Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids
@jenteo.bsky.social
Lecturer at Wageningen University | Evolutionary Biology, Genomics and Ornithology | Blogging at Avian Hybrids
Next book on the reading list. Exploring a history of ecological ideas. 🤓📚
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Next book on the reading list. Exploring a history of ecological ideas. 🤓📚
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...
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...
October 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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...
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...
🥳 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
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
October 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🥳 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
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
✍ 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.
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.
October 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
✍ 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.
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.
✍️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.
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.
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
✍️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.
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.
Happy Goose Day! 🤩 Perfect opportunity to share my PhD research on the evolutionary history of these wonderful birds.
More details in these papers:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#ornithology
More details in these papers:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#ornithology
September 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Happy Goose Day! 🤩 Perfect opportunity to share my PhD research on the evolutionary history of these wonderful birds.
More details in these papers:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#ornithology
More details in these papers:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#ornithology
🥳New paper out in the Journal of #ornithology
Assignment of wintering Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) to breeding populations using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A nice collaboration between Wageningen University and NIOO-KNAW. 🤝
Assignment of wintering Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) to breeding populations using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A nice collaboration between Wageningen University and NIOO-KNAW. 🤝
September 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🥳New paper out in the Journal of #ornithology
Assignment of wintering Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) to breeding populations using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A nice collaboration between Wageningen University and NIOO-KNAW. 🤝
Assignment of wintering Barnacle Geese (Branta leucopsis) to breeding populations using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A nice collaboration between Wageningen University and NIOO-KNAW. 🤝
It has taken me many years to develop and continually update the Avian Hybrids Project (it started in 2014).
avianhybrids.wordpress.com
The website has been a useful resource for many #ornithology colleagues, but occasionally I receive these blunt comments. 🙄
The best approach is a polite answer.
avianhybrids.wordpress.com
The website has been a useful resource for many #ornithology colleagues, but occasionally I receive these blunt comments. 🙄
The best approach is a polite answer.
September 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It has taken me many years to develop and continually update the Avian Hybrids Project (it started in 2014).
avianhybrids.wordpress.com
The website has been a useful resource for many #ornithology colleagues, but occasionally I receive these blunt comments. 🙄
The best approach is a polite answer.
avianhybrids.wordpress.com
The website has been a useful resource for many #ornithology colleagues, but occasionally I receive these blunt comments. 🙄
The best approach is a polite answer.
I have been running the Avian Hybrids Project for about 10 years now, attracting visitors from all over the world. Top countries are USA, UK and Canada.
However, I am still missing Western Sahara and North Korea for a complete world map...
However, I am still missing Western Sahara and North Korea for a complete world map...
August 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I have been running the Avian Hybrids Project for about 10 years now, attracting visitors from all over the world. Top countries are USA, UK and Canada.
However, I am still missing Western Sahara and North Korea for a complete world map...
However, I am still missing Western Sahara and North Korea for a complete world map...
🥳 New paper out in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society!
Manakin’s moving melody: the interplay between courtship dance display and vocalization as a predictor of hybridization in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
#ornithology
Manakin’s moving melody: the interplay between courtship dance display and vocalization as a predictor of hybridization in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
#ornithology
August 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🥳 New paper out in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society!
Manakin’s moving melody: the interplay between courtship dance display and vocalization as a predictor of hybridization in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
#ornithology
Manakin’s moving melody: the interplay between courtship dance display and vocalization as a predictor of hybridization in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
#ornithology
Nice news-piece from Science. But the title could have been more accurate... 😉🍟
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
August 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Nice news-piece from Science. But the title could have been more accurate... 😉🍟
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
I came across this nice story about "the fisherman and the businessman". There is more to life than work.
Cartoon from: satwcomic.com/we-re-gonna-...
Cartoon from: satwcomic.com/we-re-gonna-...
August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I came across this nice story about "the fisherman and the businessman". There is more to life than work.
Cartoon from: satwcomic.com/we-re-gonna-...
Cartoon from: satwcomic.com/we-re-gonna-...
Perfect representation of scientific papers. 😅
July 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Perfect representation of scientific papers. 😅
✍ New blog post! My favorite philosophical ideas for navigating (academic) life
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/m...
An overview of four philosophical pillars (Optimistic Nihilism, Wu Wei, Stoicism, and Scientism) that form the foundation of how I navigate academic life and the world.
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/m...
An overview of four philosophical pillars (Optimistic Nihilism, Wu Wei, Stoicism, and Scientism) that form the foundation of how I navigate academic life and the world.
July 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
✍ New blog post! My favorite philosophical ideas for navigating (academic) life
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/m...
An overview of four philosophical pillars (Optimistic Nihilism, Wu Wei, Stoicism, and Scientism) that form the foundation of how I navigate academic life and the world.
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/m...
An overview of four philosophical pillars (Optimistic Nihilism, Wu Wei, Stoicism, and Scientism) that form the foundation of how I navigate academic life and the world.
✍ New blog post! Sisyphus and scientific publishing: The importance of enjoying the process
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/s...
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/s...
July 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
✍ New blog post! Sisyphus and scientific publishing: The importance of enjoying the process
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/s...
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/s...
Next book on the reading list: "Birds, Sex and Beauty" by Matt Ridley. An interesting combination of evolutionary biology, natural history and #ornithology. 🤓📚
July 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Next book on the reading list: "Birds, Sex and Beauty" by Matt Ridley. An interesting combination of evolutionary biology, natural history and #ornithology. 🤓📚
🚨 New paper out in Polar Biology! 🐧
Do ocean currents shape patterns of penguin hybridization?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overall, hybridization in penguins is shaped by a combination of abiotic (ocean currents) and biotic factors (numerical imbalances at breeding colonies).
#ornithology
Do ocean currents shape patterns of penguin hybridization?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overall, hybridization in penguins is shaped by a combination of abiotic (ocean currents) and biotic factors (numerical imbalances at breeding colonies).
#ornithology
July 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
🚨 New paper out in Polar Biology! 🐧
Do ocean currents shape patterns of penguin hybridization?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overall, hybridization in penguins is shaped by a combination of abiotic (ocean currents) and biotic factors (numerical imbalances at breeding colonies).
#ornithology
Do ocean currents shape patterns of penguin hybridization?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overall, hybridization in penguins is shaped by a combination of abiotic (ocean currents) and biotic factors (numerical imbalances at breeding colonies).
#ornithology
Perfect description of AI in research. 😅
A scientific future shared with AI
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A scientific future shared with AI
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
July 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Perfect description of AI in research. 😅
A scientific future shared with AI
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A scientific future shared with AI
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
📚 I have created an archive page on my website to collect my old blog posts.
👉 jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/archive/
From my time as a PhD student and postdoc to reflections on academic life and writing advice. If you're in academia (or curious about it), you might find something useful there.
👉 jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/archive/
From my time as a PhD student and postdoc to reflections on academic life and writing advice. If you're in academia (or curious about it), you might find something useful there.
June 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
📚 I have created an archive page on my website to collect my old blog posts.
👉 jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/archive/
From my time as a PhD student and postdoc to reflections on academic life and writing advice. If you're in academia (or curious about it), you might find something useful there.
👉 jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/archive/
From my time as a PhD student and postdoc to reflections on academic life and writing advice. If you're in academia (or curious about it), you might find something useful there.
Next book on the reading list: "The complete fiction of H.P. Lovecraft." ☠️📚
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
June 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Next book on the reading list: "The complete fiction of H.P. Lovecraft." ☠️📚
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
While reading "Slime: A Natural History" by Susanne Wedlich, I learned about the Medea Hypothesis which suggests that life is inherently self-destructive. An interesting idea that counters the Gaia Hypothesis of Lovelock (which I never found very convincing). Another book for the reading list...
June 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
While reading "Slime: A Natural History" by Susanne Wedlich, I learned about the Medea Hypothesis which suggests that life is inherently self-destructive. An interesting idea that counters the Gaia Hypothesis of Lovelock (which I never found very convincing). Another book for the reading list...
✍ New blog post!
I contain multitudes: A short reflection on the importance of reading books
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/i...
"In a world that increasingly rewards shallow and mediocre content (such as TikTok and Instagram), reading can be a quiet act of rebellion."
I contain multitudes: A short reflection on the importance of reading books
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/i...
"In a world that increasingly rewards shallow and mediocre content (such as TikTok and Instagram), reading can be a quiet act of rebellion."
June 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
✍ New blog post!
I contain multitudes: A short reflection on the importance of reading books
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/i...
"In a world that increasingly rewards shallow and mediocre content (such as TikTok and Instagram), reading can be a quiet act of rebellion."
I contain multitudes: A short reflection on the importance of reading books
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/i...
"In a world that increasingly rewards shallow and mediocre content (such as TikTok and Instagram), reading can be a quiet act of rebellion."
Mood today... 🤐
June 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Mood today... 🤐
Time to tackle this behemoth. "Behave" by Robert Sapolsky. 😀
June 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Time to tackle this behemoth. "Behave" by Robert Sapolsky. 😀
Starting the day with good coffee and a good book. ☕📚
May 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Starting the day with good coffee and a good book. ☕📚