On June 9th, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Sir Tim Hunt shocked the world by making sexist statements about women scientists at a women scientists' conference in South Korea. "Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … three things happen when they are in the lab … You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry," the Nobel laureate said, advocating single-sex labs as well.
In response to his anachronistic and chauvinistic comments, women scientists around the world took to Twitter to show how wrong he really was, using hashtags like #distractinglysexy and #TimHunt. Women in science are encouraged to add their own pics below!
"Three things happen when [women] are in the lab... You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry," Tim Hunt said at a conference in South Korea
Image credits: biozentrum.unibas.ch
The #distractinglysexy hashtag was born in response:
Image credits: Twitter
#21 Nothing Like Being Up To Your Armpit In Bovine Rectum To Make You Feel #distractinglysexy
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#22 Planting This Giant Field Experiment In The Snow Was Probably The Most #distractinglysexy Week Of My Career So Far.
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#23 You Might Think We're Covered Up For Bug And Sun Protection, But It's Really Just Because We're #distractinglysexy
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#24 All This Blood Is #distractinglysexy
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#25 #distractinglysexy It's So Hot Out Here. Luckily, My Archaeologist Tears Cooled Me Down!!
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#26 Gets Hot Up In Here When Working On UV Calibration In The Clean Lab
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#27 I'm #distractinglysexy In This Mask I Wear Every Day In The Lab To Hide My Tears
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#28 Picture Taken By A Male Colleague Just 1 Minute Before We Fell In Love (and Then I Cried)
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#29 1963 - Performing A Kmno4 Titration Before Automatic Titration Apparatus Was Ever Heard Of !!
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#30 #distractinglysexy Digging At The Foot Of A Volcano. No Worries, The Rain Washed The Tears Away
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#31 #distractinglysexy At Nuclear Power Station
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#32 I Chose Primatology Because The Outfit I Get To Wear Every Day Is So Very #distractinglysexy.
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#33 I'm Not A Scientist But I Cry Because Mr Hunt Doesn't Love Me Due My Outfit (and The Code Too)
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#34 Fundraising, Translational Scientist, Singer, Multitasking @vo_elke How #distractinglysexy
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#35 It's A Constant Effort To Keep My Tears From Dripping Into The Beakers.
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#36 Just Standing In A Pool Of My Woman Tears. #distractinglysexy
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#37 #25 Staring At You All Day And Yet You Haven't Mentioned If I'm #distractinglysexy ;(... :d :p
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#38 So Hard Not To Fall In Love With The Skeletons When You Are Just A Frail Female Osteologist.
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#39 As Always My Tears Will Wash Sweat And Sheep Grease Away #distractinglysexy
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#40 Survival Suits Are #distractinglysexy
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