If you know me, you know I love thinking about “reversals” :)

Here’s a blog post summarizing my latest research, published via @policy_politics:
policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/10/06/p...

💡New to the blog!💡Preference reversals in asylum policy: how multidimensional incentives reshape elite decision making

Thank you @aslunn.bsky.social !✨

policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/10/06/p...

From March 2025 -

Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s #COVID19 vaccine rollout impacted diffuse and specific support for the EU - cup.org/425D2O7

#OpenAccess

1/6 📢 Just as Germany announces it will begin turning back asylum seekers at its borders (starting May 6), our new article in European Journal of Political Research is out:

🧵👇 “Closed borders, closed minds?”

doi.org/10.1111/1475...

#BorderPolitics #EUPolitics #Schengen #COVID19 #EJPR

NEW -

Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout impacted diffuse and specific support for the EU - cup.org/425D2O7

- @irenerodriguez.bsky.social, @tonirodon.bsky.social, @aslunn.bsky.social, @lisaherbig.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social & @theresakuhn.bsky.social

5️⃣ Implications? The EU's ability to deliver results relative to other nations can shape policy support. Benchmarking matters for public perception. 📉
Check out the full paper (open access) at: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🇪🇺Does performance benchmarking impact EU support? W/ @tonirodon.bsky.social @aslunn.bsky.social @lisaherbig.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social we explore how people compare EU performance to non-EU countries & adjust their attitudes accordingly🧵⬇️
📄 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

We have a new LSE Postdoctoral Fellow position in Political Behaviour (with some regional focus on Comparative European politics or EU politics). You can contact @sarahobolt.bsky.social @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social or me with any questions.
Deadline is 7 March: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social -

Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine - cup.org/3ZLbXih

- @aslunn.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social l

#FirstView

See my new article just published in @polbehavior.bsky.social which shows that the BioNTech vaccine announcement and the subsequent positive coverage about the Turkish roots of its developers led to increasingly positive attitudes towards immigration in Germany rdcu.be/d02xO

Deutsche Bahn diaries:

6:06 AM, Berlin-Amsterdam train. The whole journey is supposed to take 6 hours.

Last week, the train had a technical error and had to move at 10 km per hour. It was eventually cancelled. Another train was arranged, and we arrived at our destination with a 2.5-hour delay

🚨New article, with the brilliant @irenerodriguez.bsky.social , at @sespjournal.bsky.social on the 2023 Spanish general election 🗳️

▶️ If you want to know more about strategic coordination, electoral system, and differential mobilisation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CfA for a 4 year PostDoc Position at our Research Group
at Humboldt University in Berlin. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!

🔥The Politics Lecture Series @HumboldtUni is back🔥

We have an amazing line-up this term. Talks are open to everyone, so join us if you are in Berlin.

Thanks also to my co-organizers @anselmhager.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social Silvia von Steinsdorff @hannaschwander.bsky.social Christian Volk