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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*taps sign* you do not have to support man city!!! this chart sent me into orbit, throw their medals in the bin (from: www.skysports.com/football/new...)

Bar chart showing the money paid by sponsors to Man City next to the money paid by Abu Dhabi United Group from 2009 through 2018. Man City inflated their recorded sponsorship income by over £900 million.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the angst I still feel about leaving out summer heights high 🥲

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

icymi this banger of a story from Lydia Sidhom found that Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have paid over $270 million to more than 270k doctors and other prescribers to promote their GLP-1 products since 2018!! That’s more docs than *every* other drug!!!

Bar chart showing the number of doctors that have received payments for different drugs between 2018-2025. Over 270k docs were paid to promote GLP-1s, larger than every other drug.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As of Thursday, left-wing political influencers were talking about measles about five times more often than right-wing figures, according to a Washington Post analysis of their social media posts, podcasts and newsletters.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Also from this speech: “any doctor who gives this vaccine to a child is committing medical malpractice” (re the Covid vax) youtu.be/MvBGWNI84j0?...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🥬💩NEW from @lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social and me on the FDA finally visiting the Taylor Farms facility—I was personally shocked at just how much food has been impacted by this one supplier so we made these charts to put that into context. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Pictogram showing the equivalent amounts each item that represents 3.1 million pounds, with small icons for the Statue of Liberty, blue whales and Boeing 737s

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

having followed the antivaccine movement for a long time, it’s definitely wild to see the same old, scientifically inaccurate memes get updated/modernized left: popular antivax meme shared on Facebook in 2020 right: the same meme concept shared by the HHS and multiple high-level Trump officials

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

accidentally cut baby’s finger while cutting nails and now we’re all crying

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

truly one of the most classic English performances to park it after going up to 1-0 I thought tuchel had the cajones man. at least we got djed doing this to simeone

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

ok posting an all timer now that England are through to semis

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

tuchelball can be so beautiful man, he turned djed spence into an absolute hero

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

madueke + gordon starting, tuchelball time lfg

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

my husband: “what are you watching on your phone” me:

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Gordon had probably the best game of his life last night, he owned the left side of the pitch for 100+ mins and absolutely rocketed into the box to win the penalty—kept tracking back super quickly to support O’Reilly too. His touch map was crazy too.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

ok threading some hero stuff from across the England squad last night because oh my god I’ll never get over that performance BIG DAN BURN came on and was a fortress, even heading a bicycle kick from the box over the goddamn halfway line

Dan Burn heading the ball hit by a bicycle kick from the Mexican player Jimenez

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

England fans everywhere watching Germany go out on PKs

Four panels of a bichon frise with different emojis as hands, including peace signs and heart hands

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social captures why the internet really sucks these days—I also do not want to see endless clips of slop!!! www.garbageday.email/p/spending-m...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

wolf blitzer monitoring the situation at an unprecedented level

TV screen showing CNN split screen coverage of shooting at WHCD with Wolf Blitzer intently looking at the camera while on the phone on the right screen.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Omg?????? Matt Berry should be in everything and this is an inspired choice, let him cook

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

When I analyzed all of Kennedy’s social media posts since 2022, we saw that he shifted to talking dramatically more about food than vaccines when he became HHS secretary; re food, Bigtree told the Post “It was an easier topic to sell to moms across America.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Line chart showing the percentage of Kennedy’s social media posts that discuss vaccines (dark yellow line) or food (dark green line) between January 2022 and November 2025. Nearly half of his posts were about vaccines at the start of 2022. He posted much less about both topics during his presidential campaign and then the share of food posts spiked when he became HHS secretary in early 2025.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@timmeko.bsky.social has shepherded the incredible graphics team for years and it’s our deep deep loss to see him let go x.com/timmeko/stat...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I have loved getting to work with Janice, she’s another star graphics reporter/cartographer—I still share her work from our story on abortion clinic wait times post FL ban wapo.st/4gOKrpU www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Shelly Tan whose work on pop culture is always the most delightful—her post on X: x.com/tan_shelly/s...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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.”

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

given the convo around the new dietary guidelines, think it’s helpful to know how senior WH advisor Calley Means talks about food policy—this is how he answered a CSPAN caller’s question about navigating food deserts last year:

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

some of my promised albeit sleep-deprived thoughts on this vax data work: full vid at www.tiktok.com/@caitlingilb...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

We did, and included this chart in the story; there was a slight correlation re GOP v Dem margin/voters, and tbh pretty much no correl at the county-level for other demographic features I looked at. The big difference I saw was btwn states that allow non-medical exemptions and those that don’t.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The briliant @moriartymaps.com built the beautiful graphics in this piece including the extremely data-heavy lookup map. Read the full piece to check out all of his incredible work. Extremely grateful to work with such talented folks at the Post every day!

Map of US where counties are colored by the percent change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since the pandemic--regions that meet 95% rates post-pandemic are highlighted

Map of Chicago where individual schools are represented by arrows or dots, where the length and direction of the arrow corresponds with how much the vaccination rate has changed between 2018 and 2024.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...

Screenshot of interactive look-up tool map where you can see the vaccination rates of individual schools as well as county and statewide rates

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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.”

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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.”

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Not enough hype for one of the greatest shows of all time returning

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

a not insignificant number of people heard the news from this frog

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

yes I am watching the Tony’s part one on plutotv

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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

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