Simoun Bayudan

Doctoral researcher at Ghent University. Working on novel food, consumer behavior, and sustainable diets. Filipino nutritionist-dietitian. 🌾🌻

[Simoun Bayudan @_SimounBayudan]

Hi! My name is Simoun and I am pursuing graduate studies here in Belgium in food science and nutrition. I'll be tweeting about how I navigate grad school and all the (mis)adventures in it. Let's go!

Also, views are my own. 😊🇵🇭

#AcademicTwitter

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Capping off this week's conference with insights by Dr. Joanna Trewern (ProVeg) on handling what our planet needs to eat. We are overshooting our demand! 🌽

#GFOODSEC2024

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Changed classrooms in a different city for this week's Global Food Security conference! Looking forward to all presentations on how to make sure we can eat for years to come! #GFOODSEC2024

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Interesting case of 'flight shame' in Sweden introduced by Dr. Elin Röös (SLU) to encourage healthy and sustainable consumption... should we shame people into other diets? 🤔

#GFOODSEC2024

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PhD defenses have always been inspiring - this time we had the honor of listening to Joel Juvinal talk about Cacao in the Philippines! #TeamPH

#AcademicTwitter

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I was able to catch Prof. Wim Verbeke's inaugural lecture on the protein shift and how consumers deal with all these emerging products in the market today. Lessons to add to the future foods agenda. 🧪🥼🧫

@AgEconUGent

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Cooking up something in the lab! Maybe spatial computing will really be the next big thing? 🤓🤔

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AgEcon UGent!

[Department of Agricultural Economics UGent @AgEconUGent]

For our New Year's activity, we immersed our colleagues in the typical Belgian pastime that is a quiz, testing knowledge on international, Belgian, Ghentian and work-related facts, accompanied with a variety of cheeses, wines, beers and ciders. What a great evening!

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Opening the new year with a bang - just had a wildly competitive and fun quiz night in the dept! Great to learn more of this awesome city 🏢🏛

[Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent @FbwUGent]

Flanders' FOOD en @ugent slaan de handen ineen! Maak kennis met de pilootfrituurlijn van VEG-i-TEC, dé plek waar bedrijven kunnen experimenteren met technieken om onze Belgische frietjes nóg lekkerder gezonder en duurzamer te maken!
👉https://t.co/Atw6gltbMp

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Our partners in the Philippines have just completed a seminar on food upcycling research. Missed attending this physically but it was nice to see our plans inching forward. More to come from our pet project soon! 🍃
https://t.co/tRWgUOZGol

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Happening now - MaxQDA workshop in the department by Dr. Fairley Le Moal from the @InstitutLyfe! New research tool to add to our bread and butter 😄

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Ended the afternoon by presenting some of our work on neglected and underutilized crops. 🌿🌱🌿

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I am attending today an international symposium on agrobuodiversity! Quite an enriching plenary session this morning on dietary diversity - does diverse mean healthy? Or the other way around?

#CROPDIVA

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We had a science fair here in Ghent over the weekend! Would definitely like to have another one 🔬🥼

#DVDW2023
@dagvdwetenschap

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We had a small brown bag session on generative AI (ChatGPT, Alpaca, Claude, etc.) yesterday to demystify how these tools work from the back-end. Language models trained on existing data offer a nice philosophical discussion - can they truly take over academia? 🤔

#phdlife

[Robert Finger @RobertFinger1]

Labeling of regenerative agricultural practices at a Swiss farmers market 🧑‍🌾🥔🥕

Practices and labels beyond organic are becoming increasingly popular. How they are used, which standards they represent, and what’s in for farmers and consumers will be crucial questions

[Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent @FbwUGent]

👕Campus Coupure werd eventjes ingekleed met witte T-Shirts om een onderzoek rond Permastink te promoten!

@CMET_UGENT heeft 100 vrijwilligers nodig om permastink op te lossen. Hierbij blijft kleding geuren vasthouden, ondanks meerdere wasbeurten
👉 https://t.co/eqFdfPwqjO

[VLIRUOS @VLIRUOS]

Hooray! 🎉Our ICP Connect Scholarship call is open!
More information on 👉 https://t.co/xQniqi95TN

Know someone who might be interested?
Share and spread the word!

📽️Check out Jade's testimonial about his experience
https://t.co/InF81QEuEe

#ICPConnect #Scholarships #VLIRUOS

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🌞 Find more about the work of VLIR-UOS here: https://t.co/kG2wDDDQ86

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Now that it's official... I'm excited to share our newly awarded 2-year grant for our project on food upcycling! I look forward to working with vegetable post-harvest losses in the Salad Bowl region of the Philippines. 🧵🥕🌱

@AgEconUGent @SLUph
#phdvoice
#AcademicChatter

[Simoun Bayudan @_SimounBayudan]

Mula ngayong 2023, antabayanan po ninyo ang aming proyekto ukol sa Food Upcycling, kung saan pag-aaralan namin ang mga paraan para maaaring mabigyan ng panibagong buhay ang mga gulay na hindi man maibenta sa merkado ngunit may taglay pang halaga. 🍃