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723.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.7K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
723.2Kmembers
10.7Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

84%
Image 84% Video 7% Text 6% Gallery 2% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Cryopreservation differences

↑ 10.7K πŸ’¬ 84 image 2025

I swear the E.coli isn't woke

↑ 10.1K πŸ’¬ 185 image 2025

Glove problems

↑ 10.1K πŸ’¬ 89 image 2023

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↑ 9.3K πŸ’¬ 254 image 2022

MD Anderson clinical trials now halted under Trump admin. (At what point do we strike?)

↑ 9.2K πŸ’¬ 306 image 2025

Academia...

↑ 8.6K πŸ’¬ 192 image 2021

I saw your cute 5mL beakers, and I raise you this comically large syringe.

↑ 8.3K πŸ’¬ 215 image 2026

lab strains unite!

↑ 8K πŸ’¬ 68 image 2021

To My Fellow Lab Rats: A Letter From a Postdoc Who Survived the Bolsonaro Years

↑ 7.9K πŸ’¬ 156 text 2025

I present to you: the best science scene in any movie ever (mega shark vs giant octopus 2009)

↑ 7.7K πŸ’¬ 393 video 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/labrats, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.