I had planned to segment a bit, but there was so much editorial bureaucracy to be done today.... also, tomorrow is my daughter's bday so there's stuff to prepare! 😊

that odd time when you finish a major task too late to start a new one but too early to have lunch

New paper: we describe the inner ear anatomy of Eunotosaurus africanus, based on a specimen that has not been published previously. Open access @journalsystpal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My affiliation to the University of Brasilia was approved 🥳 not a paying job but at least now I can teach and have students 😊 this will help me build up the CV needed to be competitive here for job applications

I wish people would stop characterising fieldwork in the Amazon as "going to the middle of the jungle" as a way to indicate it is remote and difficult to reach... it gives colonial vibes. Several paleontological locations are far away from cities and with a difficult logistics.

I really enjoy reviewing manuscripts and it is a nice thing when you become the go-to referee for a great journal regarding certain topics :)

Hey check me out talking about paleoneurology! 😊 www.instagram.com/reel/DV8PVw_...

Hey check me out talking about paleoneurology! 😊 www.instagram.com/reel/DV8PVw_...

Coming back to work after almost a week with daughter and hubby sick at home. I almost fell to it too, but I somehow managed to scape (maybe stress levels too high already... I may pay the price later)

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. 🐼👍🏽

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.

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....

#SaveTheDate 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 xkcd.com/3204/

#SavetheDate 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

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 😅

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

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! 🧪

We have a stove! \o/

Ok, so I think I was able to install VG, what means I will soon be able to resume my segmenting. But first I need a mouse and a proper case for this huge laptop :)

Moving and having to rebuild your life is quite annoying… the stove is 2 weeks late and not only we can’t cook anything, but also I had to stay home because they MAY deliver it today. This has been going on for some days now… and working from home is uncomfortable, no place to sit properly

My first attempt to return to work since moving back last week... trying to dissipate the fog around my brain (tired, jet lagged, almost sick) and catch up with emails.

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.

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

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?

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

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...

OMFG I found a complete braincase within the matrix 😭😭 ESRF I love you

Join today our online colloquium to learn about the evolution of feather like structures 250 millions ago, before dinosaurs were around! @kombiota.bsky.social

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I finished reviewing one manuscript :D I have accepted another one D: