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Richard C. Keller, PhD

@richardckeller.bsky.social

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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08.08.2025 14:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They know just how to do that, don’t they.

07.08.2025 03:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or steal other people’s work

06.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Omg. Where was this?

06.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

They are just two tons of pure mean

06.08.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Team buffalo

06.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

The kid’s got skills!

06.08.2025 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Madison friends: come see Max with his jazz trio @glouglouwinebarwi (formerly The Heights) on Allen and Regent tonight at 6:30! Added incentive: Caracas Arepas food truck will be out front beginning at 5:45!

06.08.2025 14:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Zing!

06.08.2025 13:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Decidedly the former unfortunately

06.08.2025 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So sorry Audra!

06.08.2025 01:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also: AI will only ever see the sources the state *wants* it to see. Think about Paxton on Vichy, or so many who pushed to access records on Algeria. Impossible with AI--it will never apply for or receive a special derogation or push to find a different source that might contest the state's version.

05.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 29    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Ugh.

05.08.2025 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.

05.08.2025 14:58 — 👍 341    🔁 113    💬 5    📌 4

So sorry. Just went through this when my brother died last year and had appointed me executor of an insolvent estate.

05.08.2025 14:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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A Medical-History Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management saw an ethical and a political minefield.

Did you see this piece about that? Unbelievable to me how they treated her. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

05.08.2025 12:52 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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05.08.2025 03:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂

04.08.2025 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

people who won't be able to rent a car anywhere outside the US because they can't drive a stick?

04.08.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oct. 10 will feature a range of panels on history of med and public health, bioethics, social medicine, and medical humanities that shed light on our department's past, present, and future! Panel lineup coming soon.

04.08.2025 19:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A photo of Dr. Leslie Reagan. She is a white woman standing in front of a row of hedges outside a brick building. She has shoulder-length dark hair and is wearing glasses, a black top, and a black leather jacket.

A photo of Dr. Leslie Reagan. She is a white woman standing in front of a row of hedges outside a brick building. She has shoulder-length dark hair and is wearing glasses, a black top, and a black leather jacket.

Oct. 9 will feature a keynote from alumna Dr. Leslie Reagan (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign), "Doing Histories of Medicine and Public Health: A Radical Project." Prof. emerita Judith W. Leavitt will introduce Dr. Reagan.

04.08.2025 19:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Join us Oct. 9-10 in Madison for the 75th anniversary of the History of Medicine Department and the 50th anniversary of Bioethics at UW! Registration info here: uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

04.08.2025 19:57 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh of course. Haven't been since 2019, but will let you know if I/we wind up there soon! (And have you been to the Freud museum? So great.)

04.08.2025 18:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ooof

04.08.2025 18:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Merci !

04.08.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Lapin à la moutarde maison lapin, vin blanc sec, moutarde de Dijon, crème fraîche, huile d'olive, ail, échalote, feuille de laurier, thym, persil, poivre, sel...

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04.08.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Worse—rabbits

04.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wait, does that mean they are also interchangeable in Canadian English? I never know what the differences are between UK and Canada on that front.

04.08.2025 14:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not the most unique, but I never get sick of going to the Freud museum in London, which has the world's best museum gift shop. Also, the Moroccan culinary museum in Marrakech is a real hidden gem.

04.08.2025 14:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You’re not wrong here—my son was never so interested in my research, my teaching, my grad students as when he went off to college last year. All of a sudden I was this exotic species.

04.08.2025 14:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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