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r/askacademia pain points

VettedGaps has researched 25 problems people raise in r/askacademia, each backed by real posts.

By category

  • Collaboration & Sharing: 9
  • Performance & Reliability: 8
  • Notifications & Alerts: 3
  • Search & Filtering: 2

Top problems

  • Academics find tenure-track jobs scarce and hard to land (Performance & Reliability · 3 pieces of evidence)
  • Academic authors suffer Elsevier production errors and surprise open-access invoices (Collaboration & Sharing · 2 pieces of evidence)
  • Early-career researchers face abusive supervisors who exploit, harass, and threaten their (Notifications & Alerts · 5 pieces of evidence)

What people say

“The issue is when there are no TT jobs advertised and it comes to applying for humanities-wide post docs, then you’re competing with people who offer a lot more on paper.”
From r/askacademia, on “Academics find tenure-track jobs scarce and hard to land”

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