Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀
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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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"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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Hmmmm...remember what I said about Editors?
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A damning account of genocide, and the words of the genocidaires.
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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Then for a few years you have been a little stupid. They still have a LOT of missiles: Europe and most of the US and a sizable portion of Asia would burn. You want that?
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Really nice summary - thanks @apsmunro.bsky.social
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Pleased to share my new post looking at the recent successes and turbulence in the development of therapeutics for infant RSV protection

Much progress made - but there’s more to do still!

#IDSky #PedsID 🧪
Protecting babies against RSV
The last two years have changed the landscape of RSV disease prevention
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This got quite heated sometimes, especially when I thought my colleagues weren't teaching worth a damn in our disciplines. It was most gratifying, therefore, to see this sentiment written in a book given to me by a 3rd and then Hons level student on my retirement in 2023 😁
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I had a major disagreement with my old Dept about our teaching methods: they championed "teaching from strength", meaning much of the syllabus was discussing papers and protocols - whereas I liked content, as in actually understanding how the organisms we taught about worked
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There just may be a new wave of picornavirus-like particle vaccines coming out…they’re overdue for FMDV; it’s also possible for polioviruses AND EV71 (hand-foot-and-mouth diease). Hey, Aramis Inc., over there in Canada?
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Fresh onions.
Hello Dolly (walked out of it twice)
Toto’s Africa (the condescension of “I bless the rains down in Africaaaaa” is beyond belief).
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The monarchy is an anachronistic and archaic embarrassment. The UK should get rid of it, and no other country should have a British King that they (theoretically) swear allegiance to.
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This lemming-like compulsion to build the biggest/fastest/smartest AI makes any gain-of-function pathogen research look like playing marbles vs. throwing nukes around. The amount of money being thrown at it could power world vaccine research for 1000 years! Madness….