Some answers of the students’ brainstorm session. It was striking that in our conversations, they were most worried about the future of Dutch universities, the future of academia in general and the loss of evidence-based policymaking.

With the best live commentary!! @sldelange.bsky.social

Even the snacks are in theme🇳🇱😍

Ready for an interesting debate! What would The Hague and Brussels look like in 4 years if the far-right wins today’s elections? 🇳🇱🇪🇺 @studioeuropa.bsky.social

¿Hola, Madrid? 🌞🇪🇸 #EPSA2025

ACCESS4ALL goes Madrid! 🇪🇸 💃🏻 We are presenting two papers on Thursday June 26 at the #EPSA Conference:

1️⃣ Who are the Lobbyists?
Presented at 9h30 in 1A.03
2️⃣ Bias of Bifurcation? Gendered Patterns of Lobbying Access between Interest Groups and MEPs
Presented at 16h50 in 0A.08

Be there or be square!

😍My first single-authored article just got published in @polstudies.bsky.social. I am so excited about this one! In this article, I discuss how Political Party Think Tanks (PPTTs) help parties to transcend daily political pressures, and focus on long-term political thinking and policy development

Presented the first draft of the first paper of my postdoc project at the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social! Special thanks to @profannikawerner.bsky.social for the insightful feedback and to @simonotjes.bsky.social , @robert-a-huber.bsky.social for the valuable input

📣 🔔 Happy to share our publication in European View, where Steven Van Hecke and I mapped PPTTs in EU member states. Reach out if you are interested in the extended the PhD chapter based on this article!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I defended my PhD dissertation on ‘The Brains Behind the Party’ 🧠 and I am over the moon! 🌙

Drop me a message if you want to discuss research on Political Party Think Tanks!

Dr. B 👩🏻‍🎓