Beautiful science: winners of the BMC Ecology image competition 2015
BMC Ecology is excited to announce the winners of its third image competition! We hope that you enjoy them…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Behind the Image: Beautiful Sunbird
Mohamed Shebl’s graceful shot of a Palestine Sunbird scoring some nectar from an Echinops flower was chosen as the overall winner for this year’s BMC Ecology image competition. In this Q&A we find out the “story behind the image”.
15 more memorable images from 15 years of the BMC series
Perhaps unsurprisingly, choosing just 15 images to highlight from the over 87,000 articles the BMC series has published over the last 15 years proved a difficult task. So, as we continue our 15th anniversary celebrations, we hope you will indulge us as we look back on 15 more memorable images from the past 15 years.
The BMC-series 10 most highly accessed articles of all time
As we continue our 15th birthday celebrations, we take a look back at the ten articles published in our first 15 years that have been accessed the most by our readers.
15 images from 15 years of the BMC series
As the BMC-series celebrates its 15th birthday, we look back on 15 memorable images from papers published in our journals.
Happy 15th birthday BMC series!
15 years after the first ever BMC-series article was published, Senior Managing Editor Diana Marshall reflects on the journey so far and the way ahead.
They can walk the talk but… why Government failed to make walking a public health policy?
An analysis published in BMC Public Health discusses the difficulty in translating a health issue into a political agenda. There was a time when the British government were keen to get the nation walking, but no campaign was launched. In this blog, I summarize why the walking campaign never took its first steps.
BMC Cancer splits clinical oncology section in two
Clinical Oncology gives way to two brand new sections: Section Editors Stephen Povoski and Dirk Vordermark tell us about their scopes, and the plans and the challenges that come with the job.
The secret hitch-hikes of a notorious worm
This is a guest blog by Professor Hinrich Schulenburg of Kiel University, head of the Department of Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics and member of the research focus ‘Kiel Life Science’. His group, together with members of the International Max-Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology, today published an article in BMC Ecology on the ecology of nematodes that comes up with previously unknown insights into the lifestyle of these seemingly very well-known worms.
I’d like to thank the Academy…
BioMed Central recently attended AcademyHealth 2015 in Minneapolis. Here, Christopher Morrey talks more about the going’s on at the conference.