r/academia is a subreddit with 106k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses research, academia, academic, ai, and phd, 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
: "Teaching university students is becoming increasingly challenging. Help!"
13 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "All my PhD students are getting stupid AI major revisions and rejected like crazy"
6 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Plagiarism checker alternatives to Turnitin that don't upload your unpublished work to a database"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/academia
#1
Research
: "My Research group has a camera to document our journeys"
60 posts
#2
Academia
: "Why is Academia so poorly structured? Meta considerations"
43 posts
#3
Academic
: "The Academic pipeline was designed for a person who doesn't exist"
40 posts
#4
Ai
: "ArXiv is banning authors with Ai generated fabricated citations! The future of Scientific Review Process?"
32 posts
#5
Phd
: "All my Phd students are getting stupid AI major revisions and rejected like crazy"
26 posts
#6
Job
: "Job at Frontiers publication after PhD- good long-term career move or risky?"
15 posts
#7
Struggling
15 posts
#8
Writing
: "How do you get into your academic Writing 'flow?'"
13 posts
#9
Publication
: "BA thesis research got accepted for a conference"
12 posts
#10
Hate
8 posts
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
: "AI detection for conference paper wants me to prove I'm not an elephant"
21 posts
#2
Venting & griping
: "High schoolers publishing in academic journals has gone too far"
16 posts
#3
Job market
: "Is academia thinking in the long term???"
11 posts
#4
Research issues
: "(Rant) I'm so f*cking tired of my supervisor using chatgpt to revise the papers he's coauthoring with me"
10 posts
#5
Students & teaching
: "Teaching university students is becoming increasingly challenging. Help!"
9 posts
#6
Institutional structure/budgets/etc.
: "The academic pipeline was designed for a person who doesn't exist"
5 posts
#7
Academic politics
: "Academia is dying out and it is not because of AI."
4 posts
#8
Mentoring
: "Sleeping issues post PhD, anyone else?"
1 post
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Yearly
+16k members(18.3%)
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Last updated: June 10, 2026