Jake Higgins
jakehiggins.bsky.social
Jake Higgins
@jakehiggins.bsky.social
Postdoc JILA, Ye Group | PhD UChicago, Engel Group | they/them
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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."
June 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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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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March 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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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...
www.quantamagazine.org
January 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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.

jila.colorado.edu/bibcite/refe...
January 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM