Sebastian Dohnány, Rony Hirschhorn, Ulysse Klatzmann, Karla Matić, Camilo M Signorelli, Hadrien Titeux, Hanna M Tolle
How a scientific community is organized can affect whether disagreement drives progress or leads to isolation. Students and postdocs are uniquely placed to build communities that bridge theoretical and methodological divides. Drawing on a student-led society in consciousness science, we show how empowering early-career researchers can turn fragmentation into collaboration.