Academics Return to the Bar

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter Two academics walk into a bar. They bring their own drinks, pay $5000, and leave feeling proud and ashamed. It's a publishing metaphor. Despite knowing it, those two academics continue to go to that bar every day without any objections

A Twitter-style screenshot shows a joke about two academics entering a bar, bringing their own drinks, paying $5000, and leaving both proud and ashamed. The punchline compares expensive academic publishing to repeatedly paying for a flawed system without objecting. EN: A Twitter-style screenshot shows a joke about two academics entering a bar, bringing their own drinks, paying $5000, and leaving both proud and ashamed. The punchline compares expensive academic publishing to repeatedly paying for a flawed system without objecting.

• @ithueti / 12399 2024-04-06