Creanza Lab

Lab of Nicole Creanza, Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

@fusaroli 🥹 Thank you! Yours too!! I have been reading your recent work because we are trying to think about prosody analogues in birdsong!

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

Thank you so much, Mason! 🐦🥰

[Mason Youngblood @MasYoungblood]

New paper from @pichkary @AbigailSearfoss @CreanzaLab on cultural evolution in chipping sparrow song! Really creative application of agent-based modeling to community science data 🐦 https://t.co/V1T1KneJ9u

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

@pichkary @AbigailSearfoss 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) 🐦

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

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 https://t.co/n7kkGt0kUD

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

@pichkary @AbigailSearfoss 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!

[Alex Cagan @ATJCagan]

Nicole Creanza on the interactions between socially learned song and speciation in songbirds #smbe23 #smbe2023 using data from @Team_eBird

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

@ATJCagan @Team_eBird Thank you for the amazing visual summary! (Of both the talk and my bird dress 😅🐦)

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

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:
https://t.co/dCTfEZKhQM
And here:
https://t.co/y620pwfHWQ

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

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: https://t.co/sXBPe9x4oL

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

We analyzed two separate datasets (https://t.co/Ru7YmZFjGY and https://t.co/V4V96b5v4q)–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

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

A nice summary is here, too! @EvolutionVU https://t.co/sw9DNUJVwy

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

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! https://t.co/p1SEVhcOmB

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

@BryanGitschlag I missed this, Bryan! Thank you! 🥰

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

@EvolutionVU @kelly__tingle Thank you, @kelly__tingle 😊

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

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

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

#BiologyLetters authors @YotamBenOren @CreanzaLab @orenkolodny model the effects of inter-group contact on links between population size and cultural complexity https://t.co/q7yIv3tlUC #populationsize #evolutionarybiology

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

@jwgolann Yessssss congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

@Cole_Meier_ Thanks so much, Cole! ☺️

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

New article with @orenkolodny and @YotamBenOren in a special issue of Phil Trans @RSocPublishing https://t.co/dU7EPszuNU

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

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.
https://t.co/9F7FJEh0Bx

[Creanza Lab @CreanzaLab]

It was great fun to be a part of this @RSocPublishing special issue! Many thanks to the editors for organizing it!

[Ehud Lamm إيهود 🟣 @ehud]

Happy announce our special issue of Proc Roy Soc B @RSocPublishing on

‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions'

https://t.co/xPRHyzIqH3

Coedited by me, Eörs Szathmáry, Ayelet Shavit & Yohay Carmel.

Get it while it's hot!!!

#cultevo #philbio