Caitlin Gilbert

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 🙃

Oh man, that’s extremely kind of you to say, Karen!!!

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.

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.

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He discussed autism/vaccines with Jay Bhattacharya on his show in June saying “If the data are robust that vaccines don’t cause autism, then run a proper trial” (those studies have been done) and discounted the idea that the rise in autism diagnoses can be explained by changes in testing/criteria.

In his episode on “How to Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu”, he describes why he doesn’t typically get the annual shot while stating “the flu shot is completely ineffective at combatting any other forms of the flu virus”—that’s false as even in cases of mismatch, the vax protects against hosp/death.

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.”

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:

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.

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

everything is bad but omg MATHEUS CUNHA

Zohran obvi has his hands full with the storm but I just know he has someone giving him score updates rn sorry, bro 😁 #arsmun

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.

"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...

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

no other choice + sorry baby totally shut out for f1 😤 but OSCAR NOMINEE DELROY LINDO HELLOOOOOO 🥹

Washington Post demands government return materials seized from reporter The Post demanded in a court filing Wednesday that federal law enforcement officials return electronic devices the government seized from a staff reporter’s home.

“The outrageous seizure of our reporter’s confidential newsgathering materials chills speech, cripples reporting, and inflicts irreparable harm every day the government keeps its hands on these materials,” The Post said in a statement.

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Bans on using SNAP funds for soda, candy and other foods take effect in some states Jan. 1 Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia are the first of at least 18 states to enact new waivers prohibiting purchase of certain foods through the SNAP program.

He goes on to say: “If President Trump and Bobby Kennedy are able to take soda and twinkies off of food stamps, the food deserts would disappear because the food deserts are driven by the incentives of SNAP.”

Many states are now banning using SNAP for soda/candy/etc: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Caller from AR asks about how to get “whole foods” in food deserts and Means responds with:
“Just to confirm your question is how can lower income Americans possibly not poison their kids” and “well, ma’am, I think American mothers don’t want to be poisoning their kids”

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:

my husband just asked me if he should start doing tier rankings of the Nixon tapes on YT this baby needs to be born asap

this is deeply relatable and would add being very pregnant has made this an actual daily war, I’m just rotisserie-chickening every few minutes to get vaguely comfortable 😔

*sees that Man Utd is hiring a data scientist*
Me (delusional): I CAN FIX THEM

I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

It’s such an honor to work in the same newsroom as @hannahnatanson.bsky.social, her incredible coverage of federal workers this year has been nothing short of inspiring. I stand with her 100%.

Everyone should read her piece on the toll this work can take: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

at the stage of pregnancy where I can only walk like steve lockjaw, except extremely slowly

U.S. overhauls childhood vaccine schedule, recommends fewer shots The U.S. no longer broadly recommends vaccines for flu, hepatitis A and B, and RSV. Health officials say the guidance aligns with that of peer countries.

Reporters! If you're covering the wake of the CDC overhauling childhood vaccines today, we've made clean kindergarten vaccination-rate data available for schools and districts in 36 states, and county-level data for 44 states. Get it here: github.com/washingtonpo...

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CDC staff ‘blindsided’ as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to recommend fewer vaccines for children without extensive consultations with career scientists.

SCOOP: CDC vaccine experts were blindsided by RFKJr top deputy’s decision to unilaterally overhaul child schedule. Also, previously undisclosed CDC presentation refutes Trump admin narrative that US is outlier on vaccine policy. My story @Washingtonpost.com
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As we reported, the US vax rate data landscape is already highly patchy at the school/county-level—now Kennedy’s CMS has announced a rollback on *state* reporting requirements while also overhauling the childhood vax schedule.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va... @lizszabo.bsky.social

More details on the specific vaccines and what has changed

amorim news this morning genuinely has me screaming into a pillow what did fans do to deserve this absolute shambles of a board/ownership

some of my promised albeit sleep-deprived thoughts on this vax data work:

full vid at www.tiktok.com/@caitlingilb...

Yes I posted the link to the data repo in my thread! Lots of caveats, data notes, and all sourcing there.