r/postdoc
living the dream
Founded December 2011 · Public — anyone can post
Talk about issues relating to being a postdoctoral researcher (in any field). **Sub Rules** Generally we're a nice enough bunch not to have to worry about such things. But for clarity: * General [Reddiquette](https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette) applies at all times. * Be civil. This doesn't mean people can't disagree, simply that that disagreement shouldn't devolve into rudeness/verbal abuse. * Relevance. This sub is for discussing postdoc issues so if your i
Members
29,472
29K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
8.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 11.4 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 15
sampled Sep 15
Distinct posters
95%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 15 · 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 15 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/postdoc — frequently asked
How many members does r/postdoc have?
r/postdoc has 29,472 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 15. 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/postdoc growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/postdoc yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 15; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/postdoc?
Around 8.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 11.4 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/postdoc created?
r/postdoc was founded in December 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/postdoc?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 95% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 15. 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/postdoc?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/postdoc 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/postdoc for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/postdoc 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/postdoc's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/postdoc'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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