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!

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.

#1 I'm Really Glad That Curie Managed To Take A Break From Crying To Discover Radium And Polonium

#2 Filter Mask Protects Me From Hazardous Chemicals And Muffles My Woman Cries

#3 I Cried When #ebola Patients Died Or When Got Better. I Have Feelings & I Deal W Them

#4 Thankfully, Worker Bees Are All Female, Otherwise...

#5 Oh Don't Mind Me. I'm Just Pipetting While Being #distractinglysexy

#6 Still #distractinglysexy After A Full Day Of Cell Culture. Didn't Even Cry This Time, So Proud!

#7 I Fell In Love With The Microcentrifuge... Typical Woman In The Lab

#8 I Made It Through These Brain Dissections Without Falling In Love Or Crying. Phew!

#9 It's Just Really Hard Working In A Coed Lab Because I'm Too Distracting To The Male Scientists

#10 Later That Day, I Filled This Bronze Age Ditch With My Womanly Archaeology Tears

#11 Nothing Like A Sample Tube Full Of Cheetah Poop To Make You #distractinglysexy

#12 Who Can't Resist A Girl With Her Own Supplied Air?

#13 Tears, Laughter, Romance, Dirty Dirty Flotation: Archaeology Makes Me So Hot Right Now

#14 Women Researchers Are Too Hot To Have In The Lab - Even When We're Cold

#16 Fighting Cancer Makes Us Hot!

#17 Hearts In The Palm Of Our Hands

#18 Thank Goodness This Stuff Freezes My Tears... And My Cold Icy Heart.

#19 I Had 3 Marriage Proposals After This Talk. Shame I Cried Too Much To Accept

#20 Sorry We Can't Make Out Right Now, But I'm Busy. Please Don't Cry.

#21 Nothing Like Being Up To Your Armpit In Bovine Rectum To Make You Feel #distractinglysexy

#22 Planting This Giant Field Experiment In The Snow Was Probably The Most #distractinglysexy Week Of My Career So Far.

#23 You Might Think We're Covered Up For Bug And Sun Protection, But It's Really Just Because We're #distractinglysexy

#24 All This Blood Is #distractinglysexy

#25 #distractinglysexy It's So Hot Out Here. Luckily, My Archaeologist Tears Cooled Me Down!!

#26 Gets Hot Up In Here When Working On UV Calibration In The Clean Lab

#27 I'm #distractinglysexy In This Mask I Wear Every Day In The Lab To Hide My Tears

#28 Picture Taken By A Male Colleague Just 1 Minute Before We Fell In Love (and Then I Cried)

#29 1963 - Performing A Kmno4 Titration Before Automatic Titration Apparatus Was Ever Heard Of !!

#30 #distractinglysexy Digging At The Foot Of A Volcano. No Worries, The Rain Washed The Tears Away

#31 #distractinglysexy At Nuclear Power Station

#32 I Chose Primatology Because The Outfit I Get To Wear Every Day Is So Very #distractinglysexy.

#33 I'm Not A Scientist But I Cry Because Mr Hunt Doesn't Love Me Due My Outfit (and The Code Too)

#34 Fundraising, Translational Scientist, Singer, Multitasking @vo_elke How #distractinglysexy

#35 It's A Constant Effort To Keep My Tears From Dripping Into The Beakers.

#36 Just Standing In A Pool Of My Woman Tears. #distractinglysexy

#37 #25 Staring At You All Day And Yet You Haven't Mentioned If I'm #distractinglysexy ;(... :d :p

#38 So Hard Not To Fall In Love With The Skeletons When You Are Just A Frail Female Osteologist.

#39 As Always My Tears Will Wash Sweat And Sheep Grease Away #distractinglysexy

#40 Survival Suits Are #distractinglysexy

#41 My Today Research In The Large Format (de)press Fucktory. Yes, We Cunt!

#42 Remember The Sunglasses And Hat, Otherwise You Are Too #distractinglysexy

#43 I Find It Hard Not To Cry, Turtle Dna Is Too #distractinglysexy

#44 Weee Weee!! Women Scientists Can't Handle Their Stuff

#45 All My Coding Is #distractinglysexy

#46 Coding And Creating Mobile Applications Is #distractinglysexy.

#47 The Odor Of Dozens Of Rats Clinging To Me, Yes, #distractinglysexy

#48 6:30 To 19:30 In Opencast Mines In Trucks 10m Off The Ground, Not A Single Beau Or Tear. Proud!

#49 "i'm Crying On The Inside" #distractinglysexy #womeninscience

#50 Entrepreneurship Is My Passion @jsnunki

#51 As An Ecologist The Bats In A Loft Can Soak Up My Tears #distractingly Sexy

#52 Working On The Mass Spectrometer Never Made Me Cry

#53 It's So Hard To Not Fall Love With Rocks Like This!

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