Super 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.

Apply Now! Tenure-track Faculty Position in Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida's Whitney Lab. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

🚨🚨 New tenure-track job posting! 🚨🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... Here's some info about why you should apply to this job! 1/

Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑 Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)

Pretty 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.

Just finished a first draft of an ecological power analyzer app. Been watching students struggle to figure out sample sizes. Hope this helps. Fork it, steal it, use it. Mostly accurate. Work in progress. ufduttonlab.github.io/peep-power/

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

OK, this is amazing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

New article published looking at the behaviour of hippos in Botswana and how it varies throughout the day, seasonally, and in different areas. Very little known about hippo behaviour, so feeling happy to have this out there 🥰🦛 academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

Microbiomes are the foundation of the biosphere. Hosts such as humans, bees, and plants have never been just hosts. They are complex units of biological organization upon which various forces act to shape composition, form, and function. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I've been teaching General Ecology at UF Biology and experimenting with ways to help make learning fun. One way I've found particularly useful, is through web apps (games and simulations). Feel free to use them, fork them or steal them. A work in progress. ufduttonlab.github.io/teaching/

Just learned about the book, Absolution. Can confirm they have a camera, but will have to move it to the bunny's back for version 2. Great idea! 😂

📢 New paper in @nature.com Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡ 🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Whoa! Been waiting yrs for these...

lab side project.... www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

An undergrad in my lab just made this @nanoporetech.com library of several metagenomes. All future libraries will now be judged based on this one. 🎉💯

I'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! 🎉🥳

Very proud to have been a part of this research. Grateful to the coauthors and participants for sharing their stories. 🙏 news.ufl.edu/2025/02/syri...

On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Does anyone have a running list of universities that have paused or slashed graduate admissions? We’ll add it to ours if it doesn’t exist

If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed. We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose. Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in

So cool to see the short film produced by our college on our research, making it into several film festivals! news.clas.ufl.edu/animal-micro...

Success!! 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. 🙏🤞

Whoa... elephants in camp...

This 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.

Hard to get my grant application narrative done when there are three warthogs cuddling 3 meters from our table.

You always see a lion in the Mara...even when you're just trying to get to the river to do some research. 🤷

What!? First time seeing a southern ground hornbill in camp.

Camp dik-dik posing for the camera

So many giraffes....

Lots of traffic today on my morning commute...

Sunrise at the Mara River

Love bringing company swag to our field crew in the Kenyan bush that keeps our research going. Thanks Picarro and Zymo!

Please share this Summer 2025 PAID INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY w/ undergraduate students! Bee-HERO gives students the chance to study bee parasites/viruses at the Centre for Honey Bee Research in Uppsala, Sweden. See 🧵 and Bee-HERO website for details - www.sacredheart.edu/academics/co... 🧪🐝

Nora finished her paper with a sentence I like a lot "Our results show that even under extremely restrictive, competitive conditions, the simplest biological entities on Earth can still find paths to coexistence." There is a curious dichotomy in her experiments... 1/3 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When the temperature drops in Florida and everyone shows up to the lab meeting in the same sweater. ♥️

Rockstar #UFBiology undergrad #Sierra loading a #nanopore library under the watchful eye of #PhDStudentAshley. The run was pristine. I'm constantly impressed with the sequencing libraries the students in my course have been producing. 😍

A few days ago, my 5 yr old daughter confided in me that she has been meeting and playing with tiny humans that appear to her thru small little doors. She calls them "humakins" sp? She just ran up and told me that one of them wants to meet me. I'm beyond excited. 🫣

Grateful to the coverage by our university of the work that Amanda and I do. For a rapid dive into our world, check out the video! 🙏 news.clas.ufl.edu/animal-micro...

Dear #MaraRiver. You washed away our last fish tracking telemetry station that was attached to the bridge you destroyed in the last flood. We got a new station, with bigger antennas and concreted it to a rock above your last high water line. Your move.

Sequencing pathogens from shared (people, livestock, wildlife) Maasai water sources in rural Kenya with Brian, a local PhD student.

Working with collaborators in rural Kenya to understand the potential for pathogen transference thru mixed use water pans. Mobile sequencing lab now operational!

Secretarybird vs lappet-faced vulture!!! I just got back from a reporting trip to the Masai Mara. These were two of the birds I most wanted to see and never did I imagine I’d see one kicking the other in its lappety face. (Also, hello. Get ready for a month of Kenyan wildlife pics.)