Leonardo Carella

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

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

Think narrower.

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

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

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

Exactly the same here.

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

Three cheers for the demographic winter.

Ageing societies are simultaneously safer and more scared societies.

@ukparliament.parliament.uk

Abundance update

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..."

It’s also often used as a homophobic trope.

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...

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

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…

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

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. 🧵👇

“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.

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

"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...

Massive congratulations!

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

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

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....

In a way, it's the supranational analogue of what mainstream governments are doing domestically. The EU has got better at the things its critics want of it - Fortress Europe, hard-nosed deals with autocrats, lax regulation, shallow integration - and worse at the things its supporters like about it.

(The EU keeps failing on its own stated terms. It is no regulatory superpower internationally and struggles to enforce its rules internally, it caves on trade like a medium-sized nation state, it doesn't behave as normative power in its neighbourhood or with the member states.)

As we enter September, you may see posts with news of jobs, promotions, grants, fellowships, and the like. That’s great! We should celebrate with colleagues, especially in an industry where rejection is the modal outcome. 1/n

🏛️ @markuskollberg.bsky.social: The challenger advantage – how challenger parties disrupt mainstream party dominance in the European Parliament

🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

The war on empathy youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...