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Caitlin Gilbert
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@washingtonpost.com data reporter👩🏻‍💻
neuroscience/genomics PhD 🧠
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · Dec 31
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.

Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st
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katzish.bsky.social
This entire final sequence. Like a painting
Bad Bunny and entourage at end of Super Bowl halftime show all in white with flags of the Americas and with sign reading THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE Bad Bunny and crew with tambourines and fireworks
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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vibes
February 7, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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👀
February 7, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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sadbumblebee.buzz
The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know.

Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
February 5, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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laurenweberhp.bsky.social
Still working to hold power to account here
@washingtonpost.com on the health team amid our crushing losses yesterday.

Email/signal/DM with tips as the work continues.
lenasun.bsky.social Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 6d
We had devastating cuts to @washingtonpost. Our health team of 14 lost 9 reporters yesterday despite it being listed as part of the Post’s new focus.
But I still have my job. Along w/a core team, we are still dedicated to covering public health, holding the powerful to account.
February 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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fenitn.bsky.social
The Washington Post gutted the health team which I helped to lead despite our stories being among the most widely read, impactful and adept at reaching new audiences.
I couldn't string sentences together yesterday, Maybe that's a sign that I shouldn't have been spared when all my fantastic colleagues who unfairly lost their jobs pushed through their grief to write beautiful notes about their careers and the situation at The Washington Post. The health team lost 8 out of 13 reporters yesterday despite health listed as part of The Post's new pared down focus. Just six months after becoming an editor and having the honor to lead an all-star team covering federal health agencies and public health, I have to go back to reporting because there are barely any health reporters left to edit. I'll say more about the reporters we lost later today, but as a team, we did everything we were supposed to do under the vision for The Post to be a digital innovator that breaks news, offers hard-hitting accountability and directly address reader concerns. We landed exclusives on the CDC director's firing, plans to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule, projections for steep ACA marketplace rate increases and more. We avoided dutiful iterative stories and covered storylines such as the expiration of enhanced ACA premiums with smart targeted angles that were widely read. We broke the mold of a traditional newspaper with clever formats including a pop-up newsletter and live chats to help readers navigate new restrictions on coronavirus vaccines, a quiz to understand new dietary guidelines and vertical videos to showcase reporter expertise. The Metro section where I started my career (and offers a clear reason for millions of potential subscribers to pay for us instead of or in addition to other national outlets!) is hollowed out. Reporters around the world wiped out after the owner set a vision for international relevance. A sports department home to journalistic legends shuttered. And so much more bleeding across the entire newsroom.
February 5, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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drewharwell.com
Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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tatumhunter.bsky.social
Lost my job at the Washington Post today, along with many of the best in the business. I want to keep covering tech and the internet. If you have leads on jobs for me or my colleagues, please reach out. I’m so proud of our work.
February 4, 2026 at 3:56 PM
caitlingilbert.bsky.social
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
caitlingilbert.bsky.social
Emily is the best sports data journalist working right now, and I have no doubt she will continue to do incredible things in whichever newsroom is lucky enough to hire her. I’ll deeply miss getting to work with such an amazing colleague (and fellow FPL fan!!!)
emilygiam.bsky.social Emily Giambalvo @emilygiam.bsky.social · 7d
The past eight years at The Washington Post have been a dream. I am so sad but so grateful.
February 4, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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aaronschaffer.com
So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them.
February 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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absolutely heartbroken. I just started maternity leave and am fortunate to still have a job right now but that’s not the case for so many wonderful, talented colleagues who have been laid off so horrifically

sickens me to see people actively cheering/mocking Post journos esp today
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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We’re losing a huge number of absolutely incredible people today. If you’re able, please support these amazing journalists.
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 7d
Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙
Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
www.gofundme.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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drewharwell.com
Elon Musk's xAI tore down every guardrail stopping it from making a sexbot & CSAM generator:

“You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION. You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS [&] always a little horny”

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @faizsays.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social
Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
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February 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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lenasun.bsky.social
NEW: South Carolina’s measles outbreak is country’s largest in more than 25 years. But its falling vaccination coverage + rising religious exemptions from school requirements don’t make it an outlier. My story. Gift link. 1/3
wapo.st/4rttZRg
What South Carolina’s soaring measles outbreak means for the rest of the U.S.
More than 840 measles infections have been reported in South Carolina, surpassing the tally in Texas last year. Public health experts say it shows the risks when vaccination coverage falls.
wapo.st
January 31, 2026 at 1:05 PM
caitlingilbert.bsky.social
Peter Attia appears in over 1k Epstein documents just released by the DOJ: www.justice.gov/epstein — many emails where they appear to have a doctor/patient-esque relationship, although Attia is not a board-certified physician and did not complete his residency
caitlingilbert.bsky.social Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 15d
Along w/ Huberman, CBS also announced Mark Hyman, a longtime RFK Jr ally and functional medicine proponent, and Peter Attia, a longevity influencer, as contributors. All three were cited by Kennedy in a recent interview as the best people for lifestyle advice.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Bari Weiss to CBS News staff: Without a shift in strategy, ‘we are toast’
The CBS News editor in chief said the network needs to produce journalism people want as she named a raft of new contributors from her website, the Free Press.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
🚨 CPJ strongly condemns the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, arrests which mark a serious escalation of attacks on the press in the United States.

Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...
January 30, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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really excellent piece. traditional journalists are already massively losing to these folks in the battle for public attention/$, and as more journos lose our jobs/leave the industry I can only expect that to worsen
miasato.bsky.social Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 13d
The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
What is Nick Shirley?
Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Was not expecting this to take off, but just wanted to pop in and say as I’m reading through all the comments that my signal is caitlingilbert.24 if y’all want to reach out with any relevant tips! FWIW I’m also a neuro phd so if you’re from that corner of academia we can chat brains too 🙃
caitlingilbert.bsky.social Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 15d
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”
January 28, 2026 at 6:01 PM
caitlingilbert.bsky.social
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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drewharwell.com
Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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everything is bad but omg MATHEUS CUNHA
caitlingilbert.bsky.social Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 17d
Zohran obvi has his hands full with the storm but I just know he has someone giving him score updates rn sorry, bro 😁 #arsmun
January 25, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Zohran obvi has his hands full with the storm but I just know he has someone giving him score updates rn sorry, bro 😁 #arsmun
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...

"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather. "The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.
January 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM