Michael Ralph

What's that video from not that long ago where the reporter guy came home and started talking at his wife while she's trying to read her book... And he goes on for like 3 minutes...

That's me and @megmralph.bsky.social right now.

Excellent.

What is this like in the 'flag football is a rising thing' era? Are the vibes good?

105 Technology Applications & Feedback Structure - Podcast Episodes - Two Pint PLC We discuss the implications of inappropriate technology use and differences in response to evaluation & feedback.

I produce and co-host an education research podcast that posts on the 12th of each month.

It was a wild ride as we sorted through the implications of poor writing... We also discussed how different perceptions of feedback shape its impact.

Spill some tea with us!

twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

Thank you sir. Discussing it with Meg here and now!

I'll post more descriptive content in a few days, but let it be known on podcast release day today that I do not enjoy posting negative reviews of papers.

While it may be entertaining listening... it was a bummer for me.

This is bad football. Not doing their jobs well at all.

*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

I just accidentally did a Reply All to a full-office email.

I am in an absolute shame spiral right now.

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

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

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?

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...

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.

AI models for drug design fail in physics State-of-the-art AI programs can support the development of drugs by predicting how proteins interact with small molecules. However, a new study by researchers at the University of Basel published in ...

Reminds me of this recent article:

phys.org/news/2025-10...

2) I appreciate the impact of non-compliant survey completion. I do understand the questions admissions surveys are asking me and often agonize over requests to estimate the precise percentile of performance I observe.

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.

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.

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"

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

a person in a hooded cape is looking out a window Alt: Strider, from Lord of the Rings, dramatically uncloakes.

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:

Scatterplot of word use gap

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/...

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

This is the way.

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."

Change one letter, ruin a candy.

Tummy Worms

Satire is dead because any joke I would make doesn't top reality.

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

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.

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