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Susannah Paletz
@susannahpaletz.bsky.social
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Assoc. Professor @UMD INFO College. Applied social/org/cross-cultural psychologist. studies teams, culture, creativity, tech, and more. Likes cats, RPGs, etc. Hates MBTI, "you only use 10% of your brain." She/her
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Black cat appreciation day is every day in our house
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
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Heck yeah #INGRoup
Steve Zaccaro, president of INGRoup, speaking at our opening dinner in front of a slide on our vision re promoting research and education about teams and groups.
July 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Beautiful cat timeline break
Fluffy black cat sitting up, her eyes yellow, she is looking off to her right side rather than at the camera
July 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Friday night, have a sleepy fluffy baby
Black fluffy cat getting a belly rub, front paws in bunny formation. Eyes half closed, on a blue and white crocheted blanket
April 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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as a quick break from it all
how i think i look when teaching / how i actually look
Kathryn Hahn as the witch Agatha Harkness, darkly mysterious and confident, doing some purple magic William Jackson Harper as Chidi from the Good Place, doofy. We know he is a perfectionist, anxious, hyper-focused, detail-oriented, and a big nerd (albeit adorkable)
February 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I didn't get to be involved in this movie because of work and health stuff, but Little Green Ghouls is at it again! Spooky movie for the holiday 48-hour (four points, actually longer) short film competition.
A movie poster for the Lightkeeper. Actors are Caleb Hyson and Krin Irvine. A Little Green Ghouls productions presents the Lightkeeper, written by Tracey Knouff, Directed by Hex Knouff, Executive Producer Johsua Drobina, and there's other names but I can't read what they did: Matt Hyson (music?); Jakub Poniatowski. Sorry, folks! Made for the Four Points Film Project / 48-hour film project.
December 18, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Look what came in the mail, YAY! @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social
Hard back book “Oathbreakers” by Matthew Gabrielle and David Perry
December 13, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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#proofofcat
I have 2
Pandora is a tuxedo cat. Sitting on an outdoor chair that has brown plastic wicker and greyblue cushions, she looks at the camera with yellow eyes. She is mostly black with white on her chest and white whiskers. In the background is the wood of the screened-in porch and leaves on the ground. Shuri is a fluffy black cat, but this image shows how she's really dark brown. Her yellow eyes are half-slitted as a hand is scritching on of her cheeks/neck. You can partially see a person in a teal plaid shirt - mostly just the shirt and the arm around the back of the cat. Shuri is on a blue and white knitted blanket with a green pillow and a remote control behind her, and both her and the partially-seen human are on a brown leather couch.
November 11, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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Woah I won
A trophy for best faculty individual costume for the Halloween party; has an orange pumpkin on top and a gold stem and brown base
November 1, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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I got stickers via email AND there was one on my mail ballot. So I could go around wearing it if I...went around.
An "I Voted" sticker, this one just in English, with the MD state things: a daisy in the middle, a robin?? is that a greyhound or a horse? A crab, definitely (of course). These items are on top of the flag. It's a low-res image so hard to distinguish everything.
October 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Heck yeah, my state received my ballot.
Says "I Voted" on top and "Yo Voté" on the bottom, within a white ring surrounding what seems like a Maryland flag, an American flag, a bridge over water, some green hills in the background...okay it's kind of fuzzy and a lot of colors, not entirely sure.
October 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Did not disappoint
Aurora borealis in pink and green with a farmhouse and tree
October 11, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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Not too bad
One of those "celebrating 10M users" Bluesky badges, showing my number is 159,622, first 10%, joined June 26, 2023.
September 17, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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I'm so sorry.
Here's Shuri making biscuits earlier this week. But it's a half-hearted attempt and then she settles down.
September 15, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Instead of watching TV, this week my spouse and I have been listening to Starter Villain on audiobook by @scalzi.com.
And playing with the cats, of course.
A fluffy black?brown? cat with a paler lower belly is sprawled on her back, fluffy tail helping balance her, hind legs askew, front paws folded over in bunny formation. Her yellow eyes look wild. She has bits of cardboard in her fur from her nearby cat scratcher and is on a greenish cheap carpet. She is very silly.
June 12, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Shuri reading your posts
Fluffy black/brownish cat on a bed, looking off camera, an ear askew, as if to say what, now WHAT
June 8, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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See a tux, post a tux
A tuxedo cat getting a belly scritch. You can just see that her toe beans are different colors. She has white whiskers. The hand scritching her is wearing finger splints
June 8, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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A black and white cat licking her toe beans, her pink tongue visible, lying on a blue grey couch A black and white tuxedo cat licking her paw, at this moment with the white paw in mouth and her eyes closed, kind of silly tbh A black and white tuxedo cat caught mid-yawn, fangs showing and white whiskers splayed forward
June 2, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Like this cat?
A tuxedo cat on a greenish carpet. She is on her back but twisted around, her white belly and paws showing
May 21, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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Sleepy floof
April 7, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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Time for some joy based on my cat being a weird little gal
little fangs. the fangs of a killer. err, aspirational killer
I know people are like "cats are so aloof compared to dogs" but they just weren't chosen by a cat
And this cat barely chose me! She's my kid's cat.
A black and white (tuxedo pattern) cat is twisted so her face is upsidedown and her belly is showing. Her paws are white and her face is mostly black, with a little white mark above her mouth and white whiskers. Small fangs are showing. She is ridiculously cute, her front paws in bunny-style, folded over, and one strong hind law showing. She lies on a thin teal blue scarf on a low bookcase, and the blue makes for a good contrast with her black and white fur.
October 24, 2023 at 5:25 AM
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Fluffy black cats are the best
A black fluffy cat is cuddled next to her human but refuses to look at the camera
October 13, 2023 at 9:37 PM
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I see our paper is getting buzz!
Important takeaway: The semantic space model is more informative than the others; you can't discover what you don't measure. Amusement, cute, wonder, pride--all associated with post sharing. It's not just about anger etc.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
#PsychSciSky
A graph of 10 emotions associated with FB post shares. Note that it's not just negative or high-arousal emotions - it's also positive and low arousal emotions.
October 3, 2023 at 5:07 PM
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The foster kittens are back with their agency, because summer is over and we can't give them full time love now. They still need a very good forever home to adopt them.
In the meantime, our other cats are relieved. Here is Pandora outside on the porch noticing kittens running in HER TERRITORY.
A tuxedo (black and white) cat is staring indoors from an outside porch. Her ears are a little askew, her whiskers white, and you can tell she's thinking WTF is going on here??
August 28, 2023 at 4:01 AM
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show me a picture on your phone that has your energy, no selfies
At the Museum of Illusions, in white writing on a dark blue wall, it says "ART is the illusion of SPONTANEITY." There is a backless bench against the wall, on which a child is draped/half-lying/half standing/half leaning with their head and shoulders on the bench and their two feet on the ground. The child is wearing a lavender long-sleeved top and black and white sweatpants. For privacy, the child's face is covered by a black oval, but you can tell they have long light brown hair and are very tired.
August 23, 2023 at 3:57 AM