Gabriela Sobral

aaaaaand I missed another application deadline. I was really not aware my brain was so tired... I just can't concentrate well, I barely remember things. I'm sincerely upset about this.

Why is Morphosource so unnecessarily complicated 😭

Example 342 for why you shouldn’t publish in Scientific Reports.

Just realised just one surface model of the Prolacerta holotype is available on Morphsource what the heck… I need to solve this. What a great problem to find out on a Friday 6:15pm

Estou preparando um material comentando detalhes da aparência da Grande Esfinge para os apoiadores do Arqueologia pelo Mundo no Catarse.
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New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

I had been postponing some stuff since Monday because I thought it would be a lot of work. I decided to tackle it today and it took me less than one hour 😅

I am now an Executive Editor at Palaeontologia Electronica :D Still feeling kinda lost in this new role... anyways, send your manuscript to us! :)

Closing the week with an awesome microCT from Iziko! After two less than ideal scans, finally a good one. Too bad I have to wait an urgent project that took priority first cuz I wish I could start segmenting it RIGHT NOW 😍 a nice weekend to all!

changing research group every now and then makes me feel so dumb. "what the heck is this?? does the squamosal look like THAT in these guys??!"

Tanz mit mir den Galgentanz, solange wir noch können..

"ugh, so difficult to separate these two bones.... oh! this is not a suture line, it's a fracture!" and there goes one hour of work 🤡

It is finally out! In this paper we show an easy way to stage ichthyosaur fetuses based on the relative size of their notochordal canal on their vertebrae (NCI). Important findings: NCI clearly separates fetal stage together with cranium

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Slept so poorly this night ugh... maybe I should put on an extra dosis of coffee.

I am absolutely schocked and deeply saddened by the news of the passing of my long time collaborator Hans Sues from the Smothisonian. He was a great researcher, communicator, and colleague and will be immensely missed. My thoughts are with his family, close friends, and students.

I had to put this manuscript on the background several times since maternity leave ended, especially this last year, due to family issues, collections visits, conferences etc. I consider it to be actually late for "only" a year or so :P

New stem lepidosaurs from Vellberg, Germany: implications for palaeoecology in the early diversification of Lepidosauromorpha Lepidosauromorphs account for roughly a third of the living diversity of land vertebrates and yet their origin and early evolutionary history remain highly contentious. The fossil record of early l...

New paper alert! 🚨🥳 New lepidosauromorphs from Germany! This paper was 80% ready when Laura was born a couple weeks in advance.. since then it has been a good bit expanded, thanks to exchanges with colleagues at conferences and during review 😊 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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10.02.2026 | 4 p.m. | Museum am Löwentor & Online

Research Colloquium: Systematics and evolution of mayflies (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from the Cretaceous
Dr. Arianny Storari, Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart.
https://zoom.us/j/94510498226

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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Sa | 14.02.2026 | 15:00 Uhr | Museum am Löwentor

Vortrag: Neues zu den Wirbeltieren aus dem Posidonienschiefer
Dr. Erin Maxwell, Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart. Veranstaltet vom Steigenclub

The cerrado is usually translated as the Brazilian savannah but I think this is not an accurate description for lay people. Temperature and rainfall regimes may be similar but the original tree coverage is not nearly as sparse as a traditional savannah, even if woodland savannahs are considered.

This is my 1st time living in the Cerrado biome, so expect more pictures of unusual animals to me. Ribeirão Preto where I did my masters, was not yet completely Cerrado, it is a transition zone between it and the Atlantic forest, but Goiânia is geographically in the middle of Brazil almost literally

On the other hand I found these two spiders on Laura’s bedroom in different days and panicked thinking we had an infestation of Loxoceles 😰 but a friend confirmed they were common red house spiders (Nesticodes)

I just saw a pair of Canindé macaws on the way to childcare 😍 Things only the Brazilian Midwest brings to you 🥰

finished reviewing matrix scores from my co-author and now the topology is much more stable... it's just not showing what we expected 😅

Me too hahahaha! Thanks a lot :)

I missed two days of work because of that application, oh bummer... now it's back to scoring. Skull is done, postcranium missing.

Thanks for the tip, Sir! I have done it in the past for a position in Germany and it did indeed work, but in Brazil these are unfortunately hard deadlines.

I thought the deadline for a job application was tomorrow. I was today and I missed it 🤡

Every other summer we run a fish biomechanics course at Friday Harbor Labs. It is an awesome opportunity to learn the tools of biovisualization while experiencing the rich fish diversity of the Salish Sea. Come join us!
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