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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 high 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 is it like doing grad school in the lab of a famous PI?"
26 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Paper rejected due to high similarity"
6 posts
#3
Money Talk
: "I can't pay the APC... Shall I withdraw?"
3 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "What softwares do people in academia (medicine/biomed) typically use for creating high-quality figures for publication?"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/AskAcademia
#1
Academic
: "Northwestern PhD candidate Maalvika Bhat plagiarized blatantly from other writers on the platform Substack. How serious of an ethics violation is it for an Academic to plagiarize outside Academic writing?"
37 posts
#2
Research
: "How do Academics come up with Research questions and Research gaps?"
31 posts
#3
Phd
: "Northwestern Phd candidate Maalvika Bhat plagiarized blatantly from other writers on the platform Substack. How serious of an ethics violation is it for an academic to plagiarize outside academic writing?"
29 posts
#4
Career
: "AITA for not wanting to be my postdoc supervisor's Pokemon and pursuing a non-academic Career?"
11 posts
#5
Advice
: "Advice on dealing with a PI that doesn't care about my project at all"
11 posts
#6
Publication
: "What softwares do people in academia (medicine/biomed) typically use for creating high-quality figures for Publication?"
10 posts
#7
Postdoc
: "Abrupt Postdoc Termination in US"
9 posts
#8
Professor
: "Is it worth aiming to be a Professor anymore?"
6 posts
#9
Thesis
: "The moral delima of me, a postdoc, re-writing a bachelor student Thesis... shared first authorship with student or student as coauthor?"
5 posts
#10
Conference
: "Presentation at Conference cancelled due to co-author conflict - can I still cite?"
5 posts
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