
Ritu Dhand
@ritudhand
Chief Scientific Officer, Springer Nature. Ex- VP Editorial, Nature Js. Trained as a cancer biologist, passionate about science communication. Views are my own.
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https://www.nature.com 26-05-2011 12:09:16
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Almost two centuries of progress and advancement in science, education and society have shaped the Springer of today. In celebration of #Springer180 Ritu Dhand and Steven Inchcoombe look back at 180 years of publishing relevance in a changing landscape: bit.ly/3FvgVE1


Join us Sunday for the John Maddox Lecture at #HayFestival22. Prof. Devi Sridhar uses the spellbinding story of the pandemic to show how global politics shape our health and highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past & present bit.ly/38VKoLx Hay Festival Ritu Dhand nature


Happy Mon! ☀️ Happy to be at Hay Festival talking Preventable 🌈. Quite cool to see such wide interest in public health & well-being 🌍.


Professor Prof. Devi Sridhar on how Covid-19 vaccinations reduced hospitalisations during the pandemic. #HayFestival2022

On Sunday Prof. Devi Sridhar gave the 2022 John Maddox Lecture Hay Festival. In Preventable: The Politics of Pandemics and How to Stop the Next One she uses the Covid-19 pandemic to show how global politics shape our health. Session was chaired by Ritu Dhand. Credit: Adam Tatton-Reid


Our new YouTube series Spotlight On… focuses on topics at the heart of our community. In the first episode our Chief Scientific Officer Ritu Dhand talks about her life as a researcher, what scientific discoveries makes her go ‘wow’, and more. Watch here: bit.ly/3xj56go

Transformative Journals: analysis of Year 1 (2021) Read the blog post by Robert Kiley on the first full year of the cOAlition S Transformative Journals programme ✍️coalition-s.org/blog/transform… #Plan_S #OpenAccess #TransformativeJournals



Berlin’s Springer Nature: Open Access Up 40 Percent in Transformative Journals | Porter Anderson bit.ly/3OxXzRZ Springer Nature | Six transformative journals achieved 75-percent open-access uptake in 2021, according to Springer Nature this month.





For the second #ForThought session 'Collaboration, integrity, and diplomacy in an uncertain world', Ritu Dhand - Springer Nature, Rosa Furneaux - @tbij, Andrew George - Committee on Research Integrity & Prof Dame Anne Johnson took the stage. Some thoughts from our panel: 1/4





Our Chief Scientific Officer Ritu Dhand was at #HayFestival2023 for the John Maddox Lecture, named after the former Nature editor. This year mathematics took centre stage, with Manil Suri using storytelling to answer the question – can you build the universe using only maths?


Working in partnership with the academic community is central to Springer Nature. A year into her role as Chief Scientific Officer, Ritu Dhand shares her insights into the job and working closely with the editorial community in this blog: bit.ly/43UGGIR
