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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 20d

The Clothworkers Textile Project have been looking at two 'Pua Kumbu' textiles from Sarawak. Collected a century apart in 1908 & 2019, they were made using a combination of ikat dyeing and backstrap loom weaving, a technique unique in its use of fibres and dyes endemic to the jungles of Borneo.

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · 28d

I'm writing a study of a social/economic system that makes a better future by storing wealth in relationships.

Soon I'll start a new job leading human-centered research to make aged care in Australia safer and better.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 28d

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again

tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 27

tell me what u are doing
be proud of your work and share it here

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh wow... when it spreads to Ruteng and Waingapu we'll know we've really got something

Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Aug 31

Looks like NTT has been spared DPRD fires so far...?

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Hey you know that bit in the Name of the Rose where he talks about how great lists are?!"

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Aug 25

and now I’ll read it off, straight out of the book

Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Aug 6

Indonesia rn

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 27

(1985) archive.org/details/Joys...

a graphic with white caps text font down the bottom that reads: no pirating.
above is the image of the head of a pirate with a pirate's hat, an eye patch and bandana and also a pirate's flag with a skull and crossbones on it.

Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Aug 3

Start your sunday with this

High-pitched voice theory - Neanderthal - BBC science

YouTube video by BBC Studios

www.youtube.com

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 29

I just came within a hair's breadth of telling my actual son to "measure once cut twice" @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hello, I'm an anthropologist in a film. I am grossly appropriative and condescendingly academic, and I have a moral relativism the audience finds disgusting. The heroes will see my support for my community as both foolish and traitorous.

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hello, I'm an English Professor in a film. I have only ever read Moby Dick, Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. I quote them extensively in ways that let you know the film writers were English majors.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hello, I'm a historian in a film. My office is a massive space filled with Persian rugs, leather couches and massive wooden bookcases. There's a Tiffany lamp on my desk and an original Gutenberg Bible on a stand next to it. I am wearing a tweed suit with five layers.

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 27

I once saw a sign like this at ANU, something like, "Do not remove the stack of paper below this sign: it is blocking an air vent with a possum inside."

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

What will you take from the last three days that you didn't have before?

What has surprised or struck you?

What do you want to keep thinking about?

#AusSTS25

Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

Anyone who was part of the conference, it'd be great to see your thoughts in the replies ⬇️ #AusSTS25

Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

To really really close, @carinatruyts.bsky.social leads a reflection on the conference:

I heard

I saw

I felt

I made

#AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

To really really close, @carinatruyts.bsky.social leads a reflection on the conference:

I heard

I saw

I felt

I made

#AusSTS25

Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

(There's some old French intellectual history and theory in here that I'm sure plenty of people in this room are familiar with, but I'm not)

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

We cannot control ghosts. We can only let them get on with their work. #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

Some theorists want to pathologize noise. Others see it as a valuable hauntology: noise as specter, interference, a disturbing tone, disorienting. A hauntology disturbs an ontology, overthrows a hegemony.

#AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

Closing us out, it's @wombatscholar.bsky.social (University of Sydney), with "noise as an attention ecology, or hauntology"

#AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

Public health can benefit from taking multiple ways of knowing on board: health humanities, ecological science. Help to attune to the noise, to the extending set of relations between drugs, bodies, waters, politics, inequalities, ecologies. #AusSTS25

Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

The potential for drug harm is a transferable concept. Can we attribute addiction and withdrawal to fish? Hyper-aggressive meth-gators? Coke-eels? #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

Tons of research have established that harm from drug use is socially mediated. Wastewater testing, with the social elements removed, can be a proxy for use, but not for harm. #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

Testing wastewater promises a non-invasive, accurate, real-time stream of evidence about drug use, about which other kinds of evidence are noisy. In the water, the signal is meant to be clean: drug use, separated from bodies and social practices. #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

In wastewater epidemiology, we can see how human activities, like drug use, entangle much more than human worlds. It's ecological, an environmental problem. #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

The value and risks posed by feces are now on everybody's minds. #AusSTS25 www.wiley.com/en-ae/Specta...

Spectacles of Waste

<p>The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear t...

www.wiley.com

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

Checking wastewater for evidence of drug use -- both medical and recreational/illegal -- is now widespread around the world. It's a technoscientific solution that aims to clean up the mess and eliminate noise. #AusSTS25

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Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social · Jul 11

Up next, Kari Lancaster (University of Bath) with "Shitty signals: wastewater epidemiology, addicted fish, and an ecological wrong-turn." Some wild entanglements here. #AusSTS25

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