#6
Career
: "Partner's early Career = relationship struggles"
9 posts
#7
Publication
: "Interactive plot Publication?"
6 posts
#8
Job
: "Fired from PhD"
4 posts
#9
Teaching
: "Stay in world renowned lab for free or get an undesirable Teaching job?"
4 posts
#10
Conference
: "Submitted a precious work into a predatory Conference. I did not know that it is predatory until I attended it. I feel very bad that it caused a dirty spot in my track record. How to deal with this?"
4 posts
Member Growth in r/AskAcademia
Yearly
+402k members(24.1%)
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