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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Come giustamente ha detto la mia collega nella nostra chat di lavoro, «Ma sempre a #Ferragosto?» #eruzioni #eruzione #Etna #MtEtna

Attività termica sull'Etna vista da SEVIRI nelle ultime 24 ore.

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Of course the cat decided to occupy the other chair today

Cat comfortably laying on the other red chair. No sign this time.

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

It's a bit early for #caturday but I just found out that at the CUS (university sports center) offices they have an armchair reserved for the local cat and I thought the Fediverse would like this piece of information.

A cat resting on a low red chair. Somebody has taped a piece of paper to the backrest, with the drawing of a cat and the text «SI PREGA DI NON DISTURBARE IL GATTO QUANDO DORME» (please do not disturb the cat when it's sleeping)

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

As someone who has always been working with #SmoothedParticleHydrodynamics, I have a diminished capacity for amazement at the level of detail an #SPH simulation can achieve. I still can't deny that the simulations look good though, and I can understand why […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

People don't believe me when I say that volcanoes only erupt during vacations. So anyway. Guess what me and my colleagues are doing right now. #MtEtna #Etna #eruption #volcanology #remoteSensing #SEVIRI

Last 30 days of hermal flux rates observed on Mt Etna from SEVIRI. There are huge peaks right after Christmas and around New Year's.

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

Having Just Realized™ that I can use Sphere Glyphs to render my particles in #ParaView, I am now Very Happy™ because my low-resolution #SPH simulations can be made to appear so much nicer. #SmoothedParticleHydrodynamics #CFD #ComputationalFluidDynamics #rendering #visualization

Cross section of the SPHERIC 2 test case, with each SPH particle rendered as an appropriately-sized sphere.

The test case at 0.5 seconds: the water has just reached the obstacles, creating a splash.

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

Sulla strada per scendere al lavoro ci sono degli #stencil su un breve tratto di strada che porta anche ad una biblioteca. Oggi ho deciso di fotografare quelli testuali (altri sono impronte di scarpe e frecce), perché li ho trovati interessanti. Scusate se le […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Leggere è andare incontro a qualcosa che sta per essere e ancora nessuno sa cosa sarà

Lasciateci leggere e lasciateci ballare: questi due divertimenti non faranno mai male al mondo.

Nessun orgoglio per alcun* di noi, senza liberazione per tutt* noi

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

Yesterday was the last day of #SPHERIC2025. Huge thanks to the local organizing committee for their hard (mostly behind the scenes) work, and all the #SPHERIC community for the enjoyable #conference and #unconference. A special thanks goes to Corrado Altomare […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Corrado Altomare delivering his speech of hope during the closing address of the 19th SPHERIC World Conference (SPHERIC 2025). Behind him a projected side with a world map, with dots on the cities where the participants came from. There are dots from all continents except Antarctica. The text reads:

(top) Science should build bridges, not borders.

(bottom) Collaboration is our strongest form of resistance.

130 participants | 27 countries | 1 community

Let's keep this spirit alive — beyond these walls.

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

Venerdí prossimo (30 maggio, ore 18) sarò alla #Feltrinelli di #Catania come relatore per la presentazione del libro «È STATO IL TERREMOTO: tra disinformazione e mancata informazione» di Roberto Guardo @guardovulcani #terremoti #divulgazioneScientifica #divulgazione

Locandina dell'evento. La copertina del libro è rossa, con un'Italia in arancione in bassorilievo, come argilla spaccata.

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

I'm starting to think there's a while class for them.

Pigeon strutting around in the halls of my department at the University.

Another pigeon strutting around in the halls of my department at the University.

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2025

These models work surprisingly well. Despite the massive simplifications, they are still able to predict with astonishing accuracy the lava flow paths, emplacement extents and even the timing. Due to some miraculous balance, at the scale at which we do our […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2025

I've been to Rome (and back) to present our results to the stakeholders. They were very well received, and we got a lot of suggestions on other things to look into. Very nice meeting. I had to take every single mass transit option to get there: plane, train […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A fluffy sea of white clouds lit by the sun, taken from a plane window. The wing is visible.

If you zoom in towards the middle of the photo you can see the top of Mt Etna emerging from the clouds. Smoke is coming out, flattened by the wind.

Similar to the previous photo, but at a different angle.

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Giuseppe Bilotta @giuseppebilotta.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2025

When this post mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/11380… by @coreyspowell popped up in my feed just now my first thought was: «wait, I'm pretty sure I saw something similar at a recent #SPHERIC conference» so of course I checked the linked […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A figure from the linked article, showing SPH simulations of the possible impacts on Uranus that have led to it having such a tilted axis. There are 16 snapshots, at higher resolution going left to right, and different times going top to bottom.

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