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Ento Nation Podcast: The Lady of the Flies

ByDr. Marwa Shumo May 27, 2018January 21, 2025

I am back again with an update and a new link this time You will not only read about my research but rather get to hear my voice talking all about our research with the Black Soldier Flies. I was the Ento Nation’s podcast guest this week and I enjoyed conversing with the Cricket Man….

Bonn Sciences Night/Bonner Wissenschaftsnacht

ByDr. Marwa Shumo May 21, 2018January 21, 2025

The 11th „Science Night“ of the University of Bonn took place at the Münsterplatz and the Central Building of the University of Bonn. Tailored to the common topic “Cycles”, there were exhibitions, presentations and performances by universities and research institutes of the local area “Bonn-Rhein Sieg”. The event that takes places every other year offers…

A spring full of bug activities

ByDr. Marwa Shumo May 21, 2018January 21, 2025

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland We did experience a long harsh winter this year, but at the end, spring did not skipp us and it did arrive in a full swing. The arrival of spring means being able to walk around our beautiful 200 years old university campus…

We made it to a list of great blogs on edible insects associated with an article on edible insects & food security for “The Independent”

ByDr. Marwa Shumo March 22, 2018January 21, 2025

University of Cambridge researcher Charlotte LR Payne wrote an article for the independent on edible insects & food security with an accompanying supplementary list on blogs related to edible insects including my ZEF blog section Here is a link to Charlotte LR Payne’s blog http://www.libertyruth.com/blog/an-article-for-the-independent-and-a-list-of-great-blogs

Back in Berlin: International Green Week 2018

ByDr. Marwa Shumo January 31, 2018January 21, 2025

I woke up on the morning to the 14th of November 2017 to a very beautiful and delighting email from the wonderful Anne Borisch, a junior consultant working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (English: German Corporation for International Cooperation ) which is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides…

18th Bonn Science Slam

ByDr. Marwa Shumo January 11, 2018January 21, 2025

2018 started in a fantastic way. You could see the atmosphere we had from the fireworks we enjoyed and that ignited our city’s skyline. Somewhere in December, I was hooked up with the agency in charge of organizing the 18th Bonn Science Slam through my supervisor who encouraged me to go for it. This comes…

Farewell to a dancing ’17. Hello to a grand ’18

ByDr. Marwa Shumo December 27, 2017January 21, 2025

Here, we reach that time of the year, when we somehow slow down from within. Winter didn’t arrive that early this year and we were still experiencing autumn like weather at a time it used to be snowing several years ago. Well, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing at all, we still had…

Getting it done! Getting over the PhD blues

ByDr. Marwa Shumo December 27, 2017January 21, 2025

There has been a lot of discussions in academia recently about research studies that focused on the mental hygiene of PhD students and the amount of pressure they undergo that can easily develop into what is known as the PhD blues. I love what I am doing, I love my flies, I adore my…

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Contribution to COP 23: Different stakes in environmental activism against coal. Perspectives from Germany and Bangladesh

ByIrit Eguavoen November 8, 2017January 21, 2025

[aesop_parallax img=”https://blog.zef.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/comp_P1030585.jpg” parallaxbg=”fixed” captionposition=”bottom-left” lightbox=”off” floater=”on” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”none” overlay_revealfx=”off”] About 20,000 people demonstrated in Bonn for the so-called Kohleausstieg (stepping away from using coal for energy generation) on 4th November 2017. Participants came from Germany and many other countries in order to request COP 23 delegates and politicians to end fossil fuel energy generation and…

When Tropentag comes to Bonn

ByDr. Marwa Shumo October 12, 2017January 21, 2025

[aesop_quote type=”pull” background=”#282828″ text=”#FFFFFF” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”] The Tropentag is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference. It addresses issues of resource management, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, nutrition and related sciences in the context of rural development, sustainable resource use and…