Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. - Carl Jung

New paper: " #PublicHealth #disinformation, #conflict, and #disease outbreaks " doi.org/10.1080/1654... #OpenAccess #HealthDiplomacy #GlobalHealthDiplomacy #Health #GlobalHealth #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth #EcoHealth #HealthDisinformation #HealthMisinformation #HealthConflict #ConflictHealth

If you’re in the Philippines, you may check the hazards in your area, for free. Visit hazardhunter.georisk.gov.ph. Check the likelihood of your house, office, or school to be exposed to ground shaking during earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and other hazards. #HazardHunterPH (1/3)

Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi (local name “Opong”) currently covering the Philippines. Stay safe, everyone! Satellite image from Windy, as of 11am, Philippine Standard Time. #OpongPH #Bualoi

Multiverse Analyses Nice consideration of five nonmutually exclusive motives for conducting multiverse analyses: 🔹️ Assessing robustness 🔹️ Examining boundary conditions 🔹️ Generating hypotheses 🔹️ Increasing transparency 🔹️ Improving a study’s methodology #MetaSci #Methodology

Purging the Philippine Government of corruption is essential for disaster risk reduction and management. If you examine things more closely, it is not the typhoon per se that kills people.

"Measuring #EcoAnxiety, or Not" www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/disa... @psychologytoday.com #ClimateAnxiety #ClimateGrief #Solastalgia #Symbiocene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDoom #EcoInspiration #EcoHope #ClimateChange #Climate #DRR #Anthropocene #EcoGrief #EcoStress #ClimateStress

📰Newly Published: Social support matters—but it’s not one-size-fits-all. Guilaran et al.'s study dives into how Filipinos uniquely experience received support beyond WEIRD contexts. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing

I did enjoy attending the 24-hour Global Work and Organizational Psychology Conference via Zoom (though I was not in the conference for the entire 24 hours). I thought it was impressive.

Psychologists who work on disasters should get it right: there are no “natural disasters.” Again, there is no such thing as a “natural disaster.”

Currently participating in a workshop on hazards mapping. I used to just work with hazard mappers as their psychologist. Now, I guess it’s time for me to participate in the mapping itself.

How to write an excellent Review article @natrevbioeng.bsky.social #scisky #Science #REVIEW Open Access www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced." By @maddipow.bsky.social

I ka ʻōlelo no ke ola, i ka ʻōlelo no ka make 一語成讖 Watch your mouth. Words can bring healing and they can bring death. Be mindful of what you say into the world.

Should go without saying, but there we are... 😊 www.ru.nl/en/research/...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Designing walkable cities increases social interaction and consequently may improve social support and social integration. Increase in social support and decrease in social isolation are good for public health.

🛑 Researchers often use a pers. email for submissions so they can stay contactable ✅ What's best is to add an inst. email to your ORCID record so orgs collecting auth. iDs can use the Trust Marker assoc. w/ the inst. domain Read more: support.orcid.org

Saw this on X. Indeed, effective counsellors/therapists facilitate growth. In so many times, just “validating” (especially that which remains at this level) just reinforces behaviors and cognitions that lead to the client to remain stuck.

Fraudulent Citing "Intentionally omitting citations to articles that would raise concerns about the validity of one’s work." New work on citing decisions by @kaileylawson.bsky.social, @brettmurpsych.bsky.social, @jazpeitia.bsky.social et al.

Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!

I’m once again working with a city writing new integrated transportation & land use policy, and we’ve been discussing whether to PRIORITIZE walking, biking and transit, or achieve “BALANCE.” This is a key conversation where I sometimes give a fast and simple answer, but the truth is more complex. 1/

I heard that students need to have a 1st author paper to get into a PhD program This is not true in psychology--most students we admit at NYU & most of the students from my own lab who got into PhD programs do not have publications, let alone 1st author publications www.science.org/content/arti...

luv 2 update my Intro to Emergency Management lectures

I have been away from this app for a long time, so perhaps, I need to do some re-introduction. I am Johnrev Guilaran. I am an associate professor of psychology at the University of the Philippines Visayas. I do research mainly on social support, disaster mental health, & climate change psychology.

Saturday morning biking around the university campus. Did a good 10k.

I was rooting for Osaka, but it’s a well-deserved win for Anisimova.

“A good mentor hopes you will move on. A great mentor knows you will.” - Higgins, Ted Lasso

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

My almost 5-year-old M1 chip laptop is taking its time running my analysis. This must be a sign.

"Tsunamis & atolls: why warnings must be locally meaningful" www.preventionweb.net/drr-communit... #EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #IslandStudies @preventionweb.bsky.social @undrr.bsky.social @uclrdr.bsky.social @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social @uclwrc.bsky.social

"I have been scammed in my qualitative research" https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-025-00179-7 Bandiera et al (2025) report fraudulent research participants using AI tools to pretend to be part of the relevant study population

When I was an MA student at UP Diliman more than 15 years ago, I heard a joke: “traffic in Metro Manila is instant; just add water.” With the worsening floods (and the associated traffic congestion, among other consequences) in the Metro, this has long ceased to be funny.

One month into my sabbatical leave and I was able to finish a book, began having my carpark fixed, played Nintendo Switch again, and started writing my manuscript again. I am loving the sabbatical leave.

“Emotional intelligence is much higher, therapy is normalised and kids know how to name their feelings, but something else has taken hold. Rising anxiety, emotional fragility, entitlement, anxiety and overthinking.” www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

“The research does not support claims that weighted vests improve muscle and bone strength — other exercises such as weightlifting have shown to be far more effective.” www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...

Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails. The end of an era. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems www.bbc.com/news/article...

Feasibility and acceptability of written exposure therapy group in a virtual outpatient setting. Journal of Traumatic Stress. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Khawla and Alison are stretching language to its limits to try to convey the depth of despair for the human depravity. It is a conversation of sorts between the two scholars, a conversation that started in social media, after Khawla answered poetically the poetic prayers by Alison"

Today is #WorldBicycleDay. I learned how to ride the bike at 38. Starting is never too late.

Nature posed a variety of scenarios to 5,000 academics around the world to understand which uses of AI are considered ethically acceptable. The survey results suggest that researchers are sharply divided on what they feel are appropriate practices. #Academicsky 🧪

"My AI therapist got me through dark times" < in a competitive field, the notion of an AI 'therapist' may win the award for the most ignorant and inappropriate use of AI At the heart of therapy is a human relationship. This is fundamentally not possible with an AI. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Online first: An exploration of the dimensions of Filipino received social support (with @augilrobles.bsky.social and Anipat Alingasa) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/EP8AI... #socialsupport #Filipino #mixedmethod

Life update: it has been three weeks since my term as division chairperson ended and I am loving it!

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620 See more details below:

As FEMA gets cut and the climate crisis escalates, the need for climate related disaster mental health will only intensify! Join us for our inaugural series! www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop...

“Confounding is for EFFECT measures, not occurrence measures.” Just in case you missed it 🙂

Here are some photos from our recent trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. These were shot RAW using Canon M50.