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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 · Dec 12
"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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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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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
It turns out that using purified virions for modelling virus transmission is not such a good idea: HPV gets transmitted in clumps associated with intercellular matrix; HAV and BTV in vesivles; plant viruses in huge quasicrystals....
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
No distractions from stuff smelling or tasting good...😄
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 11h
Insect-borne non-enveloped bluetongue virus utilizes discrete small vesicles for non-lytic release and cell-to-cell transmission

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Insect-borne non-enveloped bluetongue virus utilizes discrete small vesicles for non-lytic release and cell-to-cell transmission
Author summary BTV is an emerging arthropod-borne non-enveloped virus causing epidemics worldwide. The recent discovery that BTV and other non-enveloped viruses are secreted via EVs from infected cell...
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
ANOTHER one?!
Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 11h
Insect-borne non-enveloped bluetongue virus utilizes discrete small vesicles for non-lytic release and cell-to-cell transmission

journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Insect-borne non-enveloped bluetongue virus utilizes discrete small vesicles for non-lytic release and cell-to-cell transmission
Author summary BTV is an emerging arthropod-borne non-enveloped virus causing epidemics worldwide. The recent discovery that BTV and other non-enveloped viruses are secreted via EVs from infected cell...
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 11h
Vimig: The virus-induced migrasome as a novel mechanism for viral transmission and communication

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Vimig: The virus-induced migrasome as a novel mechanism for viral transmission and communication
Vimig, defined as “virus-induced migrasome,” represents a novel class of extracellular vesicles that originate from virus-infected cells. The mechanisms underlying vimig formation involve actin remode...
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
Take her to the cinema
And leave you in a wimpy bar
You tell me that we've gone too far
Come running up to me
Make the scene at cousin Jack's
Leave him to put the bottles back
Mends his glasses that I cracked
Well that one's up to me, hey

Sublime 😄
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
It helps if you have a decent Editor: I have had two absolute assholes in my career; one at Vaccine (OK, THREE! Associate Editors, for ONE submission) and one at J Virol. He knows who he is 🤬
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
One can but wish!
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 11h
Feelin' alone
The Army's up the road
Salvation à la mode
And a cup of tea...

Nothing quite like J Tull's Aqualung - even now, over 55 years later 😄
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
That'll occupy a week or two, given I've finished Stargate: SG-1 seasons 1-9? 😄
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Dr Kim Shepherd @drkimshepherd.bsky.social · 2d
Hope so! Whilst I do have a tendency to wander offline for a few days at times (there's only so much stupidity i can absorb), I don't blank my old friends. I'm only fretting because I can't confirm it's spam t-shirts for sale 🤣

On another note, I thoroughly recommend these 4 Gardner books 👍
Four books by Frank Gardner on my bookshelf. Crisis, the first, Ultimatum, the second, Outbreak the third, and the most recent hardback of Invasion. The order runs right to left. Because I didn't want a taller hardback in the middle of the shelf upsetting the line height. Because I'm a sad git...
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
I had to 😎
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13h
I think the cubic shape is the *unintentional consequence* of their very long digestive process (14+ days), required to process tough roots & grasses, extracting all moisture.

The cubes are just a fortunate happenstance of super-efficient distal colons.

Article here:
How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery
Distinctive intestines mold feces into sharp-cornered poop
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
Damn, you really do go down rabbit holes...pardon; up wombat holes in this instance!! 😎
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
Herr Drumpf will not be pleased 😎
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
No discount on the US store, but hey! An author's gotta eat 😄
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
It turns that yes, in fact there is a #neurosky: please welcome @alicia-rybicki.bsky.social, folks??
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
Congrats! Must catch up...😄
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
Sitting on the patio with a Diemersfontein Pinotage with @anna-lisew.bsky.social, listening to The Best of The Doors on an early summer's day, after a great Starke-Ayres restaurant lunch - life is good! 😄🎸🎼🍷
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
@alicia-rybicki.bsky.social Check out @anna-lisew.bsky.social and @mandarybicka.bsky.social too: nothing like a nice little family group? 😄 Where's yer mum??
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 12h
@alicia-rybicki.bsky.social About time, niece!! 😄 This is where all the cool scientists hang out 😎 And musicians, and SF authors, and strange, good folk. Check out #neurosky - I'm sure there's a group - and otherwise, see you here!
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 13h
From VENEZUELA!! Cue Herr Drumpf’s stroke about…now!
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