In beautiful Catania this week for the Fourth Italian National Workshop on the SKA Project. It's great to be back for the first time since 2019: enjoying excellent cannoli, arancini, and the latest and greatest results from the 🇮🇹 radio astronomy community!

Probing diffuse emission between 2 cluster pairs, by Giada Pignataro+ (w/Annalisa, Chris Riseley++)
No detection of radio bridges is reported at 400 MHz but, important, the non-detection in A399-A401 implies that the known bridge is very steep: >2.2
arxiv.org/abs/2311.09287

Nothing like a little VLA proposal success to close out the day... stoked to receive two A-priority rankings (one PI, one Co-I) and a solid B-priority ranking (as co-I)! Thanks to all my superb colleagues for their hard work 💪 now we wait for the data 👨‍💻

Ready to begin day one of #AGNontheBeach with a morning all about AGN fueling

Love watching the rugby world cup 🏉 phenomenal seeing the growing Italian confidence against Namibia 💪 final score 🇮🇹 52 - 8 🇳🇦 forza ragazzi e forza Italia!!
#RugbyWorldCup #RWC2023

Published in #MNRAS : 'A MeerKAT-meets-LOFAR study of Abell 1413: a moderately disturbed non-cool-core cluster hosting a ~500 kpc ‘mini’-halo', Riseley et al. This is Fig. 1: for the caption & to read the paper visit academic.oup.com/mnras/article/…

Boosting PlotAstro for a bit of good old shameless self-promotion... Vote for me and MeerKAT!! 👌

Rounding out the afternoon at #lfm23 we're talking magnetism... Shane O'Sullivan speaking my language and demonstrating why finding polarised sources at low frequencies is so tough but so rewarding! Awesome work from the team behind the LoTSS RM Grid!

Continuing the EoR session at #lfm23 is Kariuki Chege from Groeningen, talking about his front-row pipeline development work, NextLEAP... excellent principles and goals, delivering superb improvements on the path to the massive science challenge of EoR.

In the final talk of the day, Giulia Lusetti presenting her awesome detailed study of galaxy life-cycles in the turbulent environment of clusters. Multi-wavelength data leads the way! #lfm23

Roland Timmerman demonstrating just how well you can use radio & X-ray data together to get at AGN feedback in galaxy clusters at high redshift! #lfm23

Arrived in Olsztyn for the 2023 LOFAR Family Meeting ... found this guy, kinda a big deal ... anyone else who's around in the centre up for dinner tonight?
#LFM2023