Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Decoupling of genetic and phenotypic evolution in the Tawny-Crowned Greenlet avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/03/22/d... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Do aggressive interactions lead to plumage divergence in chickadees? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/d... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! What causes taxonomic disagreement between bird checklists? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/w... #ornithology

"The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing." - Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death)

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Hubbs Principle: Loneliness can lead to hybridization avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/03/01/h... #ornithology

✍ New blog post! The Death of Expertise in the Age of AI and the Attention Economy jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/t...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! When 1 + 1 = 3: Hybrid speciation in birds avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/w... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! A tangled trio: Rapid divergence and gene flow in the Buzzing Flowerpecker avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/a... Based on the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social paper by @devonderaad.bsky.social et al. | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Does mitochondrial introgression also impact the nuclear genome? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/d... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! What is the most diverged avian hybrid? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/02/08/w... #ornithology

My latest Digest for Evolution is now available online! @sse-evolution.bsky.social Digest: Evidence for incipient hybrid speciation in the Black-cheeked Gnateater academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Urbanization promotes hybridization between Common Swift and Pallid Swift avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/u... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The reticulated evolution of the Bean Goose complex avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/01/25/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Past, present and future of a huge inversion in the Common Quail avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/p... #ornithology

🥳 New paper in Ornithological Applications! @amornith.bsky.social Research and conservation priorities for domesticated birds’ wild counterparts academic.oup.com/condor/advan... A wonderful collaboration with @willjsmith.bsky.social, Philip Lavrestsky and Eben Gering. #ornithology

Domestic birds play major roles in our lives - so it's weird that we often lack basic knowledge of their wild forms, e.g. Red Junglefowl 🐓 / Rock Doves 🕊️! Eben Gering, @jenteo.bsky.social 🪿, Philip Lavretsky 🦆, and I discuss research + conservation priorities #Ornithology. doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Inbred House Sparrow nestlings have shorter telomeres avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/i... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog, featuring flowers! Parental conflict explains how introgression can contribute to postzygotic isolation avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/p... Based on the Current Biology paper by Megan Frayer and her colleagues

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Blue-eyed Shags colonized Southern Ocean islands in two waves avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/b... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Reclassifying Robins: Two new species on the Canary Islands avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/12/28/r... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The beak color of the finch avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/t... #ornithology

✍ New blog post! From PhD to Assistant Professor: Some Lessons I Learned Along The Way jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/f... 💯 To celebrate blog post #100 on my personal website, I decided to reflect on my academic journey so far. An overview of lessons that I learned along the way.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The evolution of multi-copy genes on the W-chromosome avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Is Lilian’s Meadowlark a distinct species? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/i... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Why don’t Common Cuckoo host races turn into separate species? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/w... Based on the Science paper by Justin Merondun et al. | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! What caused the decline of the Green Peafowl? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/11/16/w... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Why don’t Common Cuckoo host races turn into separate species? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/w... Based on the Science paper by Justin Merondun et al. | #ornithology

Welcome to submit a manuscript for the special issue 'Ecology of cormorants in a changing world' of Ornis Fennica. The scope covers any topic related to the ecology, behaviour and biogeography of cormorants or shags (Phalacrocoracidae). #ornithology #OpenAccess

✍ New blog post! Don’t Try To Remember Everything That You Read jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/d... Optimizing reading with elaborate note-taking systems can turn it into an anxiety-inducing chore. I found more value in reading for enjoyment and trusting that ideas will emerge naturally.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Slow down, please: The evolution of beak morphology in Tanagers avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/s... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! How different are Mallards and Chinese Spot-billed Ducks on a genetic level? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/11/02/h... #ornithology

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Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Big geological events and a small bird: the evolutionary story of the Rifleman avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/10/26/b... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! What determines range shifts up and down tropical mountains? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/10/19/o... #ornithology

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Lao Tzu

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Adaptive introgression between two high-altitude duck species avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/10/12/a... #ornithology

✍ New blog post! Why Science Should Celebrate Ideas, Not Individuals jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/w... My main point is not to reject recognition or role models altogether, but to strike a better balance. Ultimately, ideas should take center stage, not individuals.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Is the Altai Snowcock a hybrid species? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/10/05/i... #ornithology

No teaching duties for the coming weeks + a well-deserved holiday. Time to dive into this book: "The Origins of Genome Architecture" by Michael Lynch. 😀📚

Blog post #666 on the Avian Hybrids Project 🤘😅

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! How glacial cycles shaped the migration of Red-backed Shrikes avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/g... Based on the PNAS paper by Kasper Thorup and his colleagues | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The ebb and flow of the Taiwan Strait shaped patterns of gene flow between two partridge species avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Puffin population structure: There is more than meets the eye avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/09/21/p... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Genetic mismatches in the Long-tailed Finch avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/g... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Extensive introgression between Red-naped and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/09/14/e... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! What is a species anyway? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/w... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Stuck in a Ruff: Having a supergene is not always super avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/08/24/s... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! A Mediterranean Mystery: Barn Owls on Crete and Cyprus have distinct origins avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/a... Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Ana Paula Machado, Alexandros Topaloudis et al. | #ornithology

🥳New paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Cotinga communication constrained: body size and lekking behaviour influence cotinga song (Aves: Cotingidae) doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ornithology

Funny coincidence. 😅 I just started reading "Fatherland" by Robert Harris (a novel in which Germany has won WW2). Today is Tuesday 14 April. And the first part of the book starts on Tuesday 14 April...