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When failure isn’t the end — but the start of better science. 📣 Join us for the next AlumNode Lecture: FailForward: Building Lessons from Acknowledging Negative Knowledge 🗓️ Thursday, August 7, 2025 | 16:00–17:00 CEST | Online via Zoom ❓ What can we learn when experiments don’t go as planned? ❓ How can openly sharing “what didn’t work” strengthen the scientific process? In this session, Tanya Shreedhar, Ph.D. — AlumNode member and postdoc at TU Delft — invites us to rethink how we approach #failureinresearch. Drawing from her years of experience organizing the #PerFail #workshop at IEEE PerCom and co-authoring best practices for publishing negative results in computer science! Tanya makes the case for a cultural shift: ➡️ Failures aren’t dead ends — they’re critical data points ➡️ Negative results can sharpen methods and avoid repetition ➡️ Open dialogue on failure fosters better science — and better mentoring This lecture is for researchers who want to: ✅ Understand why negative results matter in research and how they help avoid future mistakes ✅ Learn how to design studies that give useful insights, even if the hypothesis is wrong ✅ See how negative results improve methods and reveal possible errors ✅ Explore ways to build a research culture that values open discussion of all results 🎤 About the speaker: Tanya works in network resilience and systems research at Delft University of Technology, with previous experience in India, the UK, and across Europe. She’s supported by institutions like the Internet Society Pulse, TCS Research, and #Microsoft Research — and mentors young researchers while advocating for more openness around the realities of research work. Please login to your AlumNode account to register! https://lnkd.in/eBRjEJDh We are looking forward to meeting you there! The AlumNode Team, Isa, Martina, Sofia and Kübra!