Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠
Cognitive Neuroscientist | Associate Prof at Uni Oxford @oxexppsy | Mum
PI of Motivation, Decision & Neurostimulation Lab
Decision making | Ultrasound | Mental health
(she/her)
Group: modeslab.org
Personal: users.ox.ac.uk/~xpsy0747
- Fantastic position for a Research Lab Manager in EP - please pass this on to anyone interested and apply by Friday!
- Last week to apply! Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at @oxexppsy.bsky.social (with links to @oxcin.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ833/c...
- Had a brilliant day at the Mechanistic Basis of Foraging conference in Birmingham so far - presenting @johalgermissen.bsky.social’s work and listening to many great speakers 🥳🧠🐠
- Super important post for people in transcranial ultrasound neurostim - please read👇🏼
- A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing. Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠NEW: The Life and Mind Building is now open 🎉 Home to @biology.ox.ac.uk, @oxexppsy.bsky.social and @ineosoxford.bsky.social, the building will bring together 1,400+ researchers and students to tackle global challenges – from mental health to climate change. [1/7]
- Very proud of @sankalpgarud.bsky.social for this heroic effort studying human affiliation decisions which is now out in @pnas.org 🥳 Check out the thread below for quick summary of what we found 👇
- How do we decide to reach out and make friends? My PhD work on this question is out today in @pnas.org 🎉 Study done in collaboration with the incredible @mirunarascu.bsky.social, @sorcha-hamilton.bsky.social, Ingrid Yu, and my two amazing supervisors, Matthew Rushworth and @mkflugge.bsky.social👇
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠🚨Registration for Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 closes October 20th 🚨 Speakers @mkflugge.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @davidrobbe.bsky.social @dlbarack.bsky.social @becketebs.bsky.social uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
- Causal necessity of human hippocampus for structure-based inference in learning biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- We are super excited about the first human transcranial ultrasound study from our lab which is now on BiorXiv, showing the amygdala‘s role in processing ambiguous emotions and showing TUS changed resting-state connectivity and metabolite concentrations (GABA) in the amygdala - a huge team effort! 🥳🙏🏼
- Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)
- Thx to our amazing coauthors and collaborators @efouragnan.bsky.social @mkwittmann.bsky.social @robincleveland.bsky.social @timdenboer.bsky.social, Matthew Rushworth, Will Clarke, Elly Martin, Brad Treeby, and Michael Gray without whom this work would not have been possible!! 🤩
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
- I had an absolutely amazing and inspiring time during my first visit to Nijmegen @dondersinst.bsky.social this week! Thanks so much @lennartverhagen.bsky.social for the invite and for all the many great discussions about transcranial ultrasound 🥳🥳🥳
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠I don’t dare to tell you how many years this took, but the project that I started as a MSc intern and kept working on throughout my PhD is now finally published: www.nature.com/articles/s44... [1/9]
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Had a really fun time today at our local primary school with 9-10 year-olds as part of Brain Awareness Week. I was pretty impressed with their models showing how learning strengthens synapses 🥳☺️
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- Given more and more people are transitioning over to Bluesky these days, I thought it might be worth re-sharing this transcranial focused ultrasound starter pack for those who haven't seen it yet: go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy I would love to add you if you work in this field! Please let me know 😀at://did:plc:nlbf6u6hm3thnmng7bc5atkw/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb5yo6dmub2s
- New paper out in @pnas.org today with lovely colleagues including Hailey Trier, Nima Khalighinejad, @caro-harbison.bsky.social, @marklaubach.bsky.social, Jacquie Scholl & Matthew Rushworth (most not on BlueSky yet!) www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
- Hailey looked at switches between reward- and threat-oriented behaviour using 7T neuroimaging and found a network involving habenula, dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), anterior cingulate cortex, and anterior insula cortex mediated these transitions. Hope you find it interesting! ☺️
- Congratulations to @sankalpgarud.bsky.social on our lab for passing your PhD viva today!!! Huge well-done to you 🥳🥳🥳
- Super excited that lots of ultrasound neuromodulation people are slowly appearing here. I found several key people today. Welcome to those who joined recently 👋
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- I'm still missing lots of transcranial ultrasound neuromod folks on BlueSky, so trying to create a starter pack that I hope we can add many people to in the next weeks... please spread the word and let me know who I have missed out! go.bsky.app/EjjWSUyat://did:plc:nlbf6u6hm3thnmng7bc5atkw/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb5yo6dmub2s
- Reposted by Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠Looking for inspirational women in neuroscience to follow? We made a starter pack of Stories of WiN interviewees and our team members! 💜 #WomenInNeuro #StoriesOfWiN go.bsky.app/PCteLM8at://did:plc:7allcc25klueq45ha45elgoq/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lasdvqp6ad2f
