#SimulatedUniverses :
cosmic rays injected by different processes in my simulation - zoom into a void surrounded by filaments.
ENZO simulations on LEONARDO cluster at CINECA. #astrodon#astronomy
Sure #academia can be toxic at times and all of that.
Also:
this week I sat several times together with colleagues from Russia and Ukraine to discuss future possible projects.
an iranian told me how it was to be in Tehran at the end of April, when the Isreel-Iran situation escalated.
yesterday at my dinner table there were 1. an italian 🙋♂️ 2. a german 3. a brazilian 4. a kroatian 5. an iranian , and it was awesome to discuss the state of the world from all points of views.
Fun things that can happen at a conference: tomorrow there will be a heated discussion about the correct way to remove a foreground from an extragalactic observation - the sort of life and death fights you have in astronomy 😅
But guess how many experts in the actual observation and foreground modelling are present at this conference:
ZERO.
So chairs are likely going to be thrown for nothing...
Just waved "hello" to a dude crossing the same hallway at the hotel.
I did not remember who he was, but I definitely though we knew each other and since I am at a conference, I assumed he was there as well.
The dude looked me weirdly and he visibly had no idea of who I am.
🤔
After a minute I realised the guy just looks like a secondary character of a netflix serie I watched last night, and that this was the only possible connection.
😄
Beautiful (at least to me!) last rendering of the gas temperature in an evolving simulated volume - where the frequent bubble like explosion are the combination of AGN feedback or star formation - combined with the Faraday Rotation Measure by the injected magnetic fields in the same volume.
Cool to have the same colleagues arguing about a question they already debated a year ago (conference I organised back then) , getting to the same standstill, as if they had no chance of exchanging mails in a year 🙄 #astrodon#astronomy
@Pepijn no no, I think they really thing it's the most important issue in the world then they ask, but somehow then the talk time is over, they forget about it until next year 😅
#WhatAboutMagneticFields ?
some people gathered this week (actually, also in the past few weeks, but that's the only one I am attending) at the Bernoulli Centre in Lausanne to know more... #astrodon#astronomy