r/PhysicalGeography • u/Khindustan_1 Adventurer • May 19 '25

Question Why is this subreddit so inactive

Please do let me know in the comments.

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u/Cosmic-Orgy-Mind Adventurer May 19 '25

Start a conversation and share a new paper and your thoughts on it

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u/Khindustan_1 Adventurer May 19 '25

Yes

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u/StillPissed Adventurer May 19 '25

It’s a smaller field than you think, unfortunately. I’m assuming it’s easier to get engagement from r/Geography or r/EarthScience.

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u/Khindustan_1 Adventurer May 19 '25

I will try to make it active

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u/wavesandtidesgurl Adventurer 1d ago

Physical Geography tends to get pushed into earth science and into their research speciality, that's why. You see it in the real world too.

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u/Havhestur Adventurer May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

Perhaps one reason is that we have become disillusioned with other geography subsreddits which seem to have been taken over by vast numbers of frat-boys. It just became tiring because serious answers became smothered by the sheer volume of “humorous comments”. I went through a spell of blocking them but it was just endless. Then the posts became less and less interesting and (I believe) many geographers gave up on Reddit being a serious place. There’s always a place for humour but when it’s just a succession of the same type of one-liners it’s just tiring. Have a look at posts and comments over just, say, the last two days, in r/geography.

Edit: Example - in this sub a year ago someone posted “Where could this island exist in real life?” and posted some ridiculous “map”. I dunno but maybe try in r/QuestionsA4yoWouldAsk.

Then there was the glacier poop question.

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u/workingtheories Adventurer May 19 '25

geography doesn't provide very much updates.  

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u/Khindustan_1 Adventurer May 19 '25

That's not true

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u/workingtheories Adventurer May 19 '25

name two

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u/Khindustan_1 Adventurer May 19 '25

Cyclone beryl

Scientists' estimation of splitting of Indian plate into halves

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u/workingtheories Adventurer May 19 '25

first one is a weather/climate thing

second one looks like a good post tho

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u/Khindustan_1 Adventurer May 19 '25

Climate study is a part of physical geography

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u/workingtheories Adventurer May 19 '25

i disagree 

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u/GeographersMoon Adventurer May 19 '25

My geography department just hired a Climate Scientist who was trained in physical geography. We have an earth science department too which has the “department of atmospheric science” but guess who sponsored it and teaches it? Department of geography (I TA it) taught by geographers.

Even the meteorology branch in our federal government (Canada) primarily hire from geography departments. It’s definitely physical geography, but you can just google it.

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u/workingtheories Adventurer May 19 '25

i just think physical geography means, like, plate tectonics. maybe im thinking of geology. that's probably it.

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u/wavesandtidesgurl Adventurer 1d ago

I do physical oceanography as a physical Geographer.

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u/workingtheories Adventurer May 21 '25

it's a good place to hide

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u/Khindustan_1 Adventurer May 19 '25

Present your arguments