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.
I am still amazed I did!
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I am still amazed I did!
43 years here. Still can’t quite believe it! 51 years this year associated with the same building; 52 with the same University. Oh, and 41 in the same office. Oooooollllllddddd…!
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
43 years here. Still can’t quite believe it! 51 years this year associated with the same building; 52 with the same University. Oh, and 41 in the same office. Oooooollllllddddd…!
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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...
www.nme.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Tout va bien, c'est humoristique
In a blink of an eye we have gone from one baby, to two, to a 30- and a 33-yr-old. How? WHEN?? It isn’t fair.
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
In a blink of an eye we have gone from one baby, to two, to a 30- and a 33-yr-old. How? WHEN?? It isn’t fair.
And that’s a pretty clever handle, just BTW.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
And that’s a pretty clever handle, just BTW.
OK, NOW I get it! Mais non: c’est RNA+protein.
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
OK, NOW I get it! Mais non: c’est RNA+protein.
I was rather bemused when a semester exchange student from the US straight up asked me to increase his mark in a test - he marginally passed - “because in the US I get As”. I said here we marked on actual content in the answers, and not word volume. He looked bemused. He failed the course.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I was rather bemused when a semester exchange student from the US straight up asked me to increase his mark in a test - he marginally passed - “because in the US I get As”. I said here we marked on actual content in the answers, and not word volume. He looked bemused. He failed the course.
Oh, I am! I spent some time in the English countryside as an impressionable 12-13 yr old, and this was SO evocative!!
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Oh, I am! I spent some time in the English countryside as an impressionable 12-13 yr old, and this was SO evocative!!
Oh, thank gods!
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Oh, thank gods!
You know, he did some good things and some clever things, and was a misogynist and possibly a racist - and all these things can be true, and he doesn’t have to be distilled down to one thing. Like any of us shouldn’t be. Oh, and he’s dead: move on, folks!
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You know, he did some good things and some clever things, and was a misogynist and possibly a racist - and all these things can be true, and he doesn’t have to be distilled down to one thing. Like any of us shouldn’t be. Oh, and he’s dead: move on, folks!
It was a Wall St Journal figure, if that helps?
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It was a Wall St Journal figure, if that helps?
There can be only One….
a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up sign .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up sign .
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
There can be only One….
The whole IDEA of being able to surf worldlines wit a potato and a paperclip is Pratchett: Baxter would never allow such frivolity 🤨
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The whole IDEA of being able to surf worldlines wit a potato and a paperclip is Pratchett: Baxter would never allow such frivolity 🤨
Excellent!! But it’s “Befokte Bunny” 😎 Just to be clear.
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excellent!! But it’s “Befokte Bunny” 😎 Just to be clear.