Mateja Hajdinjak
@matejahajdi.bsky.social
❤️ ancient DNA, Neandertals, and gallons of coffee 🦴💀🧪🧬👩🔬
| First Gen 📚
| Max Planck Research Group leader, Hominin Palaeogenomics (HOPE) at MPI EVA, Leipzig
| First Gen 📚
| Max Planck Research Group leader, Hominin Palaeogenomics (HOPE) at MPI EVA, Leipzig
Second time attending @eshesociety.bsky.social conference together ❤️💀 last year baby Ollie helped his mama to organise #ESHE2024 in Zageb 🇭🇷, this year celebrating being 5 months old at #ESHE2025 in Paris. 🇨🇵
Could not have made it without the support of @alexhbnr.bsky.social ❤️
Could not have made it without the support of @alexhbnr.bsky.social ❤️
September 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Second time attending @eshesociety.bsky.social conference together ❤️💀 last year baby Ollie helped his mama to organise #ESHE2024 in Zageb 🇭🇷, this year celebrating being 5 months old at #ESHE2025 in Paris. 🇨🇵
Could not have made it without the support of @alexhbnr.bsky.social ❤️
Could not have made it without the support of @alexhbnr.bsky.social ❤️
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Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
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Congratulations to Oleg Sobchuk and Arthur Kocher on being awarded @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants!! 🥳 @sobchuk.bsky.social will be exploring the macroevolution of European literature, while Kocher will be studying ancient pathogen dynamics. See: tinyurl.com/mr2m2zms & tinyurl.com/9cwdnc54
September 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Congratulations to Oleg Sobchuk and Arthur Kocher on being awarded @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants!! 🥳 @sobchuk.bsky.social will be exploring the macroevolution of European literature, while Kocher will be studying ancient pathogen dynamics. See: tinyurl.com/mr2m2zms & tinyurl.com/9cwdnc54
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Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026
1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026
1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)
uni-tuebingen.de
August 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026
1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026
1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo!
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io
Seeking a few Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit (25-695)
www.riken.jp
June 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo!
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io
Please get in touch if you are interested.
And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab.
Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Lab page: speidellab.github.io
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Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️
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I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a short thread: (1/n)
Here's a short thread: (1/n)
Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm beyond excited to share our new paper in Nature! We sequenced the first ancient human autosomal genomes from the Central Sahara, two ~7,000-year-old individuals from Takarkori in Libya, revealing a long-isolated North African lineage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a short thread: (1/n)
Here's a short thread: (1/n)
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Our study analyzing the DNA of ~7ky-old Pastoralists from the "Green Sahara" is out! Who were these people, and how did herding spread into the region when the present-day desert was dotted with water bodies? 🧬🦴🏜️ (1/7)
#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage - Nature
Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Our study analyzing the DNA of ~7ky-old Pastoralists from the "Green Sahara" is out! Who were these people, and how did herding spread into the region when the present-day desert was dotted with water bodies? 🧬🦴🏜️ (1/7)
#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PopGen #GreenSahara #aDNA
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025
February 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ESHE 2025 goes to Paris, France! Join us in person for talks and posters from Sept 25–27, with a public keynote on Sept 24. Excursion details are coming soon. More info on the meetings page this March! #ESHE2025
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Are you a postdoc working on global environmental change? Apply for the new #TenureTrack professorship on #Geography of #Global Environmental Change and join us at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin! @humboldtuni.bsky.social
--> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC
--> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC
W1 Professorship in Geography of Global Environmental Change (with tenure track to W3)
hu.berlin
February 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Are you a postdoc working on global environmental change? Apply for the new #TenureTrack professorship on #Geography of #Global Environmental Change and join us at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin! @humboldtuni.bsky.social
--> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC
--> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC
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In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature
The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Two weeks left to apply (Jan 15) for postdoc (2.5 years) in population genetics of the Paleolithic in my group in Aarhus, Denmark. It is an interdisciplinary project with Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and a new postdoc in his group covering archaeology. Apply using tinyurl.com/4jt4dru4
Postdoctoral position in population genomics of the palaeolithic - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University
tinyurl.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Two weeks left to apply (Jan 15) for postdoc (2.5 years) in population genetics of the Paleolithic in my group in Aarhus, Denmark. It is an interdisciplinary project with Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and a new postdoc in his group covering archaeology. Apply using tinyurl.com/4jt4dru4
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At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
January 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.
Please spread the word!
www.su.se/english/sear...
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Apply for this funded PhD with me, Selina Brace and Silvia Bello at UCL & the Natural History Museum:
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
#ZooMs #ancientDNA #stableisotopes
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
#ZooMs #ancientDNA #stableisotopes
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection. | UCL Trees
Bone and antler became important raw materials for Upper Palaeolithic people. Osseous materials were used to make tools such as harpoons, projectile points, needles, and portable art. It is generally ...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
December 16, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Apply for this funded PhD with me, Selina Brace and Silvia Bello at UCL & the Natural History Museum:
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
#ZooMs #ancientDNA #stableisotopes
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
#ZooMs #ancientDNA #stableisotopes
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
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Very excited to see our study published today, joint effort with @benmpeter.bsky.social group, co-led by @leonardoiasi.bsky.social & Manjusha Chintalapati. Excitedly, @arevsumer.bsky.social et al. in Nature today show similar timeline of N gene flow. Details👇
Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans
Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...
www.science.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Very excited to see our study published today, joint effort with @benmpeter.bsky.social group, co-led by @leonardoiasi.bsky.social & Manjusha Chintalapati. Excitedly, @arevsumer.bsky.social et al. in Nature today show similar timeline of N gene flow. Details👇
@lauritsskov.bsky.social is by far one of the nicest and smartest people that I know, so this is really a great opportunity to have an awesome supervisor! ;) apply apply! 👇
Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :)
Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Link for application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
December 13, 2024 at 11:19 AM
@lauritsskov.bsky.social is by far one of the nicest and smartest people that I know, so this is really a great opportunity to have an awesome supervisor! ;) apply apply! 👇
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Enthralled to see our work published in Science. This wouldn’t have been possible without the wonderful contributions of the team comprising @moorjanipriya.bsky.social @leonardoiasi.bsky.social @benmpeter.bsky.social @lauritsskov.bsky.social @matejahajdi.bsky.social and Alba!
Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans
Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...
www.science.org
December 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Enthralled to see our work published in Science. This wouldn’t have been possible without the wonderful contributions of the team comprising @moorjanipriya.bsky.social @leonardoiasi.bsky.social @benmpeter.bsky.social @lauritsskov.bsky.social @matejahajdi.bsky.social and Alba!
And a great 🧵 breaking-down the paper with @leonardoiasi.bsky.social, @mchintalapati.bsky.social , @lauritsskov.bsky.social , Alba Bossoms Mesa, @benmpeter.bsky.social and @moorjanipriya.bsky.social 👇
Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans
Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...
www.science.org
December 13, 2024 at 11:16 AM
And a great 🧵 breaking-down the paper with @leonardoiasi.bsky.social, @mchintalapati.bsky.social , @lauritsskov.bsky.social , Alba Bossoms Mesa, @benmpeter.bsky.social and @moorjanipriya.bsky.social 👇
So incredibly proud of and happy for @arevsumer.bsky.social , @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and @mchintalapati.bsky.social, and their two papers that just came out yesterday! 💀❤️🧬
And so incredibly grateful to be able to work with such an amazing group of people. :)
A great 🧵 by @arevsumer.bsky.social👇
And so incredibly grateful to be able to work with such an amazing group of people. :)
A great 🧵 by @arevsumer.bsky.social👇
I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)
Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture - Nature
Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:28 AM
So incredibly proud of and happy for @arevsumer.bsky.social , @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and @mchintalapati.bsky.social, and their two papers that just came out yesterday! 💀❤️🧬
And so incredibly grateful to be able to work with such an amazing group of people. :)
A great 🧵 by @arevsumer.bsky.social👇
And so incredibly grateful to be able to work with such an amazing group of people. :)
A great 🧵 by @arevsumer.bsky.social👇
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Wonderful to see so many new people here! :-)
Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics?
Join me in Copenhagen!
I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics?
Join me in Copenhagen!
I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
PhD fellowship in Sediment DNA at the Department of Forensic Medicine
employment.ku.dk
November 15, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Wonderful to see so many new people here! :-)
Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics?
Join me in Copenhagen!
I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
Interested in sedaDNA, aDNA, or forensic genetics?
Join me in Copenhagen!
I'm hiring a PhD and a Postdoc to start in 2025. Application deadline 28 November
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
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Three (!) Tenure-Track Positions in Biodiversity Research at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab!
Each position comes with a great start-up package to finance research costs and hiring of PhD students and postdocs.
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Each position comes with a great start-up package to finance research costs and hiring of PhD students and postdocs.
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions)
at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Physical Geography or the Department of
su.varbi.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Three (!) Tenure-Track Positions in Biodiversity Research at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab!
Each position comes with a great start-up package to finance research costs and hiring of PhD students and postdocs.
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Each position comes with a great start-up package to finance research costs and hiring of PhD students and postdocs.
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Buried under 8 meters of rock and debris in a German cave, researchers found proof Homo sapiens arrived in northern Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought—and overlapped with our Neanderthal cousins for millennia. www.science.org/content/arti...
January 31, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Buried under 8 meters of rock and debris in a German cave, researchers found proof Homo sapiens arrived in northern Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought—and overlapped with our Neanderthal cousins for millennia. www.science.org/content/arti...
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We are currently continuing our efforts on obtaining natural products from reconstructed microbial genomes after having published its feasibility earlier this year. Please get in touch if you are interested in Master theses or PhD positions. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic
Ancient metagenomes allow for resurrection of Pleistocene bacterial metabolites.
www.science.org
December 15, 2023 at 1:42 PM
We are currently continuing our efforts on obtaining natural products from reconstructed microbial genomes after having published its feasibility earlier this year. Please get in touch if you are interested in Master theses or PhD positions. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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What a nice occasion for my augural post here: I have been recently selected as one of the recipients of the Microverse Early Career Scientist Award: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/news/earl... This nicely honours our work done at the groups of @christinawarinner.bsky.social and Pierre Stallforth!
Award Ceremony: Early Career Scientist Award
Award Ceremony: Early Career Scientist Award
www.microverse-cluster.de
December 15, 2023 at 1:38 PM
What a nice occasion for my augural post here: I have been recently selected as one of the recipients of the Microverse Early Career Scientist Award: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/news/earl... This nicely honours our work done at the groups of @christinawarinner.bsky.social and Pierre Stallforth!
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Registration now open for the annual Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics meeting, to be held in Vienna April 10-12th 2024. Deadline for a talk or poster: February 15, 2024. See: events.vbc.ac.at/gmi_events/p...
December 15, 2023 at 2:24 PM
Registration now open for the annual Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics meeting, to be held in Vienna April 10-12th 2024. Deadline for a talk or poster: February 15, 2024. See: events.vbc.ac.at/gmi_events/p...