Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀

Interesting! There are a pile of Rybickis in Wisconsin - associated with a cheesery - another Edward Rybicki who is a retired US Air Force general, another who does material science in the US…but none are even distant relatives. My lot are straight out of Poland as one family, in 1939.

Sorry!!

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…

The Trojan Horse is real, and it’s microscopic! 🐴🦠
Our paper is out today in @cellcellpress.bsky.social!
We discovered that deltaviruses physically hide INSIDE helper viruses to sneak into new cells. And to prove it, we had to image them from every angle. 🧵👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out today: We discovered new viral proteins that target immune signaling molecules, solely based on their AlphaFold-predicted shapes

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats Nitzan Tal and coauthors! Thank you Kranzusch lab for the fun collaboration!

Linking below previous thread on our findings

Prokaryotic defense systems: Diversity and evolutionary adaptation
#microbiology #virology #prokaryotes #archaea #bacteria #virus #phage
@mlifejournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/mlf2...

No idea: possibly very distantly?

Go! Great place 😁

Gimme an N…gimmer an A…gimme a Z…gimme an I…
What’s it spell (ICE)
What’s it spell (ICE)

Well, come on, all of you left wing folk
Donald Trump and his Nazis are no longer a joke
Put down your books, and pick up a sign
We’re gonna picket down the line

I was around for the original. We need it back

Mechanosensation promotes broad-spectrum antiviral defense through membrane remodeling Huang et al. define the mechano-antiviral response system (MARS) and reveal that mechanical force triggers Piezo1-dependent membrane stiffening. This establishes a broad-spectrum, interferon-independe...

The paper
"Our work identifies the mechano-antiviral response system (MARS), a natural cellular defense mechanism that strengthens the host cell membrane as a physical barrier against viruses without direct viral targeting."
www.cell.com/cell-chemica...

"It’s quietly become a trendy new genre in Hollywood: The serious UFO movie."

"Business as usual" for SARS-CoV-2, means that it looks like any other virus that jumped from a reservoir, spent a short amount of time in an intermediate host, and then jumped into humans, causing a pandemic immediately after.

1️⃣ No signs of passage
2️⃣ No signs of gain-of-function
3️⃣ It's zoonotic

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Bravecto! I mean, it works for dogs, right?? 😎

Nee, boet!

After >10 years of our lab studying bacterial cGAS-like enzymes, @hobbslabutah.bsky.social finally reconstitutes viral sensing in vitro and discovers how these ancient receptors sense phage protease enzymes to detect virion assembly and activate antiviral immunity

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

[TRAILER] Shot and edited by learners from IkamvaYouth Khayelitsha, Tuberculosis in South Africa explores TB symptoms, misdiagnosis, and the challenges children face in staying on treatment. Watch Full Film: youtu.be/YvS7jKlN5Js?si…

#TB #healthcare #WTBD2026

Yup, me too! The first time I copied someone having a Jupiler at Ghent station at 9 am, back there in 1984…😎🍺

Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics Using a phylogenetic framework to characterize natural selection, we investigate the hypothesis that zoonotic viruses require adaptation prior to zoon…

There's a common misconception that zoonotic viruses require significant adaptation to jump from animals to cause human epidemics.

Not so 👇.

Further, we see clear signs of 1977 flu experiencing cell passage, prior to epidemic.

SARS-CoV-2? Business as usual.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fucking cynical savages.

Mumps is back, but vaccines can prevent it Maryland is one of several states that are reporting cases of the infectious disease mumps, suggesting the return of diseases—like measles—that vaccines protect against

Maryland is one of several states that are reporting cases of the infectious disease mumps, suggesting the return of diseases—like measles—that vaccines protect against

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

I thought you wrote morning there for a moment. And then I thought “In Belgium, that would be perfectly fine?” 😁

Fucking cynical savages.

Ain’t no air-spread rabies vaccines! Rather air-dropped chicken heads infused with rabies virus glycoprotein G-encoding poxvirus…. So, mucosal vaccination via gastroenteric tract!

Development of a scalable production bioprocess for HIV-1 virus-like particles coupling continuous VLP harvesting with end-to-end downstream processing | Scientific Reports

Covid-19 pandemic in children born very premature with dysexecutive disorders: impact of isolation measures and/or neurobehavioral phenotype? A cross sectional study | Pediatric Research In France, following the first confinement related to the Covid-19 pandemic, strict government health guidelines aimed at limiting the spread of the disease disrupted the daily lives of children, particularly those with neurobehavioral disorders related to prematurity, which could affect their...

Covid-19 pandemic in children born very premature with dysexecutive disorders: impact of isolation measures and/or neurobehavioral phenotype? A cross sectional study | Pediatric Research

Comment les virus malmènent notre cerveau - Médias - UNIGE Comment les virus malmènent notre cerveau Publié le 5 mars 2026 Une équipe de l’UNIGE et des HUG a passé en revue 900 articles scientifiques pour mieux comprendre l’impact des virus sur la mémoire, l’attention et la concentration. Quel est l’impact d’une infection virale sur notre mémoire, notre attention ou notre concentration?

Comment les virus malmènent notre cerveau - Médias - UNIGE

Life forms can catch rides to other planets on asteroid debris "This is a really big deal that changes the way you think about the question of how life begins and how life began on Earth."...

Life forms can catch rides to other planets on asteroid debris

Chronic Inflammation Rewires the Brain’s Cognitive Center Researchers identify specific immune markers, like activated monocytes and cytokines, that drive cognitive decline after viral infections across various diseases.

Chronic Inflammation Rewires the Brain’s Cognitive Center

Microbial ancestor of complex life was more sophisticated than previously thought, studies suggest