Within & Between
Episodes
S5E6: What is Validity Anyway?
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Understanding whether a conclusion in a paper you read or an experiment you run is a valid one is, well, let’s just say pretty important, and more t...
S5E5: Should I take statistics classes?
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes grad students or people who are advising them will ask us if they should take extra statistics classes. Most programs require a few, and so ...
S5E4: What’s in a Job Talk?
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 talk; wh...
S5E3: What is a postdoc and should I do one?
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, and what kin...
S5E2: Staying Flexible
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 work, and...
S5E1: Moving is Disruptive Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 a new ...
S4E12: Authorship
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 those academ...
S4E11: Revisiting Preregistration and Registered Reports
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jess and Sara reckon with what the preregistration revolution means in developmental science. We first visited preregistration and ...
S4E10: Moderation
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can we say about the often used and often confused statistical approach that is moderation? Quite a lot actually. In this episode Jess and Sara...
S4E9: Common Data Elements? What are those?
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Related to this podcast's interests in data sharing, this week Jess and Sara talk about common data elements initiatives. These are movements that...
S4E8: LIVE EPISODE! So you measured something twice, now what?
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Measuring change is our first ever LIVE EPISODE! Recorded at the Association for Psychological Science conference with a live conference audience! Ove...
S4E7: Mediation
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mediation models! At their core, mediation models explore the relations among three variables: A predictor, an outcome, and a secret third thing they ...
S4E6: The hidden curriculum at academic conferences (part 2)
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the second part of our series on academic conferences, Jess and Sara talk through the unique vocabulary of conferences (the word plenary, by the wa...
S4E5: The hidden curriculum at academic conferences (part 1)
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the ways the research machine operates is through research conferences. Scientists present new work, hear about others’ work, and (maybe most...
S4E4: Broader Impacts and Dissemination Plans
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If a scientist learns something new about the world but doesn’t tell anyone, have they really learned something new? Telling people is precisely t...
S4E3: Developing Research Questions
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Developing research questions is one of the most challenging aspects of the research process. This one little statement reflects so much about the res...
S4E2: Fun with NIH’s Data Management and Sharing Policy
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We love data sharing around here, and something exciting happened In January 2023: The NIH put into effect a brand new Data Management and Data Sharin...
S4E1: Moving is Disruptive
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 made the dec...
S3E11: The Annual Review
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, Jess and Sa...
S2E10: Managing the Paper Queue
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 of those ...
S3E9: What is Heritability Anyway?
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jess and Sara finally (Finally!) tackle the basic premise of behavior genetics. We talk about what kinds of research questions you ca...
S3E8: Planned Missing Data - This Cell Intentionally Left Blank.
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 anyone des...
S3E7: Parts of a Grant Budget
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 grant budget...
S3E6: Preregistrations
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Preregistration is writing down your idea for how you plan to collect and analyze your data _before_ you actually start collecting or analyzing it. In...
S3E5: Trajectories have variance too!
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Trajectory of heritability to the heritability of trajectories? Measuring growth in skills and abilities over time is practically (maybe literally!) s...
S3E4: You are the search committee
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 a commi...
S3E3: All about that LDBase
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jess asks Sara to talk about LDBase, the data repository she has been building designed specifically to hold developmental science da...
S3E2: What’s up with Els*vier?
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You may have noticed that the cycle of academic publishing is pretty broken. Scientists give their research papers to academic journals for free, then...
S3E1: Methodologists? What are those?
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Jess and Sara talk about the role of methodologist in developmental science, and how it’s different from a statistician. A methodolo...
Season ALMOST 3 : Burnout.
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Well the spring 2021 semester is over, and - what is this feeling? We’re a little (a lot) overwhelmed. Jess and Sara describe their experiences, and...
S2E14: Data Management Episode 2
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 talk a lo...
S2E13: Data management Episode I.
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 expa...
S2E12: Nurture might be Nature
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Turnabout is fair play in this episode as now Sara describes her new paper! Some developmental science research is focused on how the home environment...
S2E11: Factor Scores
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New Paper Alert! Jess and her colleagues have a paper in review about a particular statistical method that we see a lot in developmental science. Have...
S2E10: Within and Between Bites
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate hitting our 10,000 listens benchmark, Jess and Sara spend episode 10 discussing two listener questions. First, we talk about the decision...
S2E9: P-P-P-Pre-Prints
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 accessible steps ...
S2E8: Stop, collaborate, and listen
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jess and Sara are both advocates for interdisciplinary science, and interdisciplinary science means collaborations! On this episode, we talk about why...
S2E7: Goal setting
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 many of us r...
S2E6: A few of our favorite things
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the end of 2020, we asked our listeners to name a few of their favorite things - favorite things about being a developmental scientist, that is. O...
S205: Lab management and structure
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 and struct...
S204: Inter-rater reliability
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 inter-rater r...
S203: Academic online professional presence
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 to be onlin...
S202: Becoming a parent in academia
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 during an acad...
S201: Catching up from season 1
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 sometimes no...
Season 2 Teaser
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Did you miss us? Just a small teaser of Season 2! First full episode is out November 18!!
Episode 12: Why are we here? And let it go?
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 thought exp...
Episode 11: Perfection, rejection, and impostor syndrome
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a close link between the concepts of Perfection and Impostor Syndrome, perhaps mediated (or moderated?) by experiences of rejection. In this...
Episode 10: Revise and resubmit
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about rejections - paper rejections. Jess and Sara describe their emotional and not so emotional reactions to finding out whet...
Episode 9: Our COVID follow up
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we revisit how we’re working during COVID. Topics include excellent desk space (Sara) or lack thereof (Jess), and how we are and ar...
Episode 8: Reviewing papers
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 formally taugh...
Episode 7: Reviewing grants
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grant information continues! This time from the reviewing side. Jess and Sara talk about the process of reviewing grants for the big three US federal ...
Episode 6: Writing a paper: Processes, tips, and tricks for the (slightly) less organized
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Writing is one of the loneliest activities. For some of us, it can be hard to keep yourself accountable, especially right now with not much of a regul...
Episode 5: Grants, grants, grants!
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s grant season! In this episode Jess and Sara talk about the way they approach writing grants. There are many different kinds of grants, so in th...
Episode 4: The what, why, how, and hesitations of data sharing.
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Now required by most funding agencies, data sharing is gaining some traction in developmental science. Jess and Sara happen to love data sharing, but ...
Episode 3: Racism in the history of developmental science
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we tackle the history of racism in our specific developmental science fields. We believe that Black Lives Matter. We believe it’s our job...
Episode 2: Day to day life and the COVID response - Part 2
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jess and Sara continue the COVID discussion, talking about ideas for alternative ways to collect data during the 2020/2021 school year, the reasons NO...
Episode 1: Day to day life and the COVID response - Part 1
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jess and Sara describe how our labs operated pre-COVID, and how our sciencing has changed during the shutdowns. We also talk about th...
Episode 0: Who is Within & Between?
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When one person asks for advice, you give it to them. When five people ask you for advice, you start a podcast. In this introductory episode, we intro...