Aislinn Keogh

@mandolinguist.bsky.social

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Linguist, musician, and aspiring adrenaline junkie 🧗 Postdoc at Durham University, researching children's role in cultural evolution @durhampsych.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social‬ (she/her) 🌈 https://aislinnkeogh.github.io/

The view from a train window, looking out over a stone wall, grassy hill and small rocky crag to a calm sea. It's sunny and there's a few wispy clouds.

An electronic drumkit with a Christmas wreath hanging off it, and presents and stockings underneath

A homemade, xkcd-style comic in 5 panels. In this first, a woman sits at a computer saying "huh, words are way more similar to each other than I would have thought" to herself. In the second, a bearded man (her PhD supervisor) tells her to "stop discovering things". In the third, she asks a fellow PhD student what he thinks, and he responds that he should manually code up the entire phonotactics of English to check if her findings are weird. In the fourth, the woman is back at the computer, saying "wow, there's also cool frequency effects, I should definitely keep going with this". The final panel starts with "meanwhile", and then shows screenshots of two papers from 2017 and 2018 that already made all the so-called discoveries the woman thought she had made. The panel ends with the text: "turns out you should read, like, quite a lot before going off on a wild goose chase".