Category Archives: Tim Hunt

What’s Changed? Anything? (#Just1action4WIS)

Posted on 15 December 2015 by Athene Donald

This was the year, amongst other things, of the #distractinglysexy hashtag, as discussed recently on BBC Radio4 here. This hashtag was itself part of the fallout of #Huntgate, the undeserved fall from grace of a Nobel prize winner on the … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Evidence, the Need for #Just1Action4WIS

Posted on 28 July 2015 by Athene Donald

I’m sorry, this is yet another piece of writing in the wake of the Tim Hunt debacle. I find I am still very angry. We are, I hope, reaching the end of the saga yet little in the way of … Continue reading →

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Cry, cry, cry (for backwards Nobel Laureates)

Posted on 9 June 2015 by Sylvia McLain

So this happened – at The World Conference of Science Journalism, at a lunch sponsored by Korean female scientists and engineers – just yesterday. So as a human being, I am not sure I particularly care what Professor Tim Hunt, … Continue reading →

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