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r/academia is a subreddit with 90k 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
: "Oh humanities is DEAD dead, what do I retrain into"
24 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Cuts to US science will take a generation to repair — leaders must speak up now"
17 posts
#3
News
: "Michigan State University will make ‘hard decisions’ to ‘adjust financial path,’ president says"
3 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "Alternatives to Slack for academic/research group communication?"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "We need to change the publishing culture in research"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/academia
#1
Academia
: "I've left Academia and it hurts"
34 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"
26 posts
#3
Academic
: "SusanHub.com: an Academic, open-source network to unite climate change scientists"
15 posts
#4
Career
: "Is there any post-Ph.D. Career(s) where I can do research (STEM) on only one or two projects at once?"
14 posts
#5
Postdoc
: "Is it normal to feel incompetent at start of Postdoc?"
14 posts
#6
Publication
: "Historians, how many Publications did you have when you landed a postdoc/TT"
12 posts
#7
Phd
: "If you're a senior researcher / supervisor, what would your best advice for current Phd students?"
11 posts
#8
Ai
: "Ai in academia, what happened to caring about plagiarism?"
6 posts
#9
Visa
: "US halts student Visa appointments and plans expanded social media vetting"
6 posts
#10
Teaching
: "How to get a R1 position with good research output but little/no Teaching experience?"
6 posts
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+12k members(15.6%)
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