Megan Stanley
@megstanley.bsky.social
Microsoft Research AI for Science, previously physics @ Cambridge. views my own
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Megan Stanley
@megstanley.bsky.social
· Nov 27
🎉Excited to announce major new breakthroughs in our Aurora foundation model! Our team (@cbodnar.com, @wessel.ai, @megstanley.bsky.social, @a-lucic.bsky.social, Anna Vaughan) has achieved unprecedented results across multiple Earth system forecasting tasks. Here's what's new... 🧵
Super excited and proud of the new additions to Aurora! Check them out here :)
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More than 85 American and international scientists have denounced a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda. Gift link: nyti.ms/3HNAwoB
nyti.ms
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
More than 85 American and international scientists have denounced a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda. Gift link: nyti.ms/3HNAwoB
Really excited to announce that we’ve made Aurora fully open!
Aurora is fully open! 🥳
The air pollution model 🌬️, the ocean wave model 🌊, and the TC tracker 🌀 are now available on GitHub.
And that's not all: all model weights (pretrained and fine-tuned) are now released under the MIT license. 😎
GitHub: github.com/microsoft/au...
#AIforGood
The air pollution model 🌬️, the ocean wave model 🌊, and the TC tracker 🌀 are now available on GitHub.
And that's not all: all model weights (pretrained and fine-tuned) are now released under the MIT license. 😎
GitHub: github.com/microsoft/au...
#AIforGood
GitHub - microsoft/aurora: Implementation of the Aurora model for Earth system forecasting
Implementation of the Aurora model for Earth system forecasting - microsoft/aurora
github.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Really excited to announce that we’ve made Aurora fully open!
Check out this super exciting work!
🚀 After two+ years of intense research, we’re thrilled to introduce Skala — a scalable deep learning density functional that hits chemical accuracy on atomization energies and matches hybrid-level accuracy on main group chemistry — all at the cost of semi-local DFT ⚛️🔥🧪🧬
June 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Check out this super exciting work!
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Very excited and proud of this incredible team effort!
Microsoft researchers achieved a breakthrough in the accuracy of DFT, a method for predicting the properties of molecules and materials, by using deep learning. This work can lead to better batteries, green fertilizers, precision drug discovery, and more. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
June 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Very excited and proud of this incredible team effort!
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Explore the future of environmental forecasting with Aurora, an AI model from Microsoft Research. In this Abstracts episode, Megan Stanley and Wessel Bruinsma discuss how Aurora is redefining tropical cyclone and ocean wave forecasting. msft.it/6018Sdhn8
May 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Explore the future of environmental forecasting with Aurora, an AI model from Microsoft Research. In this Abstracts episode, Megan Stanley and Wessel Bruinsma discuss how Aurora is redefining tropical cyclone and ocean wave forecasting. msft.it/6018Sdhn8
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Big news!! 🚀 Aurora, a foundation model for the Earth system, has been published in @nature.com.
A massive congrats to the whole team! Very proud of this achievement, and thrilled to see that it’s finally out there. 😊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A massive congrats to the whole team! Very proud of this achievement, and thrilled to see that it’s finally out there. 😊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A foundation model for the Earth system - Nature
Aurora, a new large-scale foundation model trained on more than one million hours of diverse geophysical data, outperforms operational forecasts in predicting air quality, ocean wave dynamics, tropica...
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Big news!! 🚀 Aurora, a foundation model for the Earth system, has been published in @nature.com.
A massive congrats to the whole team! Very proud of this achievement, and thrilled to see that it’s finally out there. 😊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A massive congrats to the whole team! Very proud of this achievement, and thrilled to see that it’s finally out there. 😊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A new paper published in Nature explains how Microsoft’s Aurora AI foundation model goes beyond weather forecasting to more accurately predict a range of environmental events, from hurricanes and typhoons to air quality and ocean waves. aka.ms/AAvgi2k
Microsoft’s Aurora AI foundation model goes beyond weather forecasting
Aurora, an AI foundation revolutionizes weather and environmental forecasting with accuracy, speed and efficiency.
aka.ms
May 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A new paper published in Nature explains how Microsoft’s Aurora AI foundation model goes beyond weather forecasting to more accurately predict a range of environmental events, from hurricanes and typhoons to air quality and ocean waves. aka.ms/AAvgi2k
Super excited to announce that Aurora is published, out today in Nature!
With Aurora, we demonstrate that the foundation modelling paradigm works for Earth system modelling!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Aurora, we demonstrate that the foundation modelling paradigm works for Earth system modelling!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A foundation model for the Earth system - Nature
Aurora, a new large-scale foundation model trained on more than one million hours of diverse geophysical data, outperforms operational forecasts in predicting air quality, ocean wave dynamics, tropica...
www.nature.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Super excited to announce that Aurora is published, out today in Nature!
With Aurora, we demonstrate that the foundation modelling paradigm works for Earth system modelling!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Aurora, we demonstrate that the foundation modelling paradigm works for Earth system modelling!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Delightfully humbling
February 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Delightfully humbling
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I created a new AI to help me debug my Bash scripts, and named it after my favorite painter. It's doing pretty well!
February 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I created a new AI to help me debug my Bash scripts, and named it after my favorite painter. It's doing pretty well!
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Exciting news! After nearly 5 years of building AI startups with Radical Ventures, I'm embarking on a new chapter: supporting leading scientists in the UK with ARIA and Pillar VC. Read on! 👇
February 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Exciting news! After nearly 5 years of building AI startups with Radical Ventures, I'm embarking on a new chapter: supporting leading scientists in the UK with ARIA and Pillar VC. Read on! 👇
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Forever relevant in the age of social media. Thank you, Wendy Cope.
February 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Forever relevant in the age of social media. Thank you, Wendy Cope.
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Great analysis: the extreme reaction to DS R1 is a reflection of the enormous bubble that is bound to burst at some point. (Note that I keep being deeply impressed by the technology itself)
The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik
The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik
While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology
No, it was not a “Sputnik moment”. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in…
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Great analysis: the extreme reaction to DS R1 is a reflection of the enormous bubble that is bound to burst at some point. (Note that I keep being deeply impressed by the technology itself)
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Microsoft researchers introduce MatterGen, a model that can discover new materials tailored to specific needs—like efficient solar cells or CO2 recycling—advancing progress beyond trial-and-error experiments. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
January 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Microsoft researchers introduce MatterGen, a model that can discover new materials tailored to specific needs—like efficient solar cells or CO2 recycling—advancing progress beyond trial-and-error experiments. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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I’d rather slam my fingers in a kitchen drawer than have appliances that are engaging. It’s exactly like when LG thought we wanted internet in our fridge.
What’s wrong with these people? Solve heart disease, not conversational refrigeration.
What’s wrong with these people? Solve heart disease, not conversational refrigeration.
Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
January 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I’d rather slam my fingers in a kitchen drawer than have appliances that are engaging. It’s exactly like when LG thought we wanted internet in our fridge.
What’s wrong with these people? Solve heart disease, not conversational refrigeration.
What’s wrong with these people? Solve heart disease, not conversational refrigeration.
This seems just a tiny bit mad, if true. Actually not just a tiny bit.
"An evaluation of Europe’s Horizon 2020 programs found that between 30 and 50% of the funding is spent on grant writing".
"ERC’s funding decisions showed a bias against applicants with histories of high-risk research, favoring those with more conventional profiles".
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"ERC’s funding decisions showed a bias against applicants with histories of high-risk research, favoring those with more conventional profiles".
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This seems just a tiny bit mad, if true. Actually not just a tiny bit.
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Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from @msftresearch.bsky.social ch AI for Science.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 6, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from @msftresearch.bsky.social ch AI for Science.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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One of the reasons the university sector has come so spectacularly off the rails is the fact it's so unfriendly to family life, people with caring responsibilities and parents. The attitude is often: 'Not working 24/7? You're not fully committed!'
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 29, 2024 at 9:10 AM
One of the reasons the university sector has come so spectacularly off the rails is the fact it's so unfriendly to family life, people with caring responsibilities and parents. The attitude is often: 'Not working 24/7? You're not fully committed!'
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Super excited and proud of the new additions to Aurora! Check them out here :)
🎉Excited to announce major new breakthroughs in our Aurora foundation model! Our team (@cbodnar.com, @wessel.ai, @megstanley.bsky.social, @a-lucic.bsky.social, Anna Vaughan) has achieved unprecedented results across multiple Earth system forecasting tasks. Here's what's new... 🧵
November 27, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Super excited and proud of the new additions to Aurora! Check them out here :)
Reposted by Megan Stanley
For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
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November 27, 2024 at 8:36 AM
For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
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