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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀

@edrybicki.bsky.social
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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 · 10h
“Bugger that stupid boy Andrew!”
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Microbial Biotechnology (MBT) @microbiotech.bsky.social · 20h
#MicroSky: New from Ball et al.! Bacteriophages slashed Pseudomonas syringae on highbush blueberry leaves by >100,000-fold, highlighting phage cocktails as a powerful, sustainable plant disease control strategy. Don’t miss Microb Biotech: doi.org/10.1111/1751...
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Matt Olm @mattolm.bsky.social · 14h
My final postdoc project is out today in Nature! We show microbes co-migrated with humans out of Africa; three independent methods agree, and timing matches archaeological / genetic evidence (Fig. 4c). Seeing Fig. 4c for 1st time was one of my most memorable "eureka" moments! doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Prehistoric global migration of vanishing gut microbes with humans - Nature
Microbial species disappearing from industrialized populations have evolved with humans over millennia and migrated worldwide with them—this may have consequences for human health.
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 16h
How better to inaugurate the new-old turntable than with...😎
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Lacie 💖 @cooks4luv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No need to miss it #laciesmorningcafe www.mixcloud.com/2rrr885fm/th...
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The Morning Cafe - Down Under Music & The Mike Rudd Interview by 2RRR 88.5FM - Your Local Sound
Listen to The Morning Cafe - Down Under Music & The Mike Rudd Interview by 2RRR 88.5FM - Your Local Sound for free. Follow 2RRR 88.5FM - Your Local Sound to never miss another show.
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s a solution:
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Dritan Alsela's Perfect Coffee Pour
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Unpressurised, as I recall? So they had to fly quite low…the SA Air Force still fly them, albeit with turboprop engines now!
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There was! And their step-nieces - my daughter's dogs - joined them 😁
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My uncle was still flying them then, for an airline called Wenela - which flew workers in for the mines. Now you can fly to several sites around Kruger and even into Skukuza, on Embraer jets operated by SA Airlink. But the DC3s were wonderful: I remember flying over northern Zambia in 1967!
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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KABOOM! Explosion Graphic
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is called Kalashnikov Bible. Is very effective 😎
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Will there be a walk soon? I think there'll be a walk..."
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Poor dawg!! And his dad.
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ebola has arrived in a new country - Kenya. The patient before he died had been admitted to several hospital in the DRC where he had lived for years, then traveled to Uganda and then flown to Nairobi, before being hospitalized in Nairobi.
Kenyan MoH declaration of Ebola confirmation
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know, right?! 😩 Me: "That old guy over there..." Wife: "You're probably older than he is!" 😖
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
PS: fine desert ostrich pic!
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Mando: This Is The Way
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gotta talcum powder them so they slide easy...
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
All covered in a good Molecular Virology textbook available to you now! 😁
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Beg pardon, Form 3A, 1970!! No, batteries were dead 😢
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found my old 1971 calculator!! Still working 😄
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
super cool from the @peterfineran.bsky.social et al Defining the essential genome of diverse phages with phage Tn-seq www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Defining the essential genome of diverse phages with phage Tn-seq - Nature Microbiology
Phage Tn-seq uses Tn5 transposon mutagenesis with anti-CRISPR-based selection and deep sequencing as a method to generate unbiased, genome-wide mutations across diverse phages
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do it, Larry?! All main roads now tarred, but plenty of dirt meanders. A LOT of game, great lodges with decent restaurants (and aircon) - something for everyone.
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@isv-news.bsky.social
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STEMfem @stemfem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
10/5/1932 — b. June Almeida, Scottish virologist. Discoverer of the first #coronavirus; a pioneer in virus imaging, identification, and diagnosis. Her skills in electron microscopy earned her an international reputation #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SciSky #HIstSci #BioSky #virology #covid #viruses
June Almeida seated at microscope with two men standing behind her
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
4800 km on our last trip, Cape Town -> Kruger park and back! 5/9/2026 to 25/9/2026, with a Virology Africa in the middle. That's 3 ~5000 km trips, 2 of 2000, and 1 of ~800, since January 2024. It's been fun 😁
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 05/10/2026
www.iflscience.com/find-out-whe...
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is amazing how children or grandchildren of immigrants to "England" bend over backwards to push the racial purity line. Baffles me!
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I had a Rupert Bear, with a growler in his head (surgically excised when it stopped working). Gave me great comfort! Then got eaten by a dog after being passed down to my sister.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology "Zionism is what it does. And what it does is visible to the entire world." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/zionism-is...
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Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I find Flint et al.'s Principles of Virology very useful 😎
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’d even just had some, but I still only squeaked in, eh, Wordle 1,934 6/6?! 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve had that a couple of times in the last 40 years of writing papers. I generally send something scathing along the lines of “I have been speaking and writing English fluently since I was small child, so no, I will not get my mss. checked”. My surname’s also an indicator of foreignness for some.
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The fiery finger in The Ten Commandments writing on the stone tablets. I think I was six.
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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It Is What It Is
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Poets?! In the WILD?? Shoot them!! 😳
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
50?! Is that ALL?! 😄😂 Bro, there's a whole lot of living yet to do...! 😆
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They mooi, hey?!
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sitting with TGW - @anna-lisew.bsky.social, do keep up? - listening to The Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. A song for Bibi 🤬
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No. That's just age 😢
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope to fuck he loses.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He  
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Contre-jour Strelitzia, Cape Town
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Strelitzia and Eugenia leaves in the late afternoon sun, Cape Town.
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That include Senior/Emeritus? 😄
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NOW you notice?! 🤨
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Especially when you have no fucking vaccines in your country...🤬
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Piss off, mate, eh?! 🤨
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yup!
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Yoda Star Wars
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Still life with patio chair and dishcloth 😎
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