Female Scientists Take To Twitter To Show Tim Hunt How #DistractinglySexy They Are

If Nobel laureate Tim Hunt thought he had "trouble with girls" distracting him in the lab before, he must be glued to Twitter now with all of the #DistractinglySexy photos coming in of female scientists at work around the world.

Hunt, a 72-year old biochemist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, explained at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea on Monday that girls are simply too tempting and tearful to be in the lab.

"Let me tell you about my trouble with girls," Hunt said. "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."

Hunt has since apologized on BBC Radio, but his expression of regret seemed to have more to do with the fact that he got slammed for his comments than anything else. After apologizing for his remarks, he told the BBC that it was "a very stupid thing to do in the presence of all those journalists."

He even went on to say, "I did mean the part about having trouble with girls," and explained how disruptive "emotional entanglements" with female lab members have been to his work in the past, according to the BBC.

Ladies of science swiftly mounted their response on Twitter to show Hunt how right he was. The photos they have shared of themselves wearing protective gear, picking through animal guts, and examining poop are nothing short of irresistible.

Female scientists are practically walking around naked at work.

The outfits they wear simply invite ogling. Thigh-high boots? Clearly inappropriate for doing science.

No one can ignore a seductive look like this one, especially not with the romantic smell of fish guts in the air.

And everyone knows that cheetah poop is an aphrodisiac.

Even if they are distractingly sexy, at least some of them were smart enough to find some innovative ways to cope with their other shortcomings, like crying too much.

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