TURTLE TOUCHERS: Tourists in Costa Rica made international headlines this year when they mobbed Ostional Beach on the country’s Pacific coast, scaring off scores of olive ridley sea turtles that had come ashore to lay eggs in the sand.© SINDICATO DE TRABAJADORES DE MINAE
—UCLA ecologist Daniel Blumstein and coauthors, on the impacts of ecotourism on wildlife in a recent paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution (October 9)
—Jennifer Kuk of York University’s School of Kinesiology and Health Science, on a study that tracked dietary data for more than 36,000 American adults over more than 35 years (September 21)
— Gretchen Goldman, lead analyst at the Center for Science and Democracy, in a statement about a survey of 7,000 scientists at federal agencies (October 1)
—Anonymous CDC scientist, responding to a Union of Concerned Scientists survey about scientific integrity at federal science agencies (October 1)
—Former University of Munich bioinformatician Gangolf Jobb, in a statement that he was changing the license on his “Treefinder” phylogenetics software to bar ...
