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Ben Keck
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Teaching Professor and Director/Curator of the University of Tennessee Ichthyological Collection.
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Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!

Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.

(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)

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Postdoctoral Researcher
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August 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Mixing some fish morphology with art next Friday , 13 May! calendar.utk.edu/event/sumi-e...
Sumi-e: Fishes in Black Ink
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May 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
We had the opening of a new exhibit including specimens from the DA Etnier Ichthyological Collection at UT last night! It's based on X-rays from the Smithsonian and highlights the wondrous forms of fishes! mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/exhibitions/...
X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out | McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
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February 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Snail Darter = Stargazing Darter!
Here's our paper synonomizing the Snail Darter with the Stargazing Darter. Our work leading to our 2011 phylogeny of darters identified many undescribed species and some, like this, that might suggest synonomy is in order.
Comparative species delimitation of a biological conservation icon
The United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 set a precedent for biodiversity conservation across the globe.1 A key requirement of protectio…
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January 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Coming soon! Big update from #NearLab and collaborators on the famous Snail Darter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_d...
January 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Two postdocs available to study cryptobenthic fishes

Simon Brandl's postdoc in Texas, with an emphasis in ecology
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Luke Tornabene's postdoc in Washington, with an emphasis in systematics
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#ichthyology #TeamFish
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December 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM