Malika Ratnayake
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Malika Ratnayake
@malikanr.bsky.social
PhD | Research Fellow @monashuniversity.bsky.social
2024 National Geographic Explorer
Digital Technologies for Insect Monitoring | Precision Agriculture
Data Science | AI | Computer Vision

www.malikanr.com
Getting our @raspberrypi.com–based insect monitoring units ready for field deployment. 🐝🌸🌾
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Exciting first day at the National Geographic Explorers Festival 2025! Amazing to meet fellow explorers in person for the first time and hear about their inspiring work. #NatGeo
June 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Reposted by Malika Ratnayake
2025 starts with a methodology publication by Ștefan et al. on Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation - Happy new year!
doi.org/10.26786/192...
January 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Finally spotted a blue-banded bee in my garden.
#nativebee #Australia
January 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Reposted by Malika Ratnayake
Malika Nisal Ratnayake, Lex Gallon, Adel N. Toosi, Alan Dorin
Motion-based video compression for resource-constrained camera traps
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14419
May 24, 2024 at 6:07 AM
My bee hotel just welcomed its very first guest! 🐝🌸 #BeeHotel #PollinatorFriendly
December 20, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Starting my journey on @bsky.app with a recap of my #PhD.
#1 instalment:

My 1st paper published in @plos.bsky.social
presented a #ComputerVision and #DeepLearning-based algorithm to track #honeybees in outdoor environments through long occlusions. 🐝📹

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Tracking individual honeybees among wildflower clusters with computer vision-facilitated pollinator monitoring
Monitoring animals in their natural habitat is essential for advancement of animal behavioural studies, especially in pollination studies. Non-invasive techniques are preferred for these purposes as t...
journals.plos.org
December 5, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Reposted by Malika Ratnayake
### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ###

Global Joint Synthesis Call

"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"

Funding of:

➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍

PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!

www.idiv.de/research/sdi...
Calls | iDiv
www.idiv.de
December 2, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Thrilled to join Bluesky! 🦋

Here’s an artistic take on my work, courtesy of @openaidalle.bsky.social.

📷🐝🪰
December 3, 2024 at 4:02 AM