Amy McGovern

@profamymcgovern.bsky.social

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 .. more

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Elizabeth Amy McGovern is an American computer scientist and meteorologist who uses machine learning to help predict severe weather. She is Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor in the School of Computer Science and School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, where she directs the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography. .. more

Environmental science 36%

Computer science 26%

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Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 11d

That looks like a robotics team!

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 11d

Oklahomans are getting ignored, but one of our state senators is going to hand-deliver letters to DC next week!

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 14d

Second talk diving into some more examples #AMS2026

Check out: Applications of Extreme Weather Bench 1.0: Case Studies of High Impact Weather Events @ 106th AMS Annual Meeting ams.confex.com/ams/106ANNUA...

Applications of Extreme Weather Bench 1.0: Case Studies of High Impact Weather Events

Extreme Weather Bench (EWB) is a robust and adaptable open source framework des...

ams.confex.com

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 14d

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...

ExtremeWeatherBench 1.0: A Flexible Evaluation Framework for Extreme Weather Events

Properly evaluating AI and NWP models before deployment will help to ensure tha...

ams.confex.com

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 14d

lol I definitely keyed on the hair. Bad assumption. Still cool!!

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 15d

All women?? How cool is that??

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 15d

Dallas from above on my way to #AMS2026

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 15d

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/

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...

www.ai2es.org

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks! Yes, I did make it last year. This year has been chaos and I was hoping one was done - so thank you!!

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Jan 9

Anyone made an #AMS2026 feed yet?

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Jan 8

Yeah, I guess but it makes people just ignore them

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Jan 8

Yeah, why did they blow the sirens all over town when that was clearly east???

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Dec 19

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...

www.forbes.com

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Dec 11

Science! We have a new deep learning precipitation nowcasting paper under review!

arxiv.org/abs/2512.09059

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...

arxiv.org

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Dec 10

More ways we are killing science (gift article)

A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, John Horgan, Elizabeth Stokoe , and 7 more Anne Applebaum, John Horgan, Elizabeth Stokoe, Amy McGovern, Andreas Wagner, Smith, Kate Starbird, Stefan C. Aykut, Jeannette Sutton, Esther Peeren

New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · Dec 7

Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it

Teaching when to trust

As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge

newhumanist.org.uk

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Dec 5

The decimation of science continues

www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

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.

www.statnews.com

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Dec 5

I'm so sorry. As the leader of another center hit by NSF cuts, I truly feel your pain. We are also working to find a way to keep doing critical stuff and it is really challenging in today's times!

Reposted by Amy McGovern

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 25

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...

We Need to Talk About the Billion-Dollar Industry Holding Science Hostage

Your tax dollars fund the research. You pay again to read it.

www.zmescience.com

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 18

Office is toasty today 🔥

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 18

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...

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

www.nytimes.com

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 12

Thank you! Won’t be quite dark at zero UTC but shortly thereafter!

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 12

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.

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 12

Oh yours is green! Ours is pink

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 12

Northern lights tonight! #okwx

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 3

I disagree there. The destruction of science and medicine is a key problem for our future. Not the top one. But in the top 10 for sure.

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 3

I don’t know who you are but I’m quoting stats. US universities were where top scientists came. Don’t believe me? Look at the stats. Doesn’t mean others are not good too.

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 3

Right??

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Greg Linden

Amy McGovern @profamymcgovern.bsky.social · Nov 2

Yes, it is this scary in science. We were world leader only 10 months ago.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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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