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Gabriela Sobral

@sobralg.bsky.social
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Vertebrate palaeontologist @ University of Brasília, SMNS Stuttgart. Executive Editor @ Palaeontologia Electronica. Coordinator of the Research Group on Reptile Evolutionary Morphology – GuMERp

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tenure-track job in vertebrate paleo! 🦬🦕🦈🦴 This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!
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Curator/Assistant Professor, Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences (3756)
Job DescriptionThe Idaho Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University invite applications for a joint...
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It was written: Brian I read: Brain #TheDailyDyslexia
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sigh to people who don't read instructions or message history
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It finally happened.... it may be the first time in my life... I replied all instead of the message author only 🤡
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The undergrad project I submitted was approved, and I just had amazing interviews with interested students. One of them was truly incredible and I think they will be excellent for this project :)
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bom dia! Já ouviram nosso episódio sobre cobras e lagartos?? :D
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dada a correria de hoje, cuidando de crianca a indo a médico, esqueci de compartilhar mais cedo que saiu o mais recente episódio do @dragoesdegaragem.bsky.social com o @trsimoes.bsky.social sobre a evolucao de cobras e lagartos! Venham ouvir :D dragoesdegaragem.com/podcast/cobr...
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Cobras e Lagartos - Dragões de Garagem #345 - Dragões de Garagem
Neste episódio, Gabi volta aos microfones, junto com seu coautor Tiago para falarem com o André sobre o artigo que publicaram e os entendimentos sobre esses répteis interessantes (ou horripilantes) qu...
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Daycare voted to continue on strike, just because I have two big deadlines coming up next month 😭 why my life seems to be always played on hard mode?
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Awesome, the file I started revieweing was corrupted and now I have to start over. Definitely not my day today....
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Child's daycare has been on strike for a week and I am about to miss a review deadline. Tried to contact the editor and just got the notification that I cannot reply to a reminder email. Now I am trying to find a way to ask for an extension. Thanks publishers for making our lives even more difficult
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Ricardo J Pereira @biodiversitysmns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🪰🦗🪲 At SMNS, we draw on historical & monitoring collections to understand & conserve biodiversity at all its levels! 🌍 Join our inter-disciplinary team 🤝 in Stuttgart 🇩🇪 as Research Group Leader on Diptera 🪰, Hemiptera 🪵, or Orthoptera 🦗. 📌 tenure potential 🧬🔬 High-tech labs ⏰Apply by Oct 11 🔁share
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sick child and strong PTM symptoms; I'm useless today
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
predatory journal publishing "research" stating that grinded spinosaurus tooth kills cancer cells in vitro. this immediately came to mind:
Single-frame cartoon from XKCD where a stick figure with a lab coat stands on a chair and points a gun to a petri dish on a table, where you can also see a binocular. It reads: "when you see a claim that a common drug or vitamin 'kills cancer cells in a petri dish,' keep in mind: so does a handgun"
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Atila Iamarino @atila.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tem um motivo porque insulina de uma mesma marca pode custar entre R$ 100 e 200 no Brasil e mais de $1000 nos EUA. Não é porque a empresa é legal aqui. É por que nossas leis dizem que tem que operar diferente. Ou fazem assim, ou não vendem aqui.
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How awesome, I lost my museum access to Photoshop and Illustrator but Adobe Creative Cloud is still active in my computer, slowing it down
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
11:30 on a saturday evening and I am working because the author of a manuscript I am handling decided to make a fuss out of a request we made to them. I'm being accused of double standards and of delaying the process (it has not yet completed 3 months). This auhor has emailed us monthly since
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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Let me introduce you to Tametara mirim, a basal Cretaceous snake from South America that was likely fossorial. It is known from a beautifully preserved and articulated specimen that includes a skull! If you know anything about snake fossils you will know that is VERY rare #snakes #paleoart
Illustration showing Tametara burrowing while some Cretaceous birds and Sauropods stand in the background Photos of the fossil of Tametara
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ll take part on #FossilFriday today with a photo from our new fossil Tametara mirim, the tiny jewel from the Brazilian Cretaceous 😊
Fossil of articulated skull and anterior vertebrae representing the holotype of Tametara. Bones are whitish, matrix is beige-brown. The small 2cm scale bar is basically the size of the preserved region (posterior) of the skull
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Agência FAPESP @agenciafapesp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Estudo publicado em @nature.com mostra que a Tametara mirim vivia no subsolo, enquanto uma espécie contemporânea da Argentina vivia na superfície, indicando que já havia uma diversidade ecológica de #serpentes estabelecida 80 milhões de anos atrás. agencia.fapesp.br/58763
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Fóssil descoberto em São Paulo revela novas pistas sobre origem das cobras
Estudo publicado na revista <i>Nature</i> mostra que a <i>Tametara mirim</i> vivia no subsolo, enquanto uma espécie contemporânea da Argentina vivia na superfície; indicando que já havia uma diversida...
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Nossa pesquisa saiu também na Folha de São Paulo! Obrigada ao @reinaldojlopes.bsky.social pelo apoio! :)
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Nossa pesquisa saiu na @pesquisafapesp.bsky.social hoje! Gostei muito do enfoque do texto, explicou não só o estudo em si, mas também um pouco do processo por trás. Super indico a leitura! :) agencia.fapesp.br/fossil-encon...
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Fóssil encontrado em São Paulo revela novas pistas sobre origem das cobras
Estudo publicado na revista <i>Nature</i> mostra que a <i>Tametara mirim</i> vivia no subsolo, enquanto uma espécie contemporânea da Argentina vivia na superfície; indicando que já havia uma diversida...
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Our co-author @ebelosaurus.bsky.social wrote a piece for @theconversation.com on the newly published fossil snake from Brazil :) theconversation.com/80-million-y...
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80-million-year-old snake fossil sheds light on why lizards lost their limbs and started slithering
Snakes lost their limbs millions of years ago to become undulating, scaly tubes of muscles. Scientists are finally figuring out why.
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Tiago Simões @trsimoes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Cool detailed account by @sobralg.bsky.social on some of the back stage stories behind our paper
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So, I will take the opportunity to write about our paper on the new fossil snake 🐍 from Brazil out in @nature.com today. Tiago wrote on the science itself here 👇 so I will tell a bit about the behind the scene stages, especially segmentation and anatomical interpretation bsky.app/profile/trsi...
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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Early-diverging stem snake illuminates early diversity of our serpentine friends. Paper in @nature.com @trsimoes.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - Nature
A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape&nbsp;disparity in the group.
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Nicolas Di-Poi @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Excited to see our work with @trsimoes.bsky.social and @anniehsiou.bsky.social published in Nature @nature.com 🐍 Early snake evolution was more dynamic than expected, spanning diverse habitats and sensory strategies 🐍 @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social @helsinki.fi www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - Nature
A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape&nbsp;disparity in the group.
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Thread 🧵!!
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our work is out! Meet Tametara mirim, a new fossil snake 🐍 from Brazil that has challenged our views on early snake evolution! A jewel 💎 from the Cretaceous brought to you by an amazing team of colleagues among which @trsimoes.bsky.social and @nicolasdipoi.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes - Nature
A well-preserved fossil snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil shows early ecological and brain shape&nbsp;disparity in the group.
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Want a summary of the recently published paper of @semifossorial.bsky.social and colleagues on @currentbiology.bsky.social and understand the implications for reptile and turtle evolution? Here it is! I hope you have as much fun reading as I had writing it :) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Back to work after a week off and I feel my brain has not returned from vacations
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
my external HD is corrupting the files I am working with, not my laptop.... now I'm really worried :(
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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This review was inspired by my recently started Turtle Origins Research Group @smnstuttgart.bsky.social and @unihohenheim.bsky.social funded by a @dfg.de Emmy Noether Grant, which will deal more with this subject. So much more to come! For now, please enjoy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Getting to the root of it: perspectives on the phylogenetic origins of modern reptiles
Reptiles are currently represented by turtles, archosaurs (crocodylians and birds), and lepidosaurs (lizards, snakes and the tuatara). However, these groups represent only a fraction of the known d...
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So apparently all the files that I opened in my old laptop in the past week got corrupted when I saved it on my external HD :(
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
One IPC7 abstract finished, the second one to be done soon. Hopefully I can submit them Monday morning :)
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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New in @science.org ...since our first discoveries of early tetrapods, they have been thought of as "amphibians" characterized by aquatic larvae. But is this true? For the first time, we report exceptional fossils of stem tetrapod babies that upend this paradigm. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition
Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I was freaking with a deadline tomorrow. Just found out it’s in 10 days 🫠
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Every time I come accross the word "shorebird," I read it as "sorebird" #TheDailyDyslexia
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
OMG it is amazing how incredibly dumb Google now is, thanks to their idiotic IA model. I was looking for information on Eubaena cephalica, and it only showed me results for "vena cephalica" and I did not find a way to turn it off and show me results for the actual words I typed in!
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
two hours to describe the prootic ugh
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today work finished a bit earlier to watch the opening World Cup match :P
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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
a warm welcome to silescelida acristata 🎉 this is a new eucrocopodan archosauriform from middle triassic brazil, described by garcia et al. based on partial, disarticulated postcranial elements (art by @mfgadelha.bsky.social) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
a figure from the paper showing the locality of the holotype, some of the holotype material, and a life reconstruction and underlying skeletal
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Another off-campus visit to connect with other palaeontologist in the area. Hopefully we can bring some of the plans out of the field of ideas :)
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Almost made the “booked a hotel close to the wrong conference venue” mistake
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Great news on a holiday! Paper incoming 🥳
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
spent the morning adjusting for a backbone topology and the results were pretty much the same 😒
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
me: when I do home office, I seem to be always making mate but there's never enough to drink also me: aaah, pause, let's drink some mate
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
thin endochondral bones that are in articulation = nightmare to segment
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Second meeting of the day ran smooth. Now trying to make 3D slicer read the files LOL
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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New paper. Modern hagfishes (Myxiniformes) have radically reduced eyes. When did these reductions happen, and how? Leveraging the diverse hagfish fauna from Mazon Creek, we show this happened gradually in animals occupying shallow marine environments royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
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Gabriela Sobral @sobralg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The day started with my student not showing up for our meeting
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