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r/postdoc

28.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3.1K upvotes, which works out to 107 per 1,000 members.

107peak upvotes per 1,000 members
28.8Kmembers
3.1Kbest post
255most comments
101posts 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.

60% 21% 9% 8%
Text 60% Image 21% Question 9% Link 8% Video 1% 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.

Vent 9 General Advice 4 Job Hunting 2 STEM 1 Meta 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Rejections like this feels not so bad....

↑ 3.1K πŸ’¬ 60 image 2026

Trump canceled my grant

↑ 2.4K πŸ’¬ 255 text 2025

It takes 2-3 years to recover from a PhD

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 154 text 2024

Got the notice today

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 185 text 2025

It happened to me

↑ 922 πŸ’¬ 52 text 2025

Academic salaries

↑ 869 πŸ’¬ 116 image 2024

Trying something new is like this meme.

↑ 781 πŸ’¬ 12 image 2025

I have seen my future

↑ 728 πŸ’¬ 34 image 2025

Darkness descends on NIH

↑ 546 πŸ’¬ 139 image 2025

Update: Don't be me

↑ 495 πŸ’¬ 32 text 2025

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/postdoc, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.