Justin C. Leavitt, PhD

Interested in disruptive and "outside the box" science. Lover of weird art, and old books.

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

― Frank Zappa

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

Old school bacteriology:

Bacteria (1927)
https://t.co/urNvgtOptx

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

Making colored flames is fun.

https://t.co/LLFZmZ31ev

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

Sorry for quoting myself here...but I'm never sure who gets to read what around here.
This is the bottom line of this issue...for ALL OF US (whether you support or oppose Trump) you are allowing him to push a vision of a stronger President when the President already has far too much power. And unless we become a single-party state (a problem all its own) the OTHER SIDE will get to inherit these expanded powers (or expanded accepted interpretations of powers) too. So Trump is making sure a future Democratic president will have more power to impact your life. This is completely shortsighted on everyone's part. THREE CO-EQUAL BRANCHES of government.

[NEJM @NEJM]

Medicine and Society: A new era of long-acting antiretrovirals for HIV treatment and prevention demands a nonlinear approach to global access with faster sharing of technology, decentralized production, and products that meet needs in the Global South. https://t.co/YdbfCHRPkm

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

@zapatas_mom The whole situation is ten different kinds of fucked up. It is a uncomfortably wholesome shift away from school-shootings though… Still murder, still wrong, but at least now I kind of get it.

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

@iamnot_elon No. Be nice. Buy her a Tesla, and make her wear a Tesla jacket on the air.

[bryan dickinson @chembioBryan]

I am very skeptical of the AI/ML/computational methods to predict protein-protein interactions. Prove me wrong.

I present a challenge for anyone who claims they can predict protein-protein interactions.

1/n

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

Buying glasses in Vietnam. Faster, better, a fraction of the cost.

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

@LibertyCappy It makes perfect sense if you accept medical price gouging to be completely normal. Any sane society would make it a crime, but here we are…

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

@PRSecor I am jealous of this “rabbit hole” you are in. Extremely cool, very deep science down there. Keep going.

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

Desert night hiking

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

Big horns #utah @ZionNPS #southernutah

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

Desert big horns. They didn’t seem too worried about me…

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

From the top of an old volcano.

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

Very cool rock art, Southern Utah…

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

@sashayanshin @Snowden Decent alternative to Adobe? They charge a ton and I have been thinking of canceling anyway…

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

@drbehardisty I just paid less than that for a used car…

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

@d_huelgas You lose a lot for sure, even with phage that are relatively tolerant to cesium step gradients. It all depends on the phage you are trying to purify, and your intended application for the purification…

[Justin C. Leavitt, PhD @midlogphase]

Cesium step gradients are still my favorite way to purify phage. #phage

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Do you Remember this Voice?