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.
And this is my justification. From Ellis Rosen on Facebook.
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
And this is my justification. From Ellis Rosen on Facebook.
I did this a while ago, but hey, if it introduces some more people to the Eclipse Trilogy by @johnshirley2024.bsky.social, then so much the better! 😁
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I did this a while ago, but hey, if it introduces some more people to the Eclipse Trilogy by @johnshirley2024.bsky.social, then so much the better! 😁
You know how you Yanks say “No Kings!”? I appear to have adopted one today: King Chuck, to be precise 😁 I am now legally a soutpiel: one foot in S Africa and one in the UK.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
You know how you Yanks say “No Kings!”? I appear to have adopted one today: King Chuck, to be precise 😁 I am now legally a soutpiel: one foot in S Africa and one in the UK.
...or this one...😁
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
...or this one...😁
I review most of what I read on Kindle on the Amazon site - and I liked this last one 😁
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I review most of what I read on Kindle on the Amazon site - and I liked this last one 😁
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
And Sanele, Sandiswa, Leah (post-doccing with us), Nicole and Nellie, hanging out with me for a photo 😁
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
And Sanele, Sandiswa, Leah (post-doccing with us), Nicole and Nellie, hanging out with me for a photo 😁
Self and Sandiswa Mbewana, my successor as boss of the Biopharming Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, at the Internal Society for Vaccines meeting in Stellenbosch recently 😁 #ISV2025
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Self and Sandiswa Mbewana, my successor as boss of the Biopharming Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, at the Internal Society for Vaccines meeting in Stellenbosch recently 😁 #ISV2025
I have a hugely industrious Cape weaver in my ornamental fig tree here in Cape Town. He is now building duplexes, after filling all the choice real estate.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I have a hugely industrious Cape weaver in my ornamental fig tree here in Cape Town. He is now building duplexes, after filling all the choice real estate.
Mmmmmm, Marmite! Tarry, tangy goodness!! 😎
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Mmmmmm, Marmite! Tarry, tangy goodness!! 😎
ALL of them are incorrect! Viruses are Schrodinger organisms; alive AND dead, depending on when you look. Excerpt from a great textbook.
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
ALL of them are incorrect! Viruses are Schrodinger organisms; alive AND dead, depending on when you look. Excerpt from a great textbook.
Aye, the early tomato crop is disappointin’ - but I’ve ‘igh ‘opes fer the later lot! 😁👍
PS: I’m a card-carrying Pom these days. I can speak like that if I want to 😎
PS: I’m a card-carrying Pom these days. I can speak like that if I want to 😎
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Aye, the early tomato crop is disappointin’ - but I’ve ‘igh ‘opes fer the later lot! 😁👍
PS: I’m a card-carrying Pom these days. I can speak like that if I want to 😎
PS: I’m a card-carrying Pom these days. I can speak like that if I want to 😎
That’s THREE of my former undergraduates up front tonight: Dr Heidi Segal, and Professors Wendy Burgers and Carolyn Williamson, who also did a PhD with me. They grow up so fast….😍
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
That’s THREE of my former undergraduates up front tonight: Dr Heidi Segal, and Professors Wendy Burgers and Carolyn Williamson, who also did a PhD with me. They grow up so fast….😍
Always nice when one of your long-ago undergraduates who had a passion for Virology makes full Professor 😁 AND mentored by @anna-lisew.bsky.social as a Honours and a MSc!
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Always nice when one of your long-ago undergraduates who had a passion for Virology makes full Professor 😁 AND mentored by @anna-lisew.bsky.social as a Honours and a MSc!
@reskilab.bsky.social I knew I had one…! Your moss bioreactor in 2022.
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
@reskilab.bsky.social I knew I had one…! Your moss bioreactor in 2022.
GREAT cartoon, revisited - because he finally signed it! Carlos Amato of South Africa in the Daily Maverick in 2020, on COVID.
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 AM
GREAT cartoon, revisited - because he finally signed it! Carlos Amato of South Africa in the Daily Maverick in 2020, on COVID.
And, because I have nothing to do that I can’t postpone, here’s a map of the route. Black bit marks detour to avoid huge pile-up.
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
And, because I have nothing to do that I can’t postpone, here’s a map of the route. Black bit marks detour to avoid huge pile-up.
So, @angierasmussen.bsky.social and @kindrachukjason.bsky.social and other #ViroSky folks, Virology Africa 2026 is going to be INSIDE the Kruger National Park in South Africa in September 2026!! It will be awesome 😁
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
So, @angierasmussen.bsky.social and @kindrachukjason.bsky.social and other #ViroSky folks, Virology Africa 2026 is going to be INSIDE the Kruger National Park in South Africa in September 2026!! It will be awesome 😁
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I know your jewel-encrusted blade has not been plundered still
Sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill
I know your jewel-encrusted blade has not been plundered still
Sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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I know your jewel-encrusted blade has not been plundered still
Sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill
I know your jewel-encrusted blade has not been plundered still
Sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill
Actually, THIS is the one I had in mind.
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Actually, THIS is the one I had in mind.
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:
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 😎
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.