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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
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 6h
And palm oil plantations have been destroying Southeast Asian rainforests for the last few decades

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 10h
Land mines are criminal. The Cambodians of all people should know how bad they are.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 15h
New study of war crimes: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/twelve...
Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away
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uhpress.hawaii.edu

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 18h
+3% would be margin of error

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 18h
yes, its only pretend tradies who have clever accountants

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 1d
Interesting survey on how the Australian public feels about history. I suspect that in the UK too, there are contradictory desires for a story of national pride and also for truths about colonialism.

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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

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

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Government subsidies big vehicles for the Tradie vote, thanks to Scott and Josh

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Hadn’t heard about that. Great work.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Border Force aren’t subject to the law when taking action, it can only be invoked retrospectively (and the government has been trying to limit that for quite a while.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Immigration dept agents removed children from Stanmore Primary School when Howard was PM. We’re way ahead of the US.

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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 1d
The Australian National Imams Council says there has been a sharp escalation in hostility towards Australian Muslims since the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, recording a near-200 per cent increase in reported anti-Muslim hate incidents since the attack www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Women wearing hijabs targeted in anti-Muslim abuse since Bondi attack
There are concerns women wearing hijabs are bearing the brunt of a "horrifying" wave of Islamophobia in the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, with the Australian National Imams Council reporti...
www.abc.net.au

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Stuart McDonald @travelfish.bsky.social · 1d
The pure Bali experience: Australian tourist riding motorcycle on footpath smashes into side of me on my bike as I pull out from a store, proclaims its my fault (bike fine, tho imagine I have a solid bruise on leg on the way), and then rides off because “she has to get to yoga class”.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Sports are just gambling opportunities (but I like watching them)

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
Sounds like Adam Smith

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d
Take that, naive economists

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d
Terrible news, so young

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d
Definitely. A late friend used to unload ships at the Hungry Mile. Sounded like really terrible work.

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 2d
The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.
Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...
thepoint.com.au

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d
I have co-authored one (1) translation. It was some of the hardest work I've ever done, and my co-author and I read the publications and letters by Panofsky in order to decide how to translate single words alone. From the intro to our translation. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Panofsky once distinguished writing in the humanities from that in the sciences, and hissentiments aredirectly relevant totheargumentoftheessay at handaswellastheprinciples governing ourtranslation.Forthehumanist, according to Panofsky, “the stylistic formulation is an integral part of the meaning he tries to convey. Consequently, when he writes himself in a language other than his own, he will hurt the reader’s ear by unfamiliar words, rhythms and constructions; when he has his text translated, he will address his audience wearing a wig and a false nose.”26 Following this observation, we have thus attended to his style, so that, while costumed in English, its character remains recognizable. This is the duty of any translator

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d
As someone who has to review minutes for multiple committees, I can affirmatively state that AI for meeting transcription is not accurate, edits to the minutes now take up more committee time, and it is much worse than having a person prepare accurate minutes.

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Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social · 3d
This was news to me. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Move over, Tokyo — the world has a new biggest city
Jakarta and its sprawling environs’ 42mn inhabitants are now the most populous conurbation, according to the UN
giftarticle.ft.com

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
Latest issue has gone to press: www.facebook.com/share/p/17e4...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com

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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 3d
I worry that some of the language around the Myanmar election is too qualifying. There are no 'fears' or 'concerns', it is absolutely, completely, no questions bullshit. This is beyond the ordinary dodgy lawmakers doing (or trying) a dodgy, it's garbage now and has been since Feb 1 2021!

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
AI would probably produce a grammatical sentence, unlike this person

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d
Inspired giving the last over to the 21-year-old

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WIRED @wired.com · 3d
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 4d
There’s also @asah-sydney.bsky.social