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

thin endochondral bones that are in articulation = nightmare to segment

Second meeting of the day ran smooth. Now trying to make 3D slicer read the files LOL

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...

The day started with my student not showing up for our meeting

Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢 #Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...

I hope the next vertebrae are easier to segment otherwise I will progress at the pace of one per day

me: oh wow, the braincase is preserved! and basically complete! also me: of course it is gabriela, that's why you chose the specimen to scan in the first place health very mental system much nervous

Segmentation advancing very slowly... quite annoying how things that require my immediate attention don't stop appearing in the way. After the deadline next Wednesday I think I should stop comminting to reviews for a while, or only accepting very few of them.

uh-oh I think I found plicidentine

My new institutional email is working but the name showing for me as the sender includes more surnames than the one I use professionally. It feels a bit invasive....

Oh, apparently I have a new professional email now :D

I had missed the ichthyosaur-owenettid proposal

I had to write an editorial for this Wednesday and I panicked so much that I worked intensely on it over the weekend... well, it's sent. I think it turned out good... let's see. Once it's published, I will share over here :)

Another very productive trip do Brasília. Every time I come is very intense, so much to do! But it is also very fun :)

this scan is so amazing I can segment the LAGs 😮

It's been such a busy week that only now I had the time to work on my editorial demands... I try to do it once or twice a week, depending on the satges of the manuscripts, and usually early in the wekk, ie monday-wednesday

Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough! 🎉🎂 youtu.be/ToGZ8ZkUaxY?... #Sylvicanthon #attenboroughi #Attenborosaurus #FossilFriday

Just wrote SIX emails, I'm feeling mentally drained LOL

I hate to reject manuscripts and proposals, but sometimes it is necessary... so, it is such a pleasure to receive a more mature re-submission, with fluid text, clearly-stated goals, detailed methodology etc.

we have a new dog. she's young but not a baby anymore. she's big, energetic, and SO needy! but also got no limits; she had no education. the previous tutors did not take her for walks and would keep her most of the time locked... the only thing they taught her was to jump to greet, not good!

Regarding the recent gutting of the National Science Board by the U.S. administration.

I am having so many research ideas it's annoying LOL can't concentrate too much on what I'm doing now because they keep coming... it's very good for my career transition but it sometimes hurts

omg is the sphenethmoid preserved??? O.O oh... no... that's just the cultriform process T.T the palate is positioned so :|

Just saw a caracara very up close 😍 too bad I could not take any picture

I am having ideas... which is cool. They hamper my concentration on ongoing things a bit, but I consider this very positive because when I am stressed, my ideas are gone and I feel the least productive. I have felt like that in the past months, maybe year and a half, but now ideas are coming back :)

Being at the Brazilian savannah be like: sunny, hot day and, out of the blue, thunder sounds. I hope we do not get heavy rain on the road back home….

Friday, 10:07 pm and I just finished my part of the reviews for the manuscript. Now heading to bed and tomorrow we hit the road for full activity day at the University of Brasilia :)

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...