Gabriela Sobral
@sobralg.bsky.social
Vertebrate palaeontologist, braincase specialist, and evolutionary morphologist @ SMNS Stuttgart. Professional account; views are my own.
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Gabriela Sobral
@sobralg.bsky.social
· Jun 17
New data on the skull of Protorosaurus speneri (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) and their phylogenetic significance
The late Permian (Lopingian) reptile Protorosaurus speneri has long been considered the earliest-diverging well-represented archosauromorph. Although it is known from extensive skeletal material fr...
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Our re-description of the Protorosaurus skull is finally out! 🥳 Very happy to have been part of this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m locked out of my museum account… cannot access my folders and documents 🤡
January 3, 2026 at 9:39 AM
I’m locked out of my museum account… cannot access my folders and documents 🤡
Reading the proof of my paper and apparently some of the interpretations we changed for the discussion were not incorporated in the description of the material. Where was my head on?? No idea, but now there will be more changes than anticipated. I’m embarrassed.
December 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reading the proof of my paper and apparently some of the interpretations we changed for the discussion were not incorporated in the description of the material. Where was my head on?? No idea, but now there will be more changes than anticipated. I’m embarrassed.
Today I filled in the table of the museum with my publications for 2025 and I realised I wasn't so lazy this year as I was feeling like :)
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today I filled in the table of the museum with my publications for 2025 and I realised I wasn't so lazy this year as I was feeling like :)
My past two weeks have been alternating between days I try to work in the museum and days I have to spend at home for a move-related reason, which is in itself a task that needs to be accomplished and prevents me to work or I cannot work because my internet just completely sucks in the two months
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My past two weeks have been alternating between days I try to work in the museum and days I have to spend at home for a move-related reason, which is in itself a task that needs to be accomplished and prevents me to work or I cannot work because my internet just completely sucks in the two months
Morphosource wants me to upload every single surface model as a new media, meaning having to go through a laborious and time consuming process of painstakingly filling in all the information for every single one of them in several steps that take ages to load. For me, a big NOPE.
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Morphosource wants me to upload every single surface model as a new media, meaning having to go through a laborious and time consuming process of painstakingly filling in all the information for every single one of them in several steps that take ages to load. For me, a big NOPE.
me: ah, this is certainly the prootic. that should be the ASC, the LSC there, floccular fossa over here, foramen for CN VII... a bit broken and istorted but fine.
also me (drooling): eeeh... is that the pre- or postfrontal? jugal maybe?
also me (drooling): eeeh... is that the pre- or postfrontal? jugal maybe?
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
me: ah, this is certainly the prootic. that should be the ASC, the LSC there, floccular fossa over here, foramen for CN VII... a bit broken and istorted but fine.
also me (drooling): eeeh... is that the pre- or postfrontal? jugal maybe?
also me (drooling): eeeh... is that the pre- or postfrontal? jugal maybe?
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Happy to be a part of this big project led by Mario Bronzati & Matteo Fabbri—out today #OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social
bit.ly/3M5weun —on the brain endocast of a close pterosaur cousin & what it means for pterosaur brain evolution...maybe different from bird brain evolution. 1/2
bit.ly/3M5weun —on the brain endocast of a close pterosaur cousin & what it means for pterosaur brain evolution...maybe different from bird brain evolution. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happy to be a part of this big project led by Mario Bronzati & Matteo Fabbri—out today #OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social
bit.ly/3M5weun —on the brain endocast of a close pterosaur cousin & what it means for pterosaur brain evolution...maybe different from bird brain evolution. 1/2
bit.ly/3M5weun —on the brain endocast of a close pterosaur cousin & what it means for pterosaur brain evolution...maybe different from bird brain evolution. 1/2
Reposted by Gabriela Sobral
Honoured to have contributed to a new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Mario Bronzati and lots of excellent and brainy (yes, pun intended) colleagues, showing that pterosaurs and birds evolved flight-capable brains but in different ways. www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Honoured to have contributed to a new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Mario Bronzati and lots of excellent and brainy (yes, pun intended) colleagues, showing that pterosaurs and birds evolved flight-capable brains but in different ways. www.cell.com/current-biol...
The paper of @mariobronzati.bsky.social on the evolution of the pterosaur brain came out toda in @currentbiology.bsky.social, congrats! I gave some comments on that for the magazine @pesquisafapesp.bsky.social (in Portuguese) here: revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/como-o-cereb...
Como o cérebro de pterossauros e aves permitiu alçar voo
“Voar não é tão difícil quanto se pensava, do ponto de vista neurológico”, afirma o paleontólogo brasileiro Mario Bronzati, pesquisador de pós-doutorado na Universidade de Tübingen, na Alemanha. A con...
revistapesquisa.fapesp.br
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The paper of @mariobronzati.bsky.social on the evolution of the pterosaur brain came out toda in @currentbiology.bsky.social, congrats! I gave some comments on that for the magazine @pesquisafapesp.bsky.social (in Portuguese) here: revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/como-o-cereb...
OMFG I found a complete braincase within the matrix 😭😭 ESRF I love you
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
OMFG I found a complete braincase within the matrix 😭😭 ESRF I love you
Reposted by Gabriela Sobral
Join today our online colloquium to learn about the evolution of feather like structures 250 millions ago, before dinosaurs were around! @kombiota.bsky.social
#SaveTheDate: Research Colloquium: The wonder reptile Mirasaura and the Reptile Revolution of the Triassic
by Dr Stephan Spiekman
Tuesday | 25.11.2025 | 16:00
Join the talk in person at the Museum am Löwentor or online: https://t1p.de/sq0m6
by Dr Stephan Spiekman
Tuesday | 25.11.2025 | 16:00
Join the talk in person at the Museum am Löwentor or online: https://t1p.de/sq0m6
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Join today our online colloquium to learn about the evolution of feather like structures 250 millions ago, before dinosaurs were around! @kombiota.bsky.social
I have signed already! Please help
I don’t normally share petitions, but good friends and colleagues are going to lose their jobs as part of the planned cuts to the geology dept at Leicester.
Consider adding your signature here:
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An excellent dept that doesn’t deserve to be decimated. 🧪⚒️🌍
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An excellent dept that doesn’t deserve to be decimated. 🧪⚒️🌍
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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November 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I have signed already! Please help
I finished reviewing one manuscript :D
I have accepted another one D:
I have accepted another one D:
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I finished reviewing one manuscript :D
I have accepted another one D:
I have accepted another one D:
The Triassic Symposium was a HUGE success! Thanks everyone who participated! 😊
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Triassic Symposium was a HUGE success! Thanks everyone who participated! 😊
Reposted by Gabriela Sobral
#2025SVP attendees: did you know you can get a 30% discount on entry to the Sea Life Centre and/or Lego Discovery, both a few minutes walk from the ICC? More info here: www.meetbirmingham.com/svp-2025/
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2025 Annual Meeting
Birmingham is delighted to be hosting the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2025 Annual Meeting, taking place on from 12 – 15 November 2025 at the International Convention Centre.
www.meetbirmingham.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#2025SVP attendees: did you know you can get a 30% discount on entry to the Sea Life Centre and/or Lego Discovery, both a few minutes walk from the ICC? More info here: www.meetbirmingham.com/svp-2025/
I am a biologist and I can confirm this animal is suffering (me talking about myself the morning after drinking one or two glasses of wine too much at the SVP opening ceremony last evening)
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I am a biologist and I can confirm this animal is suffering (me talking about myself the morning after drinking one or two glasses of wine too much at the SVP opening ceremony last evening)
Two awesome days at the collections of the NHM with Felipe Pinheiro from UNIPAMPA (my last trip for this project)! And today a great start to SVP :)
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Two awesome days at the collections of the NHM with Felipe Pinheiro from UNIPAMPA (my last trip for this project)! And today a great start to SVP :)
Now I have to add the famous Last Minute Data for my SVP presentation :)
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Now I have to add the famous Last Minute Data for my SVP presentation :)
I have paid the price for the last stressful months.. the nasty cold I had in Beijing actually developed to a strong sinusitis. I had to take most of last week off and I didn't feel fit until now - in fact, I'm still not back to normal, but at least I don't feel defeated anymore.
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I have paid the price for the last stressful months.. the nasty cold I had in Beijing actually developed to a strong sinusitis. I had to take most of last week off and I didn't feel fit until now - in fact, I'm still not back to normal, but at least I don't feel defeated anymore.
Back from an amazing trip to China! The secon week was tough due to a nasty flu, that still lingers... but oh so much fun in Beijing and in IVPP! Everyone there was super nice and the fossils are amazing. I hope to be able to go back soon :)
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Back from an amazing trip to China! The secon week was tough due to a nasty flu, that still lingers... but oh so much fun in Beijing and in IVPP! Everyone there was super nice and the fossils are amazing. I hope to be able to go back soon :)
Great weekend touristing in Beijing and around: Forbidden City and Mutianyu Great Wall. Now off to start a week of work at IVPP :)
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Great weekend touristing in Beijing and around: Forbidden City and Mutianyu Great Wall. Now off to start a week of work at IVPP :)
Reposted by Gabriela Sobral
‼️‼️Triassic Life just opened @smnstuttgart.bsky.social‼️‼️
For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST!
It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!
For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST!
It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
‼️‼️Triassic Life just opened @smnstuttgart.bsky.social‼️‼️
For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST!
It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!
For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST!
It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!
Reposted by Gabriela Sobral
After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).
Yesterday at PKU and today at GMC… just great! Still missing the Geological University of China and the National Museum of Natural History of Beijing for some choristoderes – because no amount of weirdos is enough!
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Yesterday at PKU and today at GMC… just great! Still missing the Geological University of China and the National Museum of Natural History of Beijing for some choristoderes – because no amount of weirdos is enough!
Reposted by Gabriela Sobral
Yesterday we opened “Triassic Life — Dawn of the age of reptiles” at Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart. The show tracks life’s rebound after the end Permian mass extinction ~252 million years ago.
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Yesterday we opened “Triassic Life — Dawn of the age of reptiles” at Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart. The show tracks life’s rebound after the end Permian mass extinction ~252 million years ago.
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
📷: Maximilian Schwarz