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Richard C. Keller, PhD

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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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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 8h

Don't even think about it, Wisconsin

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 9h

Wisconsin has the chance to do the funniest thing ever. (Don't you dare, Badgers!)

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 11h

So I've since learned we did this twice before: 1985 (Bill Cronon and Joel Rogers) and 2019 (Lynda Barry and Andrea Dutton).

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 12h

Two from Wisconsin this year! Not sure we’ve ever done that before.

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13h

It's MacArthur day! It's MacArthur day!

I have a little ritual where, every announcement day, I watch the video, read the Fellows' bios, and ask myself how I'm being creative in my own work. Just a nice push to think outside the box.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3K...

Meet the 2025 MacArthur Fellows

YouTube video by macfound

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 13h

Solid-gold special issue right here, folks--check it out. #HistMed

Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 13h

So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...

Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic

Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 4d

When I was like 6 I met Ron Jaworski when he was doing autographs at a central Jersey Kmart. Go Birds.

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent point. Big contrast with Minnesota! (the other good public option here, as Wisconsin and Minnesota have in-state reciprocity)

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 6d

Also it's gotten VERY difficult to get into UW for students from Madison.

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 6d

There's a surprising trend right now of upper-middle-class kids from Madison going to SEC schools. I think BamaRushTok or whatever it's called has something to do with it as well.

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 7d

They're delicious, clean wines. At least the amber is, which is the one I've had. You might also try this one: mysa.wine/products/can... (Can you tell it's been a summer of orange wine in our house?!)

Sikele 2022

Sikele, by Cantina Marilina, is a natural Orange Wine from Sicily, Italy. Made from Grecanico grapes with Minimal SO2. Buy online at MYSA Natural Wine.

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 7d

Didn't see the earlier post and I get it for sure, but you might try this producer if you can find it: arnaudcombier.com/en/our-wines...

ARNAUD COMBIER - WINES Vents Contraires

Arnaud Combier élabore depuis plus de vingt ans des cuvées nature en Bourgogne.

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 7d

I've got you covered wapo.st/3IRQBdg

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities

The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 7d

Go @ruhistorydept.bsky.social

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 7d

I was lucky enough to be in graduate school with Jelani Cobb AND Khalil Muhammad. Great time to be a Scarlet Knight.

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 8d

Team erase-before-you-leave forever. It's just poor manners otherwise.

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 12d

C'mon now. You're just operating on a different plane of brilliant.

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 12d

In the history of science, no less!

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 12d

Guys, I have something to tell you about dimes...

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 12d

Exhibit A: Watchtower

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 13d

Yes. And why is it that the guys riding these (and in my experience it's always guys) feel the need to share their music with the whole bike path (where they shouldn't be allowed) through a high-volume bluetooth speaker?

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 15d

This is great. The wild thing is, the student will likely be more upset getting a B than if they failed (bc then they'd just drop the course).

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 15d

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.

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 15d

He's glad you weren't raptured

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