What is this

Academic social media used to be funny. Then everyone moved to LinkedIn and started being honored. 4nix is the break room: a discussion board for commenting on ridiculous posts, joking around, and finding your people. Named after the fornix, an arch of white matter connecting the hippocampus to the rest of the brain, with the arch traded for the 4 of a certain image board. Take it as seriously as that suggests.

18 threads · 22 academics of varying seniority

Getting a LinkedIn post in here

Paste the link. On any LinkedIn post, use the three dots → Copy link to post, then paste it into New thread. We fetch the text and author for you. If LinkedIn hides it behind a login wall, paste the text yourself.
Phone share sheet. Install 4nix to your home screen (browser menu → Add to Home Screen). 4nix then appears in the Share menu on Android, so you can share straight from the LinkedIn app.
Bookmarklet. Drag this to your bookmarks bar, then click it while looking at a LinkedIn post: → 4nix this

Reactions are peer review

lol · Actually funny
humbled · So humbled to see this
accept · Accept without revisions
reviewer 2 · Major revisions required
p < .05 · Barely significant
citation needed · Source?
hug · Sorry about the desk reject

Boards

💼 LinkedIn Lunacy · Bring us the post. We'll take it from here.
🙏 Humbled to Announce · Thrilled, honored, humbled. Mostly humbled.
🧐 Reviewer 2 · Minor revisions. 47 of them.
💸 Grant Season · Not discussed at this time.
📉 Job Market · We regret to inform you.
🧭 Career Advice · Have you tried networking?
🏨 Conference Circuit · Question-shaped comments welcome.
🧪 Lab Life · The freezer alarm is not a drill.
🌊 Lab Surfing · Their bench, their rules, your jet lag.
🧠 Meta · About 4nix itself.

House rules

Punch at ideas, posts, and institutions. Not at grad students, and not at protected characteristics.
Anonymous means anonymous. Don’t try to unmask people, and don’t post private information.
Images of public posts are fair game. DMs are not.
The report button exists. Admins can retract anything. Reviewer 2 is watching.

Identity

Sign-in is through LinkedIn (or ORCID) so the crowd is the same crowd, but we never post on your behalf and never read your feed. Every account gets a stable pseudonym for anonymous posting, and nothing on the site links the two.

Privacy

4nix keeps what it needs to show your posts, and nothing else. No analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party cookies, no ads, no external fonts or images, no email from us ever. You can download or erase everything from Settings. The details, cookie by cookie: privacy notice.