If you missed it, earlier this week Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Tim Hunt made sexist remarks during a conference in Seoul.
Nobel scientist Tim Hunt FRS @royalsociety says at Korean women lunch “I’m a chauvinist and keep ‘girls’ single lab
“Let me tell you about my trouble with girls,” the British scientist reportedly said. “You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry!”
Not a great statement to make at a conference honoring women in science.
I am in the office, but I can't do my science work as I saw a photograph of #TimHunt and now I'm in love, dammit https://t.co/vxVI61UwuL
Many women in the field took to Twitter to give Hunt a piece of their mind:
We honestly think that you have no place in science. We honestly think that your attitudes are backwards, draconian, and inappropriate.
So online magazine Vagenda suggested that women scientists upload pictures of themselves at work with the hashtag #DistractinglySexy in protest:
Call for all female scientists to upload pictures of themselves at work with the hashtag #distractinglysexy
In response, women scientists quickly began tweeting photos of themselves in their very sexy work attire:
@alice_culliford #distractinglysexy #womeninscience
Thankfully, worker bees are all female, otherwise... #distractinglysexy #timhunt
It's just really hard working in a coed lab because I'm too distracting to the male scientists #distractinglysexy
Here I am again being #distractinglysexy in Level B PPE. Because who can't resist a girl with her own supplied air?
#distractinglysexy I cried when #Ebola patients died or when got better.I have feelings & I deal w them.So should you
Here come the sexy astrophysicists:
Gets hot up in here when working on UVcalibration in the clean lab. #distractinglysexy How bout them apples #TimHunt?
Sexy wildlife biologists:
Nothing like a sample tube full of cheetah poop to make you #distractinglysexy
Sexy archeologists at work here, be careful:
Later that day, I filled this Bronze Age ditch with my womanly archaeology tears #distractinglysexy
Don't even get us started on Marie Curie, that cutie:
I'm really glad that Curie managed to take a break from crying to discover radium and polonium #distractinglysexy
The only thing better than the images being shared are the sarcastic captions that go along with them.
"Filter mask protects me from hazardous materials and muffles my woman cries."
Filter mask protects me from hazardous chemicals and muffles my woman cries. Double win! #DistractinglySexy
"Fell in love with the microcentrifuge... typical woman in the lab."
I fell in love with the microcentrifuge... typical woman in the lab. #DistractinglySexy
"Women researchers are too hot to have in the lab — even when we're cold."
#DistractinglySexy Women researchers are too hot to have in the lab - even when we're cold. So long, Dr. Hunt!
"To be fair, exploration geology is the sultriest science."
To be fair, exploration geology *is* the sultriest science. #DistractinglySexy
"Not to mention getting off... in a helicopter."
Not to mentions getting off... in a helicopter. #DistractinglySexy
But hopefully everyone heeds his advice and preps their lab spaces accordingly.
To save you all time, I have designed an easy to print off sign for your lab. You are welcome. #distractinglysexy
BuzzFeed News has reached out to Vagenda magazine for comment on its original tweet.