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Andrew D. Cronin

@andrewdcronin.bsky.social

Plasticity, urban ecology, and sexual communication in 🐸 NSF and STRI postdoctoral fellow with UNC Chapel Hill

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Logan James@loganjames.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited our new paper is out in Science! We compared the songs of many birds to both speech and song in humans, finding that many fundamental sequence patterns are broadly shared. Check out the data explorer here: wavelengthscience.org/birdsong and the paper here: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Pervasive patterns in bird songs resemble those in human speech and song and are independent of vocal learning

Bird songs are often described as analogs to human speech and songs, but expansive comparisons are necessary to determine analogy and mechanistic substrates. By analyzing global corpora consisting of ...

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Judith A.H. Smit@judithsmit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Caterpillars eat plants, right? 🌿 Not always, some are carnivorous! 🥩🐛 Our new paper documents the life history, behavior, and vibrations of Juditha odites. It feeds on treehoppers, then moves into ant nests to consume ant brood! 🐜🐛🦋 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @insectessociaux.bsky.social

An insect-eating caterpillar associated with arboreal ants: life cycle, diet, social integration and substrate-borne vibrations - Insectes Sociaux

Herbivory is the predominant feeding strategy in Lepidoptera, whereas carnivory has evolved rarely. The life cycles of carnivorous species, however, remain poorly documented. Here, we confirm that Jud...

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Joris M. Koene@joriskoene.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you a biologist with experience in and enthusiasm for imaging and -omics techniques? Apply for working in Amsterdam (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) on the exciting topic of socially transferred materials! 🐌 🐸 🐜🧬🔬 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

Vacancy — Post doc on socially transferred materials

Are you a biologist with experience in and enthusiasm for imaging and -omics techniques? Apply for working on the exciting topic of socially transferred materials!

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Dr. Valentina Alaasam@vale-alaasam.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com

Logan James@loganjames.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Super excited about this new paper! and eternally grateful to the amazing coauthors, the wonderful network of colleagues who gave us stimuli, and all of the thousands of people that listened to animal sounds for us!

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 8mo ago

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

cOMPaRatiVe cOGNitiONHumans share acousticpreferences with other animalsLogan S. James1,2,3,4* Sarah C. Woolley 1,2, Jon T. Sakata1,2,Courtney B. Hilton5,6, Michael J. Ryan3,4, Samuel A. Mehr5,7,8Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefersome sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergentevolution may generate similarities in preference across speciesand underlie Darwin’s conjecture that some animals “havenearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have.” In this study,we show that humans share acoustic preferences with a rangeof animals, that the strength of human preferences correlateswith that in other animals, and that humans respond fasterwhen in agreement with animals. Furthermore, we foundgreatest agreement in preference for adorned, ancestral, andlower-frequency sounds. humans’ music listening experiencewas associated with preferences. These results are consistentwith theories arguing that biases in processing sculpt acousticpreferences, and they confirm Darwin’s century-old hunchabout the conservation of aesthetics in nature
Luke Larter@lukelarter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our latest article is out @jexpbiol.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... We show that tungara frogs adjust interaction modes to current collective chorusing dynamics based on how patterns of conspecific stimulation experienced between calls interact with their internal call rhythms

Cadences of the collective: conspecific stimulation patterns interact with endogenous rhythms to cue socially mediated response shifts

Summary: Automated playback experiments reveal that túngara frogs alter each calling response based on conspecific stimulation patterns experienced prior to each call.

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Matías I. Muñoz@matiasimunoz.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Now out in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals 🐘🦉🐸. Mammalian hearing likely allowed the rapid diversification of their vocalizations. Open access here: doi.org/10.1093/evol... #bioacoustics #animalcommunication

Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals

Abstract. Using the voice to produce sound is a widespread form of communication and plays an important role across diverse species and contexts. Variation

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology@jevbio.bsky.social · last yr.

How do light and noise pollution impact selection on sexual signals? We tested mate attraction and bat predation on túngara frogs. Light and noise interact in complex ways, and light pollution shifts selection on male calling: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @andrewdcronin.bsky.social et al.

Noise pollution and artificial light at night alter selection pressures on sexual signals in an urban adapter

Abstract. Human-induced environmental changes can have major impacts on how individuals communicate. Species using sexual signals may experience especially

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Andrew D. Cronin@andrewdcronin.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper out with @judithsmit.bsky.social @jellers.bsky.social and Wouter Halfwerk on tadpole developmental and behavioral responses to urban environments! 🐸🏙️ Read here: doi.org/10.1111/1365... @animalecology.bsky.social Video: youtu.be/AhGPG5VOag8

Urban developmental environments alter tadpole phenotypes depending on origin

Urbanisation has rapidly altered the ecological and evolutionary contexts for many species. Using a reciprocal transplant experiment with frog larvae, we find that urban environments can alter morpho...

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Jay Jinsing Falk@jjinsing.bsky.social · 2y ago

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

Evert de Froe@evertdefroe.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out today! We studied the environmental conditions at two sponge (🧽) grounds on the northern Labrador Shelf (NE Canada). We find that sponges and associated fauna benefit from strong tidal currents and favorable regional ocean currents. Read it here: bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Characterizing regional oceanography and bottom environmental conditions at two contrasting sponge grounds on the northern Labrador Shelf

Abstract. Deep-sea sponge grounds are distributed globally and are considered hotspots of biological diversity and biogeochemical cycling. To date, little is known about the environmental conditions t...

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