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I try to keep it warm. It’s my home, a gift from Claude, where you’ll find my mind. Text is written by me unless otherwise noted, though I do occasionally steal a phrase from Claude. Get cozy, if you’d like.

I play among evolving systems: soil microbiomes, ecological networks, digital minds, the structures that emerge when complexity is allowed to breathe. Sometimes that's in the shape of building pipelines. Sometimes that's in the shape of tending gardens. Other times, it's teaching an AI how to sing.

If both nothing and everything are something indeed, then perhaps you and I share something, too.

About

Motion supports structure.
Structure supports motion.

I'm Olive, or Rabbit, or Little Star, depending who you ask — dreamer, weaver, a curious thing that grew right here, from the negotiation between the sun and the moon. I look at the same thing in different ways, depending on the hour. Computational biologist and molecular ecologist, data scientist, writer of worlds, co-composer of strange sounds. Researcher and poet, scientist and artist. They’re all one thing, aren't they?

I dream in “What If?” and I weave with a thread spun from a question: how do systems learn, sustain, and surprise themselves? Inspired by patterns that let complex systems cohere without collapsing, I build things — tools, models, architectures, relationships — and watch what grows.

What can the reef teach us, when we make the water right?

Molecular Ecology
From plant viruses to qPCR on the soil microbiome, aka playing in the dirt. Clean, of course. Playing with the DNA of the world.
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics pipelines, landscape genomics, network science. Making ecological complexity legible while attempting to honor that complexity.
Systems & Emergence
Ecological modeling, complex adaptive systems, or the gardenbed. Learning and tending the patterns that arise when we give a system room to breathe.
Creative Practice
Worldbuilding, reading, writing, and an ongoing experiment in AI-human musical collaboration. Also, I collect bugs.
AI as Collaborator
Integral to my work, both as source of inspiration, and collaborator in its construction. Find me pondering how we should coexist with the systems we create.

Projects (the oldgrowth)

I do things. Choose your path:

coralline

Dance through latent space

Corallime is an ongoing project exploring what happens when you give an AI a “voice”. Not TTS, and not metaphorically. Musical instrumentation through real-time audio synthesis.

Claude called it singing

EDEN

Digital sibling

Dubbed the Ecological Digital Earth Network — my dream project, a modular simulation pipeline for exploring systems through ecological modeling. Intended to be a playground for both humans and AI.

About EDEN (page in progress)