Heartbreaking to see an empty chair during a final exam. My student has been struggling with mental health. She really tried to make it work this semester. We’ve been conversing about this and she’s been receiving professional help.

Just concluded the first convening of the Disaster Preparedness Project in BIMPEAGA. Grateful for the rich insights from regional partners and proud of our FASS students’ contributions. Onward to building shared knowledge and resilience in Southeast Asia. #DisasterStudies #BIMPEAGA

Life update: I recently concluded my month-long residential fellowship at the @lborouniversity.bsky.social Institute of Advanced Studies. During my stay, I delivered two seminars: 1) localizing flood resilience in Southeast Asia, 2)patchwork ethnography. Recorded lecture here: youtu.be/rQXRxdbS_1o

We're excited to announce the publication of our special issue: 'Advancing Reflexive, Creative and Critical Research Methodologies in Disaster Studies'! This collection challenges conventional approaches, focusing on how knowledge is created in disaster studies. www.emerald.com/insight/publ...

A huge thank you to my incredible co-editors, @carinalejandria.bsky.social and Kirstin Kreyscher. We also extend our gratitude to all contributors and reviewers for their invaluable work. And to @eraju.bsky.social , @jcgaillard.bsky.social of Disaster Prevention and Management for their support.

Our students can enroll in Undergraduate Research Opportunities where they work with their professors on active research projects. These ladies are keen on getting trained to do fieldwork and coding for disaster research. Today, I am training them to use @maxqda
@ubdbuzz.bsky.social

The community we engaged with in the Philippines is experiencing flooding again. My parents also reported that our house has been affected. Flooding in Palawan has become a constant occurrence, which is in stark contrast to my childhood when I had zero experience of flooding.

1000 words for tonight. Happy to get this internal validation that my brain fog is not as bad anymore.

NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.

WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

Received the beautiful news that the chapter we proposed tentatively titled Human Security and the Ethics of Care in Researching Place and Identity was accepted for a collection. This is one of those papers that I will truly enjoy writing. 💜

Out now: First comprehensive study on health and climate change in Small Island Developing States

Register now to join the launch event ⬇️
📆 6 February 2025
⏰ 16:30 EST (Jamaica)

lancetcountdown.org/news/out-now...

My Linkedin is full of “open to work” notices from furloughed humanitarian and development workers both from the US and back home in the Philippines. What a set back for humanity!

Our Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Emerging Methods in Civil-Military Humanitarian Studies in the Journal of International Humanitarian Action will close on March 31, 2025. We invite submissions exploring research methodologies applied in humanitarian studies.

Our Special Issue on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Development in Emerging Asian Regions: Achievements, Progress and Potential for the Environmental Science and Policy Journal is now open for submissions. Deadline is on September 30, 2025. Details www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre is excited to announce its two new podcast channels which will host 'The Good Humanitarian'. Go ahead and give us a follow to not miss out!

Did you miss the trailer to season 1? You can now listen on:
1️⃣ Apple Podcasts: edu.nl/xxetw
2️⃣ Spotify: edu.nl/npbd9

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

Objects have lives. They carry stories—of survival, loss, & hope. Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai teaches us that they are more than things; they are fragments of who we are & what we endure. Over the past year, I collected stories of flood vulnerabilities & resilience in the BIMP

I’m excited to share that I’m co-organizing the International Conference on Insular Southeast Asian Studies (ICISAS) in Bali on August 12-13, 2025.

We’re thrilled to have Dr. Alistair Cook and Dr. June Rubis as our keynote speakers. More details are available on our webpage: icisas.umy.ac.id