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Amy McGovern

@profamymcgovern.bsky.social
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Professor in Meteorology and Computer Science, Director of the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES), mom to @wrmf.bsky.social and @agileschnauzers.bsky.social

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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This looks fantastic. Especially speaking as someone who got hit very hard with the cuts!!
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is the entire network of radars down??
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ahh the science we could do 😭
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I found a bald eagle on my way home from agility today!!
Bald eagle sitting on a pole
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Why is Claude giving me kanji in the reply today??
Screenshot of some claude output with a Kanji character in it
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Tornado harbinger 🤣 xkcd.com/3267/
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Types of Tornado Alert
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The journal I am EIC: AMS's AI for Earth Systems just got our impact factor and we are a 4.5! Keep sending great AI for ES papers our way! journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Used the NYT "Lost Science" story about @profamymcgovern.bsky.social and NSF funding loss for AI2ES to take another look at how AI is making tangible progress to improve weather forecasts & warnings, making the admin's decision to cut funding for research even more enraging. tinyurl.com/3ynwwcyc
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Meteorology is one area where AI shows real promise - so why is the Trump Administration cutting research funding
Severe weather risks remain elevated today across central US, and for East Coast on Sunday
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
NY times covered our cut today (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/s...
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She Used A.I. to Improve Forecasts for Extreme Weather
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Good post storm clouds #okwx
Sunset in storm cloudsMamatus clouds lit from behind
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Introducing a new framework for evaluating AIWP and NWP models on a standardized set of extreme weather cases! arxiv.org/abs/2605.01126
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Extreme Weather Bench: A framework and benchmark for evaluation of high-impact weather
Forecasting the wide variety of high-impact weather events experienced globally is a challenge for both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models and it is critical th...
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Inky is so cute! We had fun with her in class today (though I had to turn her off when I derived back prop because she kept hovering over the math LOL)
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Honk! Inky is Back
The story behind Notability’s most chaotic, most beloved, and most unexpected feature.
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Should meteorologists apologize for the recent Washington DC area severe weather forecast? My thoughts. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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The Curious Outrage Over A Storm Forecast In Washington D.C.
A weather expert reflects on the recent Washington D.C-area storm forecasts and whether meteorologists should apologize.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Had this dream that I went to an AMS banquet and they served us all shrimp stuffed with escargot. Eww. That woke me up fast!
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Storm was pretty as it dropped insane hail on OKC tonight #okwx
Supercell Supercell lit up by sunset
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We are releasing extreme weather bench today!! Come see our pair of talks on it. #AMS2026 Check out: ExtremeWeatherBench 1.0: A Flexible Evaluation Framework for Extreme Weather Events @ 106th AMS Annual Meeting ams.confex.com/ams/106ANNUA...
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ExtremeWeatherBench 1.0: A Flexible Evaluation Framework for Extreme Weather Events
Properly evaluating AI and NWP models before deployment will help to ensure tha...
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Dallas from above on my way to #AMS2026
Clouds lit up from a big city below
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
AI2ES has a huge presence at #AMS2026 this year - this is a list of all ours talks along with a copy of my slides for the summary of AI2ES over the last 5 years! www.ai2es.org/ams2026/
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AI2ES AMS Talks 2026 - NSF AI2ES
AI2ES talks at AMS 2026 AI2ES talks at AMS 2026Download AI2ES Update for AMS 2026Download Sunday, January 25, 2026 7:00 - 7:15 PM (25th Annual Student Conference): GRB, Hall B3 - A FourCastNetv2 Tutor...
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Anyone made an #AMS2026 feed yet?
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
What does NCAR do for you? Made your life a lot better and safer!! Help fight for weather science! Read this and call your representatives and senators!! www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
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Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Science! We have a new deep learning precipitation nowcasting paper under review! arxiv.org/abs/2512.09059
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A Diffusion-Based Framework for High-Resolution Precipitation Forecasting over CONUS
Accurate precipitation forecasting is essential for hydrometeorological risk management, especially for anticipating extreme rainfall that can lead to flash flooding and infrastructure damage. This st...
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
More ways we are killing science (gift article)
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A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The decimation of science continues www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...
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His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
From what I see, AMS isn't in this greedy cycle. They don't operate the journals as money makers (but they do have to break even and pay their staff to maintain quality and that seems to be missed by this!) #science www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage
Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Office is toasty today 🔥
Temperature graph for my office
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is quite disturbing- I know LLMs are a problem but the extent they discovered is really concerning for science www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
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The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Anyone know what time to look for aurora tonight? I was planning to head to a more rural part of town for less light pollution.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Northern lights tonight! #okwx
Pink Aurora with treesPink Aurora and trees in house
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Yes, it is this scary in science. We were world leader only 10 months ago. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Dumb question: what happened to Ian from capital weather gang and his account on here? Also he had a list that I had pinned.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Alan has it right - we had NOTHING to do with "climate hysteria" and the sudden inability to focus on trustworthy AI for weather is only going to hurt us. We need to find a way to fund this critical research!
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
NPR’s All Things Considered covered our renewal cut to AI2ES. www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...
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The federal government ends funding for an ambitious AI project
The Trump administration has pledged to invest in artificial intelligence. Yet a promising program that uses AI to solve weather-related problems lost funding from the National Science Foundation.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Go vote for Brightband!
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Anyone know an editor at “discover sustainability” a nature journal? They have signed me up to do a review that I did not agree to and they refuse to do anything but send me reminders every day. I have emailed them three times at the official address. Help!
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Sunrise was brief, but beautiful this morning #okwx
sunrise over a soccer field
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Sunrise was on fire this morning and then if you turned around, you had a sunrise rainbow! #okwx
A rainbow with a house in the foregroundFiery orange sky sunrise
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This was nice, someone not hating science and instead singing to it. youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...
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For our scientists
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
More news on AI2ES. Please help save science funding in general but also help save AI for weather! www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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White House cuts to science funding threaten AI weather forecasting institute
The Trump administration has proposed a 55% budget cut for the National Science Foundation, but Congress has yet to pass a budget.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 20/08/2025
This is the definition of a failed social media platform.
For scientists who use social media to encourage followers to visit external links (websites, papers, etc.,) here’s some data from this blog. For nearly a decade, Twitter was the #1 or #2 source of traffic to the blog almost every day. It hasn’t been in the top 10 sources of traffic to the blog in years, and a single SheetMusicPlus.com article from 2016 generates more traffic here than all of Twitter. So far this year, Bluesky is responsible for about 100x as much traffic as Twitter. AltMetric reports that despite Twitter having 10x the user base as BlueSky, BlueSky users share almost as many scholarly publications as Twitter users- and Twitter’s numbers are declining as Bluesky’s rise.
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Central Oklahoma needs rain too! Sigh. #okwx
24 hour rainfall for Oklahoma showing nothing in central ok
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Sunset was 🔥 tonight #okwx
Sunset behind trees
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This vulture followed us on our hike this morning … waiting for one of us to not make it back?? We disappointed if and all got back!
Vulture in a tree
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This was the other fun surprise on the south oval last night, apparently OU has a new robot lawnmower! We didn’t get to see it in action, but it’s quite large! Schnauzers for scale!
Giant robot lawnmower with two schnauzers looking at it
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Random heron just walking down the OU south oval tonight
Blue heron in the grass
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
That almost looks like fire, but it’s just sunrise through the trees #okwx
Morning, red sky behind some trees
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Oklahoma lighting up the sky tonight! Photos from my husband #okw.
Lightning in a storm cloudA stormcloud lit up from behind with lightning
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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Sunrise was 🔥today #okwx
Sunrise with a street and a house in the foreground
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