r/labrats↗
A hangout for lab nerds!
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
730k subscribers1,142 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)950 authors / mosince 2011
r/labrats has 730k members (+7.1% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,142 posts a month from 950 people. Top topics: Lab Life & Advice, Lab Work Experience and PhD Burnout & Work-Life Balance.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Lab Life & Advice4.7%
- Lab Work Experience1.9%
- PhD Burnout & Work-Life Balance1.2%
- Biotech CareerAdvice1.1%
- Lab and PI Issues0.9%
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Nature
- Doi
- MilliporeSigma
- Security Check
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