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• Post #4135621

  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116991293373233772 🇪🇺 champions!! https://mastodon.social/@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu/116991293381477621 but I can assure, 14 weeks of vacations are never ending, for the children too, and for the parents

• Post #4077157

  @flyhigh@universeodon.com It Is not alive, but it shares several morphological properties with complex living systems ➡️ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.525731/full

• Post #3574396

  A glimpse into the invisibile magnetic threads of the cosmic web: green=magnetic field strength red=pressure of thermal gas zoom into a massive galaxy cluster region at z=0 in an ENZO-MHD simulation #SimulatedUniverses #astrophysics #astronomy #science

• Post #3574395

  Nice between the 72 written exams of #Electromagnetism I am correcting, there's the one of one student who gave it to me and added "but please prof leave it on sunlight for a couple of hours because i have mononucleosis and I just sneezed over it" 🙄 #academia

• Post #3574394

  @giovanni_covone per l'autografo come si fa? (Non l'ho ancora iniziato eh, ma sono fiducioso)

• Post #3574393

  #paperday on #astroph: another chapter contribution to the Advancing Astrophysics with the SKAII big collection of papers trying to outline what the SKA may and should be doing in a few years 🤞🏼 In this one I helped giving a sense of what might be detectable with a few different survey configurations for SKA-LOW and MID, on the scale of filaments of the cosmic web: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31503 "The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe through the SKA lenses" by Cuciti...

• Post #3574392

  Things I did not know we will be able to study with the low frequency part of the Square Kilometer Array: lightnings ⚡ "Unveiling the Mysteries of Lightning: Exploring its fundamental Physical Processes with SKA-LOW" by Hare et al. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.00659 #physics #science #astrophysics

• Post #3574391

  #SimulatedUniverses a movie showing the development over time of injected cosmic ray electrons by three different mechanisms, color-coded in different ways: a) blue=cosmic rays from star formation b) red=from shocks c) green=from active galactic nuclei. In reality these relativistic particles are very hard to observe, and it's impossible to know their origin, but with simulations we can refine theoretical ideas. ENZO simulation run at CINECA. #astrophysics #astronomy #science

• Post #2551118

  Today is a good day for me as #physics professor because I made a final experiment working in the class, a simple yet seminal one (by Michael Faraday, 1831!) which I so far replicated only in partial ways. It gave the theoretical basis for our modern technology, from power generators to the wifi transmission of power and signals (i.e. telecommunications). Let me show it 3 steps: 1. The #Faraday induction I usually show: a moving strong magnets induces a tiny tension in a secondary coil.

• Post #2501234

  Buon #25Aprile everyone (#Italy #Liberation day from fascism) (In retrospective, it only partially worked and show be reminded every year..)

• Post #2487319

  A woman merging with a beautiful full screen rendering of the simulated cosmic web in a simulation of mine... This is was a segment from "Destinazione Terra" (Destination Earth) a video using scientific simulations by Daniela Paoletti and Diego Molinari, together the VisitLab at #CINECA, the biggest supercomputing centre in #Italy It was presented at the Genova Science festival, and you can see the full video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SAybgEBiXE #astronomy #astr...

• Post #2008527

  #paperday on #astroph "The Impact of the Magnetised Cosmic Web on Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Propagation" by Allegra Firinu, myself and Carmelo Evoli. We investigated the role of realistic extragalactic magnetic fields in deflecting E>1e18eV cosmic rays, effectively creating "an horizon" beyond which particles cannot reach us, as they are trapped by magnetic fields. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02324 #cosmoMAG #astrophysics #astronomy #physics

• Post #1758959

  In the (desperate) attempt of engaging a bit more with astronomy master students, I am going to start tomorrow lecture on the acceleration of cosmic rays and neutrinos by supernova remnants by using this nice one by the creator of the xkcd comic, Randall Munroe! #astronomy #astrophysics #physics

• Post #1633879

  ***PLEASE SPREAD IF YOU CAN*** my Physics & Astro department in Bologna (Italy) just opened a call for 2 contracts for 1 year (24kE) for young researchers from #Palestine: https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/incarichi-di-ricerca?id_bando=162 https://ricercatm.unibo.it/incarichiricerca_segretari/_bandi/2008/ProceduraSelettiva162[227]TutorColloquio_eng.htm Deadline: 15/06/2026 Eligibility: young scholars in Physics/Geo/Astro citizens of Palestine, refugees from Palestine, refugees residin...

• Post #1580941

  Ops, I was wrong and we might live in a simulation after all 😳 See this commentary by Edge &Brown https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2026.1808725/full of my article of last year: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2025.1561873/full sorry all... Jokes aside, it seems we can circle forever in an endless loop of "you miss the point" "NO you miss the point" and keep writing papers about...

• Post #1529103

  the joy of receiving applications to my post-doc which are visibly and 100% generated using #AI (which btw takes 2 second to notice, if you are expert, as for example it generated references to unexisting works of mine ). seriously, junior people in #academia hear me out: do not underestimate how dramatically bad this looks like, and wipes out even the smallest chance of you being retained as a backup candidate (in case the first ones will decline). 😩 #astronomy #astrophysics #science

• Post #1456443

  New nice rendering of the day, after some stress making #Julia correctly call python stuff. (projected magnetic field vectors and magnetic field amplitude for the last simulated cluster of galaxies with ENZO) #astrophysics #astronomy #physics

• Post #978869

  Wish I would be religious, so that I could at least pray that trump won't commit anymore war crimes against civilian in #Iran in the upcoming hours, instead of just feeling so hopeless and impotent towards this nonsense, which ourselves and mostly our children will keep paying in the upcoming future. And who will suffer first are the innocents in #Iran who did nothing wrong against the US, and have already suffered more than enough the Islam theocracy and its many repressions.

• Post #966335

  A view from my hometown just before the alps start, not too bad. #Italy #photo

• Post #942662

  Continuous slicing through the baryon density distribution of the latest simulated cluster, with magnetic field vectors in overlay. the full scan depth is 2Mpc from side to side, the cluster is at z=0 and has the mass of Coma (~1e15 solar masses). Rendering and analysis with @julialang #astrophysics #astronomy #science

• Post #936665

  Please enjoy this stunning collection of portraits of #solar surface turmoils, #flares and else, all produced by Carlo Casoli's from the University of #Bologna with his own telescope and filters: https://app.astrobin.com/u/C.Casoli really really impressive details of magnetic-field driven structures across many scales! #astronomy #astrophysics #science

• Post #767230

  In todays lecture on turbulent transport of cosmic rays: one of the very few "experiments" I can show to astronomers, i.e. the developing of #turbulence within this nice rotating disc, containing a rheoscopic fluid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheoscopic_fluid #astronomy #physics

• Post #751054

  Here is the "experiment" of today in the #Electromagnetism class: a tiny replica of the Leiden jar which is a far ancestor of the battery, consisting of a distribution of chargers trapped in in a glass container, which acts as a capacitor when the inner and outer conducting layers are reconnected again. I used a voltmeter to detect the tiny residual voltage (0.4mV) produced across the bottle after the charging process. #science #physics

• Post #707035

  Experiments in the generation (across several timesteps) and advection of Lagragian passive tracers to track the propagation of gas matter in new cosmological simulations of clusters of galaxies. (tracers code in #Julia language, on top of ENZO-MHD simulations) #SimulatedUniverses #astrophysics #astronomy