Michael Ralph
@michaelcralph.bsky.social
PhD Ed Psych
Director of Research for Multistudio, lecturer at Univ of Kansas, & co-founder of CAUSE. Co-host edu research podcast Two Pint PLC.
Studies learning in space to guide inclusive, effective teaching practice & school design.
Director of Research for Multistudio, lecturer at Univ of Kansas, & co-founder of CAUSE. Co-host edu research podcast Two Pint PLC.
Studies learning in space to guide inclusive, effective teaching practice & school design.
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Michael Ralph
@michaelcralph.bsky.social
· Sep 13
The first version of CAUSE's public, freely-available guide to evaluating learning environments is now available!
Read about the measures and see how you can integrate them into your surveys. #AcademicSky #EduSky
www.causecoalition.org/user-guide
Read about the measures and see how you can integrate them into your surveys. #AcademicSky #EduSky
www.causecoalition.org/user-guide
This is bad football. Not doing their jobs well at all.
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This is bad football. Not doing their jobs well at all.
Reposted by Michael Ralph
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
I just accidentally did a Reply All to a full-office email.
I am in an absolute shame spiral right now.
I am in an absolute shame spiral right now.
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I just accidentally did a Reply All to a full-office email.
I am in an absolute shame spiral right now.
I am in an absolute shame spiral right now.
Post a photo of your pet being themselves turned up to 11.
Benny was born to lay in the sun.
Benny was born to lay in the sun.
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Post a photo of your pet being themselves turned up to 11.
Benny was born to lay in the sun.
Benny was born to lay in the sun.
This chapter of my memoir "So I Married a Journalist"
We spent our Sunday morning debating the virtues of different style guides (Associated Press v. 8th Ed Scientific Style and Formatting).
How do you spend your weekends?
How do you spend your weekends?
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This chapter of my memoir "So I Married a Journalist"
We spent our Sunday morning debating the virtues of different style guides (Associated Press v. 8th Ed Scientific Style and Formatting).
How do you spend your weekends?
How do you spend your weekends?
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We spent our Sunday morning debating the virtues of different style guides (Associated Press v. 8th Ed Scientific Style and Formatting).
How do you spend your weekends?
How do you spend your weekends?
As I say regularly to students, a fundamental marker of expertise is clear understanding of its boundaries.
If you are an "expert" in a field, you know where your expertise ends. The glory of the Nobel Prize makes many people forget that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_d...
If you are an "expert" in a field, you know where your expertise ends. The glory of the Nobel Prize makes many people forget that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_d...
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
As I say regularly to students, a fundamental marker of expertise is clear understanding of its boundaries.
If you are an "expert" in a field, you know where your expertise ends. The glory of the Nobel Prize makes many people forget that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_d...
If you are an "expert" in a field, you know where your expertise ends. The glory of the Nobel Prize makes many people forget that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_d...
With news of our recent loss and having started my career as a biologist, I'd like to take a moment to remember one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. Uncovering the structure of DNA was truly an achievement.
With gratitude, rest easy Dr. Rosalind Franklin.
With gratitude, rest easy Dr. Rosalind Franklin.
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
With news of our recent loss and having started my career as a biologist, I'd like to take a moment to remember one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. Uncovering the structure of DNA was truly an achievement.
With gratitude, rest easy Dr. Rosalind Franklin.
With gratitude, rest easy Dr. Rosalind Franklin.
I would like to talk with a colleague I can trust who works in academia about the tension I feel in making recommendations. Two things are currently true:
1) I have deep critiques of the system's obsession with "ranking" people, and an associated sense of responsibility to advocate for my students.
1) I have deep critiques of the system's obsession with "ranking" people, and an associated sense of responsibility to advocate for my students.
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I would like to talk with a colleague I can trust who works in academia about the tension I feel in making recommendations. Two things are currently true:
1) I have deep critiques of the system's obsession with "ranking" people, and an associated sense of responsibility to advocate for my students.
1) I have deep critiques of the system's obsession with "ranking" people, and an associated sense of responsibility to advocate for my students.
Wow, ESPN is having a field day with the Dallas Cowboys, and I love it so much I watched the whole cycle twice.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving franchise. They are a bad football team and Troy Aikman says so on national television.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving franchise. They are a bad football team and Troy Aikman says so on national television.
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Wow, ESPN is having a field day with the Dallas Cowboys, and I love it so much I watched the whole cycle twice.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving franchise. They are a bad football team and Troy Aikman says so on national television.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving franchise. They are a bad football team and Troy Aikman says so on national television.
Reposted by Michael Ralph
Interesting.
"Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge"
"[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"
"Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge"
"[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Interesting.
"Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge"
"[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"
"Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge"
"[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"
We're at 5 Indy turnovers. Wheels all the way off this one.
How have the Colts become allergic to the ball? 3 turnovers in A HALF? And we're not done yet.
Woof
Woof
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We're at 5 Indy turnovers. Wheels all the way off this one.
How have the Colts become allergic to the ball? 3 turnovers in A HALF? And we're not done yet.
Woof
Woof
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
How have the Colts become allergic to the ball? 3 turnovers in A HALF? And we're not done yet.
Woof
Woof
We had way fewer trick or treaters than we'd prepped for (functionally none) and @megmralph.bsky.social was lamenting "What are we going to do with all the candy I bought?!?"
Me:
Me:
a person in a hooded cape is looking out a window
Alt: Strider, from Lord of the Rings, dramatically uncloakes.
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We had way fewer trick or treaters than we'd prepped for (functionally none) and @megmralph.bsky.social was lamenting "What are we going to do with all the candy I bought?!?"
Me:
Me:
I talk with my Research Methods students about publishing during the semester... and I was had a difficult time explaining why I personally avoid Frontiers similar to MDPI.
I will have less difficulty this coming year.
From: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I will have less difficulty this coming year.
From: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I talk with my Research Methods students about publishing during the semester... and I was had a difficult time explaining why I personally avoid Frontiers similar to MDPI.
I will have less difficulty this coming year.
From: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I will have less difficulty this coming year.
From: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A benefit (I guess) of training on the differences b/w AI & human generated text for the last several years is how strong my intuition has gotten.
My heart was SCREAMING 'I don't want to read this' almost immediately on a piece... and it took me a while to realize why: it's for sure LLM text. ugh
My heart was SCREAMING 'I don't want to read this' almost immediately on a piece... and it took me a while to realize why: it's for sure LLM text. ugh
November 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A benefit (I guess) of training on the differences b/w AI & human generated text for the last several years is how strong my intuition has gotten.
My heart was SCREAMING 'I don't want to read this' almost immediately on a piece... and it took me a while to realize why: it's for sure LLM text. ugh
My heart was SCREAMING 'I don't want to read this' almost immediately on a piece... and it took me a while to realize why: it's for sure LLM text. ugh
It's true!
I think about this also when someone is making no sense... And suddenly I'll think "man, I have no idea what they are talking about... They clearly also have no idea what they are talking about."
I think about this also when someone is making no sense... And suddenly I'll think "man, I have no idea what they are talking about... They clearly also have no idea what they are talking about."
i once had a professor comment that if you really knew your material, you could present it to anyone from any education background in a way they'd understand, from 1st graders to your phd peers
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
It's true!
I think about this also when someone is making no sense... And suddenly I'll think "man, I have no idea what they are talking about... They clearly also have no idea what they are talking about."
I think about this also when someone is making no sense... And suddenly I'll think "man, I have no idea what they are talking about... They clearly also have no idea what they are talking about."
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Tummy Worms
Tummy Worms
Change one letter, ruin a candy:
Gummy Beard
Gummy Beard
Change one letter, ruin a candy
100 Gland
100 Gland
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Tummy Worms
Tummy Worms
Satire is dead because any joke I would make doesn't top reality.
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Satire is dead because any joke I would make doesn't top reality.
How you type your phone number for someone else tells me everything about you.
I don't make the rules, I just report the news.
I don't make the rules, I just report the news.
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
How you type your phone number for someone else tells me everything about you.
I don't make the rules, I just report the news.
I don't make the rules, I just report the news.
Tired: Registering for a conference late and paying full price.
Wired: Registering early so you get early bird discounts.
Fired: Booking travel so early registration isn't open yet, and then forgetting to register entirely.
Ask me how I know. smh
Wired: Registering early so you get early bird discounts.
Fired: Booking travel so early registration isn't open yet, and then forgetting to register entirely.
Ask me how I know. smh
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Tired: Registering for a conference late and paying full price.
Wired: Registering early so you get early bird discounts.
Fired: Booking travel so early registration isn't open yet, and then forgetting to register entirely.
Ask me how I know. smh
Wired: Registering early so you get early bird discounts.
Fired: Booking travel so early registration isn't open yet, and then forgetting to register entirely.
Ask me how I know. smh
I need a word for that sinking feeling when you realize you have more legit, viable words than you have guesses left on the Wordle.
That's a fun little shot of dread to start the morning.
That's a fun little shot of dread to start the morning.
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I need a word for that sinking feeling when you realize you have more legit, viable words than you have guesses left on the Wordle.
That's a fun little shot of dread to start the morning.
That's a fun little shot of dread to start the morning.
It has to be very frustrating to try to play defense against Patrick.
The man plays like it's a video game. The eyeballs. The execution. Whew.
The man plays like it's a video game. The eyeballs. The execution. Whew.
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It has to be very frustrating to try to play defense against Patrick.
The man plays like it's a video game. The eyeballs. The execution. Whew.
The man plays like it's a video game. The eyeballs. The execution. Whew.
The refs are doing all the work for Pittsburgh on this drive... Ugh.
October 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The refs are doing all the work for Pittsburgh on this drive... Ugh.
Every interception! Nom nom nom
Let's go Denver! Pedal to the metal. Beat Dallas by 100.
Love it.
Love it.
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Every interception! Nom nom nom