What are neuroscience communities?

Communities for neuroscience researchers, students, and professionals covering brain science, neurotech, and academic careers. Slack hosts specialized communities for subfields and diversity initiatives, while broader society-connected platforms serve the larger neuroscience community with career resources and research discussion.

Where do most neuroscience communities live?

Facebook is the most common platform in this report (36% of 14 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

43% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical neuroscience community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 59K members and the median is 4K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Forum is the most common (71%). Others that show up often include requires application, online/offline events, and job board.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Neuroscience topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Neuroscience Communities Report: Stats, Platforms,...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 14 neuroscience communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: In this smaller sample, neuroscience communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated periodically

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Communities: 14
Platforms: 4
Avg members: 59K
Median members: 4K

Where Neuroscience Communities Are Hosted

Facebook
5(36%)
Independent Platforms
4(29%)
Slack
4(29%)
Reddit
1(7%)

Format mix

Forum / feed-based
10(71%)
Chat communities
4(29%)

Forum / feed-based is most common (71%), but chat communities is also well represented (29%).

Facebook leads (36% of listings).

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
0(0%)
Small
20-100 members
0(0%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
1(7%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
4(29%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
0(0%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
2(14%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
0(0%)

7 communities have unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (59K vs 4K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Neuroscience Differs From Other Categories

Neuroscience is less free-to-join, smaller, and more paid or gated, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Neuroscience	Hive Index average
Free to join	43%	84%
Median members	4K	25K
Average members	59K	673K
Paid or apply-to-join	57%	16%
Live chat	29%	41%
Topic pageviews / mo	129	879

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Forum
71%
Requires Application
57%
Online/Offline Events
43%
Job Board
36%
Live Chat
29%
Newsletter
29%
Courses
21%

Niche Features

Paid Community
14%

Forum appears on 71% of listings.

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 8

Most-clicked features

Job Board
8(100%)
Live Chat
8(100%)
Online/Offline Events
8(100%)
Requires Application
8(100%)
Newsletter
5(63%)
Paid Community
3(38%)

Top-clicked listings

NeurReps Slack Workspace
3(38%)
Black In Neuro
3(38%)
NeuroTechX
2(25%)

Groups with job board picked up 100% of tracked clicks.

Trends

Founded year

Not enough founding-year data to chart yet.

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Neuroscience. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•We only have a handful of listings so far, so treat these numbers as directional.

FAQ

: Communities for neuroscience researchers, students, and professionals covering brain science, neurotech, and academic careers. Slack hosts specialized communities for subfields and diversity initiatives, while broader society-connected platforms serve the larger neuroscience community with career resources and research discussion.
: Facebook is the most common platform in this report (36% of 14 listings).
: 43% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 59K members and the median is 4K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Forum is the most common (71%). Others that show up often include requires application, online/offline events, and job board.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Neuroscience topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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