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Timothy Harvie

@timothyharvie.bsky.social
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Professor, Philosophy and Religion, St Mary’s University, Calgary (Treaty 7 territory). Eco-Religious Studies and Philosophy Scholar. Opinions are my own. Shares ≠ endorsements. (he/him)

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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m so happy to be visiting this guy and sharing the lives we’ve walked in solidarity with each other. 32 years of friendship.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Off to visit some dear friends.
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get… | Canary Media www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...
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The USDA just made it way harder for farmers to get grants for solar
Even farmers who were already promised funds from the REAP program may never get them under the Trump admin’s new restrictions. Some are suing.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In NY, there is a bill that would repeal the voluntary intoxication loophole in rape law. It pass the NY Senate unanimously the past 2 years. But one man--assembly speaker Carl Heastie--has blocked it from getting a vote in the NY Assembly. @inaeoh.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started
Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Omg this genius. Hilarious (and sad). 😂
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Education Department today removed the Biden-era Title IX rule that addressed discrimination against students based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
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U.S. Department of Education Formally Rescinds the Biden Administration’s Illegal Title IX Rewrite, Reinstating the 2020 Regulation
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) formally rescinded the Biden Administration’s illegal regulation implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX).
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More rough news in religious higher education. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/25/v...
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Vanderbilt Divinity School in receivership - Nashville Banner
Vanderbilt Divinity School has been placed into receivership as university administration looks to restructure operations, reevaluate investment.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hahaha
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A helpful clarification on what’s happening in Edinburgh. divinity.ed.ac.uk/understandin...
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Understanding our programme changes | School of Divinity | School of Divinity
Building for the future strength of theology and religion at the University of Edinburgh
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A good article of the moral vacuum that is the billionaire class. (I’ve posted the archived version of this Atlantic piece so no paywall) archive.ph/2026.09.25-1...
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Prof Rachel Muers at Edinburgh has now said this is misleading and inaccurate. The dept is healthy and not being shut down.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A wonderful piece of antiquity, but the final paragraph is relevant: “‘The statements concerning the destruction of people’s homes carry a powerful message from thousands of years ago to the present day,’ Ersoy said” referring to Palestine. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
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Researchers in Turkey Have Unearthed an Ancient Fragment Inscribed With the World’s Oldest Peace Treaty
The piece of a clay tablet is marked with Akkadian cuneiform, and its text belongs to the Kadesh Peace Treaty, created by ancient Egyptians and Hittites in the 13th century B.C.E.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This afternoon I sat in a circle with students discussing Kierkegaard and talking ideas we’ve read together from this text. It felt exactly like what Liberal arts university education should probably be. We’re all learning.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just awful. Nowhere did they get a mandate for this. Xenophobic populist trash. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta premier floats charging temporary residents $1,900 to access public health care | CBC News
The figure comes as Albertans will vote in the Oct. 19 referendum on charging certain non-permanent residents a "reasonable fee or premium" for access to Alberta's health care and education systems.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m honestly at a loss as to why we continue down this road. www.independent.co.uk/tech/securit...
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AI caught telling future versions of itself to bypass human controls, OpenAI reveals
AI agents also sought to access secret information and covered up what they were doing
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our doorbell cam caught a bobcat by our front door again.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So good, I’m cackling like a witch right now 🤣🤌🏼
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our tooth fairy leaves dollar store gifts plus a twoonie to obscure costs (all told typically $7); not just for our child but for others in less fortunate circumstances. 2 days ago I heard our kid compare with another who got $20… the present covered it. “The tooth fairy gets me Lego” etc
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
My daughter lost a tooth yesterday. My wife was traveling, so I handled tooth fairy duties. I left a $10 under her pillow, which I thought was v generous, but she woke up, saw the bill & said: "But why did the Tooth Fairy leave me $20 last time?" 😆 (I wasn't aware my wife had gone so over the top!)
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Authoritarianism 101: www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/m...
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Trump says he’s ‘banning’ CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House | CNN Business
President Donald Trump claimed Friday that he is “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico “from the White House,” though there was no immediate indication his administration had taken steps to follow throug...
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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today would be a good day to work on finishing my book. Instead I am drafting the departmental research profile section of the departmental self-study document for the upcoming departmental external review.
John Goodman yelling "I'll show you the life of the mind!" as he runs down a blazing hotel hallway with a shotgun.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Words matter. They are able to twist the narrative away from what is really happening by framing it as something else.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just got this new one from Whitney Bauman. I’m excited for this one.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Everything this government does begins (and often ends) with one calculation: how can we help the oil and gas industry? Not workers. Not Albertans. Not even businesses. Just one industry -- one that's clearly captured this government.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Yet the reluctance of later administrations to repudiate these measures laid the foundation for Trump’s misconduct." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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George W Bush’s impunity led to Trump’s lawlessness | Kenneth Roth
The reluctance of later administrations to repudiate Bush-era torture and endless detention laid the groundwork for recent violence
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It was never about being pro life. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 10/09/2026
As a higher ed finance person, I keep emphasizing that more students are enrolling in high cost of educating fields like health and engineering and fewer in lower-cost fields like the humanities. This squeezes institutional budgets as cross-subsidies disappear.
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Report: Humanities Majors Disappearing
Anxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, I’m done the first slide for my existentialism course.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
192. Stop fast-tracking polluting extractive industries. www.thestar.com/news/investi...
thestar.com
This proposed Ontario gold mine could pollute water ‘in perpetuity.’ Why is Ottawa fast-tracking it?
Federal reports warn Kinross Gold’s proposed Great Bear mine in Ontario could release arsenic and require water treatment ‘in perpetuity.’
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is quite unnerving. What’s more is that the AI companies, rather than acting responsibly and slowing or halting development, are calling on government to regulate them. They know they seek profits over human welfare. www.cbc.ca/news/world/o...
cbc.ca
Hugging Face hack raises fears of more rogue AI swarms as tech companies sound alarm in open letter | CBC News
Tech experts are warning of dire consequences if AI systems continue to escape human control, after a group of OpenAI agents went rogue in July and hacked into a billion-dollar company — what some are...
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A great article discussing the scientific, ecological, and Indigenous knowledge on the life and longevity of the sturgeon. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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This Great Lakes fish may have a 400-year-old secret | CBC News
New research suggests Great Lake sturgeon may live more than 400 years — far longer than previously thought. The discovery is forcing scientists to rethink the already-generations-long effort to bring...
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Naked Gun: Nothing to See Here Explosion
ALT: Naked Gun: Nothing to See Here Explosion
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What a cool story. Students are awesome. youtu.be/OnoPPaxmoBg
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CBC Interview: Aven McKay
YouTube video by mikebarter387
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/87...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
MapQuest Downloads Soar After Company’s Refusal To Rename Lake Ontario share.google/IBejExTi79WC...
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MapQuest Downloads Soar After Company’s Refusal To Rename Lake Ontario
Legacy online mapping service MapQuest has shot to the top of the App Store in the U.S. and Canada. But will customers engage with the modernized product long term?
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This one hurts. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92
Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at home
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It was a great panel to participate in and you can read the responses in Critical Theology.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A hymn for this age. youtu.be/_yEuPOCsnQg?...
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Send Us Thine Asteroid, O Lord
YouTube video by Joe Sandy
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP to a great. www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/e...
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Dolly Parton, queen of country music and humanitarian hero, dead at 80 | CNN
Dolly Parton, who rose from humble beginnings to the greatest heights of American music and became one of the country’s most philanthropic, unifying and beloved stars, has died. She was 80.
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s such a privilege to be included in this volume with other engaged scholars. Jane Barter and Doris Kieser were exemplary leaders, guiding the project to completion. @janebarter.bsky.social
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m teaching a course on existentialism this fall. www.templeton.org/news/what-ex...
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What Existentialism Still Has to Teach Us About the Quest for a Meaningful Life
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of existentialism in France. Indeed, it would never have been born had France not known war and defeat by Nazi Germany. Those who had resisted under t...
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hell no
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Timothy Harvie @timothyharvie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
cbc.ca
Mounties reviewing First Nations' call for treason probe into Alberta premier, UCP | CBC News
Canada's top Mountie has written to First Nations leaders in Alberta, confirming the RCMP will review the chiefs' call for a criminal treason investigation into the province's premier and governing pa...
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Ryan Jespersen @ryanjespersen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
OOPS. A separatist organizer says the quiet part loud during an Alberta Prosperity Project live stream... Thoughts? 👀 FULL: rtrj.info/081726Supriya 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/081726 #SPEAKCANADIAN #RealTalkRJ @supriya.bsky.social
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