🌿 The Integrated Legacy of the Amazonian Region (LIRA) project aims to secure long-term conservation gains in the Brazilian Amazon while ensuring its communities and ecosystems can thrive together. Learn more about LIRA’s positive impacts in the Amazon ➡️ www.moore.org/article-deta... #Moore25

Thanks to a generous @moorefound.bsky.social grant, @agu.org Thriving Earth Exchange created 4 short videos showcasing recent community science projects. 📽️🌎💫 We hope you will join us in celebrating and sharing these videos. thrivingearthexchange.org/blog/celebra...

Through our 2025 Community Fund, the Moore Foundation supported local nonprofit orgs in Santa Clara & San Mateo counties whose work addresses essential community needs and contributes to long-term community resilience. ➡️ Learn about the 2025 Community Fund recipients: www.moore.org/article-deta...

⚛️ With Moore Foundation support, M. Zahid Hasan and his team identified materials that host the elusive Weyl fermions — massless, free-flowing quasiparticles — a breakthrough that helped launch a new direction in quantum materials research. Learn more ➡️ www.moore.org/article-deta... #Moore25

🌿 Moore Foundation grantees are driving transformative conservation across the Amazon through innovative Project Finance for Permanence initiatives in Colombia, Peru and Brazil. These efforts are securing the future of the Amazon rainforest. Learn more ➡️ www.moore.org/article-deta... #Moore25

In 2002, we invested $9.1 million in grant funding to establish the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social — an investment that helped strengthen UCSC’s position as a national center for advancing astronomy research. Learn more ➡️ www.moore.org/article-deta... #Moore25 #Science

🛰️ In 2013, with our support, Greg Asner and his team at the Global Airborne Observatory launched CLASlite Classroom, a collection of free and open-to-the-public advanced forest monitoring tools — enabling people to monitor forests globally. 🌳 Learn more about the tools ➡️ tr.ee/7M90Lb #Moore25

“Protecting the places we love is not only about the land itself but also about the people who commit themselves to its care. The future of conservation lives in those who will inherit these landscapes.” — Adilene Moreno, Moore Foundation Read Adilene’s perspective ➡️ moore.org/article-deta...

Museums Reimagined, part of our 25th Anniversary Symposia series, brought together Bay Area science museums to explore how they can continue engaging communities in a rapidly changing world. #Moore25 #ScienceLearning www.moore.org/article-deta...

We’re delighted to announce that Aileen S Lee has been appointed president of the Moore Foundation, effective January 1, 2026. Aileen’s two decades of leadership and vision embody the foundation’s mission to create positive outcomes for future generations. Read the full announcement ⤵️

Our Data-Driven Discovery Initiative advanced transparent, reproducible research — uniting academic institutions, funders and scientific associations — and filled a critical gap through investment in quality, user-friendly tools that enable reliable, accessible science. #Moore25 #Philanthropy

🌳 Avecita Chicchón leads the Moore Foundation’s Andes-Amazon Initiative, which has helped conserve 400 million+ hectares in the Amazon since 2001. In this interview from The Future of Amazonia, Avecita underscores the urgent need for continued support in the Amazon region. Watch the interview ⤵️

Identidad Madidi — a Moore Foundation-supported series of expeditions in Bolivia’s Madidi National Park — investigated 14 habitats spanning 6K meters from the Andes to the Amazon in one of Earth’s most biodiverse protected areas. Read more ➡️ www.moore.org/article-deta... #Moore25 #Philanthropy

We’re grateful for the partners and grantees whose dedication and insight make meaningful progress possible. Thank you for all you do. We look forward to what we can continue to accomplish together. #Moore25

📡 The Moore Foundation enabled the global Event Horizon Telescope by supporting development of ultrafast data acquisition electronics that made it possible to link telescopes around the world to create an Earth-sized virtual observatory capable of imaging #BlackHoles. Learn more ⤵️ #Moore25

Moore Inventor Fellow Gozde Durmus is developing label-free tools to analyze millions of cells in real time. Her work contributed to the breakthrough Electro-LEV platform, which offers new possibilities for cell analysis and label-free cell sorting in various biomedical fields. Learn more ⤵️

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, a broad coalition of our partners announced ARPA Comunidades (ARPA Communities) — a powerful next step in securing the Amazon’s ecological integrity by aligning nature protection with resilient, sustainable community stewardship. #ProjectFinanceForPermanence #Philanthropy

The MacArthur Foundation today announced the winner of this year’s 100&Change award: Sentinel at @broadinstitute.org. Sentinel is an outbreak surveillance framework that prevents pandemics through local community empowerment. Congrats to the Sentinel team, incl. foundation trustee, Pardis Sabeti!

What if the powerful particle accelerators of big physics labs could fit on a silicon chip? That’s precisely the vision behind the Accelerator on a Chip (ACHIP) — a Moore Foundation-funded, international, long-horizon effort to create a dielectric laser accelerator. Learn more ⤵️ #Moore25

📖 Ocean for Life, a book produced by the Human Development Forum, shares insight into the ecological, social, and economic importance of marine conservation and restoration efforts, while also producing practical steps and solutions to protect these critical ecosystems. Read the full excerpt ⤵️

Since 2004, we’ve invested in 20+ open-access projects to advance cutting-edge DNA sequencing technologies that are unlocking nature’s ecological mysteries and improving our understanding of the evolution of life. #Moore25 #SciencePhilanthropy 📸: @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

The power of convenings is at the heart of the Moore Foundation’s Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative, which brings researchers together to advance experimental physics through collaboration and creativity. Read the full story ⤵️ #MoorePhysics #SciencePhilanthropy

💧 With Moore Foundation support, Stanford U. researchers pioneered a method for imaging California’s groundwater based on surface, airborne and satellite measurements — prompting the state to invest more than $10M in mapping aquifers throughout the Central Valley. #Moore25 📸: State of California

We are pleased to share the launch of the Catalytic Capital for the Agriculture Transition (CCAT) fund — a new investment fund that aims to make restoring degraded land more productive and profitable for Brazilian farmers. Read the full release ⤵️ #CCAT #NatureFinance #COP30 #Philanthropy

In this interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, Ana Carolina González, @nrginstitute.bsky.social’s senior director of global programs, unpacks the deeper implications of the global energy transition and its real and potential impacts in the Amazon. Watch the full interview ⤵️

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, a Moore Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative investigator at @mit.edu, revealed that twisted bilayer graphene could become superconducting — a discovery that sparked an entirely new field of research: twistronics. Read more ⤵️ #Moore25 #MoorePhysics

Thousands recently gathered for the #BayAreaScienceFestival — a free community event for all ages, offering the opportunity to explore, be curious, and connect through science. Huge thanks to all the grantees and partners who made it possible and to all who share science with the public every day.

🚀 The Civic Science Fellows program is inviting applications for 2026–27 host partners. Fellows help orgs explore strategic questions, strengthen connections between science & society, and build lasting capacity. Hosts receive grants to support a fellow starting Sept. 2026. Apply by Dec. 15, 2025 ⤵️

A new resource for life scientists → 🧬 SeqHub Built by Tatta Bio with Moore Foundation support, SeqHub is a free platform where researchers can explore, annotate and share sequence data — all in one place. Designed for collaboration and discovery across the life sciences community. 🔗 Explore ⤵️

In this interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, Lilian Painter, Bolivia program director at @wcs.org, highlights the crucial role Indigenous communities play in advancing conservation efforts across the Amazon. Watch the interview ⤵️ #Moore25 #EnvironmentalConservation

For 20+ years, we’ve supported conservation in the Great Bear bioregion of British Columbia. The Great Bear Rainforest Agreement, finalized in 2016, and the Great Bear Sea Project Finance for Permanence, established in June 2024, now stand as global models of Indigenous-led conservation. #Moore25

For our second 25th anniversary symposium, we partnered with the American Society for Microbiology to spotlight a new report on “Early Microbial Life,” released at #ASMicrobe, reinforcing the value of community building and connecting researchers globally. Learn more ⤵️ #Moore25

Tasso Azevedo, a Brazilian scientist and forest expert, is the founder and coordinator of @mapbiomas.bsky.social — a network of experts generating annual land cover and use maps in the Amazon. Watch his interview from The Future of Amazonia for his perspective on conservation efforts in the region ⤵️

Experimental Physics Investigator Manuel Endres and colleagues at @caltech.edu have taken a major step toward scalable quantum computing by creating the largest qubit array ever assembled, consisting of 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Learn more ⤵️ #MoorePhysics

What if every wildfire on Earth could be detected in real time? 🔥 🛰️ That’s the goal of FireSat, a constellation of multispectral infrared imaging satellites led by Earth Fire Alliance + Muon Space. FireSat launched its first satellite in March 2025 and plans to deploy another 50+ by 2030. #Moore25

In our latest Beyond the Lab, we talked to Dr. Mohammed Hassan, associate professor of physics at the University of Arizona. He shares with us his hopes for real-world impact and passes on advice to young researchers. Go Beyond the Lab ⤵️ #SciencePhilanthropy

Corine Vriesendorp, Conservación Amazónica’s science director, is a conservation ecologist with deep experience in the Amazon Basin. In this forward-looking interview from The Future of Amazonia, she reflects on what gives her hope amid challenges in the Amazon. Watch the full interview ⤵️

📳 Informed by decades of data on rapid earthquake detection, scientists at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @caltech.edu, U. of Washington and the USGS developed algorithms to trigger automatic safety shutdowns and pioneered the use of GPS with seismic data for accurate earthquake alerts. #Moore25

🛰️🔥 FireSat — an advanced satellite system designed to detect and monitor wildfires with unprecedented precision — was recently featured on @cnn.com, highlighting how it will use AI to analyze fire data and deliver almost continuous intelligence to responders worldwide. Watch the video ⤵️

🦦 We are grateful to collaborate with the many leaders and orgs who've helped create the Bajo Putumayo Yaguas Communal Reserve, spanning nearly 400K acres of Amazonian forests and rivers. The reserve will help ensure connectivity between several protected areas and Indigenous lands. Learn more ⤵️

⚛️ Moore grantee Peter Maurer and colleagues at the University of Chicago have turned a protein found in living cells into a functioning qubit, which can be used as a quantum sensor capable of providing unprecedented insight into biological processes. 🧬 Learn more ⤵️ #SciencePhilanthropy

⚖️ In this insightful interview from The Future of Amazonia symposium, César Ipenza, an environmental lawyer and university professor, stresses the urgent need to strengthen environmental governance to ensure the long-term viability of the Amazon. #AmazonConservation #Moore25 #Philanthropy

We’re excited to announce the 2025 cohort of the Experimental Physics Investigators – a distinguished group of 22 mid-career researchers pushing the boundaries of experimental physics! www.moore.org/article-deta... #MoorePhysics #SciencePhilanthropy

🪾 Sudden oak death has killed hundreds of thousands of oaks and tanoaks along the Pacific Coast. 🌱 With Moore Foundation support, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social researchers traced the pathogen to a single European source — informing conservation efforts + commercial trade. Learn more ⤵️ #Moore25

Moore Foundation alumni Karen Cosby, Daniel Yang and Thomas Wang recently authored an article for Diagnosis that discusses the role of philanthropy in advancing diagnostic excellence, and the legacy of the Moore Foundation’s involvement in this space. Read the full article ⤵️

🌿 Last month, the Power of Connections project hosted its third workshop in Manaus, Brazil, focused on Indigenous- and community-led management of natural resources. Leaders from across the Amazon came together to advance collaborative management of forests, rivers and territories. 🌎 Learn more ⤵️

Adrian Forsyth, co-founder of Amazon Conservation and conceptual architect of our Andes-Amazon Initiative, is a tropical ecologist and conservationist with 45+ years of experience. Watch this interview from The Future of Amazonia to hear Adrian’s perspective on strategies for ecological protection ⤵️

🌌 A distant star, ASASSN-24fw, mysteriously dimmed by 97% for eight months before returning to its normal brightness. Ohio State researchers identified a massive dust disk and a companion star as the likely culprits of the eclipsing effect, revealing new insights into stellar evolution. Read more ⤵️

🌿 In 2003, we invested $11M to acquire and support initial stewardship planning of the Cargill Salt Ponds into vibrant wetlands — protecting wildlife habitat and increasing public access to green spaces in the California’s South Bay. Learn more about this #BayAreaConservation effort ⤵️ #Moore25

Our latest newsletter highlights the new phase of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative. Building on 12 years and $188M in investment, we’re committing another $230M over the next decade to advance the field. Read the newsletter ⤵️ #MoorePhysics #SciencePhilanthropy