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Richard C. Keller, PhD
@richardckeller.bsky.social
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Chair of MedHist/Bioethics at UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Author of Fatal Isolation from the University of Chicago Press (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo20145393.html). Bicycles/dogs. Views mine. He, him, his.
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Shrimp cocktail ready to go
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Thanks to @thegurglingcod.bsky.social for the slow cooker pro tip
A crock pot full of mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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You just died.

The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

This knife barely missed my foot, so yeah. This checks out.
A laguiole steak knife sticks in a hardwood kitchen floor.
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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First fire of the year
A fire crackles in a slate tile fireplace. Two feet rest on a black leather ottoman in the foreground.
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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A tarte tatin sits on a green and white platter atop a marble counter.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Drawing by Emily Balsley of a wombat wearing a green felt tyrolean hat
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Henry's best day ever was when he came running out of the woods with a deer leg. Didn't eat it, though, thankfully.
An English Setter with a freshly severed deer leg in his mouth.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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I'm so sorry. We lost our Henry last January. Thinking of you.
A tri-colored English Setter wearing a grey napkin as a babushka sniffs a hunk of Parmesan as hope springs eternal.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Time to reread this incredible piece (iykyk)

www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
A screenshot of the first page of Jane Kramer's New Yorker article "The Uganda Asians" from 1974, which became part of her magnificent book Unsettling Europe.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Can't wait to listen
A donkey in the Medina in Fès. It's covered in blankets and has a flower on its head.
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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No comment
An English setter wearing a hotdog costume and looking pretty upset about it
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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About a million. Café Arabe in the Medina is wonderful. Try to sit on the rooftop deck at sunset for a fantastic view (see below). The tanjia is excellent there. Le Jardin also a very good restaurant. Also there is a culinary museum that was surprisingly interesting.
Sunset over the rooftops of Marrakech.
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Important crane update
Three sandhill cranes walk down the median between a sidewalk and the street in front of a house in Madison, WI
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Our dentist has an office pup and it's completely transformed my feelings about dental care.
A very sweet, smallish, brown and white pup with freckles on her nose. She is looking directly at the camera and is standing on industrial office carpet.
October 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
An image of the cover of Mazzy Star's 1990 album "She Hangs Brightly". It shows a staircase on the left and what appears to be a tiled building entryway on the right.
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A red barn classic with a classic red barn
A tan gravel bike leans against a sign post on the side of a trail. The bright yellow signs read stop ahead and bridge crossing ahead. In the background there is a classic red barn with several horses standing in a paddock in front of it.
October 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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So much fun to see our kid play on the big screen!
A white 19yo wearing concert black plays bass on a live stream of McGill’s jazz orchestra. A white 19yo wearing concert black plays bass on a live stream of McGill’s jazz orchestra.
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Josh we lost our good boy last January but here's Indie, the resident pup at the dentist's office. Our dentist always wanted one but his practice wouldn't allow it, so he set up his own (hence the name Indie).
Indie, the dental comfort pup, who is a very good girl. She's a little white and brown dog with freckles on her nose, who is standing on industrial dentist's office carpet while gazing at the camera.
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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To paraphrase BikesnobNYC, fall is a nice time for riding the bikes
A tan gravel bike leans against an orange bike detour sign on the edge of the Ice Age trail in southern Wisconsin. It is a beautiful sunny fall afternoon.
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Important pupdate, @darthbluesky.bsky.social : this wine bar in Madison has a dog named Flanagan and she’s about as sweet as can be.
A black doodly dog trots amid wine crates in a bar in Madison A black doodly dog giving a very sweet look to the photographer
October 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Dear colleagues: please see the attached CFP for the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science 2026 meeting.
CALL FOR PAPERS 28TH ANNUAL MEETING SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE SAHMS is seeking paper and panel abstracts for our upcoming conference. We welcome submissions from scholars at all stages in their career engaged in original scholarship in the history of science, medicine, technology, and related fields. Papers related to historical collections, public history, and pedagogy are also encouraged. April 2-4, 2026 Arkansas Colleges of Health Education Fort Smith, Arkansas 21 NOVEMBER 2025ABSTRACTS <350 WORDS DUE at WWW.SAHMS.WILDAPRICOT.ORG
October 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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He's no longer with us, but Henry was a truly epic sleeper.
An English Setter sleeps in an impossible position. His body is on a grey tweed couch. His head is on a black leather ottoman. His forelegs are between the two, draping down to touch a red, gold, and beige Kilim rug.
October 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Wow.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Quote from Isaac Chotiner's interview with Cass Sunstein, on the topic of Sunstein's friendship with Henry Kissinger, despite Sunstein's belief in human rights: IC: Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides. CS: Yeah. And I get those who think you shouldn’t be friends with someone who did terrible things. I hear that. I can just say that he was, as a very large number of people would say, though many fewer would say it publicly, an extraordinarily generous friend.
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Brothers in arms
An English setter sleeps on a couch, not on top of, but next to, the blanket that's there to protect the couch.
September 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Woot!
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September 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM