r/academia is a subreddit with 110k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses academia, struggling, hate, job, and research, and they frequently recommend/review pen, statistics book, and tablet.
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!
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Popular Themes in r/academia
#1
Advice Requests
: "How do people deal with toxic PI’s in academia?"
9 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "The A-Hole reviewer trying to get almost 10 of their papers to get cited in my paper.......I'VE IDENTIFIED YOU, I SEE YOU and F YOU!"
3 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "HPC access/compute available?"
2 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "Financial stability or your interests"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/academia
#1
Academia
14 posts
#2
Struggling
14 posts
#3
Hate
8 posts
#4
Job
7 posts
#5
Research
5 posts
#6
Phd
3 posts
#7
Publication
2 posts
#8
Writing
2 posts
#9
Adjunct
1 post
#10
Conference
1 post
Products Discussed in r/academia
Pen
9 reviews
#1
Caran d’Ache Ballpoint
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Pilot G2
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Pilot Heritage
5.0★ from 1 review
Statistics Book
4 reviews
#1
Calvin Dytham
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Wackerly
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Sheldon Ross
4.0★ from 1 review
Tablet
3 reviews
#1
reMarkable
4.5★ from 2 reviews
#2
Apple
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/academia
#1
Publishing
: "The A-Hole reviewer trying to get almost 10 of their papers to get cited in my paper.......I'VE IDENTIFIED YOU, I SEE YOU and F YOU!"
11 posts
#2
Venting & griping
: "Just got a paper rejected because of an possible AI reviewer"
7 posts
#3
Research issues
: "New dilemma for academic researchers: either shun LLMs and fall behind your peers or, coopt an LLM and risk the frontier lab claiming derivatives of your work first!"
6 posts
#4
Academic politics
: "How do people deal with toxic PI’s in academia?"
6 posts
#5
Job market
: "Gap after PhD before postdoc — how much does it matter?"
4 posts
#6
Institutional structure/budgets/etc.
: "Carnegie Mellon gets a $3 billion donation. The catch? They have to build a campus in Florida."
2 posts
#7
Students & teaching
: "MINILECTURE ::= A Formalization of The 3 Syntactic Forms of TEA Programs"
2 posts
#8
Mentoring
: "What good practices does your lab do to manage workload?"
1 post
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Yearly
+16k members(17.3%)
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Last updated: October 2, 2026