Highlights of the correspondence we received from readers in 2015.
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.
Voices of people living with impairment must be heard in CRISPR–Cas9 debate
Months of academic toil weighed against shopping for a species name online
Alfred Wegener’s once-heretical theory paved the way for plate tectonics
A call to protect the coral home of threatened turtles, birds and fish larvae
Community must forge guidelines for defining off-target changes to DNA
Take the literature to pieces, then put the puzzle together again: gratifying work awaits
Was a rare brass instrument found in Delft made by Antony van Leeuwenhoek?
Scheme dubbed sexist disbursed same sum as annual extra awarded to men
Research institutions need exemption as postdocs and support staff penalised
Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 1603 will was an inspiring manifesto for scientific collections
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