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Jake Higgins
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · Jun 24
Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?"

Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."
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Jake Higgins @jakehiggins.bsky.social · Mar 18
Thanks Andres!!
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Jake Higgins @jakehiggins.bsky.social · Mar 17
My first author postdoc paper is finally published in PRL today!

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Temperature Sensitivity of a Thorium-229 Solid-State Nuclear Clock
Researchers have characterized the temperature-induced frequency shifts of a thorium-229 nuclear transition---an important step in establishing thorium clocks as next-generation frequency standards.
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Mar 17
In an Editor's Choice "Physical Review Letters" paper, researchers from JILA and NIST Fellow and @colorado.edu physics prof Jun Ye's group looked at how various temperature changes in the thorium #nuclearclock setup drove energy shifts.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Jan 10
In Tennessee, where Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli lives and works, policies targeting transgender people are on the rise. “Fifty percent of my brain is thinking about this, how can I survive, and in the remaining 50% of the brain, I can think about physics.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicis...
The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World | Quanta Magazine
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective unli...
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · Jan 7
The winter issue of "Light & Matter" is here! Read the latest about #nuclearclocks, #AtomicClocks, #quantumphysicstumphysics #physicsresearch, and more in the latest installment of our quarterly journal.

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