Adrian Vickers

@avick.bsky.social

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Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/ .. more

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Adrian Vickers is an Australian author, historian and professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. He writes a blog on Indonesian subjects. He has studied and documented Gambuh dance traditions, Panji (prince) stories, and other Indonesian art and cultural subjects as well as historiography and colonialism. He has a BA and PhD from the University of Sydney, is the Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Program. Vickers' most recent book, The Pearl Frontier, co-written with Julia Martínez, won the University of Southern Queensland History Book Award at the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. .. more

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · Nov 19

The Virtual Museum of Balinese Painting has undergone a major make-over. We're still fixing some things (like the bibliography link), but thanks to the Systemik team, I've been able to add a lot more: heurist-usyd.cloud.edu.au/heurist/?db=...

The Virtual Museum of Balinese Painting

Enter a concise description of the Heurist database / website here, which will be used eg. in lists of websites and in search engine discovery. Remember to indicate the institution and/or project, t...

heurist-usyd.cloud.edu.au

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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 2h

Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters www.bbc.com/news/article...

Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters - BBC News

Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed or injured by the security forces, with more than 70 bodies brought to one hospital.

www.bbc.com

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3h

What would Edith say?

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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 3h

The League of Nations archive has been entirely digitised, prompting some to question whether new research methods are being developed to process the volume of materials now available

libraryresources.unog.ch/leagueofnati...

#archives #history

Research Guides: Researching the League of Nations Archives: Introduction

A Guide to Consultation and Research Techniques

libraryresources.unog.ch

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3h

Me too

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4h

But doesn’t work in this context, as you say. Might there be an older form? Time to check the old dictionaries

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4h

I was wondering about hogel=high, but ‘high mud’?

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4h

It’s the result of sustained campaigning by The Australian (almost daily articles). A newspaper that claims to have expertise in identifying racist cartoons.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

broke: great man theory of history

woke: great idiot theory of history

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 9h

I’m sure they’ll still be ok, that was just the other day

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 11h

That goes double for the T20 team. Most of the top performers in the BBL aren’t in the World Cup squad

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 17h

Watching old Murder She Wrote makes me miss comfortably eclectic old set dressings of middle class TV homes. Every house interior now - even in purportedly middle class homes - is a glossy minimalist painting. Fresh flowers! Immaculate sinks! Shiny counters! Matching tableware and napkin holders!

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 20h

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹

"In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global
ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming."

+ #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003...
+ Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

Bar graph showing global ocean heat content change in the upper 2000 m from the late 1950s through 2025. There is a long-term warming in the time series, which is using IAP/CAS data.

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

As captured at the end of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heatwav...

Heatwave (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content

Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool. The move comes after governments, researchers and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 1d

When did you stop posting on X?

Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.

Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.

Government: We're still posting there.

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

My back deck today

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

I want to know where all the missing floors are

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

Huge relief

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d

Are you old enough to remember when SBS translations were done by teams of two? Each was a first-language speaker of the language being translated or English. John Tranter worked on some.

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve seen discussions about programming in AI leading to deterioration of translations recently (but it will depend on the language)

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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 2d

“I saw a light and crawled toward it in a hurry because I feared there will be more landslides,” Antigua told The Associated Press. “It was traumatic. I feared that it was my end so this is my second life."
apnews.com/article/phil...

Mound of garbage collapses at Philippine landfill, burying and trapping 38 people and killing 1

Officials say an avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers at a landfill in the Philippines, killing one person, injuring a dozen and leaving 38 others missing.

apnews.com

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Barthes Studies @barthesstudies.bsky.social · 2d

Roland Barthes tells us about the Marquis de Sade’s big pillow:

18. Suddenly transferred from Vincennes to the Bastille, Sade made a great fuss because he had not been allowed to bring his big pillow, without which he was unable to sleep, since he slept with his head unusually high: "The barbarians!"

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d

www.cricket.com.au/150th-annive...

150th Anniversary Test

Live cricket coverage, live streaming, cricket highlights, live scores, breaking news, video, analysis and expert opinion.

www.cricket.com.au

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d

There will be the 150th anniversary test

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 3d

The Jhonlin Group’s coal corridor from Indonesia. How an export chain can be structured to shift value offshore medium.com/@michi.buehl...

The Jhonlin Group’s coal corridor from Indonesia

How an export chain can be structured to shift value offshore

medium.com

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 3d

The #paperback edition of A History of the Muslim World is now available worldwide!

This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world.

Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#History