Dr. Nandi Sims

Assistant Professor of Linguistics @Stanford | Black Identities | LV&C | Education | Migration | she/they | (Also I like dogs)

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

@rachelawiselure @ty_tyanna_tai @MikeMenaNYC I definitely offered up your hospitality, lol.

[Meg Cychosz @megseekosh]

I do not know who needs to hear this: but you, fancy tenure-track academic, were not put on this planet to bully and attack undergraduate RAs at UNDERGRADUATE Research Day and make them cry.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

@jadincmoore I have to jump around to different coffee shops. When a place becomes familiar, then it doesn't work as well. There has to be some uncomfortableness to make me put on and keep on the "productive academic" mask.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

@jadincmoore For me working in coffee shops or otherwise with people is the best. Maybe it's partially that if I'm doing nothing other people will see and I'll look bad. It's also partially there isn't anything else to do. If I'm at a coffee shop I can't just decide I'm repotting plants.

[lingstitute2023 @lingstitute2023]

Only @lingstitute2023: Workshop July 1st https://t.co/Kdh1FMgRqR
Invited speakers: Nandi Sims, Mike Mena @MikeMenaNYC , Daniel Erker, Kim Potowski @ProfPotowski . Call for papers open!!!

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

I was interviewed for this excellent piece written by high school journalists for Monte Vista High School's publication El Estoque (@elestoque).

[El Estoque @elestoque]

Accents are a fundamental part of one’s identity and heavily influence how others perceive you. Click here to read more about the effects of accents. https://t.co/BXSEZdOuPi

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

Oh hey. I got a grant.

https://t.co/fLr8K2KWeG

Gonna be looking at some variation and change in DC along with some other folks who are as of now nameless.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

I got rejected from all 5 programs I applied to my first year. Next year I got into 3 of 5. Now I work in a department that initially rejected me as a student. 🤷🏾‍♀️.

You just need to know how to play the game, which isn’t intuitive. It helps to have good advisors.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

It can be for any dissertation grant or fellowship at any level (university/national organization/etc.).

I'm only looking for the written part, not the budget.

I can de-identify it if you prefer.

Thanks!!!

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

Hi Linguistics Twitter!

Can you all send me your successful linguistics dissertation grant proposals that use ethnographic or ethnographically-informed methods?

My students this upcoming quarter are going to want some examples that aren't just stuff I made up.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

@ty_tyanna_tai @kirbyconrod I wouldn't usually imagine "sociolx interviews" as being part of an ethnography. Sociolx interviews are the really specific kind that get speech from "danger of death" questions, word lists, etc. I've never done a sociolx interview frfr, I don't think.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

@kirbyconrod It would depend on the research question specifically. Generally no, I think of "sociolinguistic interviews" as with strangers. But there is no reason why they couldn't be with acquaintances, and that is fine if the question makes it fine(?)

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

@sammyunni_ My PhD took slightly more than 6 years and I have two separate masters degrees on top of that. So yeah I felt and still do feel behind. But it's not so bad feeling as it was before.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

It's the exclamation points after sentence fragments.

Extremely annoying! Sad!

[Rikker Dockum /ɹɪkɹ̩/ @thai101]

When people list the core subfields of linguistics they usually forget the most important one: vibes

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

Being a variationist is stupid. I just wrote the phrase "the amount of durational variability can vary between varieties."

How can I fit another derivative of that same word in there? If I can make it even more ridiculous I'm determined to keep it.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

The answer is always yes.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

@mixedlinguist @MaureenKosse If a 1st grade teacher can get a kid who doesn't know their name and can't count past 4 to be reasonably prepared for 2nd grade, surely a professor can teach a college graduate from a satellite campus in Kansas to make the right kind of syntax tree.

[Dr. Nandi Sims @nandisims]

@mixedlinguist @MaureenKosse Everyone is going to come into a program with different strengths and weaknesses, so I don't see that as an issue in itself that much.

I think there needs to be more of an effort by the faculty to scaffold their courses knowing everyone will have different backgrounds.