For a second time, archaeologist Nicole Boivin has been removed as director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History after alleged bullying.
barely 1 month later, ruling that MPG’s president hadn’t followed the society’s own rules in removing her and that she should be able to continue in her position while her case was being decided.
Boivin plans to continue her legal efforts to reclaim her directorship. “It is extremely disappointing that the MPG would not agree to repeated calls over the last months for an external review of this highly problematic case, or leave me in my position while matters were resolved in court,” she wrote in an email to. “The case urgently highlights the need for independent tribunals that can examine deeply contested cases like mine.
MPG Senate member Ulrike Beisiegel, a former president of the University of Göettingen, voted against the demotion. She says she wasn’t given enough information to make an informed decision, nor was Boivin given a chance to make her case. “The Senate waved it through,” Beisiegel says. “There were two sides to the story, and that is reason enough to have an independent investigation.
But William Taylor, an archaeozoologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says Boivin’s case needs to be separated from allegations of MPG’s systemic bias against women. Taylor was a witness in the Sieber-Vöneky investigation and a member of Boivin’s department until 2019. “There’s an important point to be made that the Max Planck system and science in general are failing to support women scientists,” he says.
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