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r/academia is a subreddit with 89k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is large in size, and has high activity.
An online community for discussing issues related to academia, faculty life, research, and institutional structures. This is NOT the place to ask questions about your homework, your particular school or professors, or to get admission advice!
Survey posts must be approved by mods in advance, must include contact/IRB info, and must be specific to academia.
Popular Themes in r/academia
#1
Advice Requests
: "Florida professors being ask to turn publications over to the state - Do I leave? What do I do???"
15 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Good news: I passed my PhD candidacy! Bad news: my supervisor is saying they’re going to publish my work without me! What do I do?"
8 posts
#3
Ideas
: "I am considering building an academic website builder, is that a good idea?"
1 post
#4
Money Talk
: "New ass. Prof at R2 uni with more than 10 million dollar deficit. Are we cooked?"
1 post
#5
News
: "DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions.
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/academia
#1
Academic
: "SusanHub.com: an Academic, open-source network to unite climate change scientists"
30 posts
#2
Research
: "Our chair just told us Research.gov may be wiped at 10pm EDT Fri 25 April, advised us to download all NSF award docs & reports from last 5 years"
28 posts
#3
Academia
: "Meaningless Academia .. is it just me that feels alienated ?"
17 posts
#4
Phd
: "Good news: I passed my Phd candidacy! Bad news: my supervisor is saying they’re going to publish my work without me! What do I do?"
14 posts
#5
Funding
: "Department of Energy has started cutting Funding too"
10 posts
#6
Science
: "Lately feeling disillusioned with how Science is performed"
10 posts
#7
Job
: "Returning to the Job market"
9 posts
#8
Faculty
: "Rutgers Faculty propose the creation of a Big 10 mutual defense pact"
8 posts
#9
Conference
: "We should only hold Conferences in walkable city with good transit"
8 posts
#10
University
: "US federal immigration agents detain doctoral student at University of Alabama"
7 posts
Member Growth in r/academia
Yearly
+12k members(15.6%)
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