r/labrats
A hangout for lab nerds!
Founded August 2011 · Public — anyone can post
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! https://discord.gg/385mCqr
Members
726,810
727K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
29.5
from the last 100 posts, spanning 3.4 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 26
sampled Sep 26
Distinct posters
95%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 26 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Sep 26 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/labrats — frequently asked
How many members does r/labrats have?
r/labrats has 726,810 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 26. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/labrats growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/labrats yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 26; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/labrats?
Around 29.5 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 3.4 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/labrats created?
r/labrats was founded in August 2011 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/labrats?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 95% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 26. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/labrats?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/labrats yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/labrats for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/labrats into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/labrats's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/labrats's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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