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Cows make milk. They milk themselves.
Other cows check the milk (for free).
Cows - get this - PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away.
Then the farmer (you won't believe this, honestly) sells the milk *back to the cows.*
#academicpublishing https://twitter.com/DevilleSy/status/1216428583624855552
Other cows check the milk (for free).
Cows - get this - PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away.
Then the farmer (you won't believe this, honestly) sells the milk *back to the cows.*
#academicpublishing https://twitter.com/DevilleSy/status/1216428583624855552
Considering this is quite bleak, the replies and quote-tweets are pretty joyous!
Amazingly detailed cow-milking-analogies abound.
Amazingly detailed cow-milking-analogies abound.
Okay there are SO many good replies to this but also Quote-Tweets which are harder to find, so I've pulled together some of the greatest cow-metaphor-extensions into one place here: https://www.ned-potter.com/blog/how-to-explain-academic-publishing-to-a-five-year-old
