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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 1d

Rock ‘n’ roll is not what it used to be.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 2d

A screenshot of a list on the Apple notes app.

It’s titled The Betrayal, and has items: NHST, Colliders, Median is a non-linear operator, Ronald Fisher, R^2, stepwise, pp_check(), tests of normality

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 13d

Think narrower.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 13d

It involves evidence from local newspaper reporting on the candidacies of a minor Maoist party in 1979 Spain.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 13d

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wogku...

www.dropbox.com

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 13d

(I've written the narrowest, nerdiest paper and I *can't wait* for it to be out.)

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 15d

Exactly the same here.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 15d

Yes I know but I have a PhD I’m allowed to lie with graphs

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 15d

Three cheers for the demographic winter.

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 15d

Ageing societies are simultaneously safer and more scared societies.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15d

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 15d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 15d

@ukparliament.parliament.uk

Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 15d

Abundance update

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 16d

Me one year ago: "I'm going to write a short research note. I can do it in two weeks, and send it out. Quick and easy."

Me now: "in section E.4 of the appendix (page 78), the reviewer will now find alternative model specifications..."

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 18d

It’s also often used as a homophobic trope.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 20d

Big week for me and the team as "The British General Election of 2024" has now gone into production. The definitive book of last year's landmark election will be hitting stores later this autumn, and is available to pre-order right now! Here's the Amazon page: www.amazon.co.uk/British-Gene...

www.amazon.co.uk

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 27d

I think about Safiyyah's your grandma passed away monologue at least once a week.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · Sep 8

After a democracy turns illiberal, can it return to democracy again? Here are the reasons why democracy after illiberalism is hard to maintain.

Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland | Journal of Democracy

Restoring liberalism after illiberalism is no easy task: Leaders face hard choices between acting quickly and effectively while maintaining a commitment to democratic procedure. Worse…

www.journalofdemocracy.org

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized?

In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · Sep 6

“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds

Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

www.theguardian.com

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · Sep 5

Massive congratulations!

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · Sep 4

Well, I guess at least that’s a win for the “EU broadly functions as a democratic polity rather than a technocratic IO” people.

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Sep 3

IN NEW ISSUE: British attitudes to ‘Europe’ have been long characterised as ‘reluctant’. @jamesrdennison.bsky.social explores the exception between 1988–1992 - Britain’s Pro-European Moment: buff.ly/3D41PIx (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #ECRs @sagepub.com

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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered!

In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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