Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Replacing the bulkhead on one of our trusted field vehicles, a 1988 Land Rover Defender, 300TDI. 🧐👌 020
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Everglades. Squint and you can see our...🤖🐰🏹🐍 020
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026August 2004: International Police oversight in Iraq. August 2026: 22 yrs later at 50 years old, running a microbiome lab at a UF. Nothing in the first photo predicted the second. Don't be afraid to follow your interests as they may evolve... and as you grow. 030
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Dinner and movie night at camp with our friends. Hilarious watching #TheSheepDetectives with our local friends who actually have sheep. 020
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Sorry girls, now is not a good time to swing...let's go sit by the fire. 120
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Summer camp for our daughters at our research camp in Kenya... washing clothes by hand is a big part of the experience. 💪 020
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Wondering... if the dwarf mongooses are trying to tell me that there is a 🐍 outside the tent? 030
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A little excitement this afternoon when a hippo came out of nowhere, between myself and my kids, as I was fixing our remote telemetry system. 020
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Couldn't clear the overhang without a little extra weight! 💪😂 010
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Sometimes...it just takes a little longer to get where you are going ... 000
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026This is why we hire Maasai to help. They can spot the hippo moving in the bush much further than we can see. 041
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Summer camp for the kids... helping collect gas flux measurements in the bush of Kenya. 🙏👍 031
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Turns out...our Kenyan nanny is an excellent hair dresser as well. 120
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Well, that didn't take long, to break the soil corer. 💪 000
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Siafu ants always move when it rains...gotta be careful walking around camp... 110
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Oh yeah. Heavy rains. Here we are. An African clawed frog just arrived at camp, and we're 1km from the river.... 100
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Zebra crossing upstream, one was taken...and these big boys started moving upstream. 010
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The rain is coming...and the wildebeest will follow.... 130
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Within five minutes of the giraffe pooping, the dung beetles were already working thru it... 000
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Our weather station was taken out by a controlled burn, right after a flood destroyed our water quality meter. The Mara River ecosystem in Kenya is studying us now. 010
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Big picture: large animals don't just move nutrients, they move microbes and restructure food webs from the bottom up. As megafauna decline, we're losing ecosystem functions we've barely begun to describe. 021
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026More wildlife = more multichannel feeding across detrital and algal pathways. At high input sites, river flow barely affected consumer diets...hippo subsidies may buffer the food web against hydrological variation. 131
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Two new papers from our group! Dutton & Subalusky labs @ufresearch.bsky.social, Frauendorf lab at @colgate.edu, @cgrupstra.bsky.social lab at #FAU, and Post lab at #Yale on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵 142
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Super fun to give the keynote at the American Zoological Association Nutrition Meeting in Oklahoma City! Talked about my lab's work in Kenya, Congo, and with Zoos across the US. A truly great group of passionate, kind people. 070
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Pretty tickled to see our little guy on the big screen during the keynote address of the UF School of Natural Resources and Environment Research Symposium. 030
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 06/03/2025An undergrad in my lab just made this @nanoporetech.com library of several metagenomes. All future libraries will now be judged based on this one. 🎉💯 140
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I've never seen Amanda more excited than when she just received @bengoldfarb.bsky.social 's book in the mail along with a chewed up beaver stick! 🎉🥳 070
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Success!! Finally got the acacia thorn out of my shoe from the summer field season in Kenya/Tanzania. Every other day...I'd step on a rock and feel it. Tomorrow...is a new day. 🙏🤞 130
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025This time...our commute from the river was stopped by a group of female lions and two cubs, hunting a warthog. 🤷 We had to stop out of respect for their hunt. 140
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Hard to get my grant application narrative done when there are three warthogs cuddling 3 meters from our table. 030
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025You always see a lion in the Mara...even when you're just trying to get to the river to do some research. 🤷 050
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025What!? First time seeing a southern ground hornbill in camp. 160