Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀
@edrybicki.bsky.social
Semi-retired biotechnologist and virologist, interested in making vaccines, lover of 70s rock and hard SF. And good red wine. Posts are both personal and professional, and may include music and/or strong opinions. And possibly zombies.
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Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Microbiology**Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology, Seventh Edition provides an easily access...
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"Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology 7th Edition revised extensively by Ed Rybicki, is an easily accessible introduction to modern virology, presenting principles in a clear and concise manner."
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Microbiology**
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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Microbiology**
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What we’d like out of 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR0...
I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
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January 1, 2026 at 9:34 AM
What we’d like out of 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR0...
To all followers, friends, acquaintances and whoever sees this: I wish you all a safe, happy and prosperous New Year! And to everyone on my block list: may perdition rain down upon you.
December 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
To all followers, friends, acquaintances and whoever sees this: I wish you all a safe, happy and prosperous New Year! And to everyone on my block list: may perdition rain down upon you.
Gods, I am having much too much fun baiting the following folk on Facebook:
- fundamentalist Xtians
- antivaxxers
- flat earthers
- believers in organic food and farming
- anti-GMOers
It ought to be illegal!
- fundamentalist Xtians
- antivaxxers
- flat earthers
- believers in organic food and farming
- anti-GMOers
It ought to be illegal!
December 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Gods, I am having much too much fun baiting the following folk on Facebook:
- fundamentalist Xtians
- antivaxxers
- flat earthers
- believers in organic food and farming
- anti-GMOers
It ought to be illegal!
- fundamentalist Xtians
- antivaxxers
- flat earthers
- believers in organic food and farming
- anti-GMOers
It ought to be illegal!
Oh, man; there’s very little better than a good G&T on a warm afternoon in the holidays! Unit 43 tawny gin with a Fever Tree elderflower tonic.
December 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Oh, man; there’s very little better than a good G&T on a warm afternoon in the holidays! Unit 43 tawny gin with a Fever Tree elderflower tonic.
Interesting to see what I thought was my public duty in 2020-2021: educating anyone who would listen, including my neighbourhood, about COVId-19/SARS-CoV-2. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/al...
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December 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Interesting to see what I thought was my public duty in 2020-2021: educating anyone who would listen, including my neighbourhood, about COVId-19/SARS-CoV-2. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/al...
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btw do you follow bsky.app/profile/thij... ? i think you would like his commnetaries
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December 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
btw do you follow bsky.app/profile/thij... ? i think you would like his commnetaries
Candles bought in Ithaca NY during Xmas 1990. Couldn’t ever bring ourselves to light them 😍
December 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Candles bought in Ithaca NY during Xmas 1990. Couldn’t ever bring ourselves to light them 😍
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A noninvasive treatment for one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer has been successful in animal trials. Using nanotechnology, researchers developed nasal drops that travel along the nerves of the nose into the central nervous system to fight glioblastoma.
newsnationnow.com/health/nasal...
newsnationnow.com/health/nasal...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A noninvasive treatment for one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer has been successful in animal trials. Using nanotechnology, researchers developed nasal drops that travel along the nerves of the nose into the central nervous system to fight glioblastoma.
newsnationnow.com/health/nasal...
newsnationnow.com/health/nasal...
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[1/3] Is your favorite bacterial isolate hiding a surprise lytic virus with a VERY different lifestyle? Finally I can proudly say that our paper on persistent phages is out in Nature Microbiology. rdcu.be/eWJEp. Well done @peterdoug.bsky.social
Persistent virulent phages exist across bacterial isolates
Nature Microbiology - The long-term existence of diverse virulent phages within cultures of Escherichia coli and others challenges the virulent–temperate dichotomy and points to non-canonical...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
[1/3] Is your favorite bacterial isolate hiding a surprise lytic virus with a VERY different lifestyle? Finally I can proudly say that our paper on persistent phages is out in Nature Microbiology. rdcu.be/eWJEp. Well done @peterdoug.bsky.social
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Miraculous.
December 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Miraculous.
Do you know that, in the midst of major multiple outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in South Africa in cattle, and evidence that what vaccines have been procured - mainly form Botswana - are not protecting well, South African authorities STILL won't release sequences of currently circulating FMDVs?
December 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Do you know that, in the midst of major multiple outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in South Africa in cattle, and evidence that what vaccines have been procured - mainly form Botswana - are not protecting well, South African authorities STILL won't release sequences of currently circulating FMDVs?
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One of the many truths about life… #CalvinandHobbes
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
One of the many truths about life… #CalvinandHobbes
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Indeed.
Don't think arming Zionists in Bondi is such a great idea. #auspol
December 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Indeed.
“Shame!”, said The Daughter. “It looks like you’re torturing Santa!” 🙄
December 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“Shame!”, said The Daughter. “It looks like you’re torturing Santa!” 🙄
I may have commented on this before, but here it is again: The Daughter @mandarybicka.bsky.social’s independent recreation of the Hipgnosis label’s classic 1970s album-centred black-and-white swirly logo. With psychedelic snail. It’s ours. She can’t have it back.
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I may have commented on this before, but here it is again: The Daughter @mandarybicka.bsky.social’s independent recreation of the Hipgnosis label’s classic 1970s album-centred black-and-white swirly logo. With psychedelic snail. It’s ours. She can’t have it back.
Traditional southern Xmas: table out on the lawn; braaied (=barbecued) kudu fillet and jerked roast lamb. The in-laws put on quite a show! Except for the kudu: that was @anna-lisew.bsky.social and me. With an amazing mushroom and cheese sauce, courtesy of TGW.
December 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Traditional southern Xmas: table out on the lawn; braaied (=barbecued) kudu fillet and jerked roast lamb. The in-laws put on quite a show! Except for the kudu: that was @anna-lisew.bsky.social and me. With an amazing mushroom and cheese sauce, courtesy of TGW.
The beasts - two ours, one a loaner - on their Xmas morning walk. Cloudless day, trending upwards to an eventual 27C or so…classic Deep South Xmas weather! And literally only two men and a dog sharing the village green with me and mine.
December 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The beasts - two ours, one a loaner - on their Xmas morning walk. Cloudless day, trending upwards to an eventual 27C or so…classic Deep South Xmas weather! And literally only two men and a dog sharing the village green with me and mine.
Hah! Added Epstein to my muted words and tags, and anticipate a much lower ire-eliciting reaction to my daily diet of posts.
December 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Hah! Added Epstein to my muted words and tags, and anticipate a much lower ire-eliciting reaction to my daily diet of posts.
Eat the rich….
The song they don’t want you to hear from the amazing martinkerrmusic @martinkerrmusic.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Eat the rich….
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh….!
I needed this laugh.
December 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh….!
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Brief #flu explainer 🛢
When the News talks about a super or new #flu they're trying to keep it simple. But that loses the bigger picture.
Every season we have 3 (it used to be 4) different flu viruses circulating at once. The so-called 'seasonal' flu viruses - not bird, seal or swine flu, they're human adapted.
Let's..
Every season we have 3 (it used to be 4) different flu viruses circulating at once. The so-called 'seasonal' flu viruses - not bird, seal or swine flu, they're human adapted.
Let's..
a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a rock wall and says `` break it down '' .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a rock wall and says `` break it down '' .
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December 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Brief #flu explainer 🛢
Fully decorated house for the Festival, as you can see.
December 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Fully decorated house for the Festival, as you can see.
And another from the lab scientist’s songbook:
Silent lab
Lonely lab
Postdocs watch
Gels running at night
And the coffee machine
Makes some steam
Keeping the vigil
That fuels the dream
Of a paper in Nature
O-o-of a paper to come.
Silent lab
Lonely lab
Postdocs watch
Gels running at night
And the coffee machine
Makes some steam
Keeping the vigil
That fuels the dream
Of a paper in Nature
O-o-of a paper to come.
December 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
And another from the lab scientist’s songbook:
Silent lab
Lonely lab
Postdocs watch
Gels running at night
And the coffee machine
Makes some steam
Keeping the vigil
That fuels the dream
Of a paper in Nature
O-o-of a paper to come.
Silent lab
Lonely lab
Postdocs watch
Gels running at night
And the coffee machine
Makes some steam
Keeping the vigil
That fuels the dream
Of a paper in Nature
O-o-of a paper to come.
Kwanzukanaliamaseid is almost here…Lena is near the top! And Demon Scorpion finally makes his move! Horrors!
December 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Kwanzukanaliamaseid is almost here…Lena is near the top! And Demon Scorpion finally makes his move! Horrors!