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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can confirm. I swear to Crockett my second born has read her entire school library already. Literally the whole thing. Here she is reading at dinner as I type this.

Over the shoulder photo of a kid reading a Kindle in a restaurant.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I started my new job this week. Anyone who followed me on Twitter knows how funny this welcome candy is:

High quality mini-candies spread on a table, with Swedish Fish prominently displayed.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🎶 I get knocked down! But I get up again! 🎵

Scene from the Sound of Music with the lead singing with her guitar.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I took a political survey on energy policy. After a bunch of questions about approaches to electricity generation, they drop this beauty. Saying servers "power" the internet in a survey SPECIFICALLY ABOUT WHERE WE GET THE POWER FOR THE INTERNET made me throw my whole laptop out the window.

As you may know, data centers are facilities that house the servers that power the internet, apps, and artificial intelligence. Would you support or oppose a data center being built near where you live?

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Why did I even bother getting a PhD in survey methodology? Seriously.

Generally speaking, would you say that things in THIS COUNTRY are headed in the right direction, or would you say that things are seriously headed off on the wrong track?

"Right direction"
"Wrong track"

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Looks over to Benton for confirmation... Yes. Checks out.

A dog-shaped dog sleeping in the sun on the couch.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The algorithm dropping a tough #PairedTexts right in my news feed...

News story #1 celebrating regulation roll back. News story #2 reporting toxic crisis in Mexico from US pollution.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hello everyone at #AERA26! This is a thread of resources I plan to reference during the panel tomorrow afternoon. I'll also add other things that may come up in the conversation, so scroll through this list to find any materials I suggest in the session.

Panel presentation infographic for an event on Wednesday April 8 at 3:45 PDT.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I had to go through my camera roll to find some photos I took for work and I am realizing that it's like... over 50% photos of a sleeping dog. It's too much and I am embarrassed... but also, look at this sleeping boy!

A brown dog sleeping on a couch in the sunlight coming from a nearby window.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

@megmralph.bsky.social taught me about "vocal fry" last weekend and now it is all I can think about. Every conversation. Every interaction. I am cursed.

"I bet he's thinking about other women" meme, but with all the content focused on vocal fry.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I got friends, in low places... Where the whiskey drowns, and the beer chases, my blues away...

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Post a photo of your pet being themselves turned up to 11. Benny was born to lay in the sun.

A dog sleeping in sunlight in the outline of a window.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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/...

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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.

Alignment chart for different styles of how someone types their phone number.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Apropos of nothing, observe Benny's expert-level sun sleeps.

Dog sleeping on the floor in the sun coming from a nearby window. The shade from the window crossbar perfectly aligns with his eyes.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My hometown school district in western Kansas will lose $4M.

Dashboard output highlighting that Dodge City school district "will lose $4,019,984 in federal funding".

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It is more difficult to co-author papers than to solo author papers. #AcademicSky

Man drinking coffee in front of a "change my mind" sign.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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

Michael sitting on the edge of the stage with some members of the audience in the foreground on a variety of furniture types or sitting on the floor. A slide about social ergonomics is in the background.

Michael is visible in the background speaking and pointing to a slide with a floor plan visual, with audience members in the foreground listening on a variety of seating types.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Free and reduced lunch shouldn't be a measure of anything because we should not make any family pay for school lunch at all.

Regular-looking guy standing and speaking in a crowd.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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”

A paper near the bottom is circled with few citations and a darker color indicating it is from an early season.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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.

One Season 7 paper highlighted against mostly seasons 5 and before around it.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Season 4 was a banger year... and honestly, that tracks with our casual conversation while collecting the data. Really stellar group of papers!

Numbers 2-4 of the top cited papers all come from season 4.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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!

Pair of bar graphs showing one very highly cited paper among most of the rest of the group having one or a couple hundred citations.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

In case you want receipts... And hit me up if anyone else plays and wants to do social actions.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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...

Two graphs showing LLMs growing in size are 1) willing to answer more prompts, and 2) are not getting more correct.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I always learn from my past mistakes, because I am incredibly rude to my past self in my code notes.

Text line that reads "Remember to invert the Y axis, you dope."

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

@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.

Graph of federal budget changes, showing many cuts and Housing and Urban Development near the top.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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...

"This is fine" meme with the dog instead saying "I have a new podcast episode."

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Lol, what is Donald talking about... MIT air traffic controllers? Even Google's AI can't keep up with this level of bullshit.

Google AI result that says "here's more information" and then a giant blank space.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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!

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We turn next to our projections for the future user experience:

A simple, messy happy face drawn in Microsoft Paint.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The new Post mission statement is trashy.

Dictionary definition for milquetoast: "a timid or feeble person"

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I ask kids if they like their school's walls.

Text: Poorly explain what you do for a job.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

You ever have a moment when you're like, "gosh, I used to really like folding proteins. Why don't I fold proteins anymore?" And then you're like... yeah, let's try folding proteins again. @foldingathome.org is great and I'm excited to be back on the team.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Update: 7b is clearly my offspring, because we write-to-think. Her Medusa story is pretty cool.

Young girl with many papers and an iPad spread out in front of her as she writes.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Spending our morning going a thousand miles an hour learning about Medusa. I'm about to just download a copy of Theogony for her.

A young girl reading intently from an iPad with notes in front of her.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Okay. It will never be the right time to move on (with posting or whatever)... but let's try to start by using a line from The Martian: "At some point, everything's gonna go south and you're going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now, you can either accept that or you can get to work."

Several images of Mark Watney from the movie The Martian cycling one after the other.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Good morning only to those participating in a deliberative process today!

Selfie of a family with I voted stickers

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

A series of graphs for different foods that plots "deliciousness" versus "age of leftovers" seems like a good @xkcd.com comic. You can use! (PS: followers from my Xitter days will recognize the Swedish Fish joke.)

4 curves of food getting less delicious as they age, with Swedish Fish having low deliciousness at all times.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Anyone in Portland this week for #A4LE2024 should join me on Thursday to talk about evaluating the impacts of learning environment design. Join the CAUSE!

Session flier for the event "Join the CAUSE: The Industry-based Coalition Striving for a Standardized K-12 Post Occupancy Evaluation" on Thursday, October 17 at 2:45-3:45PM PDT.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Me, talking with my executive-level communications professional wife @megmralph.bsky.social about CAUSE's branding exercise going on right now:

Doug happily showing Vice President Harris something on his phone while she is slightly annoyed or confused.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #117,492! So close... 1.2%...

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

I'm not really doing anything volleyball-y in the shot, but it sure is a cool rainbow behind us while we were playing tonight. Last evening of summer play. Good times.

Photo of a woman hitting a volleyball in grass co-ed doubles, with a big rainbow in the clouds in the background.

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