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Have you ever wondered about a practice in STEM/the Humanities and wanted to ask?

I am TT faculty in the Humanities. I have a stunning level of ignorance about how scholars in STEM go about their professional lives. In every school I've attended or worked STEM and Humanities faculties rarely interact with each other, which means that we've often misunderstood conventional practices on the other side of campus. My ignorance is exacerbated by the fact that some practices are perfectly normal for STEM faculty, but considered unusual (or even shocking) to Humanities faculty--e.g. willingly paying a fee to publish in an academic journal.

I wonder if anybody else here is also curious about how things work on the other side of campus? Can we make some space here for asking questions we fear might otherwise sound dumb? Can we include the caveat that despite the diversity of opinion in every field and discipline, there do tend to be institutional norms?

For example, I've always wondered how STEM scholars feel about the multiple-author publication system. How often do people undeservedly end up on the author list? Is it common enough that you have strategies for recognizing who did the real work on the project? Do you agree that someone who runs a lab should get credit for a project even if they had no direct involvement whatsoever?

I'm hoping people might chime in with their questions too. I am happy to try and answer questions about practices in the Humanities.

EDIT: Another sign of my ignorance: I mean to include social scientists in this conversation as well.
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(Just as an aside... there are humanistic people who actually study these things. The fields of anthropology of science and sociology of science are essentially humanists and social scientists studying how scientists work. Latour's _Laboratory Life_ and _Science in Action_ are great places to start...)