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Mark Siddall is a Canadian^[1] biologist. Siddall has studied the evolution and systematics of blood parasites and leeches, and systematic theory^[2]. He was formerly a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. In September 2020, Siddall was fired from the American Museum of Natural History for violating sexual harassment guidelines^[3].

Education

Siddall completed a Masters^[4] and PhD^[5] under the supervision of Sherwin S. Desser at the University of Toronto in 1991 and 1994, respectively^[6].

Career

After completing his PhD, Siddall completed a postdoc at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science^[7]. Subsequently, he was a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows from 1996 - 1999^[8]. Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History in 1999^[9] and served there as a curator until 2020^[10]. He has written a popular science book, Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences^[11].

Firing for sexual harassment

Siddall was fired from the American Museum of Natural History in September 2020 after the museum found that he had sexually harassed and bullied a graduate student under his supervision; as part of the investigation, he was cited for violating a museum policy that prohibits sexual relationships between staff and mentees under their academic supervision^[12].

Research

Siddall studies phylogenetics and evolution^[13]. He began his career publishing on blood parasites^[14]. He has published extensively on leech systematics^[15]^[16]^[17].

Siddall has been described as "a staunch supporter of parsimony and a harsh critic of maximum likelihood approaches” to inferring phylogenies^[18]; notably, Siddall was involved in the Twitter controversy #Parsimonygate in 2016^[19].

References

[1] ttps://search.proquest.com/openview/826ba0e832e279739fb0691b74b947f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41450

[2] ttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3285473

[3] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/arts/mark-siddall-sexual-harassment.html

[4] ttps://issuu.com/uoftmagazine/docs/winter14/62

[5] ttps://www.worldsciencefestival.com/participants/mark_siddall/

[6] ttps://www.jstor.org/stable/44810235

[7] ttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3285473

[8] ttps://lsa.umich.edu/herbarium/news-events/all-events.detail.html/37412-6534097.html

[9] ttps://search.proquest.com/openview/826ba0e832e279739fb0691b74b947f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41450

[10] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/arts/mark-siddall-sexual-harassment.html

[11] ttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Poison/4PVBmQEACAAJ?hl=en

[12] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/arts/mark-siddall-sexual-harassment.html

[13] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/science/his-subject-highly-evolved-and-exquisitely-thirsty.html?searchResultPosition=2

[14] ttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1990.tb01257.x

[15] ttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00017378

[16] ttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790397904553

[17] ttps://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.336.4213&rep=rep1&type=pdf

[18] ttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3285473

[19] ttps://www.wired.com/2016/02/twitter-nerd-fight-reveals-a-long-bizarre-scientific-feud/

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