Happy holidays y'all. Please check in on your fellow queers and people who are estranged from friends or family. Even if someone is surrounded by loved ones, this time can feel especially isolating and triggering.

I just completed all 12 days of Advent of Code 2025! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com #RStats

I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11

I just completed "Factory" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/10 I used lpSolve (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...) to solve this #RStats #IntegerLinearProgramming

I just completed "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/9 (I've done part 1s of days 10-12 too! Day 9's part 2 took a while)

Gotta be twice as good for half the reward. Every fucking time.

I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8 (now batch attempting the Part 1s for Days 9-12, bc I'm desperately trying to catch up!) I'm unfortunately sick again, so I'm hoping to finish and work on some other projects :3

I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7

I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6

Happy Solstice! New Substack about being in a body holding a lot: new diagnosis, fertility, dysphoria, and befriending shame instead of waiting until you've healed enough to deserve your own presence. #disability #chronicillness #blog #reflection drrosedasgupta.substack.com/p/feeling-my...

I have a tendency to optimize my way through uncertainty instead of just existing. :/ Wrote about that today... and about boundaries, interior victories, and putting your shoulder to the boulder again. drrosedasgupta.substack.com/p/existing-w... #disability #burnout #fertility #chronicillness

I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5

@lavitaloca34.bsky.social : "“While I am not responsible FOR the insecurities of my partners, I acknowledge that I can have an impact on their EXPERIENCE of their insecurities..." (continued) #polyamory

Work has been intense, I'm hoping to finish Advent of Code this week in a sprint

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

This year, why not do the #AdventOfCode in #Haskell with your polycule?

I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4 Conway's Game of Life, but helping forklifts move paper rolls so that we can break the wall (omg lol) to get into the cafeteria. Days 5-7 tomorrow, because I need to sleep #RStats

I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3 Picked batteries greedily while the elf hit "yes, I'm sure" on the joltage override. Escalator powered! Yayyy! 🔋⚡ #AdventOfCode #RStats

I'm excited to share a new paper I'm a co-author on in the World Journal of Urology! The findings of this #clinicaltrial, led by Gnankang Sarah Napoe and team, suggest that bilateral #PTNS may offer additional benefit in the treatment of overactive #bladder. #Urogynecology doi.org/10.1007/s003...

It's the weekend, and I'm still in recovery mode (still recovering from illness), but I've been resting! I'm hoping to catch up on all the Advent of Code puzzles :3 (I did read them at least!)

“This part [of me] says yes because something is exciting, not because it’s aligned. It mistakes chemistry for compatibility. It spins professional, creative, or erotic #energy into situations that never really move.": buff.ly/NpJ219i by @drrosedasgupta.bsky.social

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2 A young elf made silly patterns, but regex had my back(reference). Maybe the world could use more silly patterns and tools gentle enough to hold them #AdventOfCode #RStats

All models are wrong; some are useful. All LLM outputs are hallucinations. Some are useful.

After years of working with Quarto, I've refined a set of editor settings that significantly improve document editing efficiency. My latest blog post shares these battle-tested configurations. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-1... #Quarto #VSCode #Positron #Productivity #DataScience

The elves changed the password, and I had to do modular arithmetic to get into the North Pole. My graphic for Day 1. My revised R code solutions are in alt text (thank you to @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social for the suggestion). The image was also drawn using R github.com/pritikadasgu... #AdventofCode

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1 I'm working on making a graphic or something of how I thought about the solution (or just an art piece, we'll see).

And our next event is coming up! Join us for the G4G @gayforgood.bsky.social Pittsburgh Holiday Social & Food Drive 🍊 We'll hear from a Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank rep, have Q&A, and collect donations. #FoodDrive #PGH #MutualAid #GayForGood volunteer.gayforgood.org/opportunitie...

I have some personal news/updates: I am a new chapter leader for @gayforgood.bsky.social Pittsburgh! 🏳️‍🌈 G4G mobilizes volunteers to strengthen ties to our broader community, and I'm so excited to help build this space! #LGBTQ #Pittsburgh #Volunteer #QueerCommunity gayforgood.org/pittsburgh/

This is an earlier post/prose/piece I made on #Substack about my academic journey, trans journey, and what the t-distribution taught me about gender: "The Probable Error of a Man." #trans #statistics #wordplay #ttest #WilliamSealyGosset #Guinness #gender #academia #personalblog

Yesterday on my #Substack, I vulnerably wrote about fire, stubbornness, wild geese, and a Hindu bird that knows how to drink the milk and leave the water. #hinduism #maryoliver #disability #burnout #partswork #prose #philosophy #poetry drrosedasgupta.substack.com/p/pulling-back

I've been an #RStudio user since grad school and somehow missed that they released Positron! I knew the company rebranded to Posit in 2022, but I'm just now catching up on the IDE news. Time to explore. #RStats

Incredible #AdventOfCode music video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_4...

Hi, I'm Golapri Rose ("Pritika Dasgupta" is my legal/deadname)! Respect my chosen name(s) and pronouns :) I'm a #scientist and concerned citizen. I also overshare on #Substack about work, life (a lot of it is this), & whatever else I feel like ✨ My profile pic was drawn by goopbug.gay in 2020.

Attempting #AdventOfCode 2025 after a long hiatus from 2021! Language and IDE: #R + #RStudio. I might also write about it on my Substack. I made a template for this year, but we'll see how long the clean code lasts once midnight hits 😅 (Currently sick and typing this horizontally. Hydrating though!)

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

Hello, US timezone friends! A very merry Confuse Everyone Who Prints Datetimes To Their Logs Without Timezones night to all who celebrate!

In my latest Substack piece, I explore what it means to pursue parenthood as a trans, disabled person while facing potential denaturalization.

I haven't been on here much lately, but I have new Substack posts! Here is one from today: a self-reflection post about my growth despite the joke title. If you've ever felt both incredibly capable and desperately in need of support, then maybe this will resonate! #Disability #SelfReflection

US currently well on the way to full-blown authoritarianism....it looks like.

"Trans people are a perfect population to road test authoritarianism in the United States - because it's such a small group of people that you have convinced other people not to care about…” - Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social

I have begun the GARGANTUAN task of updating my GitHub profile with my portfolio, "better" updates of my previous (very hastily written) code, all my notes/code/stuff I think might be useful for public consumption, etc. Trying to make myself "known" in the programmer space. It's weird. *shrugs*

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Just wrote this post: "I’m Scared of Unfair Detention Just Because I’m Brown and I Exercise My First Amendment Rights" I talk about how my right to "#Life, #Liberty, and #ThePursuitofHappiness" has been broken for me and how I derive hope from #community. open.substack.com/pub/drroseda...

the transmasc community is very white American centered so I often feel extremely alienated. a lot of the art I made and my dysphoria came from the idea that I couldn't look like a white Twink. my gf helped me realize that I could be black and cute and desirable and it did so much for my self image.

*gets package errors because R version is too old* *installs latest version of R* *gets shinyapps errors because R version is too new* 🙃🙃🙃

I wish more prominent scientists would speak out about what is happening under Trump. Yes, there is a real threat to one's livelihood of doing so. Being a scientist has been my lifelong dream, but there's honest work I can do outside of science, and I'd rather do that than serve the current regime.

“We don’t have to take rejection as a reflection of our self-worth. If somebody who is important (or even someone unimportant) to you rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.” - Melody Beattie

“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.” - Audre Lorde

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” - Jacob M. Braude

I'm a non-Newtonian genderfluid creature.