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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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀
@edrybicki.bsky.social
· Dec 12
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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Tout va bien, c'est humoristique
31 illegible black metal band logos
It’s one of the strange quirks of the extreme metal scene: band names have to be written in an ornate, impossible-to-decipher font. Here are few of our favourites. Check the caption on each one to fin...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Tout va bien, c'est humoristique
Can strongly recommend!!
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The Eclipse Trilogy
Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2024
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November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Can strongly recommend!!
Another view on one of Rosalind Franklin’s pioneering achievements:
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Another view on one of Rosalind Franklin’s pioneering achievements:
Just finished "The Green Man's Heir" by Juliet E. McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social. Cracking good stuff!! Now I’ve got a whole series to read!!
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just finished "The Green Man's Heir" by Juliet E. McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social. Cracking good stuff!! Now I’ve got a whole series to read!!
The Good Wife pointed out that retired folk such as us could actually go out and do things in the week! So we drove out north to Aurora nearish Piketberg to deliver boxes of books, then went to Langebaan for lunch. Kokomo Beach! Seared calamari and mussels!! 😁 Only 350-odd km 😎
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Good Wife pointed out that retired folk such as us could actually go out and do things in the week! So we drove out north to Aurora nearish Piketberg to deliver boxes of books, then went to Langebaan for lunch. Kokomo Beach! Seared calamari and mussels!! 😁 Only 350-odd km 😎
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And of course, @anna-lisew.bsky.social managed to get a better poster for @mandarybicka.bsky.social’s exhibition - so here it is! With her caracal prominently featured 😁
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
And of course, @anna-lisew.bsky.social managed to get a better poster for @mandarybicka.bsky.social’s exhibition - so here it is! With her caracal prominently featured 😁
The Artist @mandarybicka.bsky.social and friends Heather and Anthony 😁 Rust en Vrede is a REALLY nice place to visit.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The Artist @mandarybicka.bsky.social and friends Heather and Anthony 😁 Rust en Vrede is a REALLY nice place to visit.
More Rust en Vrede: I really liked a series of plates by Sonja Kastner 😎
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
More Rust en Vrede: I really liked a series of plates by Sonja Kastner 😎
By Amanda @mandarybicka.bsky.social : The Crocodile Who Ate the Sun - which legend spawned an autobiography by Peter Godwin.
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
By Amanda @mandarybicka.bsky.social : The Crocodile Who Ate the Sun - which legend spawned an autobiography by Peter Godwin.
Poster advertising Amanda and friends! And a side exhibit, with a mated pair of her Fritzys.
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Poster advertising Amanda and friends! And a side exhibit, with a mated pair of her Fritzys.
Also at Rust en Vrede: this eclectic rabbit, entitled Befokte Bunny, by David Kuijers. The shadow is my #InadvertentArt 😁
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Also at Rust en Vrede: this eclectic rabbit, entitled Befokte Bunny, by David Kuijers. The shadow is my #InadvertentArt 😁
I mentioned The Daughter @mandarybicka.bsky.social’s exhibit yesterday: it’s at the Rust en Vrede ceramics gallery in Durbanville, in the so-called “Cube”, and is by a team of 4 Michaelis graduates, based on African folk tales. Here’s Amanda’s first two rows of little things. Jars, and ceramic bones
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I mentioned The Daughter @mandarybicka.bsky.social’s exhibit yesterday: it’s at the Rust en Vrede ceramics gallery in Durbanville, in the so-called “Cube”, and is by a team of 4 Michaelis graduates, based on African folk tales. Here’s Amanda’s first two rows of little things. Jars, and ceramic bones
A side perk of hosting a conference is that sometimes you get presents: here, a bag of finest Rwandan roast coffee beans 😁 Thanks, Nicaise, they are already in the machine!! ☕️
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A side perk of hosting a conference is that sometimes you get presents: here, a bag of finest Rwandan roast coffee beans 😁 Thanks, Nicaise, they are already in the machine!! ☕️
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I wrote some reflections this afternoon about how the discovery of the double helix changed the course of science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qPS3y6
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I wrote some reflections this afternoon about how the discovery of the double helix changed the course of science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4qPS3y6
I love it! Bacterial virus entry mechanisms hijacked by cells to defend themselves from/attack other cells. Life really is just a mesh of interacting systems.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I love it! Bacterial virus entry mechanisms hijacked by cells to defend themselves from/attack other cells. Life really is just a mesh of interacting systems.
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Immunohistochemical investigation of canine lymph nodes collected during a rabies outbreak in South Africa
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Immunohistochemical investigation of canine lymph nodes collected during a rabies outbreak in South Africa
Rabies is a fatal zoonosis that impairs host immune function, yet effects on peripheral lymphoid architecture are poorly defined. During a 2021–2022 rabies virus (RABV) outbreak in South Africa, we co...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Immunohistochemical investigation of canine lymph nodes collected during a rabies outbreak in South Africa
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Got both The Daughter @mandarybicka.bsky.social’s dog, AND The Mother-in-Law’s dog, for the night. Huge excitement: they really do think they’re a pack, with our two. As long as they all realise that the GS is The One.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Got both The Daughter @mandarybicka.bsky.social’s dog, AND The Mother-in-Law’s dog, for the night. Huge excitement: they really do think they’re a pack, with our two. As long as they all realise that the GS is The One.
Sunset time after a hot day, cooling down nicely. Wind blowing through the trees, sunbeams dancing, dogs rushing about…and more Juluka. Scatterlings again, LOUD!
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sunset time after a hot day, cooling down nicely. Wind blowing through the trees, sunbeams dancing, dogs rushing about…and more Juluka. Scatterlings again, LOUD!
Hah! Added “ICE” to my moderation list, and now I won’t have to see that sh!t anymore…Sorry, USAians; I’m not from there, so my life really is nicer without having to get anguished about stuff I can’t affect.
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hah! Added “ICE” to my moderation list, and now I won’t have to see that sh!t anymore…Sorry, USAians; I’m not from there, so my life really is nicer without having to get anguished about stuff I can’t affect.
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#NewResearch
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#NewResearch
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It’s Friday after a shit week, so it’s time for…Juluka! Johnny Clegg used to give a 5-minute talk on the sociology behind the song at his live shows, and then launch in. Unforgettable! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQb...
Woza Friday
YouTube video by Johnny Clegg - Topic
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November 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It’s Friday after a shit week, so it’s time for…Juluka! Johnny Clegg used to give a 5-minute talk on the sociology behind the song at his live shows, and then launch in. Unforgettable! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQb...
@isv-news.bsky.social #ISV2025 A distinguished vaccinology team from Cape Town at the Congress: from left, Nicole Chineka, Ros Chapman, Anna-Lise Williamson @anna-lisew.bsky.social, Heather Jaspan and Nelisa Makeleni.
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
@isv-news.bsky.social #ISV2025 A distinguished vaccinology team from Cape Town at the Congress: from left, Nicole Chineka, Ros Chapman, Anna-Lise Williamson @anna-lisew.bsky.social, Heather Jaspan and Nelisa Makeleni.
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Next up for Vaccine Integrity Project: reviewing data on birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/ne...
Next up for Vaccine Integrity Project: reviewing data on birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
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November 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM