Kyle Kabasares
@kylekabasares.bsky.social
Data Scientist for the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames | Physics PhD | YouTube Partner | Fil-Am 🇵🇭🇺🇸
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@KyleKabasares_PhD
Website: https://www.kylekabasares.com
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@KyleKabasares_PhD
Website: https://www.kylekabasares.com
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Kyle Kabasares
@kylekabasares.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hello wonderful people of BlueSky!
Just wanted to re-introduce myself to new people. I’m Kyle, Astrophysics 🌟 PhD turned Earth 🌎 Data Scientist at NASA Ames, working at the intersection of AI and climate resilience.
Happy to share a kind and welcoming platform with you all!
Just wanted to re-introduce myself to new people. I’m Kyle, Astrophysics 🌟 PhD turned Earth 🌎 Data Scientist at NASA Ames, working at the intersection of AI and climate resilience.
Happy to share a kind and welcoming platform with you all!
2 Landau and Lifshitz books short of the complete set…
June 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
2 Landau and Lifshitz books short of the complete set…
Reposted by Kyle Kabasares
How can universities and STEM trainees collaborate to close funding gaps while unlocking new kinds of research and career growth?
Delighted to work with @kylekabasares.bsky.social
to bring this article to life.
🔗 This article is freely available for anyone to read. Link in the comments.
Delighted to work with @kylekabasares.bsky.social
to bring this article to life.
🔗 This article is freely available for anyone to read. Link in the comments.
June 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
How can universities and STEM trainees collaborate to close funding gaps while unlocking new kinds of research and career growth?
Delighted to work with @kylekabasares.bsky.social
to bring this article to life.
🔗 This article is freely available for anyone to read. Link in the comments.
Delighted to work with @kylekabasares.bsky.social
to bring this article to life.
🔗 This article is freely available for anyone to read. Link in the comments.
I made one of my most personal YouTube videos discussing my terrible 2nd half of 2023. It was one of the most difficult but also transformative experiences of my life and overcoming it has given me the belief that if I can survive that, I can get through anything: youtu.be/e0wwd5vZ0Jw?...
Once You've Overcome Real Fear, Fake Fear Doesn't Stand a Chance
YouTube video by Kyle Kabasares
youtu.be
June 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I made one of my most personal YouTube videos discussing my terrible 2nd half of 2023. It was one of the most difficult but also transformative experiences of my life and overcoming it has given me the belief that if I can survive that, I can get through anything: youtu.be/e0wwd5vZ0Jw?...
Reposted by Kyle Kabasares
Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.'
TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
June 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.'
TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.
The Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames Research Center is Hiring! Apply through the links below if you want to help us save California from wildfires!
Research Scientist: lnkd.in/dUhip9ep
Data Scientist: lnkd.in/dq3AcgH5
Research Scientist: lnkd.in/dUhip9ep
Data Scientist: lnkd.in/dq3AcgH5
May 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames Research Center is Hiring! Apply through the links below if you want to help us save California from wildfires!
Research Scientist: lnkd.in/dUhip9ep
Data Scientist: lnkd.in/dq3AcgH5
Research Scientist: lnkd.in/dUhip9ep
Data Scientist: lnkd.in/dq3AcgH5
Curious why so many Physics majors end up job hunting for longer than they expected? Or what you can actually do about it? Check out my new video: “Why Physics Majors Can’t Get Hired (Easily)”
youtu.be/H7RArn_W2SQ?...
youtu.be/H7RArn_W2SQ?...
Why Physics Majors Can’t Get Hired (Easily)
YouTube video by Kyle Kabasares
youtu.be
May 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Curious why so many Physics majors end up job hunting for longer than they expected? Or what you can actually do about it? Check out my new video: “Why Physics Majors Can’t Get Hired (Easily)”
youtu.be/H7RArn_W2SQ?...
youtu.be/H7RArn_W2SQ?...
Ever wonder how tall Salesforce Tower really is—or how to measure it without leaving the ground? 🛰️
I used open LiDAR data + QGIS to map the heights of iconic SF sites:
🏛️ Palace of Fine Arts
🌉 Golden Gate Bridge
🌳 Even individual trees!
Read the tutorial here: medium.com/@kylekabasar...
I used open LiDAR data + QGIS to map the heights of iconic SF sites:
🏛️ Palace of Fine Arts
🌉 Golden Gate Bridge
🌳 Even individual trees!
Read the tutorial here: medium.com/@kylekabasar...
Measuring the Height of Salesforce Tower (and other sites in San Francisco) with Airborne LiDAR…
There’s something exhilarating about being high above the city. Looking out in all directions, appreciating the views, and watching the…
medium.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Ever wonder how tall Salesforce Tower really is—or how to measure it without leaving the ground? 🛰️
I used open LiDAR data + QGIS to map the heights of iconic SF sites:
🏛️ Palace of Fine Arts
🌉 Golden Gate Bridge
🌳 Even individual trees!
Read the tutorial here: medium.com/@kylekabasar...
I used open LiDAR data + QGIS to map the heights of iconic SF sites:
🏛️ Palace of Fine Arts
🌉 Golden Gate Bridge
🌳 Even individual trees!
Read the tutorial here: medium.com/@kylekabasar...
Attending “Supernova” hosted by Cerebras Systems in San Francisco today.
It is not actually about astronomy, but about AI inference instead!
It is not actually about astronomy, but about AI inference instead!
May 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Attending “Supernova” hosted by Cerebras Systems in San Francisco today.
It is not actually about astronomy, but about AI inference instead!
It is not actually about astronomy, but about AI inference instead!
I made a height above ground map of San Francisco as a fun side project this weekend! I used publicly available airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data from the United States Geological Survey collected in 2023 and a program called QGIS to create it.
May 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I made a height above ground map of San Francisco as a fun side project this weekend! I used publicly available airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data from the United States Geological Survey collected in 2023 and a program called QGIS to create it.
I’ve done this with my published papers. A lot of the critique and suggestions for improvement are quite valid.
For academics that are skeptical about AI's ability to provide perceptive & useful results, a fast way to test your assumptions is to give one of your papers as a PDF to o3 (or Gemini 2.5 but it lacks some tools), with the prompt:
"critique this paper"
I have found very good accuracy & insight...
"critique this paper"
I have found very good accuracy & insight...
May 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I’ve done this with my published papers. A lot of the critique and suggestions for improvement are quite valid.
Wow.
Acting Head of FEMA Ousted as Trump Seemingly Moves to Eliminate the Agency
->Inside Climate News | #NoDecency #TrumpfCoupSeason2 | More info from EcoSearch
->Inside Climate News | #NoDecency #TrumpfCoupSeason2 | More info from EcoSearch
Acting Head of FEMA Ousted as Trump Seemingly Moves to Eliminate the Agency
One day after the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said that eliminating FEMA was not “in the best interest of the American people,” the Trump administration ousted him. Now, as the country heads into the stretch of...
insideclimatenews.org
May 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Wow.
Reposted by Kyle Kabasares
This was ALWAYS the final destination of the student loan-fueled maximum-extraction instrumentalist STEM-centric vision of college education: Our student-customers demanding the degree & social experience they paid for, with any *learning* treated as accidental if not downright counterproductive.
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This was ALWAYS the final destination of the student loan-fueled maximum-extraction instrumentalist STEM-centric vision of college education: Our student-customers demanding the degree & social experience they paid for, with any *learning* treated as accidental if not downright counterproductive.
Hot take: After a decade around academic science, I’ve noticed a common trap (one I’ve fallen into myself): chasing perfect models at the expense of useful ones. The real world is messy. Sometimes a “good enough” model, paired with an honest discussion of its limitations, is far more impactful.
April 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Hot take: After a decade around academic science, I’ve noticed a common trap (one I’ve fallen into myself): chasing perfect models at the expense of useful ones. The real world is messy. Sometimes a “good enough” model, paired with an honest discussion of its limitations, is far more impactful.
Me at this workshop hosted by the CCA/Simons Foundation in NYC this week
April 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Me at this workshop hosted by the CCA/Simons Foundation in NYC this week
Excited to read “The Echo Machine” by @davidpakman.bsky.social !!
April 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Excited to read “The Echo Machine” by @davidpakman.bsky.social !!
This sticker is a whole mood
April 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This sticker is a whole mood
The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li was one of my most memorable reads last year. This heartfelt and inspiring memoir chronicles Fei-Fei Li's journey from her roots in China to a transformative move to New Jersey at 15, to her ascension to becoming the "Godmother of AI".
March 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li was one of my most memorable reads last year. This heartfelt and inspiring memoir chronicles Fei-Fei Li's journey from her roots in China to a transformative move to New Jersey at 15, to her ascension to becoming the "Godmother of AI".
People in academia should read Nassim Nicholas Taleb more but then they probably wouldn’t want to stay in academia 🤣
March 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
People in academia should read Nassim Nicholas Taleb more but then they probably wouldn’t want to stay in academia 🤣
Reposted by Kyle Kabasares
Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
March 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.
Had a great time hearing Sal Khan tonight! Khanacademy started when I was in high school and played an important role in my eventual development of becoming a scientist. It was great to hear the awesome work @khanacademy.org has been involved in with creating AI tools for education!
March 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Had a great time hearing Sal Khan tonight! Khanacademy started when I was in high school and played an important role in my eventual development of becoming a scientist. It was great to hear the awesome work @khanacademy.org has been involved in with creating AI tools for education!
Reposted by Kyle Kabasares
One of the employees fired from NASA told me how much their career meant to them: "Prior to everything happening today, NASA has been an incredible place to work — to dream big, to innovate, to do things that I never thought I could have done.”
Words by me. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Words by me. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline
Top advisers in the Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid downsizing effort.
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One of the employees fired from NASA told me how much their career meant to them: "Prior to everything happening today, NASA has been an incredible place to work — to dream big, to innovate, to do things that I never thought I could have done.”
Words by me. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Words by me. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My friend bought me a “Black Hole projector” for my last year and I just set it up last night!
March 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My friend bought me a “Black Hole projector” for my last year and I just set it up last night!
Just met a scientist who does research in both particle physics and Earth Systems science and it makes me feel a little less alone as someone who went from studying black holes to studying the Earth 🥺
March 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Just met a scientist who does research in both particle physics and Earth Systems science and it makes me feel a little less alone as someone who went from studying black holes to studying the Earth 🥺
If you’re wondering what’s been on my mind lately…
March 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
If you’re wondering what’s been on my mind lately…
Found an IDL version 4 user manual from 1995 that was being thrown away at work
February 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Found an IDL version 4 user manual from 1995 that was being thrown away at work