Tim Lomas

Psychology Research Scientist at @HarvardChanSPH & @HFHarvard, focusing on the cross-cultural dynamics of wellbeing (

[Tim Lomas @drtimlomas]

Happy new year all! I hope 2023 brings you health, hope, and happiness. On that theme, I'm pleased to share that my new book on happiness with @mitpress is now out. Thank you to everyone who helped bring this book into being. I hope people like it! https://t.co/YdGDR2tmbX

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@crichardsb0001 @SteveBassett All good Bran, you summarized it nicely!😀

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@UAPJames @MorphoTime @disclosureteam_ It's all fine. We just took it down temporarily for some corrections and amendments. Updated version available here: https://t.co/vcKNfN0kqn

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@MorphoTime @tinyklaus Thanks guys - yep, it was great working with you too (and our good colleague @Brendan_W_Case)!

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@tinyklaus @MorphoTime Thanks very much Klaus! I learn a great deal from your posts, so great to hear you like the paper

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@TheUfoJoe ...I have followed up the literature as much as possible and it looks to me as if something were seen and even confirmed by radar, but nobody knows exactly what is seen.” - https://t.co/4PK8N9iDLO

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@TheUfoJoe He also wrote "the problem of the Ufos is, as you rightly say, a very fascinating one... [as] there is no certainty about their very nature... As a matter of fact... the psychological aspect is so impressive, that one almost must regret that the Ufos seem to be real after all...

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@MvonRen @DaniLavelle Maybe, @DaniLavelle, just drop the stigma-reinforcing tropes ('little green men') and give this topic the proper critical journalistic attention that it really needs (as per @ChrisUKSharp, @rosscoulthart & @MattLaslo). Doesn't mean 'believing' it, but just being open and curious

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@MvonRen @DaniLavelle Or why no mention of the recent critical report by the DoD Inspector General which concluded “the DoD has not used a coordinated approach to detect, report, collect, analyze, and identify UAP”? Why just act as stenographer for Kirkpatrick instead of actually querying his claims?

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@MickWest @the_cholla @aka__V @saucerlit @BSquidding @LuAngeles @AeroTech_Space @MvonRen @GoodTroubleShow You both have your domains of expertise and have rival explanations for this incident, so surely it makes perfect sense to have a neutral arbiter adjudicate the debate (especially someone with greater expertise in the particular technology at hand who can check accuracy etc.)?

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@ishikun3 Thanks Yoshiki! :)

[Tim Lomas @drtimlomas]

Out now: our new 'flexible map of flourishing,' which aims to offer a comprehensive framework and language for situating the elements and dynamics of flourishing, wellbeing, health and happiness (with possibilities for personalisation, as in this figure):
https://t.co/7jEJye7PRv

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@sTeamTraen @AgNilsson @OscarKjell @JEichstaedt @HAndySchwartz @Gallup Yep, I think your right - we're keen to do similar research in other cultural contexts to see how these dynamics play out elsewhere

[Tim Lomas @drtimlomas]

Intriguing new research, expertly led by @AgNilsson (with @OscarKjell, @JEichstaedt & @HAndySchwartz), suggests Cantril's ladder (which, in @Gallup World Poll, is the basis of the World Happiness Report) tends to elicit thoughts about power & wealth https://t.co/EXD4n9v6Fo

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Out now: my new paper trying to ascertain the viability of an extraterrestrial hypothesis for #UAP; might not be the most likely explanation, but still seems like a real possibility - #UFO #ufotwitter #uap #ufology #UAPTwitter
https://t.co/3OMfzBEVIw

[Tim Lomas @drtimlomas]

@NancyEtcoff @mitpress Thanks Nancy - I'd love to if we could make that work! Do send me an email and we can hopefully work something out! :)

[Tim Lomas @drtimlomas]

Happy new year all! I hope 2023 brings you health, hope, and happiness. On that theme, I'm pleased to share that my new book on happiness with @mitpress is now out. Thank you to everyone who helped bring this book into being. I hope people like it! https://t.co/YdGDR2tmbX

[Tim Lomas @drtimlomas]

@syncingfeeling @planethunter56 @Brendan_W_Case @MorphoTime Thanks! :)

[Tim Lomas @drtimlomas]

@GallaudetTim Thank you for your leadership in this area, and to @BernardoKastrup for a brilliant article. If you'd like to read it, my colleagues @Brendan_W_Case, @MorphoTime & I have also just written a preprint on this topic that goes into further detail/speculation: https://t.co/20JdASi7Ps

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@chrisfrench83 @DoD_AARO I’m guessing they probably have already done a global assessment in their way, but it’s all behind closed doors