Congratulations to JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow and CU Boulder Physics Jun Ye and his team for making the cover of the latest issue of nature for their work on the Thorium-229 transition, which is key to nuclear clocks! nist.gov/news-events/ne… jila.colorado.edu/news-events/ar… CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences

Me rereading my first faculty proposal draft last week

229ThF4 thin films for solid-state nuclear clocks arxiv.org/abs/2410.01753

The Engel group has recently discovered that two packets of solar energy (excitons) can sit on top of each other without interacting. Their discovery can aid material design for photovoltaics. Engel Group at UChicago UChiPhysicalSciences UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.

Our work was featured in the Washington Post! Read here: washingtonpost.com/science/2024/1…

We recently launched our "Professional Research Development Program" for grad students and postdocs to gain skills beyond their core science training. jila.colorado.edu/news-events/ne… TY: Fellows Ana Maria Rey and Andreas Becker, @SarahMScheiner, Jake Higgins, @aimlessinspace, Lauren

In a new nature paper, JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow and @CUBoulderphys prof Jun Ye and his team collaborated with UCLA prof Eric Hudson to make a method for creating thin layers of thorium, a promising new platform for future #nuclearclocks. jila.colorado.edu/news-events/ar… CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences

New arxiv posting! Non-perturbative exciton transfer rate analysis of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson photosynthetic complex under reduced and oxidised conditions arxiv.org/abs/2412.14883

The next "Humans of JILA" article is here and written by our Sci-Com mentee, Willa Arthur-Dworschack! Meet JILA Postdoc Jake Higgins, working on the nuclear #clock team in the lab of JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow and @CUBoulderphys prof Jun Ye. jila.colorado.edu/blog/jila-jour… CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences

🦋 jakehiggins

if anyone at NASA or other federal science orgs would like to talk to a reporter about the recent DEIA changes, please get in touch #journorequest

In an Editor's Choice "Physical Review Letters" paper, researchers from JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow and CU Boulder Physics prof Jun Ye's group looked at how various temperature changes in the thorium #nuclearclock setup drove energy shifts. jila.colorado.edu/news-events/ar… CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences

My first author postdoc paper is finally published in PRL today! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

It's world metrology day, and he still hasn't told me I’m beyond measure.

Frequency reproducibility of solid-state Th-229 nuclear clocks new paper! arxiv.org/abs/2507.01180