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João Menezes

@jocateme.bsky.social
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PhD, @umassamherst.bsky.social ——— bioacoustics • macroevolution • sexual selection • birds ——— jocateme.webnode.com

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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our new paper on bird vocal amplitude is out in @sse-evolution.bsky.social ! Across 123 species, we found two new contenders for world’s loudest bird: bare-throated bellbird and seriema Along with the white bellbird, both can reach jackhammer-level amplitudes! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpag153
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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link 1/n
above: montage of brightly coloured tropical birds, some in interesting display postures, some eating fruit
below: a phylogeny that includes those same taxa (and others) and a plot of the ratio of genetic diversity on the autosomes relative to the Z chromosomes
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Pietro Pollo @pietropollo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New preprint out! 📢 We analysed 1.38M papers across 612 journals in ecology & evolution. We show the field is dominated by vertebrates: they’re studied more often, in higher‑impact journals, and get more citations + media attention than invertebrates, with little change in decades😵
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Matheus Januario @mjanuario.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨New paper + software Folks I want to introduce #evolved —our R package for teaching evolutionary biology through inquiry-based learning. For undergrad + grad courses. 🧬💻 Paper link: doi.org/10.21105/jos... #RStats #Evolution #STEMEducation #activelearning
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evolved: open software for teaching evolutionary biology through virtual inquiries
Januario et al., (2026). evolved: open software for teaching evolutionary biology through virtual inquiries. Journal of Open Source Education, 9(96), 300, https://doi.org/10.21105/jose.00300
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Pietro Pollo @pietropollo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Do you get confused when reading meta-analyses? Our new paper offers a practical guide to help researchers understand, interpret, and use them properly. We also show that the insights meta-analyses provide are often overlooked by those who cite them.
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