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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 · 34m
I think the latter

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 11h
Chinese customs bans pork imports from Barcelona after Spain’s swine fever outbreak – Reuters
China bans pork imports from Barcelona after Spain's swine fever outbreak
China has banned pork imports from Barcelona province after Spain detected its first case of African swine fever in three decades in two wild boar found dead in the area, a Chinese Customs document se...
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 13h
PM’s marriage?

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 14h
Did you put plastic against the timber?

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 14h
What gender does Toto the ring bearer identify as?

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 14h
And for those who’ve forgotten their geography , these are areas outside the cyclone latitudes. Sri Lanka also experiencing floods.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15h
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been inundated with cyclone-driven rain for a week, killing about 400 people.
Indonesia death toll rises to 248 after catastrophic flooding in Sumatra
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been inundated with cyclone-driven rain for a week, killing about 400 people.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 15h
Congratulations to PM Anthony Albanese and his partner Jodie Haydon, who got married today in a private ceremony at The Lodge in Canberra. Albanese is the first Australian PM to get married in office, after proposing to Ms Haydon on Valentine's Day last year. #auspol
Australian PM Anthony Albanese and his partner Jodie Haydon on their wedding day, at The Lodge, Sat 29Nov2025

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 16h
US and Australia have no excuse for being on this list. Australia’s land-clearing is criminal

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 16h
England captain takes time out from important golf to respond to critics

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Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social · 16h
All British history is just repeated fighting of the Mods vs Rockers wars. I'll let you decide which side are the Roundheads and Cavaliers (primarily because I haven't put that much thought into this)

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Spencer Wells @spwells.bsky.social · 18h
The countries with the most threatened species in the world 🦧🦏🐅 Indonesia at #2… www.cntraveller.in/story/the-co...
The countries with the most threatened species in the world
Where biodiversity is most at risk, according to the latest IUCN Red List data
www.cntraveller.in

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 20h
Thought you were talking about Bali for a minute

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 20h
Phoebe Litchfield, the captain who was batting, was clearly ropable but did an admirable job of restraining her feelings. Just needed one more 4 to win. A farce.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 20h
Very good question. The rain was actually heavier in the previous over.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 21h
Terrible decision. No reason they could not had let one more ball be bowled to finish the over!

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Bastien Llamas @dnatimetravel.bsky.social · 1d
Gandini et al., Genomic evidence supports the “long chronology” for the peopling of Sahul. Sci. Adv. 11, eady9493 (2025). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Genomic evidence supports the “long chronology” for the peopling of Sahul
Genome data provide support for the first settlement of Australia and New Guinea via at least two routes by 60,000 years ago.
www.science.org

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d
Shit's real bad down South, y'all
Over 100 bodies found in Hat Yai flood, 20+ need identity verification

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
You’d have trouble patenting’thong’ in Australia. We’ve been wearing them on our feet for the last 70+ years, probably longer

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Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 1d
"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
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Dr Jenny Allen @jennyallen13.bsky.social · 1d
To add context, part of why there were so many more applicants is because they moved DECRA back six months, effectively skipping funding the scheme for a year. They had to extend eligibility as a result, so this was essentially two years in one. But with no adjustment to number of grants awarded.

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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d
AI can never compete with human abilities

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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 1d
Rescuers searched Thursday in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies and possible survivors after flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island left 49 people dead and 67 missing. asia.nikkei.com/economy/natu...
49 dead as Indonesia intensifies search for flood and landslide victims
Nearly 5,000 forced into shelters as over 2,000 houses and buildings are submerged
asia.nikkei.com

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 2d
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 2d
Mentioned in the same sentence as these two classics AMAZING
... Glenda Sluga’s Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope (1988), Mark Peel’s Good Times, Bad Times: The Past and Future in Elizabeth (1995), and Jayne Persian’s Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (2017) ...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d
Gas prices are driving electricity costs higher. Good thing we're getting all that PRRT money right? Right??
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Shit ton of an increase in gas exports Absolute FA PRRT

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 3d
I’m sorry but there is no leftist argument in favour of book piracy (even academic books: because in that case honestly a lot of academics will just send you the PDF if you ask, it might even be open access) while libraries exist. And using libraries is the way to keep them existing.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d
this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
ivalaine.bsky.social Dr M @ivalaine.bsky.social · 3d
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.

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NPR @npr.org · 3d
The National Park Service says it is going to start charging international tourists an extra $100 to enter popular parks. They will be left out of fee-free days, reserved for American residents. n.pr/48CbbII
National Parks to raise fees by $100 for international tourists to popular U.S. parks
The National Park Service says it is going to start charging international tourists an extra $100 to enter popular parks. They will be left out of fee-free days, reserved for American residents.
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