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Adrian Vickers
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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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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2h
Indonesia has pledged to recognize 1.4 million hectares (3.5 million acres) of Indigenous and customary forests by 2029, a move the government says will curb deforestation and advance Indigenous rights.

Critics warn that without real action, the pledge will be symbolic rather than transformative.
New pledge, old problems as Indonesia’s latest Indigenous forest promise draws skepticism
BELÉM, Brazil — Indonesia has pledged to recognize the rights of Indigenous and customary communities to 1.4 million hectares, about 3.5 million acres, of forests by 2029. It’s a move the government…
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3h
And there is a labour history that goes back to the late colonial period in Indonesia, especially through the work of WF Wertheim

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3h
What your describing is the ‘informal labour’ which people have been researching in SEAsia since at least the 1970s. It’s just that the West has now become like Asia.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 7h
No shopping in Canberra

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
Graham Richardson’s environmental legacy https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/graham-richardsons-environmental-legacy #auspol
Graham Richardson's environmental legacy
In the week that Labor is struggling to pass its environmental legislation, the death of Graham Richardson is a reminder that, as Labor environment minister, he oversaw the passage of the biggest suite of environmental legislation put forward by any minister or government before or since.
johnmenadue.com

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Jenna Price @jennaprice.bsky.social · 1d
How was this allowed to happen?https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/what-we-just-witnessed-was-state-sanctioned-nazism-20251110-p5n905.html
What we just witnessed was state-sanctioned Nazism
What on earth did the NSW Police think a rally organised by the National Socialist Network would be about?
www.smh.com.au

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
No corruption of human rights abuses, according to Fadli Zon: nasional.tempo.co/read/2064418...
Fadli Zon Klaim Soeharto Tidak Terlibat Korupsi dan Pelanggaran HAM
Menteri Kebudayaan Fadli Zon menilai Soeharto yang kini ditetapkan menjadi Pahlawan Nasional tidak pernah melakukan korupsi dan pelanggaran HAM.
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Tempo.co @tempo-poster.bsky.social · 1d
Human Rights Violation Records Shadow Soeharto's National Hero Title - https://en.tempo.co/read/2064411/human-rights-violation-records-shadow-soehartos-national-hero-title
Human Rights Violation Records Shadow Soeharto's National Hero Title
Amid intense criticism and rejection, President Prabowo Subianto insisted on awarding former president Soeharto the national hero title, despite his controversial 32-year rule.
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Interesting looking at the last election, the real independent got the most votes, labor candidate second most by a mile, then Greens. The others each only got a very small primary vote (mayor only 6.7%)

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 1d
Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
Colour photograph of a white USB stick. Printed text on the USB stick reads: '...this is not an archive.'

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
😲

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Basically a Nationals Council. A real independent got elected and he’s had a really hard time, despite getting more votes than anyone else.

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 1d
"Will you have antibiotics with that?" Tasmanian salmon industry dosing stock. Ermmm ... not for me.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-07/salmon-florfenicol-antibiotics-approved-tasmania/105983426?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 1d
Northern Thailand faces yearly haze as maize fields are burned for animal feed production.

Crackdowns haven’t worked — struggling farmers keep burning as yields fall and debts grow.
Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand
MAE CHAM/OMKOI, Thailand — Rain lashed down in the northern Thai village of Nong Krating as Sawattiphon Wongkasettakon described the worsening air pollution that sweeps in through the mountains here…
news.mongabay.com

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 1d
Sounds right:

The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 2d
Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?
Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate?
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian landed himself in hot water by broaching evacuating Iran's capital, Tehran
dlvr.it

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The Star (Unofficial) @thestarmy-poster.bsky.social · 2d
Philippines evacuates 100,000 people as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon - https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2025/11/09/philippines-evacuates-100000-people-as-fung-wong-intensifies-into-super-typhoon
Philippines evacuates 100,000 people as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon
ISABELA, Philippines (Reuters) -The Philippines evacuated over 100,000 residents across its eastern and northern regions as Fung-wong intensified on Sunday into a super typhoon ahead of its expected arrival later in the day, threatening to unleash torrential rains, destructive winds, and storm surges.
www.thestar.com.my

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d
the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

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Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 2d
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 3d
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.

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The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 4d
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d
Injured are taken to hospital after an explosion occurred during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a school complex.
Explosion at mosque in Indonesia’s Jakarta injures more than 50, police say
Injured are taken to hospital after an explosion occurred during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a school complex.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 4d
"Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines" by Warwick Anderson is a history of how U.S. science and medicine were used to control and "civilize" the Philippines from 1898 to the 1930s.

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A few days left in FALL25 sale, 50% off

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4d
Is the other half also “us”?

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4d
Feel the bumps on their head

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 4d
It's not just the HSI agents have been temporarily reassigned – the agency's entire cultural property unit has been disbanded, reports @samtabachnik.bsky.social

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 4d
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia.

Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
www.bbc.com

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 4d
Today I cross-examine a secret witness on his/her secret evidence (some of which I've now seen) as to why the Australian War Memorial censored the official history of ADF operations in Timor. Although I'm allowed in, the Tribunal door will be closed to the public . #FOI #auspol

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 5d
As I said on another reply, the goal of AI companies is to get billions of government funds. They know the industry will not be viable in a free market

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Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions @qalamos.bsky.social · 5d
Important publication!📚 With its module #manuscript_notes also #Qalamos draws the attention of the scholars to the notes of various types and genres in the margins of #manuscripts. So far over five thousand marginal notes recorded. Read more here:👇
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