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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"
21 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Cuts to US science will take a generation to repair — leaders must speak up now"
15 posts
#3
Opportunities
: "What would you change about academic journals if you could?"
2 posts
#4
News
: "US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - Democrats Launch Submission Page for Grants Canceled by Trump"
2 posts
#5
Solution Requests
: "Alternatives to Slack for academic/research group communication?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/academia
#1
Research
: "Mothers publish 25% fewer papers per year than fathers in the 7 years after childbirth, and participation in Research publishing is 16% lower among mothers relative to fathers. Biggests penalties among early-career Researchers and those in lab/clinical fields where remote work isn’t an option."
41 posts
#2
Academic
: "The President’s Fiscal Year 2026 Discretionary Budget Request—large Academic cuts"
37 posts
#3
Phd
: "External examiner did not recommend my Phd dissertation for oral defense...What do I do?"
24 posts
#4
Academia
: "I've left Academia and it hurts"
17 posts
#5
Career
: "Is there any post-Ph.D. Career(s) where I can do research (STEM) on only one or two projects at once?"
10 posts
#6
Postdoc
: "Is it normal to feel incompetent at start of Postdoc?"
8 posts
#7
Writing
: "I submitted my professor's work to turnitin, it came back as a match to mine. Getting the same grants or other things using my own Writing now in jeopardy? I did place a copyright notice on my work, and they used it verbatim without attribution."
7 posts
#8
Conference
: "Do you feel lonely when you travel for Conferences?"
5 posts
#9
Interview
: "Interview : did I blow it?"
4 posts
#10
Publication
: "Historians, how many Publications did you have when you landed a postdoc/TT"
4 posts
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