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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 5h

Those are my initials... So basically yes, but a different person. :)

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 9h

I'd watch Dallas get beat 16 weeks in a row.

Really well done Carolina.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 9h

Ha. A real chuckle on the couch as I read this just now.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, it would cover some GROUND. I think it would also be relevant to look at science communication literature... Summarizing a paper brings an implied summary of "for what".

Deciding what to emphasize in a summary is just that - a decision.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 10h

In fact, let me officially offer my notes as research data to #AcademicSky.

I have documented my study from the begining. I have the AI and MCR versions of every single one of these summaries.

@aeraedresearch.bsky.social?

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 10h

I have studied this for... 3 years now? Maybe more. Every month I ask AI to summarize two research papers, then I deep read those papers myself.

They do a bad job. Their summary always misses something... Pretty often something big. Some include false information, too.

It's not a summary.

Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 2d

I have endless circular arguments about this.

Them: “It’s written a summary.”

Me: “No, it’s written something tuned to look like a summary.”

Them: “But it looks like a summary.”

Me: <sigh>

We’re not used to computers lying to us.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 10h

I have studied this for... 3 years now? Maybe more. Every month I ask AI to summarize two research papers, then I deep read those papers myself.

They do a bad job. Their summary always misses something... Pretty often something big. Some include false information, too.

It's not a summary.

Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 2d

I have endless circular arguments about this.

Them: “It’s written a summary.”

Me: “No, it’s written something tuned to look like a summary.”

Them: “But it looks like a summary.”

Me: <sigh>

We’re not used to computers lying to us.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 10h

That's interesting... I almost picked "wild yeast" as this year's theme, but was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to appreciate it. So that all tracks.

Thanks for the info - I'll pass along to the other two.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 11h

Lol, if I'm not ready on my 9th year... I may be on a different path entirely. Which... Yeah, probably.

So what are we missing with 100°?

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 12h

Sir... Know that I cackled out loud when I read this.

Yeah you know.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

That feeling when you get a notice that there "will be a couple of big dogs in the office" tomorrow...

and then you find out it's a couple of canines roughly the size of horses hanging out in the lobby all morning.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 3d

Wired: working through an idea during analysis that leads to some substantial new findings. Yay!

Tired: most of the text I've written thus far narrating our results is now obsolete. Sigh...

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Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 4d

As a reminder

Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods by Michael Quinn Patton

is fantastic and I very much appreciate it as I approach my dissertation proposal (and eventual data collection)

I give @drbritwilliams.bsky.social full credit for recommending it

Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 4d

Reading the end of this textbook has me like "this 700+ page textbook is all about qualitative research but... What even *is* research?"

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 4d

The 2025 "He's clear about his goals" distinguished speaker, right here.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 4d

I would settle for the McDougle “she’s trying her best” grant.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 4d

Is there a MacArthur "Ain't No Genius" prize? Because I'd be competitive. 🤨

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 4d

Hiking is better than detention.

Smash that publish button.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

When the students at this Maine high school got detention, they would sit in a classroom for a few hours after school.

A counselor had the idea to offer students an option to hike instead. After their first hikes, they found it improved their moods.

School offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.

“People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Data Elixir @dataelixir.com · 4d

Your ggplot2 charts work fine, but are they memorable? Real color engineering: brightness first (strongest differentiator), then hue, finally saturation. Most people get this backwards and wonder why their viz falls flat. www.chartography.net/p/color-engi...

Color Engineering

The tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus.

www.chartography.net

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 5d

Cake or cupcakes with no frosting.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 5d

'We wanted to study the impact of nature, so we showed participants pictures of nature on a computer. We did not find any effect.'

wut

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

Repost, but more angry this time.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

For all our improvements, the Kansas City secondary is still Swiss cheese.

No ability to play the ball at all.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

For all our improvements, the Kansas City secondary is still Swiss cheese.

No ability to play the ball at all.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

Woof... 99yd pick-six. Ouch.

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 6d

Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

Man... This Kansas City offense looks alive for the first time in two years.

Night and day.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

Dotters are rocking TSwift on 11 in the workshop while they eat ice cream and work on their 3D printed art projects (painting and printing).

It is the coolest thing I have ever witnessed in my whole life. They are so rad.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

I am really digging into the details of what will be in the TALIS data drop tomorrow... and I am absolutely floored by all the new stuff.

This is REALLY good work from the OECD team. Some forward-thinking updates I was not assuming would be in here. Wow.

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