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Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

But still there was some science that was new to me! So it was good to get that in a popular science format with references. If, like me, you're a fan of the intersection of metagenomics, extreme microbiology, and thermodynamics then this book is for you! 4/6

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Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Intraterrestrials emphasises that it takes a lot of people to do good science - how groundbreaking discoveries by definition need to be carried out by many scientists independently. Good to see this counter narrative to the "loner hero scientist" narrative that you often see in the media. 5/6

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Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I'm still trying to figure out how copy and paste this sequence from my paper copy of the book into BLAST. But yes, it's a great book, five stars, read it! 6/6

A page from the book Intraterrestrials. The important part: "Type NCBI BLAST into your internet search engine, choose the top hit, choose Nucleotide BLAST or blastn, copy one or both of the entire gene sequences above, paste them under Enter Query..."

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