@michaelcralph
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.
Happy National #GrammarDay!
Our website includes guidance on
🔹 avoiding anthropomorphism
🔹 creating parallel sentence structures
🔹 active and passive voice (both permitted)
🔹 using first-person pronouns
🔹 singular “they”
🔹 and more!
🔗 https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar
As someone who studies self-regulated learning, I know I don't pay attention to emotion regulation as much as I should. So I'm grateful for work like this, that forces me to attend to this important aspect of regulation and academic success.#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Congress has appropriated the funds to NSF but OMB is delaying the release. When funds are released, NSF, which has lost almost 1/5 of its staff, will struggle to evaluate proposals. Since they have to award the funds, big projects with established PIs will benefit. This is how US science dies.
I've been reading this for 30 seconds and already read:
Problem: We funded too much generalization research.
Solution: Focus on big, scalable projects!
We have a new paper out on how the AI boom is creating a scientific monoculture! Everything AI.
"The task for social science is to ensure that, in navigating this moment, we do not become artificial ourselves."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Led by the brilliant @cecilietraberg.bsky.social
Happy to help. DM me.
#PairedTexts
Overheard at our house just now:
8b: [derisively] "You are so obsessed with not blowing the house up..."
Okay... we're reading a new paper on dual enrollment for today's podcast taping. The opening paragraphs establish the growth in the format "over the last decade".
I then howled when I realized we discussed dual enrollment a decade ago on this very podcast. 💀💀💀
@dccmath.bsky.social wrote about how he has aligned all his class systems around core philosophical priorities of
1) Intellectual courage
2) Productive failure
It took us on a wonderful journey of how everything we do should be mission-aligned. All of it! #EduSky
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a graph showing how LLMs do or do not p-hack
While LLMs will try to follow good research practices by default, you can pretty easily convince them to p-hack for you. In one case (out of the 4 tested), the LLM moved the result from p > 0.05 to p < 0.001. github.com/janetmalzahn...
I love this so much.
I think we, presenters in all settings, should hit our time marks. Period.
You bet. I've got you.
"Billions of dollars have been wiped from research budgets, almost 8,000 grants have been cancelled at NIH and the US National Science Foundation alone, and more than 1,000 NIH employees have been fired."
#HigherEd #EdcHat #AcademicSky #Trump #research #phdchat
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
If you want a heartbreaking example of what this looks like when it happens... And it does happen... Read this very good work from Dr. Ng and team.
doi.org/10.1177/0161...
The current Kansas budget bill would:
-Withhold $2 million from each public university until they can certify no diversity-related content
-Freeze tuition revenue, not just rates
-Require a plan to cut administrative spending by 10%
The questions asked during the the hearing are fascinating.
What did you do differently in this round?
What's the difference between individualization, personalization, and differentiation? The law uses one, policy guidance uses another, and the third shows up most in PD!
How can teachers cut through the noise to meaningfully tailor instruction for students? #EduSky
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Just had a brand new (to me) interaction with someone who knew my podcast before they knew me, and they just found out.
"Wait, Two Pint PLC is your podcast?!"
Believe me when I tell you that stuff is why I still do it. My heart is aflutter.
No better full series arc for a couple. I hope they don't screw it up in March...
Pretty sure this video explainer in a survey I'm taking is using an AI-based text-to-voice technology... and it's got this weird dissonance that sounds like 2 voices speaking with slight misalignment.
I'm taking massive psychic damage right now.
Last night one of my students asked me earnestly 'How do I get to be like [big famous scholar in his field]?' and it's been living rent free in my head ever since...
Man, you are asking a guy who has made pretty much every single decision possible to avoid that. Hell if I know.
I produce and co-host an education research podcast that releases new episodes on the 12th of every month.
Dr. Zhang joins to discuss law and policy around teaching adjustment, and we read a case study of a class focused on inquiry & growth. #EduSky
twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
Welp... we will be having an AI talk in my class much earlier this year than last year.
That is disappointing... but also, this is the place to learn and it is exactly my job to teach them.
We can do this.
To be clear, kids get hurt and I'm not mad at all.
I just immediately thought of when I did sports med in high school. You have X-ray vision? You don't know... and the fact you feel the need to say so tells me something real happened.
So... let's limit our claims to our evidence friends.
When I got to aftercare pickup this afternoon, Cam was sitting out and crying. The first thing they told me was 'she hurt it, but it's not broken'.
Guess what.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
A brown dog sleeping on a couch in the sunlight coming from a nearby window.
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!
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
