Its not about sharing victory.

Its about sharing defeat.

PI at next subgroup meeting: “It’s been a whole month, why hasn’t anyone accomplished anything?”

LM1: “Well the experiment plan you said I had to do I should try last time f-”

LM2: “-Spectrometer died :)”

LM1: “…oh right, yeah, the spectrometer died :|”

PI: :|

PI: “So where’s your manuscript?”