Every year we publish around 250 items of correspondence from readers, responding to Nature’s content and world events. Some letters upbraid us, some update and some amuse. Here’s a taste of this year’s dispatches.
Gene editing: Heed disability views
Voices of people living with impairment must be heard in CRISPR–Cas9 debate
Species naming: Taxonomic glory easier on eBay?
Mark Gurney
Months of academic toil weighed against shopping for a species name online
Plate tectonics: Continental-drift opus turns 100
Alfred Wegener’s once-heretical theory paved the way for plate tectonics
Land reclamation: Halt reef destruction in South China Sea
A call to protect the coral home of threatened turtles, birds and fish larvae
Unwanted mutations: Standards needed for gene-editing errors
Community must forge guidelines for defining off-target changes to DNA
Workforce: The joys of research in retirement
Take the literature to pieces, then put the puzzle together again: gratifying work awaits
Instrumentation: The mystery of the microscope in mud
Brian J. Ford
Was a rare brass instrument found in Delft made by Antony van Leeuwenhoek?
Denmark: Women's grants lost in inequality ocean
Scheme dubbed sexist disbursed same sum as annual extra awarded to men
Short-term contracts: Labs leak staff under French law
Research institutions need exemption as postdocs and support staff penalised
Natural history: first museologist's legacy
Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 1603 will was an inspiring manifesto for scientific collections
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- doi:10.1038/nature.2015.19011
