Yep, and it’s not really how authorship is supposed to work. The hard part here is that communicating any idea clearly to an audience takes massive effort, and

Yep, and it’s not really how authorship is supposed to work. The hard part here is that communicating any idea clearly to an audience takes massive effort, and usually null results, unless quite interesting in a specific context, are naturally a lower priority. I’m currently working on a paper built around what I believe to be a fascinating null result though...