I’m glad my friends like Buddhini Samarasinghe, Rajini Rao, and Allison Sekuler are Tweeting away about how wrong Dr. Hunt is. I hope to catch Buddhini on BBC Radio.
ETA Nice fake apology.
ETA 2 Here’s more from Buddhini
https://plus.google.com/+BuddhiniSamarasinghe/posts/arRaTcZSd8s
June 10, 2015
I like to call these “nonpologies”: Sorry I offended some people, but I was being honest. I like the scientifically onion-ized version! http://www.theallium.com/policy/world-applauds-bravery-of-nobel-prizewinner-tim-hunt-for-calling-women-cry-babies/
June 10, 2015
Thanks for that Rajini Rao.
June 10, 2015
Thanks Chad Haney! Here’s the link to the discussion I was a part of on BBC – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02st6q9 I wish I had more time to highlight how great some of our male allies have been as well, but as you know 1 hr isn’t nearly enough to cover everything about this topic.
Tim’s non-apology is infuriating, as is the Royal Society just quietly trying to distance itself from him. Ugh.
June 10, 2015
Great job, Buddhini Samarasinghe. I look forward to listening to the BBC piece when I get home. I’ll gladly re-share any follow up posts from STEM Women on G+ and Zuleyka Zevallos.
June 10, 2015
So much to cringe at!
June 10, 2015
Apparently he’s resigned.
UCL can confirm that Sir Tim Hunt FRS has today resigned from his position as Honorary Professor with the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, following comments he made about women in science at the World Conference of Science Journalists on 9 June.
UCL was the first university in England to admit women students on equal terms to men, and the university believes that this outcome is compatible with our commitment to gender equality.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0615/100615-tim-hunt
via Buddhini Samarasinghe
June 10, 2015
/sub to follow all links later
June 10, 2015
BUT – his buddy, head of the largest funding agency of Europe had this to say – http://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/press_release/files/ERC_President_Statement_on_Tim_Hunt's_comment.pdf
Also another old white man.
June 10, 2015
Buddhini Samarasinghe, oh jeez another privileged dinosaur.
June 10, 2015
Buddhini Samarasinghe Quit posting those articles, else you are going to end up making me cry.. 😉
June 10, 2015
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/scientist-crying-being-sad-33748072.jpg
June 10, 2015
Ciro Villa hey as long as I don’t fall in love with you, right? Us ladies have a tendency to do that, apparently 😛
June 10, 2015
I guess that’s why Sir Hunt is a nobel prize winner. I’m clearly doing something wrong. I have neither female scientists falling in love with me or crying about it.
June 10, 2015
This whole conversation reminds me of this video Buddhini Samarasinghe Rajini Rao Chad Haney , don’t know if you guys have seen this or not…shared by our good friend Dr. Nicole Gugliucci a while ago…(in a sarcastic sort of way of course)..
June 10, 2015
I’ll check the video out later, Ciro Villa. Thanks.
June 10, 2015
I remember that ‘unfortunate’ video…
June 10, 2015
Buddhini Samarasinghe, in case you missed this from Lorna Salgado
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LornaSalgado/posts/RjvXvNDixnP
June 10, 2015
Ciro Villa I do recall that disastrous video! 🙂
Chad Haney that was a hilarious post from Lorna Salgado . Thanks for linking to it.