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Genevieve Law
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I'm a third-year PhD student at the University of Sydney, studying mito-nuclear speciation in Australian stingless bees!
Reposted by Genevieve Law
Thanks to some great comments and suggestions, we've updated TADA!

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January 28, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Here are some photos of the beautiful native bees found in Sri Lanka, where I was lucky enough to visit last month! Did you know that the small island of Sri Lanka is home to just under 150 described species of bees, of which 26 are endemic!

#nativebees
#stinglessbees
#srilanka
January 25, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Reposted by Genevieve Law
The January cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features a Review by Brenman-Sutner & Zayed on how new developments in 'omics techniques have enabled unique insights into the ecology and evolution of bees.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf226

📸 Amro Zayed

#genome #evolution #bees #pollinators
January 5, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Last week, I got the opportunity to present at the Australasian Entomology Conference in Canberra on my PhD chapter on hybridisation in Tetragonula hockingsi. I’m also very grateful to have been awarded the IUSSI’s award for best student paper (available here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...)!
December 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The first paper out of my PhD has just been published! Check out our research on the bacterial microbiota associated with the reproductive tissues of stingless bees, and why we think parastitic reproductive bacteria like Wolbachia might be so uncommon in stingless bees. doi.org/10.1007/s135...
Bacterial microbiota associated with the reproductive tissue of stingless bees - Apidologie
The microbiota associated with the reproductive tissues of insects can play an important role in altering host fitness: they can manipulate host fecundity to the microbe’s benefit, modulate their host...
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Thank you to the Australian Museum for allowing myself and my lab mate to present joint talks at their student forum on brood mites found within stingless bee colonies! Click here to learn more about these fascinating mites: doi.org/10.11158/saa...
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Here are some native bees I’ve observed around Sydney this spring! 📸 1: stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria), 📸2&3: carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp.), 📸4: blue-banded bee (Amegilla sp.)
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Thanks to JAMS @jamsorgsyd.bsky.social for letting me present last night on the reproductive microbiota of stingless bees, it was a great evening and I also learnt a lot about stick insects and bubble columns!
August 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This week, I was lucky enough to travel to Beijing to present my work on mitochondrial genomics of the stingless bees at #SMBE2025, as well as hear a ton of amazing research from the international evolution community
July 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This week, I was proud to present my work on mitogenome evolution in the Australasian stingless bees at the GSA conference in Auckland #AotearoaGSA2025. I also heard some amazing talks on genetics and genomics, plus a bit of sightseeing (including this cute but invasive bumblebee)
July 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Here are some pictures under the microscope of the gorgeous Austroplebeia australis (first two photos) and cassiae (second two). These two bees, both from northern Queensland, are about to be sequenced so we can better understand the divergence between their populations at a genetic level
April 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂:

daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co...

All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!

#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏
December 9, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Check out my recently published paper in Ecology and Evolution about mito-nuclear incompatibilities between populations of the stingless bee Tetragonula hockingsi (part of my Honours project, and it's open access!): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Gene Flow Between Populations With Highly Divergent Mitogenomes in the Australian Stingless Bee, Tetragonula hockingsi
We investigate genetic divergence and gene flow between populations of a stingless bee (Tetragonula hockingsi) that have highly divergent mitogenomes. We identify at least two zones of gene flow betw...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 7, 2024 at 1:32 AM