It’s the # that keeps on giving… (part 1 – part 2)
Tag: Women in Science
#DistractinglySexy 2 (because it keeps getting better!)
Yesterday the #DistractinglySexy started trending on twitter and I compiled a few of the post here. But because it is still very relevant, and I can’t ignore it, I’ll share a few more with you. (part 1 – part 3)
In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, Nobel Prize winner Sir Tim Hunt shared a few insights while on a conference, saying that labs should be same sex only, because women in the labs cause some trouble… either the men fall in love with them, or they fall in love with the men, and then they cry. Yep, that’s what the bastard said! He then apologized, saying how wrong of him it was to say it in front of journalists (yeah, not sorry he said it and thought it, just that the journalists were present…).
In case you’re wondering, he resigned yesterday from his UCL post. I have to admit, I’ve been in science for about 12 years, I’ve been working in a mixed lab since I entered my Masters (a while back) and before that I worked with guys in the lab… NEVER HAD THAT PROBLEM. Crying?! Sure, it might have happened, you know, when I work for a whole month and PCRs keeps coming up contaminated or negative, sure, I might shed a tear, but I never had any sort of inkling towards a male colleague…
SO, without further ado, here are some more fun tweets about this.
https://twitter.com/debkaysen/status/609198480611868672
https://twitter.com/Doc_Browny/status/609270760461438976
https://twitter.com/charlenedowney/status/609116413509251072
https://twitter.com/nijhuism/status/609186165531344896
https://twitter.com/calacadlibrary/status/609158887594426369
#DistractinglySexy is the best response ever to Tim Hunt
A Nobel prize-winning scientist has been forced to apologise for saying female colleagues “fall in love” in the workplace and “cry” when criticised.
Sir Tim Hunt, a Cambridge PhD graduate, has come under fire for telling a group of Korean scientists that women distract men from work and should be in same-sex laboratories.
“Three things happen when they are in the lab, you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry,” he said.
The 72-year-old also admitted to the audience that he was a “chauvinist pig”.
When I read this yesterday I was obviously outraged (me being a woman in science and all), but today, not only did he resign, but Women in Science took twitter to have the last word under the hashtag #Distractinglysexy, and you just have to go look, it’s amazing. Here are some (see more part 2 – part 3):
https://twitter.com/rockstarscience/status/609056422802804736
https://twitter.com/BeccaPritchy/status/608984359425703936
https://twitter.com/CindyRenate/status/608961845114724353
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