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João Menezes

@jocateme.bsky.social

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

João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think it’s only fair to let the people decide! We decided not to get into that fight Obrigado por compartilhar, meu amigo!

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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks so much! And great to see your comments in the CNN piece

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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We didn't measure them but all our Psittacidae ranked pretty high, so I'd guess sun conures would be towards the louder end too. Loudest was #9 white-eyed parakeet

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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

More generally we found that: • larger species tend to sing louder • species with broader beak gapes tend to sing louder • habitat, mating system, and aerial mobility showed no clear effects

Close-up portrait of a red-legged seriema, showing its gray plumage, pale blue skin around the eye, bright red bill, and distinctive fan of long, wispy feathers rising from the base of the bill.

Circular phylogenetic tree of the 123 bird species included in the study, arranged and shaded by family. Colored bars around the outside represent measured vocal amplitudes. The most prominent high-amplitude bars occur in the bellbirds (Cotingidae) and red-legged seriema (Cariamidae).

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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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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

They're the worst

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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

United?

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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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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

😥 don't remember ever seeing kingfishers on Campus pond

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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Which building is that?

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João Menezes @jocateme.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

William do meio do campo, bloqueado

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