Susannah Paletz

Did you know this, @senbillferg.bsky.social @mddems.bsky.social @mddems.bsky.social ?

Why do we want collective bargaining rights?

Part 2...of thousands!

Cc @senbillferg.bsky.social @mddems.bsky.social @mdhousedems.bsky.social

The College of Information is hiring lecturers! We are looking in 5 primary areas:

- Computer networking fundamentals
- Information design
- Cybersecurity
- Computing
- Experiential learning

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“Before your second mother, I had never been an actual member of a team before. Just an…”
Amena finished, “An appliance for a team.”
That was it. “Yes.”

Black and white photo of a longhaired cat, my guess is an orange tabby, blissfully asleep on its side on the lap of someone wearing dark pants. You can only see the person’s legs and the happy cat flopped across their thighs.

Happy lap loaf. ❤️ I love that someone felt the need to capture this moment. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Medscape logo Medscape Medical News Multiple Abnormal Responses to Exertion Seen in ME/CFS Miriam E. Tucker January 09, 2026

New from Medscape (widely used by healthcare professionals)

"Multiple Abnormal Responses to Exertion Seen in ME/CFS" by @miriametucker.bsky.social

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Sympathetic article.May require free registration
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

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if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!!

https//oddletters.com/tech-money/

It's literally the opposite, though. Buttons and levers provide positive tactile feedback, which means only the sense of touch is required to operate them. Touchscreens necessitate you taking your vision from the road and focusing on it which takes longer and presents more of a safety risk.

Now she was talking to me like I was a hysterical human. Worse, I was acting like a hysterical human.

Disability Meets Modality: A Sociotechnical Approach to Team Meetings | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Team meetings are a key part of professional life which are experienced as sociotechnical, interpersonal phenomena. This interview study examines the intersection of modality, disability, and technolo...

Might be the wrong field, but first authored by an amazing grad student I work with, we just had a paper in CSCW on team meeting mode and disability: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

I have been thinking about this for three days and I'm honestly a bit upset about this. Can't be good for our scholarship - "our" being "everyone's."

Come be my colleague! We have professional track (lecturer) positions available:
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we must look death in the eye and say "I am busy now"

I'd like to draw your attention to this piece he wrote during the Vietnam war about being faculty. Some things are the same, some are different.
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David L. Paletz Honoring David L. Paletz, innovative Duke professor who pioneered film and media studies. Explore his writings, tributes, and the Paletz Fund for Teaching.

This fall, my father's health took a turn for the worse. He's still alive, hanging in there, but under hospice care at home. My stepmother @torilmoi.bsky.social created a website for him so everyone can see what a remarkable man and scholar he has been.
www.davidpaletz.com

Did you miss Janet Vertesi's @ottrs.bsky.social's talk? Or see her talk and want to see it again because it was chock filled with awesome? It's posted here:
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I mean, hell, if you really believe GenAI is making your product better, you should not be relying on someone else to tag it.

It is weird how enthusiastic folks are to brand something with an “AI” label when users have no choice, but are so hesitant to do so otherwise.

The Passing of Dr. Paul Ekman Dr. Paul Ekman, pioneer of emotion science and creator of FACS, has passed away at 91. Read his memorial and share reflections on his life and legacy.

Paul Ekman died last week - I found out via @hillaryanger.bsky.social on FB. Surprised there's no NYT or WashPo obit.
I took a class with him and he was friends/coauthors with my friend's mom. Hugely impactful on the field. Too much to say in a skeet.
www.paulekman.com/blog/the-pas...

Our last speaker of the semester! Be sure to register here:
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Nov 21, 2025 12 PM EDT

How NASA’s Robot Teams Reveal the Future of Human-AI Collaboration—Lessons from Space You Can’t Ignore.

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@susannahpaletz.bsky.social @nkuriakos.bsky.social #AI #human-machine-collaboration #collaboration

I like that on social media we all pause and look at the sky and share what we see and it's good. It's good.

Change one letter, ruin a candy

Hershey's Pisses

A fluffy black cat with yellow eyes sits on the arm of a pink antique couch. She looks a little dazed because of the flash

Black cat appreciation day is every day in our house

Humans do the “make it a question so it doesn’t sound so bad” thing and it still sounds bad.

Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

Virtual event Friday, Oct 24th, 12 pm EST
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Neal Outland Presents “The Coevolution of Computational and Experimental Methods in Human-AI Teams

#ai #teams

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: OTTRS Speaker Series: "The Coevolution of Computational and Experimental Methods in Human-AI Teams". After registering, you will receive a confirmation emai... Abstract: The study of human-AI teams, rife with unforeseeable conditions and dynamics, requires dynamic interplay between theoretical foundations, computational modeling, and experimental validation...

Join us at the OTTRS speaker series on Friday, October 24th for Neal Outland's (University of Georgia) talk on “The Coevolution of Computational and Experimental Methods in Human-AI Teams.“

Oct. 24, 12-1PM, Virtual, Register here:
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Every demonstration should end this way

One of the problems with my spellchecker/autocomplete in email being trained on my writing is that it no longer flags things like "Daer." Come on, that was useful to flag.