Cedar Riener
criener.bsky.social
Cedar Riener
@criener.bsky.social
College professor, cognitive psychologist, textbook author. Also interested in science writing, social justice, politics and anti-racism. Proud member of AAUP & AFT Local 6741. Personal account. Views are my own and do not represent RMC, AAAS or SCHEV
In the NYT piece on "college cuts may affect student experience" there is a whole lot of "only some of this is Trump cuts" and framing masquerading as neutral factual analysis.
Eg these three points
August 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Stuff like this makes me wish people also considered wider historical tech metaphors for AI than calculator, etc. What if it is like asbestos? Or lead? Or radium? Slop like this has polluted the internet, and removing it won't be easy.
July 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I teach a Senior Seminar in Psych (includes some history of psyc) and we did cool activity yesterday. I hand out a historical intro textbook (I love old books!) and ask students to compare with a modern one. Leads to fun discussion on changes in psychology, pedagogy, media.
May 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The meme I use in class, btw.
July 7, 2024 at 3:02 AM
You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
March 23, 2024 at 3:09 AM
One interesting thing about living in Ashland Virginia, right near the train tracks, is I get a little glimpse into the otherwise mostly invisible infrastructure that makes US work. Here is NYC trash heading south, a few times a day.
October 31, 2023 at 5:07 PM
I think my mail and my knees are conspiring to send me some sort of message
October 17, 2023 at 4:46 PM
I teach variety of psych courses (100, S&P, Cognitive) as well as special courses, such as Light and Sight (with a physicist) w travel to UK! Recent highlight was seeing Newton's notebooks at Cambridge after John Mollon gave us a fascinating talk on beginnings of psychology at Greenwich observatory
September 23, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Hi #PsychSciSky a few intro posts. I'm coauthor w Dan Willingham of Cognition The Thinking Animal, published by Cambridge University Press
www.cambridge.org/highereducat...
September 23, 2023 at 2:51 PM