David Dao
@daviddao.org
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist @gainforest.earth
Lead Economies & Governance @plrd.org
Lead Economies & Governance @plrd.org
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"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...
@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...
David Dao (GainForest): AI for Conservation and Human Agency | human.talk podcast
In this episode of human.talk, we speak with Dr. David Dao: AI rese...
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August 22, 2026 at 12:03 PM
"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...
@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/...
By a @gainforest.earth user discovering @atproto.com's magic for the first time! 🦋🌱
Their full post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident.
While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the wa...
Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident.
While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the way th...
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July 24, 2026 at 10:04 PM
"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/...
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! 🌱🦋
What’s the (official?) best way to get an atmosphere / @atproto.com working group going on environmental data? We have reached critical mass! 🌱🦋
July 23, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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! 🌱🦋
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...
www.gainforest.app/en/account/r...
Reyhaneh — Account
Ecologist, Wildlife Photographer
www.gainforest.app
July 20, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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...
www.gainforest.app/en/account/r...
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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!).
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!).
I'm so excited to announce this year's winners of the @ai4pg.com $150K Grants program, supporting the AI community that improves how public goods are funded, evaluated and governed in an equitable way.
Explore the winning projects and abstracts: www.ai4pg.com/grants/ai4pg...
Explore the winning projects and abstracts: www.ai4pg.com/grants/ai4pg...
July 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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!).
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!).
I'm so excited to announce this year's winners of the @ai4pg.com $150K Grants program, supporting the AI community that improves how public goods are funded, evaluated and governed in an equitable way.
Explore the winning projects and abstracts: www.ai4pg.com/grants/ai4pg...
Explore the winning projects and abstracts: www.ai4pg.com/grants/ai4pg...
July 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM
I'm so excited to announce this year's winners of the @ai4pg.com $150K Grants program, supporting the AI community that improves how public goods are funded, evaluated and governed in an equitable way.
Explore the winning projects and abstracts: www.ai4pg.com/grants/ai4pg...
Explore the winning projects and abstracts: www.ai4pg.com/grants/ai4pg...
Bluesky (and @atproto.com) feels like early days twitter when it was my favorite social media 🌱 Good to be back
July 15, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Bluesky (and @atproto.com) feels like early days twitter when it was my favorite social media 🌱 Good to be back
Excited to share the launch of the next phase of @gainforest.earth 🌱
Gainforest.app helps communities document biodiversity, build resilience and receive funding.
Built on top of @atproto.com with @hypercerts.org and @maearth.com to start a new regenerative movement in the @atmosphere.community 🌱
Gainforest.app helps communities document biodiversity, build resilience and receive funding.
Built on top of @atproto.com with @hypercerts.org and @maearth.com to start a new regenerative movement in the @atmosphere.community 🌱
July 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Excited to share the launch of the next phase of @gainforest.earth 🌱
Gainforest.app helps communities document biodiversity, build resilience and receive funding.
Built on top of @atproto.com with @hypercerts.org and @maearth.com to start a new regenerative movement in the @atmosphere.community 🌱
Gainforest.app helps communities document biodiversity, build resilience and receive funding.
Built on top of @atproto.com with @hypercerts.org and @maearth.com to start a new regenerative movement in the @atmosphere.community 🌱
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@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 ⬅️
➡️ See the full schedule here ⬅️
July 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
@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 ⬅️
➡️ 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
Within just 2 days, more than 100K+ USD from more than 1880+ individual donors. Check out maearth.com
Ma Earth | Collective funding for community-led regeneration
Ma Earth is a collective funding platform for community-led regeneration.
maearth.com
July 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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
Within just 2 days, more than 100K+ USD from more than 1880+ individual donors. Check out maearth.com
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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
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
July 2, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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
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
What a community taught an AI about itself: Conservation Technology with Arte & Escola na Floresta
By Nurfatin Hamzah, Diego Rivera, David Dao & Arte & Escola na Floresta
gainforest.substack.com
June 26, 2026 at 1:54 PM
gainforest.substack.com/p/what-a-com... read more about our adventures in the Amazon helping to create Indigenous AI & biodiversity technology
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# 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.
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.
June 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
# 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.
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!
Yesterday showed us a glimpse what this means to the world. We need data and decision sovereignty!
June 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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!
Yesterday showed us a glimpse what this means to the world. We need data and decision sovereignty!
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Cool to see @hypercerts.org on the What's Hot list of community lexicons! 🤩
June 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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...
GitHub - daviddao/murmur: Hold right ⌘, speak, release — open-source local dictation for macOS (Parakeet on CoreML or ElevenLabs)
Hold right ⌘, speak, release — open-source local dictation for macOS (Parakeet on CoreML or ElevenLabs) - daviddao/murmur
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June 11, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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...
What we learned by listening: deploying conservation AI in the Amazon
By Nurfatin Hamzah, Diego Rivera, David Dao, Samuel Munduruku and Eduardo Santos Silva
gainforest.substack.com
June 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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...
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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...
Check out our work in the Southern Philippines here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWz...
This AI App Pays Locals To Conserve Mangroves In The Philippines | Tech To Save The World
YouTube video by CNA Insider
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June 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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...
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.
June 8, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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 🧬 🌱!!!
June 8, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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 🧬 🌱!!!
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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
@holke.xyz joins @maearth.com Learning Lab this Tuesday. Explore with us hypercerts on @atproto.com
t.co/PwEbiwwR7z
April 20, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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
@holke.xyz joins @maearth.com Learning Lab this Tuesday. Explore with us hypercerts on @atproto.com
t.co/PwEbiwwR7z
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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! 👇
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! 👇
April 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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! 👇
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
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
April 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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
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
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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.
Protocol Labs is the original creator of IPFS and continues to grow an innovation network around driving breakthroughs in computing.
AtmosphereConf Sponsor: Protocol Labs - ATmosphereConf News
Protocol Labs is a sponsor of AtmosphereConf, supporting lunch for the Founders & Funders Workshop
news.atmosphereconf.org
March 20, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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.
Protocol Labs is the original creator of IPFS and continues to grow an innovation network around driving breakthroughs in computing.