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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.
Post a photo of your pet being themselves turned up to 11.

Benny was born to lay in the sun.
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 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/...
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 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.
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Apropos of nothing, observe Benny's expert-level sun sleeps.
September 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What a #PairedTexts in the @usatoday.com feed this morning...
September 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My hometown school district in western Kansas will lose $4M.
August 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It is more difficult to co-author papers than to solo author papers. #AcademicSky
July 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I was fortunate to join Muzo and team at Shake Up in Austin, TX to talk about our growing research on the impacts of social ergonomics.

How can we make places where every student is able to comfortably engage both their peers and their learning? #EduSky
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Free and reduced lunch shouldn't be a measure of anything because we should not make any family pay for school lunch at all.
July 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I also laughed in a sad and solemn kind of way that the paper with the very lowest (citations per year) was this work way back from season 3... one of my all-time favorites full stop:

What If Only What Can Be Counted Will Count? A Critical Examination of Making Educational Practice “Scientific”
July 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This paper is also outkicking the coverage from a more recent year... which also tracks, given the prominence and strength of name recognition of the author team.
July 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Season 4 was a banger year... and honestly, that tracks with our casual conversation while collecting the data. Really stellar group of papers!
July 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We are leveling up our nerd level for this year's season finale of Two Pint PLC... we're taking the advice of @adverbia.bsky.social and doing a "Where Are They Now?" review of our past top papers.

It's kinda fascinating!
July 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In case you want receipts... And hit me up if anyone else plays and wants to do social actions.
July 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I would much prefer to pour resources into staffing schools (tutors) and creating high quality instructional materials rather than creating bigger LLMs.

That is informed to a substantial degree by the lack of progress from LLMs in moving from "now" to "ideal"...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
July 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A #PairedTexts in my news feed that made me lol.
May 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I always learn from my past mistakes, because I am incredibly rude to my past self in my code notes.
May 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
@donmoyn.bsky.social's recent piece turns my thoughts briefly to an interaction I had with a former colleague in Sept (not from the US)... He believed Trump would help with housing because he had a real estate business.

I told him outright "no" even then.

Housing one of the largest cuts in 2026.
May 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I produce and co-host an education research podcast that releases new episodes on the 12th of every month.

This month we talk about different team teaching models for collaboration, and later the importance of epistemic empathy to responsive teaching.

Check it out!

twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...
March 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Lol, what is Donald talking about... MIT air traffic controllers? Even Google's AI can't keep up with this level of bullshit.
March 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Our dog is a wound up puppy most of the day... But when the sun starts to hit his spot on the couch HE IS ON BREAK!
February 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A natural #PairedTexts
February 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is what it was.
January 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We turn next to our projections for the future user experience:
January 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The new Post mission statement is trashy.
January 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM