Monte Jackson

MRes Animal Behaviour at @Sussexuni 🐍 Reptile Welfare Advocate 🐍 Particularly interested in snake behaviour, cognition, and enrichment 🐍 he/him

[The National Centre For Reptile Welfare @TheNCRW]

@ExoticsKeeper has teamed up with the NCRW to boost their survey, and if we can help them reach 10K responses, we'll get a donation of £1000!

If you keep reptiles, amphibians, or inverts, please fill in this survey to help out! Every bit counts!

https://t.co/8KUAPKTIPe

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Funny how there is never any money in the pot, until it comes to their own pay increases…

#RespectFE

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Unemployment is an artificial scarcity. Any currency issuer with sufficient monetary sovereignty can immediately train and pay unemployed workers to do socially and ecologically necessary production. They refrain only because this would run against the interests of capital.

[Monte Jackson @Malayopython_89]

Seeing an antlion outside of the dirt always feels wrong. That's not where you're supposed to be!!

[Weird Animals @Weird_AnimaIs]

Antlions are ferocious predators of ants.

(Photos Pavel Krasensky)

[C. M. Kosemen @cmkosemen]

NOW IMAGINE all the microhabitats sauropod dinosaurs must have created...

[Gendered Intelligence @Genderintell]

We’re reflecting on today's letter from the EHRC - more updates and actions soon.

Right now, what’s most important is to hold firm to our rights and to the truth. This letter has no statutory weight - that is, it doesn’t change the law.

Full statement: https://t.co/SqIndRSQmT

[IUCN Snake Specialist Group @IUCN_SSG]

Snakes are important native species for ecosystem health and function in almost all countries around the world. Senseless snake persecution should therefore stop. Besides intrinsic animals' rights to live, we're only shooting ourselves in the foot by losing ecosystem services.

[Gendered Intelligence @Genderintell]

What does it mean to be visible when our community is already so exposed? @Dazed on Trans Day of Visibility.

Get the full story: https://t.co/WWY9plPVyd

#TDOV2023

[British Herpetological Society @BritishHerpSoc]

Don't forget to buy your tickets to the 2023 AHH/BHS Drayton Manor Conference on Reptile Husbandry and Breeding, all of the information you'll need to attend can be found on our website:
https://t.co/H2bQFX05Jr #Herpetology #Reptiles #AnimalHusbandry

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

UKs 4 day work week study in a nutshell:

•Worker stress levels dropped by 39%
•Sick days plummeted by 65%
•Burnout rates fell by 71%
•Staff resignations dropped by 57%
•62% reported a positive impact to their social lives

Imagine that. People are happier when we work less.

[Kiabugboy @aldrich_kia]

beeg and littol

[Monte Jackson @Malayopython_89]

The way I would spend hours playing with something like that

[Julio the Artist 🦕🌿 @JuliotheArtist]

This but instead of Peppa Pigs it's Spinosaurus
https://t.co/XPRh1YZdoo

[UCU @ucu]

Today, university staff go on strike

They are striking for decent pay, pensions and secure employment

They are striking for students

They are striking for the future of higher education

RT IF YOU BACK THEM

#ucuRISING

[British Herpetological Society @BritishHerpSoc]

Happy New Year everyone! New issues of our two scientific publications are now available on our website, please follow this link: https://t.co/VY3Z816SlC #Herpetology #Amphibians #Reptiles #HerpetologicalBulletin #HerpetologicalJournal @HerpJournal

[thea 🦋 @theagwrites]

Me trying to hit minimum word count on all those college essays like “Well, I keep returning, in my mind, to the glass onion…”

[Henrietta Rose Locke @Neuro_behaviour]

1/2 Looking for dog participants for a research project investigating the effects of cephalic index on the perception of inter-object distances. All breeds are welcome but dogs must be over 1 year old and have no suspected or diagnosed visual/cognitive impairments.

[Monte Jackson @Malayopython_89]

Ok. I am done with my small ramble. Apologies. I'm just. Very passionate about this.

[Monte Jackson @Malayopython_89]

So yeah, this is pretty important.

(Re: my comments on rehoming and rescue, here's a little interim stats report from the National Centre for Reptile Welfare for the past year - https://t.co/iKpq5CwEG4) [8/8]

[Monte Jackson @Malayopython_89]

Do you have pet reptiles or amphibians? Know someone who does?

Then PLEASE fill out (or get them to fill out) this short survey for the @The_FBH_org

https://t.co/7T03lMplpW

[Stay tuned for links to last year's results and why this is important] #herpetoculture

[Monte Jackson @Malayopython_89]

with rehomed and rescued reptiles and amphibians, and I get to see first hand how often surrendered animals are dearly loved family members that are only being given up as a last resort.

For those of us who love them, they're as much our family as our mammalian pets. So [7/8]