Research is Burning (but not how you think)

Judd Antin · 4 Jun 2026

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Through every workplace dumpster fire, the quality of your colleagues is what keeps you going.

Their wordsI have never not worked in a dumpster fire. The only thing that kept me going was the incredible quality of my colleagues. What we’re going through right now is definitely a dumpster fire. And it’s our amazing colleagues who will sustain us.

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