Lab of Nicole Creanza, Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Joined April 2017
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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…
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!
Thank you so much, Mason! 🐦🥰
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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Nicole Creanza on the interactions between socially learned song and speciation in songbirds #smbe23 #smbe2023 using data from @Team_eBird
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/…
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
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/…
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…
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
#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
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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New article with @orenkolodny and @YotamBenOren in a special issue of Phil Trans @RSocPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/t…
It was great fun to be a part of this @RSocPublishing special issue! Many thanks to the editors for organizing it!
Happy announce our special issue of Proc Roy Soc B @RSocPublishing on
‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions'
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Coedited by me, Eörs Szathmáry, Ayelet Shavit & Yohay Carmel.
Get it while it's hot!!!
#cultevo #philbio
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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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Creanza Lab retweeted
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
Thank you so much for the kind words and the photos, Annie! 🐦
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So proud of Kate, and so excited for her defense!! 🐦🥳
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
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
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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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
