Sign in

Bettina Watkins

@bettywatty.bsky.social
230 followers 133 following 2.7K posts

Part of the cabal of corrupt, evil epidemiologists trying to keep everyone alive. Personal account, so mostly shitposting on unrelated topics and occasionally re-posting people smarter and funnier than me. Windwalker main. Iykyk.

PostsRepliesMedia
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Place of work continues to ask me to hold more beers.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Robert I don’t give a fuck about ice cream colors
100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A bola não mente is my new mantra
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dear universe, please be less dystopian for like literally just 5 seconds for the entire world.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You gotta love it when you literally just blew up your life and then your place of work is like hold my beer www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My dudes, my fucking dumb-as-fuck dudes … A woman’s intuition always knows.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m really getting tired of the phrase “disillusioned young x” being conflated with “deluded young x”
123
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bro stop huffing your own fumes www.wsj.com/opinion/doge...
wsj.com
Opinion | DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It Going
A cadre of gifted, creative and patriotic thinkers can uncover wasteful spending and reduce federal debt.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Beauty contest. Woof. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Pentagon Wants Only the Fittest Troops to Attend Upcoming Hegseth Speech
Servicemembers must meet waist-to-height standards and have “impeccable” grooming.
000
Reposted by Bettina Watkins
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Out of concerns about antisemitism, I’m joining my friend Robert Kraft in banning Israel critic Macklemore from my stadium. Here’s a link for Kanye West tickets at that same stadium. by Jerry Jones
161344203
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Junior year, zero period, debate class Saw second plane on TV in classroom
000
Reposted by Bettina Watkins
A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all
wikihow tutorial illustration with a man in baseball cap and pink shirt partially crouching, hands on thighs, and pivoting counterclockwise as shown by red arrows. Caption reads, "how to discretely get your balls unstuck from your thigh"
694702689
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Guys, Jon Ossoff is now in my ads in a black v-neck t shirt. It’s catching on. New Dem uniform??
100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The interesting thing is, when you go into SAHM spaces, they are vehemently for this and if you comment on how single mothers will be hurt … it’s not received well. Amazing how willing people are to squabble over scraps instead of demanding better for everyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | JD Vance Doesn’t Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers.
Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Remind me again how many times I’ve heard “we are going back to gold standard science” in the last 1.5 years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new health department report
HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I don’t give a shit about other places being worse. The entire point is that we are supposed to be the ideal, we are supposed to be better. Idgaf about your cronyism relativism.
020
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Brb digging up the articles from last week about conditions for workers in Brazil’s beef industry
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Definitely not waste or abuse of taxpayer dollars www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/
whitehouse.gov
Arcade
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Added 160k+ jobs … primarily in crazily underpaid sectors whoo! (This is sarcasm.) -food service -government education (public schools etc.) -leisure and hospitality
000
Reposted by Bettina Watkins
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
can someone rename gas to $2/ gallon
866207756
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Important study from Dr. Dan Dan (or just DanDan as we called him in college).
110
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This makes me happy!
010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Like I said, mystery meat. I am waiting on the edge of my seat to find out where exactly it’s coming from … and if it’s actually beef …
010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On the one hand if we stop reproducing the species dies out, but on the other no one ever gives birth to the next Donald J Trump Decisions, decisions …
010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How much of this mystery meat is coming from countries with endemic mad cow disease (kidding, ignore me)
110
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
How’s that Harvard application going my dude www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by his university
Researcher Nathan Cofnas previously claimed Black people would hold few high-profile positions in a meritocracy
010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
There is a special place in hell for people who make cute AI videos of dogs and try to pass them off as real
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Going to need everyone to email this to the NYT editorial board: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence
Science is humanity’s best insurance against threats from nature, but it is a fragile enterprise that must be nourished and protected. The preponderance of scientific evidence indicates a natural orig...
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
And now the NYT with Alina Chan. Guys I can’t with the clickbait. Stop promoting fringe theories that have no actual evidence. Conjecture is not evidence.
021
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Guardian promoting David Relman’s questions on COVID-19’s origins is a bit infuriating. He’s a microbiologist; think he’d appreciate the opinions of the world’s best virologists, but like every bro from Stanford, he thinks he knows best.
100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Classic www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump shows off article on lower drug prices that says Biden deserves credit, not him
US president credits himself with lowest drug prices in 60 years, when article says drop is more likely due to Biden
020
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Everywhere I go at work now someone asks me if I’m looking for a detail (I’m not) or a deployment (I’m not), because of how many responses we have going. Sign of the times?
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You’ve got to love a dude who rejects the core of Franz Boas’s work while ALSO using Franz Boas’s work to refute anti-semitism. Like bro.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Wild how much of this is from the actual statement. Gamers don’t want slop. Stop it.
010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Dark Souls. Any of them. If I’m going to suffer through that many boss pulls, I’m going to need a game like Clair Obscur or Witcher 2/3.
110
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Guys, going to need you to add, “are you 18 yet?” to your list of things not to say to young people
100
Reposted by Bettina Watkins
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A year ago, RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya killed federal funding for mRNA vaccine R&D (& each wrote pathetic OpEds celebrating their actions) @jmcoller.bsky.social lays out how wrong they were—see data on the new mRNA flu vaccine, 5-yr data on melanoma vaxx, & more www.statnews.com/2026/08/06/m...
One year since Kennedy canceled mRNA vaccine projects, science shows how wrong he was
Congress must restore mRNA vaccine research funding to keep the U.S. competitive
11266123
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cardboard cutout of Jay at a solemn event That is all I need a drink
000
Reposted by Bettina Watkins
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 07/08/2026
(2/4) Today CDC employees everywhere honor the life of Officer David Rose who sacrificed his life for the safety of those at CDC. Roses are being placed on the Roybal memorial that holds his name, the street entering campus was renamed in his honor,
17010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You’ve got to love hacks who think they understand the genomic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2’s furin cleavage site better than world class virologists.
100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Well I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for my service hours today for Officer Rose but now I’m definitely doing something, if I have to deal with tomorrow.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You know he’s an epidemiologist because he actually gets the number right.
100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Between this and RFK, Jr.’s throat goat comment, I can’t.
010
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The fact that it’s closer than we thought means there’s a lot more work to do either way before November.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
PSA for those who might not be aware, everything you write on government systems as a fed employee can be subject to a FOIA … or, apparently, download by a man with a dead brainworm. When deciding whether to create an electronic personal record on a system that may be susceptible … don’t.
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
AES seems about as squeaky clean in the personal background arena as Ossoff (that is, very squeaky clean). I remember the early attack ads for Ossoff that were literally just a video of him dressed as Batman at a party. That was the worst they could find.
020
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Throwing this paper out there, since it is kind of one of two seminal papers on this topic www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
cell.com
Genetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic
DNA of mammalian wildlife species susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 was detected along with SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in environmental samples from animal stalls located at the market epicenter of the emer...
000
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is what someone who doesn’t have friends (friends who work in hospitals, friends with cancer, friends who are good at math) says. Third leading cause of death for a couple years there. Leading cause of death in some groups with lower cancer and CVD rates.
100
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just looking at comments in less liberal-friendly spaces, it’s clear most people of the “if you’re out-of-status you should be deported” have no idea how fucking broken our immigration system is compared to other countries.
110
Bettina Watkins @bettywatty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My high was immediately ruined by 4 guys in a cybertruck and a Mercedes telling me about their plans to spend the next four days golfing and doing shots of fireball
100