David Dao

🌿 BioBlitz update: 16 rounds since late June! Together you've shared 9,400+ nature observations, plus 18,800+ audio recordings since audio joined in Round 13. Round 16 (Oct 12–18) added 622 more observations 🧵

I love @gainforest.earth 💚

"the Amazon has only 0.05% of all the data" @daviddao.org on why carbon models trained on European forests fail on mangroves, and who pays for that gap @gainforest.earth closes it from the ground up, now on @atproto.com 🌱 youtube.com/watch?v=_t9...

"This is what a truly networked movement does. It's more than interoperability between platforms, it's infrastructure for trust, visibility and connection" By a @gainforest.earth user discovering @atproto.com's magic for the first time! 🦋🌱 Their full post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Question to @atmosphere.community: What’s the (official?) best way to get an atmosphere / @atproto.com working group going on environmental data? We have reached critical mass! 🌱🦋

Woow, the winner of our last @gainforest.earth BioBlitz Round 3 is awesome! Check our her nature photography on gainforest.app, it's NatGeo vibes! 🌱 www.gainforest.app/en/account/r...

Congrats to all of the winners of the AI for Public Goods grants program!! So inspired to see the breadth of work being done on biodiversity, mental health, democratic engagement, and better funding mechanisms for public goods (very meta!).

Bluesky (and @atproto.com) feels like early days twitter when it was my favorite social media 🌱 Good to be back

@holke.xyz, Karma, Sharfy A, and @daviddao.org are coming to DWeb Camp to present “Designing Funding Mechanisms on AT Protocol with Hypercerts”, featuring @hypercerts.org and @atproto.com 👀 ➡️ See the full schedule here ⬅️

Wow!! Quadratic Funding works!! @maearth.com @hypercerts.org @gainforest.earth and friends have worked hard over the last year to deploy the largest QF round for land stewards in the world. Within just 2 days, more than 100K+ USD from more than 1880+ individual donors. Check out maearth.com

𝑩𝒖𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒔 goes live tomorrow! 🌏 Join us for the first-ever live demo of the impact reporting platform that turns community-led conservation work into verified, impact records. 📅 July 3, 2026 🕑 1:30 PM CET | Online 🔗 Register here: luma.com/91tiylnt

gainforest.substack.com/p/what-a-com... read more about our adventures in the Amazon helping to create Indigenous AI & biodiversity technology

# Rewilding the Web A button on my phone. One word: “Migrate.” I pressed it. From Bluesky to W, hosted in Europe — and I kept what mattered. My posts, my follows, the years of conversation: still reachable.

Rented intelligence is arguably the most dangerous dependency of our modern times. We pay for our data to be extracted while created decisions are not our own anymore. Yesterday showed us a glimpse what this means to the world. We need data and decision sovereignty!

Cool to see @hypercerts.org on the What's Hot list of community lexicons! 🤩

Claude Fabel built me an open-source and free MIT-license superwhisper-like app that I now use all the time. Feel free to use it for local and fast dictation. It even came up with the name and logo github.com/daviddao/mur...

I always enjoy my time with the communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Check out @fatin.gainforest.id great blog post on @gainforest.earth work there using @atproto.com-style decentralization to collect biodiversity data gainforest.substack.com/p/what-we-le...

The @channelnewsasia.bsky.social documentary featuring @gainforest.earth last year just won gold in the World Media Festival!! 🥇 Check out our work in the Southern Philippines here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWz...

Honestly, @bsky.app and @atproto.com is so awesome, but much of my academic and work community is still stuck in X. Any ideas how to convince them to migrate and move? Asking for a friend.

I'll be in Munich this July speaking at ethis.xyz. Excited to meet fellow builders and researchers - but ESPECIALLY EXCITED to speak inside my favorite museum of my childhood, the German Museum of Science 🧬 🌱!!!

Who owns data produced by land stewards, and who profits? What might it look like if the people closest to the land held the power to define, measure, and communicate their impact? @holke.xyz joins @maearth.com Learning Lab this Tuesday. Explore with us hypercerts on @atproto.com t.co/PwEbiwwR7z

Want to check out my talk from #AtmosphereConf and #ATScience? Here is a link! I talked about an effort to migrate people in my field over to Bluesky, and why I think things didn't work out as well as we had hoped. Be sure to watch the other talks too; they were amazing! 👇

Super cool talk by @rogergrosse.bsky.social at @simonsinstitute.bsky.social “Agency in collaborative learning” Workshop Influence functions and counterfactual training is used to detect training data points most influential to cause sycophancy in frontier models such as @anthropic.com Claude Mythos

We are welcoming @protocollabs.bsky.social as our final #AtmosphereConf sponsor to be announced Protocol Labs is the original creator of IPFS and continues to grow an innovation network around driving breakthroughs in computing.

Hello world from @gainforest.earth own PDS (gainforest.id) 🌱

I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps. Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!

Forests are data-rich~ and we're learning to listen. 🌿 🎙️ On human.​talk we speak with Dr. David Dao @daviddao.org, co-founder of @gainforest.earth, about AI for biodiversity, the data gap in conservation, and building systems aligned with human & ecological flourishing. 🎧 Episode drops tomorrow

We're excited to be part of #COP30 in Brazil with @drolnick.bsky.social, @daviddao.org and Maria João Sousa! We will be part of and organizing several events, starting on Nov 10. To learn more, check our website: www.climatechange.ai/events/cop30

Launching AI for Public Goods Fast Grants! We'll distribute $150k to advance critical work connecting AI and public goods. 💰 $10k per project 💰 $800 reviewer compensation PUBLIC GOODS := open source, ecosystem services, climate, urban infrastructure, communication, education, science, and more.

🌍 What if data could be worth more than deforestation? GainForest turns local environmental knowledge into income, using web3 to incentivize protection rather than exploitation.

Learn more about @gainforest.earth and @daviddao.org's work at gainforest.earth

Yay, restor.eco now officially supports @gainforest.earth certified projects / communities 🌱

At @gainforest.earth, we explore how emerging tech can enable local communities to govern the commons at scale in the intelligent age. Read the vision here: www.daviddao.org/posts/regene...

Sometimes I think that Richard Brautigan’s "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" should be the unofficial poem of @gainforest.earth — a cybernetic meadow where deep tech & nature's communities live in harmony, not in conflict 🌱

Starting @gainforest.earth remains one of my proudest journeys. The need for a tech-savvy, community-first non-profit to back nature’s stewards feels more urgent than ever. 🌱 This testimony on GainForest from my friend Pure of the Sateré-Mawé still gives me chills: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoF...

In the last decade, web3 has sparked a renaissance in public goods mechanism design little known in academia. I’m excited to share a (still evolving) short history of mechanism design for public goods across academia and web3 to help bridge both fields. Explore the timeline: recerts.org/history 🌱