Rukshan Karannagoda
@rukshankr.bsky.social
ML Engineeer | PhD Candidate
Based in BNE 🇦🇺
Based in BNE 🇦🇺
This girl(?) took me exploring around in Sky and taking pictures it was so cute and wholesome. I don’t know who you are nor your username. All I know is that you spoke Spanish lol pero gracias ❤️
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
This girl(?) took me exploring around in Sky and taking pictures it was so cute and wholesome. I don’t know who you are nor your username. All I know is that you spoke Spanish lol pero gracias ❤️
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NEW VIDEO: “What Do the Straights Know About Pride?”🏳️🌈 Thank you to my mom for letting me put her through this… youtu.be/v6nC77O9egE
June 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
NEW VIDEO: “What Do the Straights Know About Pride?”🏳️🌈 Thank you to my mom for letting me put her through this… youtu.be/v6nC77O9egE
Just found out by accident that FB transcribes Dhivehi in the Sinhala script for some reason. Ngl it looks hella rad.
June 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Just found out by accident that FB transcribes Dhivehi in the Sinhala script for some reason. Ngl it looks hella rad.
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THE Sebastian Stan 🌟 (W/ @domgold.bsky.social & @cconnorjoseph.bsky.social) #comedy #sebastianstan #marvel
June 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
THE Sebastian Stan 🌟 (W/ @domgold.bsky.social & @cconnorjoseph.bsky.social) #comedy #sebastianstan #marvel
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Apes. Together. Strong.
I hope y'all are proud of this. You really should be.
I hope y'all are proud of this. You really should be.
June 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Apes. Together. Strong.
I hope y'all are proud of this. You really should be.
I hope y'all are proud of this. You really should be.
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Mission Impossible 🕶️
May 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Mission Impossible 🕶️
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Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀
May 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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It's that time of year
May 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's that time of year
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Really cool way to have your gluten cake and eat it too. With a lot of hard thinking, we can solve so many problems without intense compromise. Valiant effort all around.
🌱 From UC Davis: Deleting key gliadin genes boosts wheat gluten strength & cuts celiac-triggering epitopes—without harming yield. (Maria Rottersman, Jorge Dubcovsky)
▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/ta...
▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/ta...
Targeting Gluten: Researchers Delete Proteins in Wheat Harmful to People with Celiac Disease
A UC Davis study found that deleting a cluster of genes in wheat may reduce wheat allergies without harming breadmaking.
www.ucdavis.edu
May 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Really cool way to have your gluten cake and eat it too. With a lot of hard thinking, we can solve so many problems without intense compromise. Valiant effort all around.
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The public won't feel the effects of this for years to decades, so it's hard to garner broad support as the other issues do. But the damage will be lasting and far less reversible, and will affect people's daily lives.
The destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP is a far more important story and will be remembered in history far longer than his screw-ups on the economy with tariffs.
April 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The public won't feel the effects of this for years to decades, so it's hard to garner broad support as the other issues do. But the damage will be lasting and far less reversible, and will affect people's daily lives.
Reposted by Rukshan Karannagoda
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Fieldwork is not always safe, inclusive or equitable for LGBTQ+ people – but they are not alone.
Researchers in the Faculty of Environment have created a toolkit to support fieldworkers to make sure they plan with and for LGBTQ+ colleagues.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Researchers in the Faculty of Environment have created a toolkit to support fieldworkers to make sure they plan with and for LGBTQ+ colleagues.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
New tools support LGBTQ+ inclusive fieldwork
A guide to planning safe, inclusive and equitable fieldwork for LGBTQ+ people has been launched by a research team.
environment.leeds.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Fieldwork is not always safe, inclusive or equitable for LGBTQ+ people – but they are not alone.
Researchers in the Faculty of Environment have created a toolkit to support fieldworkers to make sure they plan with and for LGBTQ+ colleagues.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Researchers in the Faculty of Environment have created a toolkit to support fieldworkers to make sure they plan with and for LGBTQ+ colleagues.
environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
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Ensemble of Best Linear Unbiased Predictor, #MachineLearning, and #DeepLearning #Models Predict #Maize #Yield Better Than Each Model Alone.
📰 Story: buff.ly/427MiBW via @Botany.One …
📰 Story: buff.ly/427MiBW via @Botany.One …
Increasing yield prediction accuracy
Researchers find combining multiple types of models improves crop yield predictions, outperforming single models.
buff.ly
March 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Ensemble of Best Linear Unbiased Predictor, #MachineLearning, and #DeepLearning #Models Predict #Maize #Yield Better Than Each Model Alone.
📰 Story: buff.ly/427MiBW via @Botany.One …
📰 Story: buff.ly/427MiBW via @Botany.One …
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MG-YOLO: A novel detection algorithm for gray mold spores in precision ag. Combines Multi-head self-attention, BiFPN, and GhostCSP for high accuracy and speed. Achieves 0.983 accuracy in 0.009s/image, outperforming YOLOv5 by 6.8%.
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…
March 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
MG-YOLO: A novel detection algorithm for gray mold spores in precision ag. Combines Multi-head self-attention, BiFPN, and GhostCSP for high accuracy and speed. Achieves 0.983 accuracy in 0.009s/image, outperforming YOLOv5 by 6.8%.
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…
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PanicleNeRF uses smartphone videos to create 3D rice panicle models in fields. Combining SAM and YOLOv8, it achieves high segmentation accuracy and outperforms traditional methods. #Reconstruction
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…
March 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PanicleNeRF uses smartphone videos to create 3D rice panicle models in fields. Combining SAM and YOLOv8, it achieves high segmentation accuracy and outperforms traditional methods. #Reconstruction
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…
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Y'all so excited to build this world lol
March 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Y'all so excited to build this world lol
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New VQA model for crop disease detection! ILCD uses co-attention, MUTAN, and bias balancing to identify disease stages. Achieves 86.06% accuracy on CDwPK-VQA dataset. Check it out: github.com/SdustZYP/ILCD-…
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p���
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p���
March 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
New VQA model for crop disease detection! ILCD uses co-attention, MUTAN, and bias balancing to identify disease stages. Achieves 86.06% accuracy on CDwPK-VQA dataset. Check it out: github.com/SdustZYP/ILCD-…
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p���
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p���
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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...