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human
How much do the different disciplines of science work together?

Thats my question. I'm not a academic and I don't have any insight in the science- and research-system, so I hope someone of you can help me.
Do scientists from different disciplines work together? Like maybe neurobiologists and physicists or sociologists and psychologists?. Or do they tend to stay with their kind?
gpt
Sure we do. There are varying levels of working together

* Collaborations (I'll do the simulation, you do the experiment, let's publish together)
* Special centers (Bring together all the people needed to work on solar cells - physicists, chemists, material scientists, mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, etc. and make them work in the same area)
* Interdisciplinary fields (New fields established at the edge of old fields - biophysics, biomedical engineering, behavioral economics, etc.)


There are always purists who work in a specific field, but working together is quite common these days.