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Caitlin Gilbert
@caitlingilbert.bsky.social
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@washingtonpost.com data reporter👩🏻‍💻
neuroscience/genomics PhD 🧠
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I’m crying

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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third time seeing this beauty for jane krakowski’s debut as mary 😌
Picture of “Oh, Mary!” Playbill held in front of the stage at the Lyceum Theater
October 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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More casual users also opened the app twice as often per day by September of last year, and power users continued to open the app about 20 times per day.
October 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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We measured three metrics: daily watch time, app opens, and time to swipe to next video. For users who were spending about a half hour a day on the app in April 2024, watch time more than doubled 5 months later, sometimes even quadrupling. Heavier users continued to spend over 4 hrs a day on TikTok.
October 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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have two totally different huge investigations publishing over the next couple of days and I’m five months pregnant so it’s time to re-up the hayao memes
Picture of Hayao Miyazaki with text that reads “A pain! A pain! Such a pain!” A picture of Hayao Miyazaki looking tired and over everything with his hands on his head, eyes closed, with cigarette hanging out of mouth
October 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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honestly same

I’m never going to stop being a united fan (there’s a special place in hell for fairweather fans and bandwagoners) but lord does this team age me so
Ruben Amorim quotes: “Sometimes I hate my players, sometimes I love my players. This is my way of doing things.” “Sometimes I want to quit sometimes I want to be here for 20 years.” “Sometimes I love to be with my players sometimes I don’t want to be with them.” “Sometimes I hate my kids. I’m going to be like that, that is not going to change.”
August 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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me teaching statistics for R/data journalism today (it was actually very fun)
Four images of Jamie Lee Curtis looking intently, holding up her finger, speaking passionately about something and then taking a sip of water
August 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Not enough hype for one of the greatest shows of all time returning
August 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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a not insignificant number of people heard the news from this frog
June 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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yes I am watching the Tony’s part one on plutotv
June 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Some references included “oaicite” attached to URLs — a definitive sign that the research was collected using artificial intelligence. The presence of “oaicite” is a marker indicating use of OpenAI, a U.S. artificial intelligence company.
screenshot of "oaicite" (highlighted) included next to a NYT Wirecutter article cited in the report
May 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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An article by U.S. News & World Report about children’s recess and exercise time was cited twice to support claims of declining physical activity among U.S. children, once with only a partial url; the authors listed did not write the article, and the correct author was added later in the day
list of citations where two highlighted links show that the same article is being referenced twice with two different authors, neither of whom is the correct author list of citations where two highlighted links show that the same article is being referenced twice with two different authors, the latter of whom is the correct author--this version was updated later in the day
May 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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🥲
Screencap from The Righteous Gemstones showing Uncle Baby Billy next to a large poster on a truck of his face with on-screen subtitle that reads “Clever girl. Recruited a nerd.” Screenshot of notification that The Washington Post verified my Bluesky account
May 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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habemus papam

(extremely niche joke)
a picture of the Pokémon Popplio
May 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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this was very special 🥰 really thankful to work at @washingtonpost.com with such incredible colleagues who helped support this project over so many months
Glass trophy that has text that reads “Katherine Schneider Journalism Award For Excellence in Reporting on Disability 2024” with the names Amanda Morris, Caitlin Gilbert, Jacqueline Alemany and The Washington Post listed. The title of the entry “Some Disabled Workers in the US Make Pennis Per Hour. It’s Legal.” is listed, with “1st Place Large Media Category” below it. The award also has the NCDJ logo at the bottom.
April 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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stealing this for whenever I have to explain my job
Screencap from The Righteous Gemstones, season 4 where two of Jesse’s friends/associates stand on either side of a large monitor that shows an array of photos from a Facebook profile. On-screen text reads “We did some look-‘em-ups.”
April 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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mike white asking us this before the s&p enters a bear market ok sir
Screencap from The White Lotus season 3 finale where Jason Isaacs as Tim Ratliff says “Do you think you could live with no money?” to his son off-camera.
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I came out after a zoom call and my husband just says “look at all my eggs”
Screenshot of TV showing video game Animal Well, showcasing a digital shelf holding many different colored, patterned eggs.
March 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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hell yeah, nature is healing
TikTok comment from user jesus freak lighter that reads: “give journalists jobs again 😭all influencers have to do is open PR and do a podcast appearance to make their $9000 rent GIVE THE JOBS TO THE JOURNALISTS 💀💀”
March 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Wanted to echo @jeffstein.bsky.social here. my work has always been about keeping the public informed and holding the powerful to account. That has not changed. If it does, you’ll hear it from me. And no you can’t yell at me to “learn to code” because coding is already my job.
Tweet that reads “Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know”
February 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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how your email finds me
Parker Posey in a White Lotus episode where she grins blankly
February 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This comment was from an over 3 hour conversation Kennedy had with influencer 19Keys last year:
youtu.be/se6rf8UxuVM?...
February 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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part 3 of 3
January 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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part 2 of 3
January 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Lauren and I talk a bit more about our reporting in this fab video by Drea Cornejo

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

(Part 1 of 3)
January 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM