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who's ever reading this don't buy a heat pad to keep your snake warm, it could possibly die. 😢

As a professor, I put my stress level at 8. It was a 9 last spring! I have the schools worst Dean making really stupid decisions.

Woke administrators with 6-figure salaries making stupid decisions that has nothing to do with creating great education!

Just a comment from someone who grew up in Africa...and know a bit of their natural habitat and (wild) behaviour: A lot of people preach the BS of your snake getting "stressed" if your enclosure is too large. BS...BS...BS to the 10th power. These snakes DO get stressed in wide open spaces, yes - not because of the wide (or large) space, but because of the openness. They perceive that as a potential threatening habitat, since it leaves them vulnerable for any (animal) attack from above. Keep it cramped full of shelters, logs, leaves...household items - blankets, chairs, kitchen utensils (no knives), boxes, whatever...and they'll feel right at home. If your home is (fairly) packed, with lots of interesting corners for the snake to explore and items to slither over and under...let them go!! These snakes (in the wild) can travel huge distances every night searching for food or a mate, before returning to the burrow in the early morning. Distances ranging from 500m to 5km - per night. No wonder being kept in a drawer/rack causes them to "ball"... It's like telling Einstein he's not allowed to think. Excellent approach you followed...just a pity that not more ball python keepers adopt this approach.

Thank you so much. I accidentally broke my son’s fish fossil he gets from school. I going to try this.

and the slug!! i wanna know about the slug !! was it in the car with you

Beautiful! ❤

The subtle art of academic publishing is of vital importance to the scientist. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin (perish!). Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can, on no account be neglected. Thus it is that in academia chase, the victorious scientist only seeks publication after the paper has been written, whereas scientist who is destined to be defeated first do actual scientific work and afterwards looks for publication. One may know how to publish first without being able to do scientific work first. The whole secrets in academic publishing is in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent. Never publish first, never win! Thus the expert in publishing research papers moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.

I 100% relate with you. After getting my PhD and going abroad for postdoc, I finally got a permanent position in France. And you know what, it's even worse after... 3 years in and I'm already following a therapy for depression, experiencing panic attacks everytime I go to work. Why? Because I am bullied by older researcher, it's an endless cycle

This is pretty interesting. I've been keeping Iguanas for 30 years and always had CHE and heat mats, then later swapped the heat mats for a tubular heater. With the newest setup, I have also aquired a halogen lamp (reptile systems are amazing). So a 75W halogen, a 150 W CHE, and a 200W tubular heater, all on thermostats. The enclosure is a little 1.70 by 2 by 1m and ambient temps range between 27 to 30 Celsius and basking up to 40. The iguana is definitely loving his place. On sunny days, the sun will spot-heat a couple places for an hour or so, and in summer I tend to open the window and put the animal on a box to absorb the real deal for a few hours (as long as he can take it). My old boy didn't like the heat, though, started panting after 10 min and only stayed there when I closed the sheens. He was very healthy for 19 years, with CHE, heat mat, and tubular heater. :-)

I gave my baby hog nose a 50 gallone enclosure and he is always exploring. When hes an adult ill have him in a 4x2x2. To think people have them in 20gals their whole life is insanity

I love this video. I like to tell people that the actual minimum should be twice that of the minimum generally accepted.

I never went to college and would rate myself a 3 on the happiness scale. I'm not satisfied with my life, but I don't believe that going to college would have necessarily made me any happier. The irony, though, is that I do feel my inaction has contributed to my unhappiness. Reading your comments made me reflect on what happiness really means-to live, laugh, and love. It’s about having meaningful connections with friends and mentors that uplift you. Those positive relationships seem far more important for earning respect and finding fulfillment than anything 'academia' alone can offer.

My Thermostat Turms off after 3 min what can I do

What’s the top of your hide reading though

Fucking pyramid schemes. Universities are for-profit hedge-funds that actively support Israel and genocide, in addition to global pollution.... but that;s ok! They'll send a cheeky Email during pride month! They don't care how many lives they ruin, fuck universities

My ball python Morpheus does this too. He gives me little kisses and then acts really surprised, even though we've been doing this almost every day for 10 years.

Nice! Very enjoyable video and some great tips. 😊

First of all: THANK YOU. I know I'm late to the party, but I wish I had found this video when you published it, as I was starting my PhD (in biomed related stuff). I just felt so validated and the feelings you described, the treatment of international students and the ridiculous demands of supervisors (who would otherwise be pretty friendly people) resonated so much with my experience that...I could have written the script for this video :') It has taken some time (and therapy) for me to come to terms with the Ponzi scheme that is academia. It's been sad, and frustrating, because as a first generation researcher, I came to this field with all the passion and motivation inspired by this pure idea of Research as something so beautiful and at the service of the community...and then it was all crushed by the reality of "publish or perish" and the likes. I particulary resent academia for this seemingly predatory behaviour it has on first-gen students and people coming from certain underprivileged conditions. If you don't have any academic in the family, you have no idea how toxic and out of reality certain academic places can be. And you are lured by the prospect of "being paid to study" and the prestige and the service you're doing to the community. And then you realize you are only human, can only do so much, but your supervisor and the whole system don't seem to care for you or your well-being. Only thing that matters are experiments and manuscripts. Well, if any overworked PhD or postdoc (or any academic) is reading this line: YOU MATTER. YOUR WELL-BEING MATTERS. No service to human knowledge is so important that you have to sacrifice your life and your precious time on this planet to be miserable for it. Believe me, you can be as (if not more) impactful to your community, family, friends, without losing your sanity and health. Please take care.

I love this enclosure so much! Using it as inspo as im researching to get my first snake. And she is beautiful!

Great work.

You ever worried about your snake burning itself on the cage of your heating element? I imagine the cage gets hot too being in such close proximity to the heat source.

does this society need extra research for living longer, inventing new plastics, new technologies, new biologies? We know enough. We only need to start reshaping the world according to WHAT WE KNOW ALREADY

we ve become too specialised, where is the appreciation of the homo universalis?

14:38 so can I buy any human finger?

2:47 I actually found a way around this problem! I run my heat mat on the inside of my vivarium instead of the outside, and cover the entire hot 3rd of the enclosure floor with heat tape that both seals the mat to the glass, and spreads the heat out. I also use a very large slab of stone from a tile store or garden center to go on top of this! This keeps the critter from digging to the heat tape or mat, seals in the heat better than if the mat were on the outside, and requires much more energy to heat or cool the substrate with the mat, leaving a lot of thermal mass and a much slower, more stable gradient thanks to both the tape and the rock. Only use this if you have at least 3 inches of substrate on top of the stone. I use this heat mat as a secondary/tertiary heat source for the hot hide of my leopard gecko during the hottest 8 hours of the day to reduce splooting and keep air temperatures on the ground up in the winter. They are best used specifically for hot hides and warm hides, not to keep the overall air temperature up any more than an inch above the ground. Doing it my method with a rock is only suitable with glass enclosures, and makes the entire process more delicate, also introducing risk of breaking things, but it definitely evens out the temps.

Maybe you could put the vinyl contact paper on the inside next time to waterproof it?

I work in the private sector in a multi disciplinary technical engineering and science field and I feel great. 10/10 I am actually reviewing PhD applications and how little researchers are paid makes me confused why anyone wants to do a PhD.

Loving your BP videos. Your views are closely aligned to mine and it's wonderful to see someone expressing an interest in what's best for our snakes based on observation and understanding of biology. Can you imagine a world where the conventional wisdom was that dogs do not ever need to leave the house simply because people had never taken them for walks and seen just how important it is for their behavior? That's where conventional BP care is at. The reality is that no terrarium will ever be large enough for most BPs to live in forever. They will explore as much of the world as you let them and as long as they are safe doing so, they will benefit from it greatly. Many BP keepers are starting to discuss this subject, but the next great frontier will be when people start to realize that BPs are capable of thinking, feeling, and, do I dare say it, affection. They are not the robotic mindless machines many think of them as.

I don’t know how I feel about this. On the one hand, I empathize. On the other hand, just like the NBA or any other elite group, no one is entitled to be in it. Yes there’s more supply than demand but academia (like the NBA) is looking for the best people. Things like “banning overtime” sends shivers down my spine. Maybe there should be two systems. One more feminine one with a focus on work/life balance and more recreation. And another for folks who wanna be the absolute best academics they can be. Imagine telling someone like Michael Jordan he’s not allowed to train so hard because a bunch of subpar basketball players can’t keep up. That makes zero sense. And when I hear things like “micro aggressions” those are terms that hold no basis in reality. They’re words that proponents of a certain ideology (usually far-left) believe are true and wish to force on everyone else. That seems more like bullying to me. Mixed feelings about this vid. I think there’s lots of room for improvement on the side of academia (esp OP traveling and then entering a lab where almost no one spoke french). But on the other hand, I do feel that being in academia, researching FOR A LIVING, and on the dime of the taxpayer (who not only has no say in this but who also has to FREAKING PAY for the research they helped fund) is a huge ‘privilege’ (to use the lexicon of the far left). No one is entitled to that. I think a better critique of academia is how comfy it is with exploitation. Specifically the whole adjunct situation.

I'm one of those people your channel is aimed at. I have a gargoyle gecko,a leopard gecko and will be getting an adult hognose(wild type morph) from a breeder once his home is set up. Pretzel will be the last pet I get and my first snake.No reason to deworm my few creatures. If in your shoes,I also would not have dewormed the snakes for the same reason you didn't. And your intro video is charming.

You’re funny. Beautiful noodle and thank you for the video.

As a latinamerican When you said, "there's no future or stability in academia at least here in EUROPE" that completly blew my mind For us the academic dream is impossible in latinamerica and we always joke about escaping it, probably to europe or us/Canada, but you're saying that Europe isnt stable either, and american phD students have been complaining for years So its probably not feaseable anywhere Im glad im seeing this just after getting rejected from my masters program and getting an office job in the mean while Maybe its Best i dont return to that world

Eggcelent video,thank you for sharing your opinion and experience, at the same time I hope you are recovering from that and become even stronger💪🏻! I also had terrible PhD experience in Denmark, as a foreign female student coming to a highly toxic lab (cancer research). My supervisor is a sexual predator on his young students and employees, while his wife works in the same lab.He is well known in the field and has a permanent position in the Institute,where no prevention and protection net existed back then.Since I was a foreign student from middle Europe nobody cared.Sexual harassment,bullying and sexism,burn out was my everyday bread.Finally,I managed to defend the thesis,but was completely broken down and left academia immediately.I switched to data engineering and are much happier now at home country.Working with computer codes is more predictable and logical than with my former "colleagues". The predator still works in the Institute,even after I complained a lot.New PhD students are coming...I wished someone warned me before I came there,but everybody was silent and ignorant,including senior female researchers and group leaders. Academia is broken

I work in construction. One of my worst cuts was from the staples on some osb. As someone that wears gloves despite the heckling, it still got me.

Seems like you had an adventures ride😅 A comparison between Germany and France would be cool

A while ago I thought that’s a little bit unfortunate that I probably will not be able to do a phd etc. But after watching your video and a French documentary about a archeology phd student in France I feel different about it because most of the time it’s probably not worth it

Just what I was looking for awesome video and nice edits ☺️👍

The snakes are not dangerous?

Hah, wonderful, I screwed together my terrarium 2 days ago, and the water seal and caulking was exactly the thing i was interested about

Hi! i'm about to build a terrarium with osb wood. I'm going crazy about heating system. I'm pretty worried about fire risk. I was thinkin about ceramic heater (that's how I found u) but now I see this... is deep heat projector safer?

Osb is a terrible choice. Wow. Next time ask for help from a carpenter.

I am glad you have the opportunity to share your feelings and connect with others here. I think a lot of people getting out of the academic system have post-traumatic stress, perhaps even PTSD. Regardless of a diagnosis, however, a major part of one’s recovery from any relational trauma is to share those experiences with others. Therefore, stories like these are very helpful for all of us who have been abused by this system. Keep seeking connection with others. Regarding any effects on the system, however, I am not sure that speaking out about experiences is enough to change it. I’m not sure if that is your goal, but I’m hoping to brainstorm. There is no clear path to fixing the system, and therefore, most accounts lack an evident call to action. I think that everyone with deep experiences and/or investment academia realizes these issues. This makes all of us feel rather nihilistic or apathetic. One major problem is that people who find videos like these are already too deep in the system and/or have no idea how to actually change it, myself included. I’ve tried talking to my friends outside of academic about such problems, but they never seem to understand how deep and systematic these issues are. Many of them to assure me that my experiences are uncommon… but they’re not. As a result, I fully expect them to keep happening, which certainly brings about a feeling of learned helplessness. Is there any other path other than accepting these problems and submitting to those who perpetuate them in the hopes of advancing their own career? I think we have collectively decided that it is not worthwhile to speak out to preserve any hope in our desperate passion to pursue research. It was only this year that I started getting more heavily involved in the world of academia. I want to continue at nearly any cost but I still feel severely depressed and anxious about the landscape.

Reason why the snake didn't last longer under the ceramic emitter is because it gotten warm faster. It had to staid underneath the projector longer because it took longer to warm the snake up. I've place both in my snake enclosure far apart from each other and my snake rather to be underneath the ceramic instead of the projector.

Here is the advice I give new PhD student or thinking to do PhD: PhD is the best fit for people who love to discover new knowledge and enjoy working long hours despite a high chance of failing in any specific experiments. If this is not you then PhD is not for you.

This is one of my go-to videos while setting up our OSB terrarium. Thanks! (Also the follow-ups are great)

Im one of the one human beings yaaay

Getting a PhD is like a dream of mine, but everything I see everywhere convinces me not to :( I am still in my first year of bachelor's, so there's plenty of time to prepare and stuff but I can't decide whether I wanna do it after all.

It is also a numbers game. The PhD candidates outnumber the stable faculty positions. So a lot of PhD students and Postdocs spend years training for a job that they can never have. A lack of results can be stressful for the student and the supervisor.