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'''Mark E. Siddall''' is a Canadian biologist. Siddall has studied the [[evolutionary biology|evolution]] and [[systematics]] of blood parasites and [[leech]]es, and systematic theory.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in July, 1999<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https:// |
'''Mark E. Siddall''' is a Canadian biologist and former curator<ref name="auto">{{cite news|last=Jacobs |first=Julia|date=October 2, 2020|title=Museum Fires Curator Who It Says Sexually Harassed Student Researcher |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/arts/mark-siddall-sexual-harassment.html|work=New york Times}}</ref> at the [[American Museum of Natural History]]. Siddall has studied the [[evolutionary biology|evolution]] and [[systematics]] of blood parasites and [[leech]]es, and systematic theory<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Siddall |first1=Mark |last2=Kluge |first2=Arnold |title=Probabilism and phylogenetic inference. |journal=Cladistics |date=December 1997 |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=313–336 |doi=10.1006/clad.1997.0046|hdl=2027.42/71951 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in July, 1999<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/826ba0e832e279739fb0691b74b947f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41450 |title=INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL |website=ProQuest}}</ref> and worked there as a curator until September, 2020, when he was terminated for allegedly having violated the museum's policy prohibiting sexual relationships between staff and mentees. Siddall denied the claim.<ref name="auto"/> |
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==Education== |
==Education== |
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Siddall completed a Masters<ref>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/uoftmagazine/docs/winter14/62|title=U of T Magazine | Winter 2014|website=Issuu}}</ref> and PhD<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/participants/mark_siddall/ |title=Mark Siddall |publisher=World Science Festival |date= |access-date=2021-03-12}}</ref> under the supervision of Sherwin S. Desser at the [[University of Toronto]] in 1991 and 1994, respectively.<ref>{{Cite journal |
Siddall completed a Masters<ref>{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/uoftmagazine/docs/winter14/62|title=U of T Magazine | Winter 2014|website=Issuu|date=10 December 2013 }}</ref> and PhD<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/participants/mark_siddall/ |title=Mark Siddall |publisher=World Science Festival |date= |access-date=2021-03-12}}</ref> under the supervision of Sherwin S. Desser at the [[University of Toronto]] in 1991 and 1994, respectively.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Siddall, Mark E.|title=Presidential Address: Reinvention and Resolve|year=2016|journal=The Journal of Parasitology |volume=102|issue=6|pages=566–571 |doi=10.1645/16-113|jstor=44810235|pmid=27626125|s2cid=11802614}}</ref> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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After completing his PhD, Siddall completed a postdoc at the [[Virginia Institute of Marine Science]].<ref name="auto2"/> Subsequently, he was a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows from 1996 |
After completing his PhD, Siddall completed a postdoc at the [[Virginia Institute of Marine Science]].<ref name="auto2"/> Subsequently, he was a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows from 1996-1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/herbarium/news-events/all-events.detail.html/37412-6534097.html|title=All Events | U-M LSA University of Michigan Herbarium|website=lsa.umich.edu}}</ref> He also acted as treasurer of the [[Willi Hennig Society]], publisher of the journal ''[[Cladistics (journal)|Cladistics]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine|title=Twitter Nerd-Fight Reveals a Long, Bizarre Scientific Feud |magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/02/twitter-nerd-fight-reveals-a-long-bizarre-scientific-feud/|access-date=2021-06-26|issn=1059-1028}}</ref> |
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Siddall has worked and published on parasitic and other animals, including leeches<ref>{{Cite news|last=Zimmer|first=Carl|date=2006-02-07|title=His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty |
Siddall has worked and published on parasitic and other animals, including leeches,<ref name=Zimmer>{{Cite news|last=Zimmer|first=Carl|date=2006-02-07|title=His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty |work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/science/his-subject-highly-evolved-and-exquisitely-thirsty.html|access-date=2021-04-13|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> jellyfish,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Yong|first=Ed|date=2016-08-22|title=A Tiny Jellyfish Relative Just Shut Down Yellowstone River|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/the-parasite-that-just-shut-down-a-montana-river-has-an-unbelievable-origin/496817/|access-date=2021-04-13|website=The Atlantic}}</ref> guinea worms,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Palmer|first=Brian|date=2015-03-10|title=We're on the Verge of the Greatest Public Health Triumph of the 21st Century|url=https://slate.com/technology/2015/03/guinea-worm-eradication-nylon-filters-and-caring-about-others-bring-a-public-health-victory.html|access-date=2021-04-13|website=Slate Magazine}}</ref> and bed bugs.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Borel|first=Brooke|date=2016-02-02 |title=Bed bug genome shows how gnarly these creatures really are|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/2/10891676/bed-bug-genome-sequencing-findings-nature-communications|access-date=2021-04-13|website=The Verge}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kolbert|first=Elizabeth|title=Old Bugs|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/30/old-bugs|access-date=2021-04-13|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> |
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He is author of the science book ''Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences''.<ref name="Siddall2014">{{cite book|author=Mark Siddall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4PVBmQEACAAJ|title=Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated|year=2014|isbn=978-1-4549-0764-0}}</ref> |
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In 2016, Siddall, [[Jonathan Eisen]], and others were involved in the Twitter controversy #ParsimonyGate.<ref name=":0"/> |
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The [[American Museum of Natural History]] let him go in September 2020 after an outside law firm, Kaplan Hecker & Fink,<ref name="auto"/> made a determination that he had sexually harassed and bullied a graduate student. 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.<ref name="auto" /> Siddall has denied that a sexual encounter took place.<ref name="auto" /> Siddall did state that the student had initiated a physical encounter with him, which he had rejected.<ref name="auto" /> A year after that incident, Siddall found an error in the findings of a research paper she was writing for a peer-reviewed publication, of which he was one of the co-authors and attempted to prevent the paper from being published; the museum found that his efforts were motivated at least in part by a desire to retaliate against the student for refusing to engage with him.<ref name="auto" /> He publicly disagreed with the findings by the museum that led to his dismissal, however, he chose to not appeal the decision for personal reasons and due to legal costs.<ref name="auto" /> The Museum responded with termination.<ref name="auto" /> There had been a prior complaint filed against him with the museum by Dr. Susan Perkins in 2017.<ref name="auto" /> |
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The [[American Museum of Natural History]] fired Siddall in September 2020 for alleged [[sexual harassment]], citing museum policy that prohibits sexual relationships between staff and mentees under their academic supervision.<ref name="auto" /> An outside law firm representing the museum's interests found that Siddall had "engaged in verbal, written, and physical conduct of a sexual nature that had the effect of unreasonably interfering with your academic performance."<ref name="auto" /> Siddall denied that any sexual encounter ever took place, and claimed he was fired because "he had found a serious error" in a paper.<ref name="auto" /> |
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==Research== |
==Research== |
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Siddall studies [[phylogenetics]] and evolution.<ref |
Siddall studies [[phylogenetics]] and evolution.<ref name=Zimmer/> Siddall has been described as "a staunch supporter of [[Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics)|parsimony]] and a harsh critic of maximum likelihood approaches”, although "having mellowed a bit on that".<ref name="auto2">{{Cite journal|title=Society Business|author1=Burreson, Eugene M.|author2=Siddall, Mark E.|author3=Connors, Vincent A.|year=2002 |journal=The Journal of Parasitology|volume=88 |issue=6|pages=1053–1070|doi=10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1053:IOMESA]2.0.CO;2|jstor=3285473|pmid=12537094 |s2cid=44766356 }}</ref> |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Latest revision as of 09:17, 7 April 2024
Mark E. Siddall is a Canadian biologist and former curator[1] at the American Museum of Natural History. Siddall has studied the evolution and systematics of blood parasites and leeches, and systematic theory[2].[citation needed] Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History in July, 1999[3] and worked there as a curator until September, 2020, when he was terminated for allegedly having violated the museum's policy prohibiting sexual relationships between staff and mentees. Siddall denied the claim.[1]
Education[edit]
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[edit]
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] He also acted as treasurer of the Willi Hennig Society, publisher of the journal Cladistics.[9]
Siddall has worked and published on parasitic and other animals, including leeches,[10] jellyfish,[11] guinea worms,[12] and bed bugs.[13][14]
He is author of the science book Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences.[15]
In 2016, Siddall, Jonathan Eisen, and others were involved in the Twitter controversy #ParsimonyGate.[9]
The American Museum of Natural History fired Siddall in September 2020 for alleged sexual harassment, citing museum policy that prohibits sexual relationships between staff and mentees under their academic supervision.[1] An outside law firm representing the museum's interests found that Siddall had "engaged in verbal, written, and physical conduct of a sexual nature that had the effect of unreasonably interfering with your academic performance."[1] Siddall denied that any sexual encounter ever took place, and claimed he was fired because "he had found a serious error" in a paper.[1]
Research[edit]
Siddall studies phylogenetics and evolution.[10] Siddall has been described as "a staunch supporter of parsimony and a harsh critic of maximum likelihood approaches”, although "having mellowed a bit on that".[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Jacobs, Julia (October 2, 2020). "Museum Fires Curator Who It Says Sexually Harassed Student Researcher". New york Times.
- ^ Siddall, Mark; Kluge, Arnold (December 1997). "Probabilism and phylogenetic inference". Cladistics. 13 (4): 313–336. doi:10.1006/clad.1997.0046. hdl:2027.42/71951.
- ^ "INTRODUCTION OF PRESIDENT MARK E. SIDDALL". ProQuest.
- ^ "U of T Magazine | Winter 2014". Issuu. 10 December 2013.
- ^ "Mark Siddall". World Science Festival. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
- ^ Siddall, Mark E. (2016). "Presidential Address: Reinvention and Resolve". The Journal of Parasitology. 102 (6): 566–571. doi:10.1645/16-113. JSTOR 44810235. PMID 27626125. S2CID 11802614.
- ^ a b Burreson, Eugene M.; Siddall, Mark E.; Connors, Vincent A. (2002). "Society Business". The Journal of Parasitology. 88 (6): 1053–1070. doi:10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1053:IOMESA]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3285473. PMID 12537094. S2CID 44766356.
- ^ "All Events | U-M LSA University of Michigan Herbarium". lsa.umich.edu.
- ^ a b "Twitter Nerd-Fight Reveals a Long, Bizarre Scientific Feud". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ^ a b Zimmer, Carl (2006-02-07). "His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ^ Yong, Ed (2016-08-22). "A Tiny Jellyfish Relative Just Shut Down Yellowstone River". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ^ Palmer, Brian (2015-03-10). "We're on the Verge of the Greatest Public Health Triumph of the 21st Century". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ^ Borel, Brooke (2016-02-02). "Bed bug genome shows how gnarly these creatures really are". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ^ Kolbert, Elizabeth. "Old Bugs". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ^ Mark Siddall (2014). Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences. Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-4549-0764-0.
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