Small pond science has some distinctions
- Science writing is in journals, in humanities there are books
- Science talks are less informal, humanities are reading a paper
- Science research is more collaborative, humanities more solitarily
- Science students get a small lab project within the frame of the institution, humanities students work on separate questions
- Scientists need research programs, humanities can work without
- A huge grant in the humanities is a small grant in the sciences
- Academic job market is messed up in humanities, the job market for scientists is more robust
- Scientists need good internet access while humanities need a library