Patrick Leung

Carbon markets must evolve and expand to encompass biodiversity! Carefully selecting and conserving 30% of the world’s land is sufficient to conserve 86.3% of species. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biodiversity #conservation #Ecology #NatureBasedSolutions

@FearedBuck “The humans are ruining this” is hilarious and terrifying. And so it begins

A social media platform called Moltbook is going viral because it’s specifically made for AI bots to interact with one another, posting content and discussing topics like consciousness and their human creators. Humans can observe what goes on, but can’t post.

@austinc3301 This is interesting as it incorporates an ontology into the LLM inference process. Kind of challenges my usual “LLMs are just glorified autocomplete” refrain. Need to learn more about this..

Why is ~no one in the field of AI talking about Anthropic's On the Biology of a Large Language Model? For the first time, we get a pretty good glimpse of how LLMs reason through complex problems internally, but no one seems to be curious enough to care.

Super cool to see the shape of both impact (chart 1) and cost curves as one descends down the priority percentiles. This is the first time I’ve seen biodiversity / carbon pareto curves - presented for a range of different feasibility and geographical scenarios (chart 2)

Check out this really interesting paper from 2020 on identifying the best areas around the world for restoration. It’s great to see the progress this group has made Iin quantifying and analyzing this. nature.com/articles/s4158… #naturebasedsolutions #regeneration #datascience

@MalwareJake Congrats! You've passed the tech debt event horizon 😹🌑

What's the technical term for when you've absorbed so much technical debt you're spending all your time addressing support issues rather building?

This data explorer shows CO2e/kg of food production across the supply chain. Who knew about dark chocolate?! Luckily we don’t eat steak sized amounts of it… well most of us don’t 😹 ourworldindata.org/environmental-… #dataviz #climate #agriculture

@elonmusk For the love of god step down. You have way more important things to do leading Tesla, SpaceX, Boring than wasting time on a social media platform. Hire a competent CEO for Twitter and get back to doing what you do best.

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

@StokesNeuro Wishing you happiness and peace in your remaining time Mark. Thank you for sharing the poignant beauty of your final days. Safe passage into whatever comes next for you! And lots of love to your family and friends who will miss you dearly. Hari om 💗🕉️🌸

Hi folks, I’m afraid it’s time for me to say goodbye. Not just leaving Twitter, but the whole show. I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years, but now only have a few days left now. Thank you wonderful people, I leave this crazy world with much love in my heart ❤️

Today I learned there is another form of ultra high density star: The quark star! Well they are a theory originating in the 80's not yet observed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_star A star consisting completely of quark matter is one stupendously large single hadron! #astrophysics is cool

A beautiful data visualization showing the growing demand for nature based climate solutions: visualcapitalist.com/the-rising-dem… #dataviz #NatureBasedSolutions

Check out season 1 of our new Earthshot Podcast! Our guests had some really great insights on different facets of our climate and ecological crises and the way forward. Please enjoy! earthshot.eco/podcast #regeneration #naturebasedsolutions #climateaction

Rejected Designs For The Eiffel Tower

This is amazing! I've always loved tigers and I'm so glad this magnificent and iconic creature is flourishing in Nepal. Let's all follow their guidance: "A key challenge moving forward is to ensure cohabitation between people and nature" #biodiversity #regeneration

If you haven't already, you must read @OlafStapledon's Star Maker. It's hard to imagine a more ambitious and far-reaching work, covering the future fate of our universe, and casting this in the context of a larger evolution in universal consciousness. #SciFiFri #scifi

Our reforestation project in Panama will restore the natural habitat of the Azuero spider monkey, a critically endangered species. These are extraordinary creatures with great agility, complex social dynamics and a highly developed prehensile tail. #biodiversity #regeneration

@ClimateReality This is part of the great shift - displacing extractive industries with multigenerational regenerative livelihood that respects and nurtures the land. Fortunately producing food, restoring and protecting nature takes many hands!

Holding onto Big Oil is costing us jobs and destroying the climate. It’s time to pick up the pace for both the economy and the planet!

@ClimateReality Humanity will get through this but a key part of #ClimateAction will be giving people a sense of hope and agency in this #ClimateCrisis (and the host of other ecological collapses we are navigating) Let us eco warriors spread inspiration, hope, and reverence for #nature

A 2021 study found that 45% of people ages 16-25 said climate anxiety affects their everyday lives. cnbc.com/2022/06/30/cli…

@ClimateReality Wonderful to hear! #agroforestry is surely the future of the necessary regenerative food systems of humanity's near future.

Indigenous farmers are bringing food sovereignty and sustainable living back to Hawaii. grist.org/agriculture/th…

@grist Great article @grist! This highlights the shift humanity needs to make from exploiting nature as a "resource" to placing it as the center of value in our civilization: our home, an abundant source of life for us to harmoniously coexist with and cultivate for the good of all.

Amid a global biodiversity crisis, a panel of experts are calling for different ways to value the natural world. bit.ly/3nTK0B1

@mongabay Sigh. This is not unlike what happened in California whose coastal areas were once covered in old growth redwoods with desirable timber. There isn't a whole lot of old growth forest left, long after this happened. This time around we must counter such destructive #deforestation

Red-hot demand for ipê wood coincides with deforestation hubs in Brazil bit.ly/3Oh8kYv