As Sir Tim Hunt announced his resignation from an honorary professorship at UCL in the wake of his suggestion that science would benefit from ¡°single-sex labs¡±, female researchers have turned to Twitter to pour scorn on the idea that they are #distractinglysexy.

Sir Tim told a conference in South Korea on 9 June that ¡°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¡±.

Here are some of the responses posted on Twitter using the #distractinglysexy hashtag:

Rare moment where I wasn't crying or falling in love in labs. Damn my feeble female mind!

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¡ª Rachael (@TheConstantRach)

Women only lab! the boys have gone off crying

¡ª Louise Renouf (@LouLouMinx)

Is that a magnetic wrench in your pocket or are you just happy to see my array?

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¡ª Bailey-Ann (@baileyanns)

": when emptying the biohazardous waste bucket. "

¡ª jo sier (@j_sier)

feeling sexy in boot

¡ª Marie Cachera (@CacheraMarie)

Loving the tweets this morn. Huge problem. Even affected the cows I did my degree research on.

¡ª Lizzie Ellis (@charlania)