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r/NIH

National Institutes of Health. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Founded 2012 · 38.8K members

38.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.2K upvotes, which works out to 263 per 1,000 members.

263peak upvotes per 1,000 members
38.9Kmembers
10.2Kbest post
768most comments
200posts 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.

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Text 33% Link 33% Image 20% Question 8% Video 7% Gallery 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

My Boss was overheard at dinner discussing everything going on at NIH with some friends. A stranger at the next table apparently paid for their meal …

↑ 10.2K 💬 78 image 2025

Censorship of research is a sign of fascism

↑ 9.7K 💬 86 image 2025

Lost job 10 mins ago. My wife was at NIH as a contractor for 5 years. Finally went federal 2 months ago. Just lost her job. 2 PHDs 1 MD. This country…

↑ 6.7K 💬 331 text 2025

Happy Barack Obama Appreciation Day!

↑ 5.4K 💬 75 image 2025

Finally, Trump is being sued to stop the illegal DOGE destruction. A hearing is set for this Friday May 9th.

↑ 4.7K 💬 68 link 2025

Anyone else struggling with family who voted for these clowns?

↑ 4.6K 💬 728 question 2025

Big news: A massive lawsuit, AFGE v. Trump, filed today asserting many DOGE actions are illegal and unconstitutional.

↑ 4.3K 💬 36 link 2025

I’m so sick of this administration and their ship of fools.

↑ 4.3K 💬 131 link 2025

Another successful “Take it to the Senate” event! Here is Senate Van Hollen addressing the press with our group!

↑ 4.1K 💬 49 video 2025

Surgical center staff in California demanded to see an ICE agent's warrant during the attempted arrest of a landscaper.

↑ 4K 💬 768 video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/NIH, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/NIH?
r/NIH ("National Institutes of Health") describes itself this way: National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. It was founded in 2012 and has 38.8K members.
How many members does r/NIH have?
r/NIH has about 38.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 200 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.2K upvotes, which is 263 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NIH?
"My Boss was overheard at dinner discussing everything going on at NIH with some friends. A stranger at the next table apparently paid for th" reached 10.2K upvotes and 78 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NIH.
What subreddits are similar to r/NIH?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/NIH?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are text posts and 33% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NIH?
Across 200 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 18:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 01:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Saturday at 14:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/NIH?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NIH has 2.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/NIH, 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.