iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 03/03/2026

In today’s FT: @aveek18.bsky.social making the case for lead screening in the UK

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 15/02/2026

problems with being a long-distance daughter: my parents have a new kitten and I won’t get to meet her for MONTHS

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 01/02/2026

email responses may be delayed

A white man and woman stand on a mountain in ski gear

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 23/01/2026

is the English winter getting you down? Really recommend a truly ludicrous vase.

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 05/09/2025

we have scanned the horizon (ably guided by @metaculus.bsky.social); I am now off to spend some time with some Fabian women

RenPhil’s 2025 Horizon Scanning Study Group

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 04/09/2025

Ilan Gur introducing the RenPhil Horizon Scanning Study Group

A group of scientists in a conference room

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 21/04/2025

so the apartment buildings in Chisinau (or at least one of them) have smiley faces

concrete building with windows in the shape of a smiley

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 18/04/2025

hello Bluesky I am at Malldova the first mall built in Moldova

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 18/04/2025

I feel like rich people should be more creative with their money why buy fine art when for 50 grand you can get a decommissioned MiG and put it in your yard

a decommissioned missile in the yard of the Moldovan military history museum

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 29/03/2025

I also lead a terribly difficult life

Photo of eating gelato in an Edinburgh square

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 29/03/2025

terribly ugly country you’ve got here

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 25/03/2025

also we have a sign! We’re a real company!

Sign on a wall that says “Renaissance Philanthropy”

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 22/03/2025

It helps to have another that forces you to get out of bed. I adopted this one too soon after I lost Cassie but - also I had to take care of her, I couldn’t cry all the time as long as she was there and needed me

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 20/03/2025

ok even though she’s a massive pain in the ass that loves to cause me stress, adopting the fuzz was one of the best decisions I ever made

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 10/03/2025

apparently lyra’s choosing my writing soundtrack today

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 09/03/2025

so about 18 months ago, I ran out of shelf space. I decided this would be fine, I simply needed to stop buying books. anyway this is the stack of books that I can’t fit on my shelves

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 09/03/2025

even the Caltech alumni group is anti-Musk now (yes this is a joke for three of you)

Facebook post that says “has anyone alerted DOGE that for over 60 years JPL engineers have been surreptitiously inscribing DEI on spacecraft structures and sending throughout the solar system?”

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 03/03/2025

greatest city in the world

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 25/02/2025

also @deenamousa.com and I made the front page of hacker news defending studying frog skin, the sex lives of flies and other "weird" research

screenshot of the front page of hacker news

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 25/02/2025

seriously guys this is my mom

white woman and white man at a restaurant table

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 25/02/2025

attacking face with concealer mostly worked to make it look like I'm not perpetually underslept (also oh god I'm aging into my mom)

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 25/02/2025

ok so 1) this is a dropshipped copy of the original (by an independent jeweler) 2) I… don’t think “you can overcome anything” is quite the lesson of Sisyphus

Ad for a necklace representing Sisyphus that says “a reminder you can overcome anything”

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 22/02/2025

these cream cheese chocolate chip puff pastry cookies continue to be a crowd pleaser

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 17/02/2025

does she appreciate that I went to tremendous effort to bring her the UK? Not really, no.

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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 16/02/2025

So far I have taken the cat on one two-hour drive, one flight, two trains, one tram, and we are nearing the end of our ferry across the sea. Still to come tonight: two trains, a rail replacement bus, and a Tube ride.