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184.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.1K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
184.7Kmembers
1.1Kbest post
131most 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.

39% 31% 22%
Image 39% Link 31% Video 22% Text 5% Question 2% Gallery 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.

Content 31 Image 18 Academic Article 11 Discussion 9 publication 5 Video 4 Pop-Sci Article 3 Meta 2 School & Career 2 Quick Question 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

PSA: select neuroscience subreddits are being targeted for acquisition.

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Embroidered my boss a neuron as a thank you gift for writing me a grad recommendation (she runs patch clamp)

↑ 1.1K 💬 44 image 2019

Drew this to help understand LTP at the synapse. Not all is accurate but for the most part I think I got it. What do you think?

↑ 979 💬 71 image 2019

Neurons making new connection to other neurons

↑ 939 💬 61 video 2019

I didn’t know who else would get this

↑ 788 💬 27 image 2019

This is what it looks like when a neuron is dying

↑ 738 💬 59 video 2019

Brain pulsating in time with heartbeat.

↑ 713 💬 46 video 2019

Human stem cells differentiating into neurons

↑ 671 💬 18 video 2020

Artwork of Neurons

↑ 656 💬 16 image 2020

Action potential animation I made from neurons reconstructed from electron microscope images by AI from our lab.

↑ 606 💬 46 image 2020

Communities its size

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

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/neuroscience, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.