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
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The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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This is all I want for Christmas. 💚❤️
Donate to Help JaVe Honor Her Dad and Get Back on Her Feet, organized by JaVe B.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is all I want for Christmas. 💚❤️
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Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 8, 2023 at 1:50 AM
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
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one thing i make when it is cold and rainy is fresh chai
simmer for a long time:
1 L water
2 T good assam tea
2 t cardamom pods
2 t peppercorns
2 cinn sticks
1 thumb ginger, sliced
pinch salt
pinch saffron
10 cloves
50 g sugar
500 mL milk
recipe adapted from Dishoom cookbook (their pic here)
simmer for a long time:
1 L water
2 T good assam tea
2 t cardamom pods
2 t peppercorns
2 cinn sticks
1 thumb ginger, sliced
pinch salt
pinch saffron
10 cloves
50 g sugar
500 mL milk
recipe adapted from Dishoom cookbook (their pic here)
July 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
one thing i make when it is cold and rainy is fresh chai
simmer for a long time:
1 L water
2 T good assam tea
2 t cardamom pods
2 t peppercorns
2 cinn sticks
1 thumb ginger, sliced
pinch salt
pinch saffron
10 cloves
50 g sugar
500 mL milk
recipe adapted from Dishoom cookbook (their pic here)
simmer for a long time:
1 L water
2 T good assam tea
2 t cardamom pods
2 t peppercorns
2 cinn sticks
1 thumb ginger, sliced
pinch salt
pinch saffron
10 cloves
50 g sugar
500 mL milk
recipe adapted from Dishoom cookbook (their pic here)
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To be more specific: ChatGPT is the panacea being peddled by salesmen whose voices haven't changed in the remote in-service.
I'm an edtech early adopter. I love technology. At my last district, I was the one they sent to tech conferences so I could teach my colleagues.
This...is different.
I'm an edtech early adopter. I love technology. At my last district, I was the one they sent to tech conferences so I could teach my colleagues.
This...is different.
December 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
To be more specific: ChatGPT is the panacea being peddled by salesmen whose voices haven't changed in the remote in-service.
I'm an edtech early adopter. I love technology. At my last district, I was the one they sent to tech conferences so I could teach my colleagues.
This...is different.
I'm an edtech early adopter. I love technology. At my last district, I was the one they sent to tech conferences so I could teach my colleagues.
This...is different.
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It did not insist that there needed to be an equal number of conservative and liberal profs on campus, it did not worry about campuses hosting an equal number of speakers from various political camps. It *did* warn strongly against the corruption of research by funders--gov, corp, or individual
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It did not insist that there needed to be an equal number of conservative and liberal profs on campus, it did not worry about campuses hosting an equal number of speakers from various political camps. It *did* warn strongly against the corruption of research by funders--gov, corp, or individual
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The original definition of academic freedom came from the American Association of University Professors--the union for professors--in response to suppression against professors for being "too left" & it focused a LOT on universities not being beholden to corporate funders or wealthy benefactors...🧵
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The original definition of academic freedom came from the American Association of University Professors--the union for professors--in response to suppression against professors for being "too left" & it focused a LOT on universities not being beholden to corporate funders or wealthy benefactors...🧵
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As Apollo 13 ended, a woman behind me said to her friend, “It was pretty good, but it would never happen in real life.”
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
As Apollo 13 ended, a woman behind me said to her friend, “It was pretty good, but it would never happen in real life.”
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
Jurassic Park (1) at the uptown in DC
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Jurassic Park (1) at the uptown in DC
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If I understand correctly, Larry Summers (then Harvard prez) spent a chunk of his honeymoon with Elisa New on the private island of the world's most famous pedophile. Then, they spent 15 years begging Epstein for money while Epstein served as Summers's wingman to pick up junior economists.
Right?
Right?
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If I understand correctly, Larry Summers (then Harvard prez) spent a chunk of his honeymoon with Elisa New on the private island of the world's most famous pedophile. Then, they spent 15 years begging Epstein for money while Epstein served as Summers's wingman to pick up junior economists.
Right?
Right?
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it’s been very quick and not covered outside the state to my knowledge. looks a little like a quiet coup.
in october, a BOR exit to serve as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the United States Department of Education. who knows where that goes dailyiowan.com/2025/10/08/i...
in october, a BOR exit to serve as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the United States Department of Education. who knows where that goes dailyiowan.com/2025/10/08/i...
Former Iowa Regent David Barker appointed to U.S. Department of Education
David Barker, a former Iowa Board of Regents member, was appointed the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the U.S. Department of Education Wednesday. Barker was nominated for the posi...
dailyiowan.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
it’s been very quick and not covered outside the state to my knowledge. looks a little like a quiet coup.
in october, a BOR exit to serve as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the United States Department of Education. who knows where that goes dailyiowan.com/2025/10/08/i...
in october, a BOR exit to serve as Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education for the United States Department of Education. who knows where that goes dailyiowan.com/2025/10/08/i...
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This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
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“we lack…a comparable [political] language, and an equivalent cast of founders, for the Fourth American Republic: the constitutional order created when Black Americans forced the United States to dismantle de jure apartheid and finally extend formal citizenship across the color line…
New: We should treat civil rights leaders as the Founding Fathers and Mothers of a new republic. Today’s liberalism debates (over identity, the state, and capitalism) are their unfinished quarrels.
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/snccs-ghos...
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/snccs-ghos...
SNCC’s Ghosts, the Fourth Republic, and the Crisis of Liberalism
Liberalism versus nationalism, social democracy versus identity politics: the Fourth Republic’s buried quarrels and the search for a new American order.
www.waleed-shahid.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“we lack…a comparable [political] language, and an equivalent cast of founders, for the Fourth American Republic: the constitutional order created when Black Americans forced the United States to dismantle de jure apartheid and finally extend formal citizenship across the color line…
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One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
First they came for the cosmetology colleges, and I didn't say anything, because I wasn't a cosmetology college.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
ED Designates 23% of Colleges “Lower Earnings”
The colleges on the list enroll fewer than 3 percent of undergraduates.
www.insidehighered.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
First they came for the cosmetology colleges, and I didn't say anything, because I wasn't a cosmetology college.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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don't just kvetch; comment.
CBP is proposing a massive new interference with the private lives and opinions of visitors to the united states, and those who exit. you can email comments to [email protected] - and post them if you do. you have until early february.
CBP is proposing a massive new interference with the private lives and opinions of visitors to the united states, and those who exit. you can email comments to [email protected] - and post them if you do. you have until early february.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Form I-94) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA)
The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review an...
www.federalregister.gov
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
don't just kvetch; comment.
CBP is proposing a massive new interference with the private lives and opinions of visitors to the united states, and those who exit. you can email comments to [email protected] - and post them if you do. you have until early february.
CBP is proposing a massive new interference with the private lives and opinions of visitors to the united states, and those who exit. you can email comments to [email protected] - and post them if you do. you have until early february.
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I did this in person once. Met the guy who wrote the paper that changed my career and told him about it. He said, “wow, I didn’t think anyone read that paper!” 😂
You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I did this in person once. Met the guy who wrote the paper that changed my career and told him about it. He said, “wow, I didn’t think anyone read that paper!” 😂
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🚨The “American Higher Education Restoration Act” would carve out a special pathway to tenure for faculty who teach “American Constitutionalism + Western Civilization,” increase the teaching loads for faculty who work in non-STEM disciplines…+ impose new governing board control over hiring. 👇
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🚨The “American Higher Education Restoration Act” would carve out a special pathway to tenure for faculty who teach “American Constitutionalism + Western Civilization,” increase the teaching loads for faculty who work in non-STEM disciplines…+ impose new governing board control over hiring. 👇
This looks very good. "Thin" or "shallow" describes so much of these new machines.
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This looks very good. "Thin" or "shallow" describes so much of these new machines.
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the obsession with how history remembers…leaving the “record” to time insinuates the future record has a “neutral” author that won’t censor, distort, or willfully ignore the truth.
“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
the obsession with how history remembers…leaving the “record” to time insinuates the future record has a “neutral” author that won’t censor, distort, or willfully ignore the truth.
“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
This is a great post that deserves wider notice. A basic primer on data visualization with really clear examples across a variety of fields. Very good for teaching.
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is a great post that deserves wider notice. A basic primer on data visualization with really clear examples across a variety of fields. Very good for teaching.
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Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."