Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids

My approach to academia.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Flipping the script: Another inversion in the Common Quail genome avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/f... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Owls become darker and redder toward the equator avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/o... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A song of ice and forest: Genomic analyses uncover a hybrid zone between Palm Warbler subspecies avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/a... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The hidden effects of genetic purging in Galápagos Mockingbirds avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/t... #ornithology

New blog post! Wageningen University Magazine Provides a Podium for Pseudoscience jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/10/23/w... Why give attention to pseudoscience when Wageningen University is home to so much fascinating research conducted by actual scientists?

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Neo-sex chromosomes shape introgression patterns in Honeyeaters avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/n... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Can translocation stop the decline of Egyptian Vultures in the Balkans? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/c... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Can hybridization rescue the Taita White-eye? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/10/21/c... Based on the Evolutionary Applications study by Daniel Vedder and his colleagues + a personal rant about avoiding value-laden terms in science | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! To be or not to be a separate species: A probabilistic approach to the species problem avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The reticulated past (and present) of Birds-of-Paradise avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Exploring the relationship between mitochondria and mate choice in the Eastern Yellow Robin avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/e... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Reversed speciation in New Guinean Honeyeaters? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/r... #ornithology

What is biology research for? | PLoS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... In the age of AI, the assumption that writing a paper requires doing science no longer holds. Before deciding how to respond to the surge of AI-generated papers, we need to state what biology research is actually for.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! One list to rule them all: Toward a unified global bird checklist avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/o... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Arboreal evolution on islands helped pigeons and doves to conquer the world avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/a... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Did ancient introgression events shape the evolutionary history of flamingos? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/d... Based on the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution paper by Alexis Díaz and his colleagues | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Migratory misfits: Do hybrid Thrushes survive the journey? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/m... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Multispecies hybridization in Australian Butcherbirds avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/m... #ornithology

Does the decline of book reading mark the end of rational thinking? | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! How did non-coding DNA shape high-altitude adaptation in snowfinches? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/h... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Past and present processes shape the genetic make-up of Pigeon Guillemot populations avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/p... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Why do Western and Clark’s Grebe hybridize? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/w... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! New World Vultures are losing their bitter taste avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/n... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! How convincing is the evidence to split the Gentoo Penguin into four species? (bis) avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/h... Based on the Communications Biology paper by Daly Noll and her colleagues | #ornithology

The Ultimate Secret to Sustainable Productivity jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/t... Over the years, I have shared various tips on how to develop a sustainable working routine. But one key ingredient has remained largely invisible And it might be the most important one...

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The evolution of neo-sex chromosomes in the Great Reed Warbler avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/t... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Similarity in courtship dances and vocalizations predict hybridization patterns in manakins avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/s... #ornithology

Problems With GO Enrichment as an Endpoint for Ecological Omics Interpretation | Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... I agree 100%! I have never been a fan of listing candidate genes or doing GO Enrichment analyses. You can tell a just-so story for each gene/term that pops up.

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Incorporating dispersal ability into the theory of island biogeography avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/i... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Deep genetic divergence within the morphologically uniform Pale Sand Martin avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/d... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A mixed pairing between Canada Goose and Greater White-fronted Goose in Portland avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/a... #ornithology

Who’s the loudest of them all? The bare-throated bellbird vies for the prize | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... So much cool #ornithology research and what do journalists focus on: Who is the loudest? I understand that this generates attention, but there's more to birds (and this study).

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Rewriting the evolutionary history of the Pied Flycatcher avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/r... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Similarity in courtship dances and vocalizations predict hybridization patterns in manakins avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/s... Based on the work of yours truly 😀 | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Ghost introgression contributes to genetic differentiation in the White-breasted Nuthatch avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/g... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Why do parrots forage in smaller groups on islands? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/w... #ornithology

✍ New blog post! How to Have More Fun in Academia jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/h... A few lessons for enjoying academic life. (1) Find your fun-factor (2) Collaborate with nice people (3) Find joy in the small things (4) Don't take yourself too seriously

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Supervolcano eruptions shaped the genetic structure of the Brown Kiwi avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/s... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Foraging behavior shapes eye morphology in aquatic birds avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/f... #ornithology

Going for a relaxing walk around campus when two students stop me for a quick question: "What is the minimum size of a perching tree for Australian birds?" I gave the ecological answer: "It depends..." And I continued my walk.

Ibis' out for a walk with pizza.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! No universal support for the solar glare hypothesis in falcons avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/n... #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A pangenomic perspective of the House Finch uncovers a large inversion avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/a... #ornithology

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Different genes, similar signal: The evolution of female preference in the Common Yellowthroat avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/d... Based on the PNAS paper by Nicholas Sly and his colleagues | #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! How does climate affect the beak morphology of Thrashers? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/h... #ornithology

"Don't be too impressed by claims of statistical significance. It's often not significant in any reasonably significant sense." - Julian Baggini (How to Think like a Philosopher)

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! An Andean hybrid zone between two tanagers: Secondary contact or parapatric speciation? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/a... #ornithology

✍️New blog post! Resist the Urge to Leave a Comment jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/r... Last week, one of my LinkedIn-posts drew a lot of attention, including several comments by people I don't know. This made me wonder: why can’t people resist the urge to share their opinion online?

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Genetic coupling of barrier loci in the Barn Swallow avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/g... #ornithology