> Moreover, the culture is far less collaborative (in my experience) with a lot more competition. The thing I loved about particle physics was that everyone hel

> Moreover, the culture is far less collaborative (in my experience) with a lot more competition. The thing I loved about particle physics was that everyone helps. Mathematicians give talks thanking others honestly for their contributions, and name-dropping people who helped in odd ways. That's very alien to the "We ran this clinical trial" talk I hear a lot of in my world. That’s probably because physicists and mathematicians have less to lose by openly talking about their results and methods, while in bio research, there is a lot of proprietary secrets about lab techniques and hard-earned experiment data, which many researchers see as competitive advantage they justly reap in exchange for the labor they put into obtaining it.