Lab of Nicole Creanza, Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University
Joined April 2017
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20 Mar 2024
Excited to share a publicly accessible link to new work with @pichkary and @AbigailSearfoss -- detecting cultural evolution in songbirds (chipping sparrows!) using community science data and computational modeling authors.elsevier.com/a/1icLx…
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20 Mar 2024
We simulate chipping sparrows learning from a random neighbor, the most common song, or the fastest song. When we compare our simulated results to real data, it seems like chipping sparrows might try to learn the best song around them!
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20 Mar 2024
We also found that some chipping sparrow songs were sung by many individuals over a long time period (>50 years) and some were only observed once. The long-lasting songs were sung faster (they were made up of more, shorter syllables) 🐦
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20 Mar 2024
Thank you so much, Mason! 🐦🥰
29 Feb 2024
New paper from @pichkary @AbigailSearfoss @CreanzaLab on cultural evolution in chipping sparrow song! Really creative application of agent-based modeling to community science data 🐦 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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26 Jul 2023
Nicole Creanza on the interactions between socially learned song and speciation in songbirds #smbe23 #smbe2023 using data from @Team_eBird
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30 Jun 2023
Genes and languages have worldwide signatures of human history – but does variation *within* a language correspond to genetic population structure? @pichkary examined pronunciation of English words and found greater genetic differences at dialect borders: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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30 Jun 2023
We analyzed two separate datasets (library.leeds.ac.uk/special-… and peopleofthebritishisles.org/)–both sampled people with multigenerational ties to rural agricultural locations, so our data are linked to 19th century England, not to more recent movement and mixing
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30 Jun 2023
Our results suggest that past populations might have mated assortatively with speakers of the same dialects or those who shared other other associated cultural features.
More here:
theconversation.com/english-…
And here:
news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/06/…
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28 Jun 2023
Big congratulations to newly minted Dr. Kerri-Ann Anderson, who successfully defended her PhD and has a new paper out modeling the interactions between vaccine hesitancy and vaccination behaviors! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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28 Apr 2023
How might population contact affect the tools and technologies of a population? Happy to see this paper out, featuring the work of former undergrad Sarah Saxton Strassberg (now a PhD candidate at UChicago!) and wonderful collaborators @YotamBenOren @orenkolodny @ErellaEhovers
27 Apr 2023
#BiologyLetters authors @YotamBenOren @CreanzaLab @orenkolodny model the effects of inter-group contact on links between population size and cultural complexity ow.ly/iYgj50NQkSr #populationsize #evolutionarybiology
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24 Jan 2023
What happens when some members of a population have specialized knowledge? Our model predicts that if the population is large enough, their cultural repertoire could expand, but if it is too small, the specialized knowledge could be lost.
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24 Jan 2023
New article with @orenkolodny and @YotamBenOren in a special issue of Phil Trans @RSocPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/t…
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24 Jan 2023
It was great fun to be a part of this @RSocPublishing special issue! Many thanks to the editors for organizing it!
23 Jan 2023
Happy announce our special issue of Proc Roy Soc B @RSocPublishing on
‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions'
royalsocietypublishing.org/t…
Coedited by me, Eörs Szathmáry, Ayelet Shavit & Yohay Carmel.
Get it while it's hot!!!
#cultevo #philbio
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23 Jan 2023
New paper out on cultural specialization!
We suggest that when different people in a population know different things it can increase the population's overall cultural repertoire, but also make it more susceptible to loss
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23 Jan 2023
Happy announce our special issue of Proc Roy Soc B @RSocPublishing on
‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions'
royalsocietypublishing.org/t…
Coedited by me, Eörs Szathmáry, Ayelet Shavit & Yohay Carmel.
Get it while it's hot!!!
#cultevo #philbio
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7 Dec 2022
Thank you so much for the kind words and the photos, Annie! 🐦
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6 Dec 2022
So proud of Kate, and so excited for her defense!! 🐦🥳
5 Dec 2022
This is tomorrow!! Looking forward to telling the story of a subset of my PhD research 😊
Tune into the Zoom webinar at 3:15pm (Central) if you'd like to hear it!
ALT A typed flyer with a Vanderbilt University logo and a headshot of me. The flyer has text reading: Department of Biological Sciences Dissertation Defense Katherine Snyder Ph.D. Candidate Advised by Nicole Creanza, Ph.D. Drivers of Birdsong Evolution on Micro- and Macro- Evolutionary Scales A summary of my projects that doesn't fit in alt text allocated space - my apologies. Tuesday December 6th 2022, 3:15 PM SC4309 and Zoom Meeting ID 967 3262 6860 Passcode: 786277
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23 Sep 2022
I was so jazzed to read this paper a little early and talk to @buehlersciwri about it! Really fascinating work @PLOSBiology by @eric_schuppe @erichjarvis @fuxjagerlab et al. 🐦 Evidence for learning in the drumming of woodpeckers! plos.io/3DDOLaT
22 Sep 2022
Nice piece by @buehlersciwri in @newscientist about @fuxjagerlab's #woodpecker drumming paper in @PLOSBiology. Original paper: plos.io/3DDOLaT newscientist.com/article/233…
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23 Sep 2022
Fantastic talk by fellow @CreanzaLab member @pichkary on cultural barriers to gene flow in “homogeneous” England! Nailed the lightning talk format. Great to see this project out in the world. #CESConf2022 @CulturalEvolSoc
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