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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

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 · 9h

AI would probably produce a grammatical sentence, unlike this person

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 12h

Inspired giving the last over to the 21-year-old

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 23h

There’s also @asah-sydney.bsky.social

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

Very entitled young man

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

That’s what I thought

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no Australia's weirdest niche sports stat is back!

Boxing Day Test* finishes before first Sydney-Hobart yacht:

1986 ENG d AUS
1991 AUS d IND
1996 WI d AUS
2006 AUS d ENG
2021 AUS d ENG
2025 ENG d AUS

*Must start 26/12

Cricket 6 - Yachts 39

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

I hear Australia is pushing for 4-day Tests at the ICC

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

So when I saw From Russia with Love in 1965 I was definitely seeing the second Bond film 😂😂😂

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

I used to have her book on voodoo (but I lent it to a student who sold it)

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

And Franco, Sarit, Tojo …

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

Reading it on your recommendation. Extraordinarily mixture of emotions

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Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's traditionally the publisher's responsibility to send review copies out to journals, then the editor's responsibility to send those to reviewers, but a lot of those I've contacted note this system is starting to break down - largely because of our "publish or perish" mentality

3/5

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 1d

Love it

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly embarrassing for a British newspaper to report this without noting that the University of the Third Age has functioned in the UK for decades. It has 400,000 members.
www.u3a.org.uk/about

‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure

Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers

www.theguardian.com

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DVB English News @dvbenglish.bsky.social · 2d

The National League for Democracy party, which was ousted from government during the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, announced on Wednesday that it has expelled 20 of its members for supporting the regime elections english.dvb.no/national-lea...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #AungSanSuuKyi #election

National League for Democracy expels 20 members for ‘supporting’ regime’s 2025-26 elections - DVB

The National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which was ousted from government during the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, announced on Wednesday that it has expelled 20 of its members for participatin...

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d

I blame the AFL

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d

Decent pitch

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 2d

Bit of a rubbish wicket

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 3d

When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised.

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...

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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 3d

#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d

Northern NSW alternates between becoming a separate state or joining Qland

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Gilles Deleuze For You @deleuzeforyou.bsky.social · 3d

I have always felt like an empiricist, or a pluralist. What does this empiricism-pluralism equivalency mean? It derives from the two traits Whitehead used to define empiricism: 1) abstraction does not explain but must be explained,

Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 3d

And northern NSW (likewise port)

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4d

#OtD 24 Dec 1783 simultaneous mutinies occurred on two Dutch East India Company ships. On the Java, 25 Chinese sailors rebelled after cruel treatment by Europeans, while 20 enslaved Javanese sailors murdered several officers on the Slot ter Hoge stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9636...

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 4d

I read a thread a few months ago (apols to the OP) pointing out that MOOCs succeeded insofar as institutions now often claim instructor IP; lectures are recorded; classes are modularised, outcome-focused & 'supported' by generic 'help' resources... MOOC thinking accelerated HE neoliberalism.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 4d

Great Barrier Reef’s Hamilton Island to be bought by US private equity firm in reported $1.2bn sale

Great Barrier Reef’s Hamilton Island to be bought by US private equity firm in reported $1.2bn sale

Blackstone says it has agreed to buy popular Whitsundays island from Australian winemaking family * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Hamilton Island, a popular tropical holiday destination on the Great Barrier Reef, has been sold to a US private equity firm, reportedly for $1.2bn. New York-headquartered Blackstone – which owns the casino-hotel chain Crown Resorts – released a statement on Tuesday night announcing it had entered into an agreement to acquire the Hamilton Island resort from the Oatley family, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Continue reading...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.

When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.”

What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"