Since Mastodon is for nerds, I'm here to share a nerd thing. I'm interested in rose breeding, and one thing you have to account for there is ploidy, which can determine whether species can cross. There's a type of rose called dogroses (Rosa canina), often used in cooking, which has its own, unique and bizarre, pentaploid meiosis.

28 mom chromosomes, 7 dad chomosomes. The dad part is shuffled like normal. The mom part is only partially shuffled.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09171-z

Mildly interesting: I had this vague idea that post-LLMs, the stock market has gone crazy, but with the recent downturn, it looks pretty average over the 10, 5, and 2 year spans. Returns about 10%/yr without adjusting for inflation.

For those keeping score at home, this was not true under the last administration, but then presidents generally don't have a lot of economic power, beyond the ability to fuck things up by being *very* stupid.

Incidentally, for those who are into this sort of thing, another solid quarter for productivity growth: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm

The period since 2019 or so is starting to look like a productivity uptick, though I don't know that their is a good theory about why?