Robyn Caplan
@robyncaplan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
After a fairly light year of review requests, I have somehow received about 8 of them in the last month (in some cases, multiple requests for the same journal). What is happening here...
December 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
After a fairly light year of review requests, I have somehow received about 8 of them in the last month (in some cases, multiple requests for the same journal). What is happening here...
I can’t tell if I need a good cry, a stiff drink, an entire day at a spa, or like a week-long phone/computer detox.
December 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I can’t tell if I need a good cry, a stiff drink, an entire day at a spa, or like a week-long phone/computer detox.
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Even UNICEF is like "yo, Australia, this social media ban for kids is a terrible fucking idea."
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Even UNICEF is like "yo, Australia, this social media ban for kids is a terrible fucking idea."
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
I may be getting older, but at least I get to (quietly, just to myself) say "Enhance. Enhance!" as I repeatedly zoom in to grade my students' assignments.
December 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I may be getting older, but at least I get to (quietly, just to myself) say "Enhance. Enhance!" as I repeatedly zoom in to grade my students' assignments.
YouTube algorithm is now basically "you know that video we recommended to you 100 times that you didn't want to watch? Want to watch it now? Or how about this video that was uploaded *5 years ago.*"
December 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
YouTube algorithm is now basically "you know that video we recommended to you 100 times that you didn't want to watch? Want to watch it now? Or how about this video that was uploaded *5 years ago.*"
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Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓
Here’s the program:
platgov.net/assets/site/...
Here’s the program:
platgov.net/assets/site/...
platgov.net
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓
Here’s the program:
platgov.net/assets/site/...
Here’s the program:
platgov.net/assets/site/...
Every “new” media scholar becomes a media historian (yesterday I found out my students were all born between 2005-2007…).
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Every “new” media scholar becomes a media historian (yesterday I found out my students were all born between 2005-2007…).
Damn. Does putting together your third-year review bring up academic/professional trauma for everyone, or do I need to go back to therapy...?
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Damn. Does putting together your third-year review bring up academic/professional trauma for everyone, or do I need to go back to therapy...?
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🎙️From deepfakes to the growing importance of social media verification, @robyncaplan.bsky.social talks to @agpines.bsky.social about the role of #AI today.
This episode of Duke Sanford's Policy 360 podcast can be found on Apple, Spotify & Amazon.
This episode of Duke Sanford's Policy 360 podcast can be found on Apple, Spotify & Amazon.
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
🎙️From deepfakes to the growing importance of social media verification, @robyncaplan.bsky.social talks to @agpines.bsky.social about the role of #AI today.
This episode of Duke Sanford's Policy 360 podcast can be found on Apple, Spotify & Amazon.
This episode of Duke Sanford's Policy 360 podcast can be found on Apple, Spotify & Amazon.
Glad that this says this is an official website of the United States government because it would be very hard to tell otherwise.
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Glad that this says this is an official website of the United States government because it would be very hard to tell otherwise.
Podcast idea: a podcast where the hosts interview other podcast hosts about their podcasts.
September 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Podcast idea: a podcast where the hosts interview other podcast hosts about their podcasts.
Am I depressed or is it just raining
September 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Am I depressed or is it just raining
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Featuring D&S research affiliate @robyncaplan.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/duke...
Will AI prompt a new golden era? On Policy 360 Podcast, @robyncaplan.bsky.social explores deepfakes to the growing importance of social media verification w/ @agpines.bsky.social.
@duke-dewitt.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social @dukescisoc.bsky.social #EduSkyAI
sanford.duke.edu/story/will-a...
@duke-dewitt.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social @dukescisoc.bsky.social #EduSkyAI
sanford.duke.edu/story/will-a...
September 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Featuring D&S research affiliate @robyncaplan.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/duke...
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Will AI prompt a new golden era? On Policy 360 Podcast, @robyncaplan.bsky.social explores deepfakes to the growing importance of social media verification w/ @agpines.bsky.social.
@duke-dewitt.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social @dukescisoc.bsky.social #EduSkyAI
sanford.duke.edu/story/will-a...
@duke-dewitt.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social @dukescisoc.bsky.social #EduSkyAI
sanford.duke.edu/story/will-a...
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Will AI prompt a new golden era? On Policy 360 Podcast, @robyncaplan.bsky.social explores deepfakes to the growing importance of social media verification w/ @agpines.bsky.social.
@duke-dewitt.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social @dukescisoc.bsky.social #EduSkyAI
sanford.duke.edu/story/will-a...
@duke-dewitt.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social @dukescisoc.bsky.social #EduSkyAI
sanford.duke.edu/story/will-a...
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With TikTok’s potential sale to a group of Donald Trump allies, “we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it,” David Karpf argues.
The MAGA Media Takeover
Trump and his powerful friends are creating a dangerous moment for free speech.
bit.ly
September 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
With TikTok’s potential sale to a group of Donald Trump allies, “we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it,” David Karpf argues.
My favorite new tiktok trend is the "alt-left pipeline" where swoll white dudes talk about how abortion is healthcare, backing black liberation, and translating anti-imperialism into gym-bro speak.
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My favorite new tiktok trend is the "alt-left pipeline" where swoll white dudes talk about how abortion is healthcare, backing black liberation, and translating anti-imperialism into gym-bro speak.
Surely all of those people crying about "jawboning" in the Biden administration will be up in arms now...
September 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Surely all of those people crying about "jawboning" in the Biden administration will be up in arms now...
So committed to giving my students fun facts to use at parties that I am creating a Trivia Night exercise on 18th-century journalism history (and earlier print culture) in class tomorrow.
September 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
So committed to giving my students fun facts to use at parties that I am creating a Trivia Night exercise on 18th-century journalism history (and earlier print culture) in class tomorrow.
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New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin
Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
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👇🎯 Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, 👇🤷♂️
To sum up: the President is not enforcing the law about TikTok access in order to structure the timing and sale of another giant social media platform to his political allies.
* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ
$ORCL
$ORCL
September 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
👇🎯 Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, 👇🤷♂️
One of the reasons that IRBs are so frustrating is that invent their own terminology for forms etc (ones that feel so counter-intuitive that it's mindboggling) and then treat it as if it is universally understood.
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One of the reasons that IRBs are so frustrating is that invent their own terminology for forms etc (ones that feel so counter-intuitive that it's mindboggling) and then treat it as if it is universally understood.
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I'm so grateful for Governor Hochul's support in unifying our party, her resolve in standing up to Trump, and her focus on making New York affordable. I look forward to the great work we will accomplish together.
Our movement is only growing stronger. Onward to November.
Our movement is only growing stronger. Onward to November.
“Zohran Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting Donald Trump’s extreme agenda — with urgency, conviction, and the defiance that defines New York” writes Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani
I am confident that Zohran Mamdani has the courage, urgency, and optimism New York City needs to lead it through the challenges of this moment.
nyti.ms
September 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I'm so grateful for Governor Hochul's support in unifying our party, her resolve in standing up to Trump, and her focus on making New York affordable. I look forward to the great work we will accomplish together.
Our movement is only growing stronger. Onward to November.
Our movement is only growing stronger. Onward to November.
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It is truly astounding that the moderate from Buffalo can make this endorsement but the self-identified progressive from Brooklyn seems unwilling or unable to do so.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul endorses NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It is truly astounding that the moderate from Buffalo can make this endorsement but the self-identified progressive from Brooklyn seems unwilling or unable to do so.
Did the Governor of Utah just say that he prayed the last few days the killer would be "from another country or from another state because that would make it easier?" Uh...easier to do what.
September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Did the Governor of Utah just say that he prayed the last few days the killer would be "from another country or from another state because that would make it easier?" Uh...easier to do what.
Also, in personal news: This morning, my kid asked me why I say “eh” so much.
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Also, in personal news: This morning, my kid asked me why I say “eh” so much.