Kate Snyder, PhD

Postdoc at Vanderbilt in the Creanza Lab. Research: birds, brains, behavior, the biology of stress, & evolution thereof. 🏳️‍🌈 She/her | Views=own.

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

Excited to finally have this research out in the world! Thanks for the great write-up @Flickanator101 @EvolutionVU

[EvolutionVU @EvolutionVU]

New this week! Female birds sing — and new research from @CreanzaLab reveals WHY. Drs. Kate Snyder & Nicole Creanza studied 1,000+ songbird species and found cooperative breeding and female song coevolve, reshaping how we understand birdsong #evolution. 🎶 https://t.co/stBxzL0NsD

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

@KinCONN @loafnw @CDCgov @USDA @CDPHE "Bird dust" is a common term for what is also called "bird dander" or "feather dander." It's shed from the epithelium or feather follicles, some species produce more of it than others, and it is a significant mode of transmission of some viruses. See https://t.co/wbixfHrqkq

[Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape]

With #H5N1 #birdflu spreading amongst dairy cows, one of the most important things to think about right now is what would need to happen for this virus to actually start a pandemic.
I'm on a train, so a brief thread...

[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

[dannica @dannarebb]

fly famous mockingbird!! phish Gamehendge holy shit

[Greg Sarafan™ @GSarafan]

Phish gag is Gamehendge and it's glorious #YEMSG 🦎

[Alex Cagan @ATJCagan]

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

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

I’m so fortunate to have spent all of my post-secondary education between #7 and #24 🦉⚓️ 🌳

[VU Graduate School @VUGradSchool]

See number 24 😎.

https://t.co/P31V8hIgG7

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

@jackdwagner Nah, it’s the Grateful Dead 100% fam. Case in point: What other band (from anywhere!) has inspired as many cover bands as they have? In my experience, there’s at least one per decent-sized US city, often more. Musicians want to play them, people want to hear them - live!

[Nick Pettit @nickrp]

#Barbenheimer 💅 ☢️

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

TL;DR EL5 on Pulsar Timing Arrays:

Remember when the first telescope got made and then we spent four hundred years continuously upgrading both the telescopes and our understanding of the universe?

Well, that's happening again. We have a whole new universe detector.

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

This is SO COOL!!!

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

The news is out! The @NANOGrav pulsar timing array collaboration has detected a background of cosmic gravitational waves rippling through our Universe! Let’s talk about it!
(Full press conference tomorrow, https://t.co/7hsBd7IWdO)
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[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

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Young bees need to watch.

A recent Science study showed that the distinctive waggle dance honey bees use to send nestmates to the location of a food source is in part learned by young bees as they observe more experienced bees. https://t.co/itM2gpH3ro #NationalPollinatorsMonth

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

Shout out to my MVP(artner) @nickrp for being so on-board, open-minded, patient, willing to give up his phone for the benefit of the car since he was the only one with strong enough signal to stream the show… I’m so grateful and in love 🥰

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

Making the best of a standstill situation outside Star Lake - at least one person in our car has solid cell service! @deadandcompany @nugsnet

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

Great to be able to give him this experience, brief as it was.

[Kate Snyder, PhD @KateTSnyder]

This is a truly fascinating case and ongoing mystery.

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

Ohio cryptic lineage update.

We’ve made no progress identifying the individual, but we have learned a few things.
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