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/r/labrats/

r/labrats

665k members
r/labrats is a subreddit with 665k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is huge in size, and has crazy activity.
Welcome to r/LabRats! A space for scientists, researchers, and lab workers to share experiment fails, lab wins, and PI woes. Do you need advice, a place to vent, or just some lab-life humor? Want to share your big successes, your awesome protocols, and tricks of the trade? Join your fellow labrats. We also have a discord server!

Popular Themes in r/labrats

#1
Pain & Anger
: "Just found out my postdoc got terminated"
14 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Any salty Scientists need a job?"
8 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "URGENT how to remove large sample from conical tube??"
4 posts
#4
News
: "Trump illegally freezes billions in funds to public health labs, causing thousands of scientists to lose their jobs overnight."
4 posts
#5
Ideas
: "PI dismissed my project suggestions but gave my ideas to her postdoc"
1 post
#6
Money Talk
: "“I have a lot of money left in the equipment budget, it expires in June. Let me know what you want. Don’t worry about price.”"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/labrats

#1

Lab

: "What is your biggest Lab pet peeve? Mine is that tube racks don't actually give you enough space between wells to fill up every space without misaligning everything"
41 posts
#2

Research

: "Is this the end of academic Research in the US?"
23 posts
#3

Phd

: "Anyone else going into a Phd in the US right now and feeling weird about it?"
14 posts
#4

Help

10 posts
#5

Hate

10 posts
#6

Advice

9 posts
#7

Nih

: "‘One of the darkest days’: Nih purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs. In unprecedented move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts."
9 posts
#8

Lab Equipment

: "Serious Question: why is so much of our Lab Equipment based off of multiples of 12s instead of 10s?"
8 posts
#9

Pi

: "Pi dismissed my project suggestions but gave my ideas to her postdoc"
8 posts
#10

Pcr

7 posts

Member Growth in r/labrats

Yearly
+33k members(5.2%)

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