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Kimberly Chiew

@kimberlychiew.bsky.social
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associate professor of psychology at university of denver | motivation, affect, cognitive control, memory | she/her 🇨🇦 🧠🏔🐱✌️ | lab: www.dumaclab.org

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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 29/09/2026
Massive congratulations to my colleague @felipedebrigard.bsky.social for being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship! today.duke.edu/2026/09/duke...
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Duke Scientist Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ | Duke Today
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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oh no
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw
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Getting Started with Zenodo (transitioning from OSF Projects)
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Ian Ballard @iancballard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📢 Save the date! The Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) is excited to announce the first-ever Motivated Cognition satellite meeting at Psychonomics 2026 in San Diego! 🗓️ Thursday, November 19th, 11am–5pm 📍 San Diego ssmmotivatedcognition.my.canva.site #Psychonomics2026 #MotivatedCognition
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Amazing news Darcy, congratulations! 🤩🦡
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
David Frum nails it here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Against Canada, Trump is fighting a trade war that very few Americans support, under leadership that most Americans reject, to achieve results that virtually all Americans would dismiss as pointless if not crazy.

Against Trump, Canadians are fighting a trade war that the great majority support, under leadership that commands broad assent, to defend their independence and self-respect. That’s a war that even the weaker side can win, especially if it needs to hold on only a few months longer to survive.
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looking forward to this ✨
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
*would STILL love to see more investment, specifically
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think most Canadian academics agree with your point and would love to see more investment in R&D
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 26/08/2026
The NSF GRFP solicitation is out. Aspiring Psychology PhD students, the deadline is October 20. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And congratulations to @alyssaasmar.bsky.social and @evrimb.bsky.social on receiving @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Graduate Student Travel Awards! @dupsychdept.bsky.social 🚀
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congratulations to @jvonmonteza.bsky.social for receiving a @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social J. Frank Yates Travel Award! @dupsychdept.bsky.social 💥
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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:
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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour
Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh, amazing!!! Congratulations Jeremy! They are lucky to have you!
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Pretty confused ab the coming @cos.io changes to OSF. looks like they’re phasing out “projects” (ie where u share/store code, stimuli, etc) which has been a keystone for our replicable pipelines: the info recreates our manuscript, figs, analyses, etc & lets u do ur own. Open science at its best! 1/4
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM
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Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
For anyone asking how to help: Donate to True North Aid to assist Remote Indigenous Wildfire Evacuees - truenorthaid.ca/donate/ & Namaygoosisagagun First Nation Response: Donations an7gc.ca/donate/
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Donate - True North Aid | Canadian Charity Supporting Indigenous Communities
Donate to True North Aid's general fund and support Indigenous-led and community initiatves in remote communities.
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thinking of everyone affected by the Ontario wildfires, especially in my home region, Northwestern Ontario. 💔
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026
That's about 2/3 the annual National Science Foundation budget.
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Interested in memory updating, exploration, structure learning, & reward? @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social & I are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University, with the opportunity to work at Rice too. Contact Hannah or me for details! #PsychJobs
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 29/06/2026
SIPS community members worked through the years to develop many resources that help to improve psychological sciences. We gathered them all, so you can find everything you need in one place. buff.ly/QIX07s3
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SIPS Products
If you have a project that started or developed at SIPS, or have updates on listed products, we would love to hear about it! Please email sips@improvingpsych.org to have it added to this list or up…
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture
Promotional graphic for Black In Neuro Week 2026. The design features a retro-inspired sunburst background in shades of orange, gold, cream, blue, and green. At the center is an arch-shaped panel with the text “A Reimagined Future” curved across the top, followed by “Black In Neuro Week 2026.” The Black In Neuro logo, featuring a profile illustration with a brain motif, appears in the center. At the bottom, the dates July 27–August 2 and the hashtag #BINW26 are displayed. Decorative star accents frame the design.
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Yeah, I'm just musing. It's somewhere in here, but the statement "subjective measures for subjective constructs." Visual perception is subjective, we know that perceptual experience can deviate from absolute physical input, but task + bio measures can tell us a lot about it in addn to self report.
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I DO think self-report is currently the most useful measure of the 3 for subjective emotional experience, both in terms of capturing useful info and its practicality, + use it all the time. But I also think it could be usefully augmented (if other measurements didn't have practicality issues)
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Physio measures can tell you things about momentary timescale that are difficult to index with self-report. People can self-report distinct emotions in ways that physio measures struggle to pick up on. Very roughly, maybe self-report has some advantages in the "what" + physio in the "when" 3/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
of course that physio and behavioural methods are cumbersome to collect which is problematic for studying emotions in daily life/ecologically rich contexts. The other issue is that I think the distinct aspects of what they're measuring is really important 2/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My two cents (that no one asked for :)) I think all three -- self-report, physio, behaviour -- provide partially overlapping information. So ideally it would be great to have a multimethod approach when studying emotion in general, incl in association with experiences. The problem is 1/n
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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.
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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We are excited to welcome you!
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thanks Camille, hope it's useful :) Hope all is well with you!
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Congratulations!!!
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Our hope is that this will become a resource for the field and help advance conversation & careful consideration of the role of experimental design in shaping how we elicit and characterize motivated anticipation & cognition. We'd love your thoughts! n/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We are SO excited about this paper and glad to see it out. We have been thinking about motivated cognition across cognitive control vs. memory domains for a long time, & we believe these comprehensive meta-analysis findings reveal many interesting sources of variation for new work to explore.💵🧠 10/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Another interesting effect: reward effects on memory seemed somewhat more sensitive to moderators than reward effects on cognitive control. It is not immediately clear why this might happen - maybe related to differences in supporting cortical regions and the nature of the measured behav output? 9/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We were surprised that event timing did not significantly moderate reward effect on either control or memory, given our & others' work that temporal dynamics are an important element of motivation-cognition interactions -- but timing may interact with other elements of task context. 8/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In addition to these differences across domain outcomes, several task design parameters were significant moderators of the reward effect! This is important given heterogeneity in the literature & suggests reward effects on cognition are highly sensitive to context. 7/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Interestingly, on a study-by-study basis, reward benefits to control speed & accuracy were positively associated, arguing against a tradeoff. We think of this as consistent with prior work suggesting that reward can "break" the speed-accuracy tradeoff www.cell.com/current-biol... 6/n
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Reward Pays the Cost of Noise Reduction in Motor and Cognitive Control
Manohar et al. investigate how motivation by reward can improve both speed and accuracy, apparently exceeding the limits of the speed-accuracy trade-off. They propose a cost for reducing intrinsic neu...
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Reward benefited performance in all 3 outcomes examined, but with differences in the magnitude of reward effects: control speed > memory accuracy > control accuracy. Rewards increased cog control speed in studies with AND without RT cutoff, although updates show this effect is larger w/cutoff 5/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We were esp interested in potential domain differences because reward effects on cog control are typically measured immediately, in terms of both accuracy & speed dimensions that might depend on vigor, while effects on memory encoding are measured later w/ a focus on accuracy 4/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Many variations in task design exist across these adaptations. We wanted to investigate whether the magnitude of reward effects on cognition vary by reward or task design parameters, or by domain (control vs. memory encoding). 3/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The monetary incentive delay paradigm has been a mainstay in examining reward effects on 🧠 and cognition for 20+ years. Many adaptations of this basic cue-interval-target design exist for studying motivated cognitive control, memory encoding, & other performance outcomes. 2/n
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
✨ VERY excited to share our new paper led by Holly Bowen (SMU) & former ugrad Kyle Thurmann "Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis" finally in press @ Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 💵🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread 1/n
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Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis
Extensive evidence suggests that cognitive performance is typically enhanced under increased motivation, often in the form of reward anticipation. Whi…
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Taraz Lee @tarazlee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n
Plot showing that the read-out of visual working memory information from cerebellum is degraded following stimulation to cerebellum, IPS, or FEF
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Akram Bakkour @akrambakkour.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!
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Department SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer...
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Eva Van den Bussche @evdbussc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We’re hiring! Interested in conducting research on cognitive control, multitasking and aging with @gethinhughes.bsky.social, @sarahdepue.bsky.social and me? We are looking for a PhD candidate to join our lab @cogtex.bsky.social at KU Leuven. RTs much appreciated! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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PhD researcher for the project: Cognitive Control and Multitasking in the Digital Age
We are looking for a motivated PhD researcher to study the behavioral and neural dynamics between cognitive control and multitasking in young and aging populations.
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So sorry to hear this. I really enjoyed hearing about your work at your DU talk, and also appreciated our chat about motivation when I shared my work at Columbia. Rooting for you and hoping for the best possible outcome.
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University of Denver @uofdenver.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Erika Manczak, associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, is leading innovative research into the effects of extreme temperatures on mental health—especially in children. Read more: bit.ly/4uEtwOk 🔬
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Extreme Temperatures Fueling Teen Depression | University of Denver
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🙌 🧠👩🏻‍🔬 💕
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