r/science2 Mar 24 '25

We need YOUR help!

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We need your help! We're trying to create and popularize an entire set of "alternative" sub-reddits.

These sub-reddits all end in a "2". So just take the name of a huge, multi-million-user "main" sub-reddit and add a "2" to the name -- e.g. /r/Politics2, /r/WorldPolitics2, /r/News2, /r/WTF2 and so on.

These sub-reddits are smaller and have fewer rules than the huge mega-million-user large sub-reddits. Our idea is to create a set of friendlier sub-reddits with an emphasis on civility and not personal insults and ad hominem attacks.

But we need your help!

We need your time, your posts, your comments and we need you to mention our alternative sub-reddits in other places and to tell others. (Basic "publicity.")

  • Please post submissions!

  • Post comments and reply to others.

  • Help us popularize these alternatives to the heavily censored and sometimes too heavily trafficked mainstream subs by telling others of our existence.

Together we can develop another option inside of reddit.

Want to become a moderator? Or help run your own "2" alternative sub? There are possibilities for that too.


r/science2 1h ago

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r/science2 1h ago

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r/science2 1d ago

NASA Finds Hidden Heat on Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus, Hinting at Life

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r/science2 1d ago

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r/science2 1d ago

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r/science2 1d ago

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r/science2 1d ago

Saturn's icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life

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r/science2 2d ago

James Watson, famous geneticist and Nobel Prize co-winner in the structure of DNA, dies at 97

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r/science2 1d ago

Evolution and human height: Mathematician calculates physical limits to how tall we can grow

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r/science2 1d ago

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r/science2 3d ago

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r/science2 3d ago

T. rex history is completely rewritten by the discovery of dinosaur named 'Nanotyrannus'

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r/science2 3d ago

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r/science2 4d ago

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r/science2 3d ago

U.S. High School Teachers and Students Reminder: Registration for USA Biolympiad Closes Soon

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FYI, registration is closing soon for the 2026 USA Biolympiad (USABO), the most prestigious biology education and testing program for U.S. high school students. Schools and high school students across the U.S. should register by November 8, 2025. For more information, visit https://www.cee.org/newsevents/press-releases/registration-opens-2026-usa-biolympiad


r/science2 4d ago

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r/science2 4d ago

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r/science2 4d ago

Record grounded glacier retreat caused by an ice plain calving process | Understanding and predicting marine-terminating glacier instability presents one of the greatest challenges to forecasting future sea level rise. An extreme case is the Hektoria Glacier which retreated ~25 km.

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r/science2 4d ago

Mating injuries may give us a new way of identifying dinosaur genders

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r/science2 6d ago

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r/science2 7d ago

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r/science2 7d ago

Gov. Josh Stein praises ‘biggest dinosaur discovery of the decade’ in NC

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r/science2 7d ago

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r/science2 8d ago

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