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A podcast about the methods and metascience of developmental science, cohosted by Jessica Logan @jarlogan and Sara Hart @saraannhart. We talk about developmental sciencing, including data co...
Sometimes grad students or people who are advising them will ask us if they should take extra statistics classes. Most programs require a fe...
Job Talks, they’re different from conference talks! Here, Jess and Sara talk about what we think is the most successful structure for a job...
One question Jess and Sara get a lot is whether doing a postdoc is a good idea. Here, we talk about what a postdoc is, how long it lasts, an...
Well 2025 was a year with lots of uncertainty. Jess and Sara talk about how the funding landscape has changed for us, how it has changed our...
No, you’re not having deja vu. It’s a different kind of two part episode, one that is two and a half years in the making. Sara has moved to...
It’s no mystery that research papers are essential for academic work. What IS a mystery is how to figure out who should be an author on thos...
In this episode, Jess and Sara reckon with what the preregistration revolution means in developmental science. We first visited preregistrat...
What can we say about the often used and often confused statistical approach that is moderation? Quite a lot actually. In this episode Jess...
Related to this podcast's interests in data sharing, this week Jess and Sara talk about common data elements initiatives. These are movement...
Measuring change is our first ever LIVE EPISODE! Recorded at the Association for Psychological Science conference with a live conference aud...
Mediation models! At their core, mediation models explore the relations among three variables: A predictor, an outcome, and a secret third t...
In the second part of our series on academic conferences, Jess and Sara talk through the unique vocabulary of conferences (the word plenary,...
One of the ways the research machine operates is through research conferences. Scientists present new work, hear about others’ work, and (ma...
If a scientist learns something new about the world but doesn’t tell anyone, have they really learned something new? Telling people is preci...
Developing research questions is one of the most challenging aspects of the research process. This one little statement reflects so much abo...
We love data sharing around here, and something exciting happened In January 2023: The NIH put into effect a brand new Data Management and D...
Since we last talked, Jess has moved institutions! In this episode, Jess and Sara discuss the ins and outs of her recent move and why she ma...
In most faculty jobs, the department or college asks you to stop and document what you’ve been up to for the past year. In this episode, Jes...
In this episode, Jess and Sara talk about managing all the manuscripts that they are working on. We talk about whether and how we keep track...
In this episode, Jess and Sara finally (Finally!) tackle the basic premise of behavior genetics. We talk about what kinds of research questi...
If you’ve ever had to deal with missing data, you’ve probably wished you could avoid it completely in the future. So why on earth would anyo...
Why do you write a grant? To get money to do some sort of project of course! But how do you figure out how much money you need? Through a gr...
Preregistration is writing down your idea for how you plan to collect and analyze your data _before_ you actually start collecting or analyz...
Trajectory of heritability to the heritability of trajectories? Measuring growth in skills and abilities over time is practically (maybe lit...
In this episode, Jess and Sara talk about what it’s like to serve on an academic search committee. To those of you who are about to serve on...
In this episode, Jess asks Sara to talk about LDBase, the data repository she has been building designed specifically to hold developmental...
You may have noticed that the cycle of academic publishing is pretty broken. Scientists give their research papers to academic journals for...
In this episode Jess and Sara talk about the role of methodologist in developmental science, and how it’s different from a statistician. A m...
Well the spring 2021 semester is over, and - what is this feeling? We’re a little (a lot) overwhelmed. Jess and Sara describe their experien...
The saga continues. In this episode we talk about the data management steps you’ll need to consider after you’ve collected your data. We tal...
You might think “data management” is just getting data ready to share, but it’s so much more. In this episode, Jess and Sara talk about the...
Turnabout is fair play in this episode as now Sara describes her new paper! Some developmental science research is focused on how the home e...
New Paper Alert! Jess and her colleagues have a paper in review about a particular statistical method that we see a lot in developmental sci...
To celebrate hitting our 10,000 listens benchmark, Jess and Sara spend episode 10 discussing two listener questions. First, we talk about th...
Are you open-science curious? Ready to turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes happening in our field? Preprints are one of the most accessi...
Jess and Sara are both advocates for interdisciplinary science, and interdisciplinary science means collaborations! On this episode, we talk...
New year, new goals! Goal setting helps keep you on task, helps you work towards bigger goals, and can help you feel more successful. But ma...
For the end of 2020, we asked our listeners to name a few of their favorite things - favorite things about being a developmental scientist,...
What does it mean to have a lab, and who is part of it? In this episode, Jess and Sara describe their experiences with different lab setups...
As the semester draws to a close, Jess wakes up in the middle of the night concerned not with completing her grading, but with measuring int...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an academic in 2020 must be in want of an online presence. Jess and Sara describe why you need t...
To be or not to be (a parent!) that is the question. One of our listeners reached out with a question about timing of starting a family duri...
In which we welcome you back to a new season of the podcast. Jess and Sara catch up on pandemic work and life. We describe the subtle and so...
Did you miss us? Just a small teaser of Season 2! First full episode is out November 18!!
Jess and Sara get a bit meta this week (some things never change), and discuss why academia is even a job. We walk through a fun and nerdy t...
There’s a close link between the concepts of Perfection and Impostor Syndrome, perhaps mediated (or moderated?) by experiences of rejection....
In this episode we talk about rejections - paper rejections. Jess and Sara describe their emotional and not so emotional reactions to findin...
In this episode, we revisit how we’re working during COVID. Topics include excellent desk space (Sara) or lack thereof (Jess), and how we ar...
Peer review is, for now, an essential part of the scientific process. Writing a good peer review is not easy, and we feel it’s rarely formal...
Grant information continues! This time from the reviewing side. Jess and Sara talk about the process of reviewing grants for the big three U...