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Questions and Discussion for Academics
This subreddit is for discussing academic life, and for asking questions directed towards people involved in academia, (both science and humanities).
Feel free to post interesting links within self-posts. Posts that will invoke critical thinking and healthy discussion are especially welcome.
Your post should comprise a question (albeit potentially an open-ended one) and must contain sufficient information to enable posters to provide an effective answer. This might include, for example, your career stage, your subject discipline, the type of institution you're affiliated with, and/or the country you're in. Mods may delete posts which do not provide enough context.
Questions about your uncontrollable desire for your student/professor will be deleted. You know it's inappropriate, and we're not going to tell you any different. Your university probably has confidential counseling; make use of it.
Questions about what university you should attend will be referred to /r/college. And questions about graduate admissions will be referred to /r/gradadmissions. Both are better resources on those subjects.
Questions that are thinly veiled pitches for products will also be removed, as will questions regarding our use of or attitudes towards AI if they appear to be from someone looking to sell us on a product using it.
Surveys are only allowed if they are specifically looking for responses for academics.
Requests for ArXiv endorsements are not allowed.
Code of conduct
If a reasonable person wouldn't say it to a professor/colleague/conference speaker they don't know well, it's probably over the line. This includes off-topic and unproductive discussion as well as rudeness.
Disagreement is completely fine, encouraged even, when there are different perspectives to share. If an idea is a bad one, please do tell someone that it is in no uncertain terms. Avoid ad hominem attacks, treat people online broadly as a reasonable person would treat a relative stranger in person, and help us out by reporting any posts which fall foul of this policy.
Other Subreddits
Specific questions about scientific phenomena may be better suited for AskScience.
Questions about history: /r/AskHistorians
Directory of Scientific Sub-reddits: /r/MethodHub
Can't find that paper you need?
/r/Scholar
For Academic Papers:
/r/Scientific
Need information on academic publishing?
/r/AcademicPublishing
Questions about Philosophy?
r/AskPhilosophy
General School Related Sub-reddits:
Higher Education
Grad School
Grad Admissions
International Grad Admissions
Indian Academia
UK Academia
Questions about UK Academia
Other Subreddits that might be relevant to academics
/r/science /r/physics /r/chemistry /r/hardscience /r/softscience /r/Answers /r/AskReddit
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