Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D.

From ancient Rome to today, war-makers have talked constantly about peace “When they make a wasteland, they call it ‘peace,‘” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, in a turn of phrase that a classics scholar says has been relevant for centuries – including right now.

From ancient Rome to today, war-makers have talked constantly about peace
theconversation.com/from-ancient...

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Read this. Even more than the Letter from a Birmingham Jail, I think, this speech captures the essence of where King was going and where we still need to go from here.

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government." - MLK

All we need when people scrutinize protester conduct & communal self-defense.

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Haha, thanks!

TIL that not only is my birthday also the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., it is also the date of the assassination of Rosa Luxembourg. What a do.

An article that combines my birthday-sharer MLK Jr. and racial/disability solidarity? Yes, please!

Also, dire warnings about the efforts to resegregate society? Necessary.

Selfie of a squinting bearded bespectacled white trans man who was just about to get on his bike to ride ~30 miles home from a writing retreat.

Hello just making my periodic announcement that I'm a trans man and transitioning made my life SO MUCH better and trans people of all ages deserve respect and access to gender-affirming care - just like cis people do!

Three CripAntiquity board members in front of window facing city of San Francisco.

CripAntiquity was at the SCS/AIA Conference in SF! Thanks to everyone who chatted with us during the conference and at our roundtable. Discussions at the conference gave us many ideas to improve accessibility in our sector. Please continue these talks and providing your support in the future!

This is such a good story. If you'd like an easily listenable version, try this one from The Memory Palace.

https://thememorypalace.us/the-wheel/

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Useful.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

You need to seriously consider sense modalities other than vision. Theorising about vision and assuming that it will generalise is not a good strategy. (Also, don’t conflate states, events and processes, but that’s another kettle of fish!) #PhilPerception

Tomorrow’s a preview of 2026! A collection of clips from my conversations with Jonathan Sedlak, Sara Koenig, @mburtwrites.bsky.social & @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social, @blindscholar.bsky.social, Jennie Grillo, Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat, Kirk MacGregor, David Basher, & @alexianafry.bsky.social.

The last time I went I saw previews for the new zany, quippy animated comedy "Animal Farm"—also a sign we're in a good place societally.

I think it’s more the case that everybody is stupid sometimes, in some contexts. So we have to protect people for when it’s their turn to be stupid, since someday that will be us too.

Whenever I led sections of undergrads, I found one of the most effective things was openly admitting I didn't have all the answers, but I could teach them how an expert (and them!) might find out. The content is often secondary to the scaffolding of knowledge creation and discovery

oh my.
I love this.

Make a Bond movie academic:

Peer Review to a Kill

Make a Bond film academic:

GoldOpenAccessFinger

Probably didn't even know the song the elves sang to Santa on his birthday last year. Youths.

Relatable.

Yay! That's fantastic!

I don’t design my coursework with different ethics and principles than those I expect from myself. Deep reading, sincere effort, meticulous citations, a willingness to acknowledge mistakes, honesty and humility are all things I want from students AND myself. And that shapes how I see gAI.

Call this file “article cast offs” and then promptly save it to a piece of technology that will go obsolete a year later

I always make sure to put "for later" in the file name to indicate that this material is, indeed, for later. Definitely still going to use it. Later.

Don't just delete it, though. Copy and paste it into a separate text file in case you need it later, then never look at it again.

This except the dismantling started in the late '60s