Tim Lomas

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! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544207/…

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

@drtimlomas @SteveBassett I haven’t read your article yet, Dr. Lomas. So apologies if I am reiterating points that you and your colleagues likely expressed more eloquently in your publication. 😀

There is something about star-to-star traveling extraterrestrials that terrifies academics. Thirty years after they tried to embarrass and/or dismiss Dr. John Mack, they still can't get it right. Sad. #ufotwitter foxnews.com/us/secret-ufo-…

@UAPJames @MorphoTime @disclosureteam_ It's all fine. We just took it down temporarily for some corrections and amendments. Updated version available here: researchgate.net/publication/38…

Dr. Masters’ paper, The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis: A Case For Scientific Openness to a Concealed Earthly Explanation for UAP, was pulled from the internet after his appearance on Fox News this morning. “I can’t really talk about it publicly right now.” #ufox #ufotwitter #ufo

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

@tinyklaus Thanks Klaus, @drtimlomas was a lot of fun to work with on this

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

@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.” - freudquotes.blogspot.com/2015/10/carl-j…

@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...

@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

@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?

Dear UFO Twitter, When Kirkpatrick says there’s no evidence for aliens or reverse engineering of spaceships, why is he wrong? Where’s the evidence? Not stories, not hearsay, not grainy videos. Evidence. Something like this:

@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.)?

@the_cholla @aka__V @saucerlit @BSquidding @LuAngeles @AeroTech_Space @MvonRen @GoodTroubleShow Marik's clearly an expert, writing papers and presenting at conferences, so why doesn't he want to talk to me alone?

The talk with @MvonRen is off. After we agreed on a time and a rough set of topics, he wanted to bring in other people. I just wanted to chat about our disagreements. The offer is still open. Sorry if people got their hopes up.

@ishikun3 Thanks Yoshiki! :)

@drtimlomas Congratulations！

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): internationaljournalofwellbeing.org/index.php/ijow…

@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

@drtimlomas @AgNilsson @OscarKjell @JEichstaedt @HAndySchwartz @Gallup I would like to see that replicated with other Western samples. I've long thought that there are likely to be stable cultural factors that differentially bias the CL scores of a national/language/ethnic group.

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 nature.com/articles/s4159…

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 ispcjournal.org/journals/2024/…

@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! :)

@drtimlomas @mitpress Happy New Year to you Tim! I just picked up your book @mitpress. Any interest in speaking to my Freshman Seminar students this spring? Meets in Sever Hall. Say yes!

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! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544207/…

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

@planethunter56 @drtimlomas @Brendan_W_Case @MorphoTime It’s very very good

The late Fortean researcher Mac Tonnies: "We're sharing the planet with a non-human intelligence, and it is responsible for the UFO phenomenon." [the Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis] Sharing because... they might have been here (earth-based) before homosapien sapiens arrived on the scene. Are they underground now? In the oceans? Shadow biosphere? An important mix of Tonnies audio clips hiddenexperience.podbean.com/e/mac-tonnies-… #ufoX #uapX #ovniX

@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: researchgate.net/publication/37…

This excellent essay will open your mind about UAP, NHI, and TUO. It may make an even greater case for exploring more of our largely unknown ocean. #uap #UAPTwitter #sq_hlkk65yczy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thedebrief.org/uaps-and-non-h…

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

Maybe @DoD_AARO should take a look 🤔👇