Dr. Lauren Olinger

Know anyone interested in coral reefs, AI, and robotics? 🤖🪸 And grad school in the Caribbean?

The VICAR lab is seeking masters students interested in applying autonomous systems to marine science @the-vicar.bsky.social

apply by March 1 ‼️
learn more about VICAR and MMES: tr.ee/vicar
🧪 🌊 🌱 🌎

GitHub - bbtheo/cuplyr: GPU powered dataframes in R GPU powered dataframes in R. Contribute to bbtheo/cuplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

What if your dplyr pipelines ran on GPU?

That's what I built with cuplyr! A CUDA-powered backend for #rstats data manipulation. Looking for testers and feedback!

github.com/bbtheo/cuplyr

What if animals emerged by installing a new biological operating system that repurposed what already existed, much like the rise of the smartphone? Here's our new paper in @embojournal.org @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @melisupf.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧵 1/?: Switching a Research Desktop to Linux (Intro & Prehistory)

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This is the first in a series of threads/mini-tutorials I'll be posting on switching a real academic research & development desktop to Linux.
Not a “open source rocks” 🧵— this is about doing actual science.
#ChemSky #AcademicSky

Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.

Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n

That’s not a barrel, that’s a tower!! Awesome picture.

YouTube video by Cornell Lab of Ornithology Islands of the Hornbills

Last night, I watched one of the best nature videos I have ever seen, from Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I have been in love with hornbills since I lived in Indonesia and Malaysia and saw them every time I went out in the jungle.

You really owe it to yourself to watch this.

Dual 5090 gpus in a computing workstation

Now that we have the most powerful computer on our lil’ campus… let’s do some marine science 👏 🧪 🪸 🖥️

Building a robotics and AI lab on a Caribbean island certainly has its challenges, but we are settling into our new home quite nicely! 👉🏻 follow @the-vicar.bsky.social if youre interested in robotics and AI for ecological conservation 🧪 #NSFfunded

someone should make a website for liberals who don’t hate technology

If you're lucky enough to be financially stable and have a few bucks to spare, now would be a really good time to donate to America's food banks. They've already lost a ton of funding this year and with SNAP on the line, more are going to need them in the coming weeks.

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

Feel for the 2nd year PhD students. I was in the group who they changed the rules on and could only apply once after applying during my masters.

Day 1 of NSF sponsored Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis time series in Brewers Bay, St Thomas, USVI with @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social and Prof Marilyn Brandt at UVI. After months of planning it was time to figure out what makes sense from

cover of a "pocket guide to scientific writing and publishing"

🚨Big news🚨

A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉

This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published

I hope it helps many
Please share with anyone who might benefit!
👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

Perks of working a little past 5☀️

YouTube video by Shape of Life Sponges - Time-lapse of Sponge Cells Recombining

"Sponges are the only animals that if broken down to the level of their cells, can reassemble themselves. A sponge is passed through a sieve to break apart its cells. The cells recognize each other and reform into small new sponges." #shapeoflife #spongeThursday youtu.be/ORV3qV8GFF4?...

The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides - Nature A direct proxy for past dissolved organic carbon signatures using co-precipitated organic carbon in iron ooids enables reconstruction of marine dissolved organic carbon signals dating back to the Pala...

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another attempt to shove Copilot down our throats?

Quick detour on the way to work this morning

Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees | ALXnow The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will reportedly take over the National Science Foundation (NSF) headquarters building (2415 Eisenhower Ave.), displacing more than 1,833 NSF emplo...

NSF employees are being forced OUT of their office by the same goons who forced them back IN to their office a few months ago. 🧪

Welcome to the 🦋!

A half hidden brown tabby peeking out from behind a fridge

Michael is jealous of this strategy, but also too shy to attempt it.

Protest in paradise #nokings #usvi

#nokings on St. John usvi 💙

energy and water use per chatgpt query is absolutely trivial

Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI open call Meet the 20 participants of the 2025 Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI receiving support to build gen AI-powered social impact solutions. Learn more ➡️ g.co/ImpactChallenge/GenAIAccelerator

IMO these opportunities seem useful for democratizing these powerful resources. impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/genaiacceler...

Seems pretty cool. It’s the nonprofit arm of google. Good access to resources and funds for the cause. “Instead of just offering AI species suggestions of what you saw, we want to offer a why as well.”

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Table showing FY26 budget numbers for NOAA from the Trump Administration.

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...