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
Reposted by Christopher DuttonSean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 24/07/2026And here's a second NYU postdoc job ad, where I'm looking for a candidate that is interested in working on the gut-brain axis: apply.interfolio.com/189975 please share 🙏apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 0515
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 · 12/07/2026We're roasting a goat leg 🍗 on the fire...and I think he'll be around all night... 010
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 · 01/06/2026I'm a Dutton. The other half of my family is Franklin, as in Ben. @paramountpictures.bsky.social drops three hit shows about my "dynasty" and suddenly Google emails me every 20 minutes about suspicious logins. Friends, I run a microbiome lab. There is no ranch. I promise. If there was, I'd invite u 020
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Cool job alert! www.usajobs.gov/job/870869600usajobs.govSupervisory Research ZoologistThe Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in Smithsonians National Zoo and Conservation ... 020
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comMulti‐Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests: A Mammal Interactions Hub in a Single Tree SpeciesWe documented arboreal, multi-species mammal latrines in montane cloud forests of Costa Rica by surveying 169 trees across 29 species. Latrines were found exclusively on Ficus tuerckheimii, with 11 o.... 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 · 07/04/2026In Freshwater Biology, Frauendorf et al. show wildlife subsidies restructure the Mara River food web. Fish shifted from 2% to 73.5% reliance on wildlife-derived resources along a hippo/wildebeest gradient. doi.org/10.1111/fwb.70208doi.orgA Gradient of Wildlife Subsidies Alters Riverine Food Web StructureTerrestrial subsidies play a key role in freshwater food web structure and ecosystem function. Animal-mediated subsidies in particular provide high quality resources that shape aquatic food webs. ... 132
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026In Environmental Microbiology, we argue animals are "mobile bioreactors"...ingesting environmental microbes, transforming them in the gut, and depositing novel communities back into the environment. Case studies from hippos, coral reef fish, and earthworms. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70291doi.orgBioreactors on the Move: How Animals Contribute to Microbial Community Coalescence and Shape Ecosystem FunctionAnimals are moving bioreactors, assimilating microbial taxa from the environment, which then undergo selective filtering in their gut. Animals then deposit this new microbial community back into the .... 123
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 · 11/03/2026👀 www.ign.com/articles/the...ign.comThe Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGNThe Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l... 010
Reposted by Christopher DuttonHaewon McJeon @hmcjeon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026My new commentary in Science recounts the history of stabilization wedges and features the updates to the wedges by Johnson and Staffell. Read the commentary: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Read the Wedge 2026: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 2112
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Wow. Truly humbled by the support. Thank you all so much. 🙏 000
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026We did it! Thanks to you, our labs hit the Gator Nation Giving Day challenge and unlocked the extra support for our students. Thank you for standing up and hollering with us today. #AllForTheGators givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi...givingday.ufl.eduBiology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving DayOur research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist... 010
Reposted by Christopher DuttonSean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 19/02/2026For a popular-science summary of our work, see Joe Myxter's excellent writeup on the @isbscience.org website: isbscience.org/news/health/...isbscience.orgWill It Stick? How to Tell Whether Probiotics and Prebiotics Will ‘Take’Researchers used computer models to predict whether probiotics will “take” in individual microbiomes and how prebiotics shape gut chemistry. 121
Reposted by Christopher DuttonSean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Our latest is out today in @plosbiology.org: "Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of prebiotic and probiotic treatment efficacy across multiple human intervention trials" @isbscience.org @uwbioe.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/jour...doi.orgMetabolic modeling reveals determinants of prebiotic and probiotic treatment efficacy across multiple human intervention trialsPrebiotic and probiotic interventions can induce therapeutically relevant shifts in the human microbiome, but their effects are variable across individuals. This study shows that metabolic models can ... 24119
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Four hours to go in Gator Nation Giving Day, and we’re just 4 donations away from unlocking a 2,000 dollar challenge gift for our lab. Every gift moves us closer and supports student-driven research Florida to African rivers. givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi... #AllForTheGatorsgivingday.ufl.eduBiology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving DayOur research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist... 000
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Large gifts are amazing, but today we’re also trying to maximize the number of Gators who raise their hands with any-size gift. Chip in for water & wildlife research: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi... #StandUpAndHoller We're high up on the leader board already! givingday.ufl.edu/pages/colleg...givingday.ufl.eduBiology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving DayOur research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist... 000
Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Gator Nation Giving Day 2026 is almost here, but early gifts are already rolling in. If you’d like to support student-driven water and wildlife research in our WILDS labs, you can give any time using our fund page: givingday.ufl.edu/campaigns/bi... Every donor, every amount helps.givingday.ufl.eduBiology – WILDS: Water and Wildlife in the Labs of Dutton and Subalusky - Gator Nation Giving DayOur research uncovers how animals and microbes shape the health of ecosystems - from Florida wetlands to African rivers. By supporting the Dutton and Subalusky Labs, you help us train future scientist... 012