Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Black-and-white birds: The influence of climatic conditions on gull plumage avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/b... #ornithology

😀 Exciting news: I’m becoming an Assistant Professor! Since 2020, I’ve been a lecturer at Wageningen University, teaching ecology and supervising students. But I still managed to develop my own research into hybridization. My profile now fits WUR’s new “Professor Path.” Time to make the switch! 🎓

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A genomic perspective on the classic hybrid zone between Baltimore and Bullock’s Oriole avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/a... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Why do Robust Woodpecker, Lineated Woodpecker and Helmeted Woodpecker look alike? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/w... #ornithology

✍️New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Three-way hybridization between flameback woodpeckers on Sri Lanka avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/t... Based on the Ecology and Evolution paper by Rashika Ranasinghe and her colleagues | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Admixture in Amazonia: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the Pectoral Sparrow avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/a... #ornithology

The Equilibrium Conundrum | Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "Empirical evidence for equilibrium dynamics in nature and in experiments is surprisingly elusive."

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The role of hybridization in the domestication of geese avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Convergent evolution of immune proteins in tits, chickadees, and titmice avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/13/c... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The constrained evolutionary trajectories of White-eyes on the African mainland and its islands avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/t... #ornithology

‘Teenage T. rex’ fossil is actually a different species | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Why the “Red-breasted Meidum Goose” is probably not an extinct species avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/w... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Splitting the Long-tailed Rosefinch into a Chinese and a Siberian species avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/s... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Flipping the script: Another inversion in the Common Quail genome avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/f... Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Sara Ravagni, Santiago Montero-Mendieta and their colleagues | #ornithology

Do you also have a "To Read" folder that’s basically a black hole? 🕳️ My new blog post explores why that’s okay. And how to orbit the black hole instead of getting sucked in. You’ll Never Keep Up with the Scientific Literature (and That’s Okay) jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/y...

Many good movies based on @stephenking.bsky.social stories in the theaters. I really enjoyed "Life of Chuck" and "The Long Walk". Looking forward to the new version of "The Running Man". 🤩

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! How did the Ice Ages affect three Scrubwrens in the highlands of Papua New Guinea? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/02/27/h... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Genomic study unveils the true identity of Brewster’s and Lawrence’s Warbler avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/g... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Isolated Icterids: Unraveling the evolutionary history of the Altamira Oriole avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/i... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The complex interplay between tRNA genes and transposable elements in bird genomes avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Unusually low genetic diversity in the Red-billed Tropicbird avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/u... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The magic of Fairywren hybrids avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/t... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! A deep-sea mystery: How common in hybridization in anglerfish? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/a... A YouTube-documentary about anglerfish sparked my curiosity about the incidence of hybridization among these elusive creatures. An exciting exploration!

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! How the Hooded Crow got its hood: A tale of two crows and a transposable element avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/01/27/h... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A genomic continuum from feral to wild Red Junglefowl in Singapore avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/a... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! How did the Ground Tit get its long beak? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/01/16/h... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Solving the genetic mystery of the mosaic canary avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/01/07/s... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Should I stay or should I go? Patterns of gene flow across land bridges in Southeast Asia avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/s... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Do male Hoopoes judge female quality by inspecting the color of her eggs? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/d... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Owls become darker and redder toward the equator avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/o... Based on the Global Ecology and Biogeography paper by Arianna Passarotto et al. | #ornithology #RaptorResearch

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Solving the paradox of the great speciator on the Solomon Islands avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/s... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Intermediate color morphs of the Common Buzzard are most successful avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/i... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Misconceptions and regressions: The evolution of bird brains avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/m... #ornithology

🥳 My latest digest for Evolution is now available online! Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... Original paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! From the sky to the island: Flightless rail species converge on the same body plan avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/f... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Three bird species show how to travel between the Andes and the Atlantic Forest avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Mixing Motmots: A hybrid between Rufous and Amazonian Motmot in Brazil avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/m... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! A song of ice and forest: Genomic analyses uncover a hybrid zone between Palm Warbler subspecies avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/a... Based on the Molecular Ecology paper by Gihyun Yoo and Jason Weir | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The genomics of local adaptation in Blue Tits avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/11/25/t... #ornithology

✍ New blog post! Avoiding Negativity Bias in the Digital Age jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/a... Why do a few negative comments stick more than a hundred positive ones? That is negativity bias. I wrote a blog post about how it plays out on social media and what helps me deal with it.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Mitochondrial capture in the Chestnut Quail-thrush: Neutral or adaptive introgression? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/m... #ornithology

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! How many ancestral species gave rise to the domestic chicken breeds? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/h... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The Great Speciator strikes again: Discovery of a Mangrove White-eye in Saudi Arabia avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Building bowers and phylogenies: Genomic study reconstructs the complex evolution of bowerbirds avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/b... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Following the Forests: How the Variable Antshrike spread around the Amazon avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/11/01/f... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! The hidden effects of genetic purging in Galápagos Mockingbirds avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/t... Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Jakub Vlček, Sebastian Espinoza-Ulloa and their colleagues | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Is prezygotic isolation more important than postzygotic isolation at the onset of speciation? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/i... #ornithology

Assignment of wintering Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) to breeding populations using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

✍️New blog post! Beyond the Headlines: How Science Really Works jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/b... Science isn’t all about breakthroughs and crises. Most progress comes from small insights, new methods, and even negative results.