Kamil Bernaerts
@kamilbernaerts.bsky.social
PhD candidate Political Science (@dfuturevub.bsky.social and @warwickpais.bsky.social). Polarisation and democracy, conflict, antagonism, institutional design. See https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/kamil-bernaerts
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
About last night...
🎉 Congratulations Dr. @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social ! 🎓
📖 Dr. Bernaerts defended his dissertation on polarisation and its complex, dynamic relationship with democracy and institutions.
Needless to say, it was fantastic!
Find out more about Kamil's work via kamilbernaerts.com
🎉 Congratulations Dr. @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social ! 🎓
📖 Dr. Bernaerts defended his dissertation on polarisation and its complex, dynamic relationship with democracy and institutions.
Needless to say, it was fantastic!
Find out more about Kamil's work via kamilbernaerts.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
About last night...
🎉 Congratulations Dr. @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social ! 🎓
📖 Dr. Bernaerts defended his dissertation on polarisation and its complex, dynamic relationship with democracy and institutions.
Needless to say, it was fantastic!
Find out more about Kamil's work via kamilbernaerts.com
🎉 Congratulations Dr. @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social ! 🎓
📖 Dr. Bernaerts defended his dissertation on polarisation and its complex, dynamic relationship with democracy and institutions.
Needless to say, it was fantastic!
Find out more about Kamil's work via kamilbernaerts.com
New publication in International Political Science Review! Together with Didier Caluwaerts, I found that the relationship between polarisation and violence was weaker in countries with a federal system and/or a rigid constitution. Important contribution regarding polarisation's impact on democracy.
New article by DFuture colleagues @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social & Didier Caluwaerts in International Political Science Review:
Fight or unite? Consensus institutions, polarization, and political violence in 113 democracies (1900–2023).
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fight or unite? Consensus institutions, polarization, and political violence in 113 democracies (1900–2023).
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
New publication in International Political Science Review! Together with Didier Caluwaerts, I found that the relationship between polarisation and violence was weaker in countries with a federal system and/or a rigid constitution. Important contribution regarding polarisation's impact on democracy.
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
How many people will die because two corrupt men are trying to stay out of jail?
June 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
How many people will die because two corrupt men are trying to stay out of jail?
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
Marie Curie Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship is still open:
‼️ DEADLINE 31/05 ‼️
‼️ DEADLINE 31/05 ‼️
🚨 Call for Postdocs! 🚨
VUB’s Democratic Futures Research Centre is looking for candidates for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025!
Want to boost your research career in Brussels with top training & international mobility?
1/4
VUB’s Democratic Futures Research Centre is looking for candidates for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025!
Want to boost your research career in Brussels with top training & international mobility?
1/4
May 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Marie Curie Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship is still open:
‼️ DEADLINE 31/05 ‼️
‼️ DEADLINE 31/05 ‼️
Although my presentation focused on understanding how polarisation can be theoretically linked with democracy and thus not entirely fit in the bigger theme of the panel, I’m very grateful for the opportunity and interesting questions! #PSA25
The seventh #PSA25 panel on populism explored its histories and theories in the Global South, with rich contributions from Felipe Linden, Joanildo Burity, @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social, and Robert Upton.
April 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Although my presentation focused on understanding how polarisation can be theoretically linked with democracy and thus not entirely fit in the bigger theme of the panel, I’m very grateful for the opportunity and interesting questions! #PSA25
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
✨My first academic piece is out! ✨
In "Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative", I write about how minoritised representatives perform their role within institutions. Read about it in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social
In "Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative", I write about how minoritised representatives perform their role within institutions. Read about it in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
✨My first academic piece is out! ✨
In "Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative", I write about how minoritised representatives perform their role within institutions. Read about it in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social
In "Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative", I write about how minoritised representatives perform their role within institutions. Read about it in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
🆕 New article by @hannahoorts.bsky.social in European Journal of Cultural Studies!
🔹 “Blending In and Sticking Out” explores how politicians like Assita Kanko navigate race & gender in performing political legitimacy—before being accepted as representatives.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PI82...
🔹 “Blending In and Sticking Out” explores how politicians like Assita Kanko navigate race & gender in performing political legitimacy—before being accepted as representatives.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PI82...
April 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🆕 New article by @hannahoorts.bsky.social in European Journal of Cultural Studies!
🔹 “Blending In and Sticking Out” explores how politicians like Assita Kanko navigate race & gender in performing political legitimacy—before being accepted as representatives.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PI82...
🔹 “Blending In and Sticking Out” explores how politicians like Assita Kanko navigate race & gender in performing political legitimacy—before being accepted as representatives.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PI82...
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
April 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
🚨 working paper alert🚨
@carotorreblanca.bsky.social, Will Dinneen, and I have published an updated draft of "The Evolving Landscape of Political Science: Two Decades of Scholarship in a Growing Discipline." We hope you will find it interesting.
osf.io/preprints/os...
@carotorreblanca.bsky.social, Will Dinneen, and I have published an updated draft of "The Evolving Landscape of Political Science: Two Decades of Scholarship in a Growing Discipline." We hope you will find it interesting.
osf.io/preprints/os...
April 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
🚨 working paper alert🚨
@carotorreblanca.bsky.social, Will Dinneen, and I have published an updated draft of "The Evolving Landscape of Political Science: Two Decades of Scholarship in a Growing Discipline." We hope you will find it interesting.
osf.io/preprints/os...
@carotorreblanca.bsky.social, Will Dinneen, and I have published an updated draft of "The Evolving Landscape of Political Science: Two Decades of Scholarship in a Growing Discipline." We hope you will find it interesting.
osf.io/preprints/os...
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v15 and the V-dem Institute Democracy Report 2025
The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...
DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications...
#DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky
🧵1(3)
The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...
DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications...
#DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky
🧵1(3)
March 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v15 and the V-dem Institute Democracy Report 2025
The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...
DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications...
#DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky
🧵1(3)
The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...
DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications...
#DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky
🧵1(3)
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
The silence of associations like APSA, MPSA and SPSA as well as university provosts on the end of academic freedom in the US is deafening.
The list of Trump's forbidden words that will get flagged at the US National Science Foundation. Most of them are social science standard terms like polarization, socio-economic or minority. gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...
The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF
It's fascism, plain and simple.
gizmodo.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The silence of associations like APSA, MPSA and SPSA as well as university provosts on the end of academic freedom in the US is deafening.
“Perhaps it is time to (…) find passions of our own: (…) to imagine a world in which government supports health and education for all, where we all live without fear, knowing that our interconnected lives are equally valuable.”
shorturl.at/NvU4s
shorturl.at/NvU4s
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
“Perhaps it is time to (…) find passions of our own: (…) to imagine a world in which government supports health and education for all, where we all live without fear, knowing that our interconnected lives are equally valuable.”
shorturl.at/NvU4s
shorturl.at/NvU4s
“Het tegenovergestelde van liefde is niet haat, het is onverschilligheid”.
Een democratie wordt niet alleen ondermijnd door gevaarlijke leiders als Trump, maar vooral ook door hun gedachtegoed te normaliseren.
Trump en alles waar hij voor staat is *niet* normaal.
shorturl.at/rdvSx
Een democratie wordt niet alleen ondermijnd door gevaarlijke leiders als Trump, maar vooral ook door hun gedachtegoed te normaliseren.
Trump en alles waar hij voor staat is *niet* normaal.
shorturl.at/rdvSx
Het is wel degelijk vijf voor twaalf, niet alleen in Duitsland
Dirk Verhofstadt is moraalfilosoof en auteur van Dagboek 1933. Hij vreest dat we afglijden naar de jaren dertig en ziet op tal van plekken hoe de democratie ondermijnd wordt.
www.demorgen.be
February 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
“Het tegenovergestelde van liefde is niet haat, het is onverschilligheid”.
Een democratie wordt niet alleen ondermijnd door gevaarlijke leiders als Trump, maar vooral ook door hun gedachtegoed te normaliseren.
Trump en alles waar hij voor staat is *niet* normaal.
shorturl.at/rdvSx
Een democratie wordt niet alleen ondermijnd door gevaarlijke leiders als Trump, maar vooral ook door hun gedachtegoed te normaliseren.
Trump en alles waar hij voor staat is *niet* normaal.
shorturl.at/rdvSx
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
I don't know how else to put this: This is fucking insane.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
www.politico.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I don't know how else to put this: This is fucking insane.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
NSF, a $10 billion grantmaking agency, is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months.
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
Trump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."
February 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
📢 Call for papers! Workshop "Polarising Performances or Re-engaging the Audience?" organised by @hannahoorts.bsky.social & @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
📝 Abstract deadline: 28/02/2025
🎤 Keynote: Prof. Paula Diehl
📍 Free & in-person (lunch provided!)
[SUBMISSION BELOW!]
📝 Abstract deadline: 28/02/2025
🎤 Keynote: Prof. Paula Diehl
📍 Free & in-person (lunch provided!)
[SUBMISSION BELOW!]
February 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📢 Call for papers! Workshop "Polarising Performances or Re-engaging the Audience?" organised by @hannahoorts.bsky.social & @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
📝 Abstract deadline: 28/02/2025
🎤 Keynote: Prof. Paula Diehl
📍 Free & in-person (lunch provided!)
[SUBMISSION BELOW!]
📝 Abstract deadline: 28/02/2025
🎤 Keynote: Prof. Paula Diehl
📍 Free & in-person (lunch provided!)
[SUBMISSION BELOW!]
Working on #polarisation or #performance in politics? Submit your paper for our workshop on the 25th of April the University of Warwick!
Join me and @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social at @warwickpais.bsky.social for a workshop combining our research interests: #performance 🎭and #polarisation ↔️! With a keynote by Professor Paula Diehl, discussed by Professor Michael Saward and YOUR paper presentations!
✨Hope to see you there!✨
✨Hope to see you there!✨
February 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Working on #polarisation or #performance in politics? Submit your paper for our workshop on the 25th of April the University of Warwick!
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
The word “political” is on the list of banned “D.E.I.” terms
February 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The word “political” is on the list of banned “D.E.I.” terms
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
I hope scholars in Europe and political parties that support science are paying close attention to the unfolding US situation.
Institutions can easily come under pressure. Actions of individuals can have far reaching consequences. Robust resilience is hard once the attack happens.
Institutions can easily come under pressure. Actions of individuals can have far reaching consequences. Robust resilience is hard once the attack happens.
February 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I hope scholars in Europe and political parties that support science are paying close attention to the unfolding US situation.
Institutions can easily come under pressure. Actions of individuals can have far reaching consequences. Robust resilience is hard once the attack happens.
Institutions can easily come under pressure. Actions of individuals can have far reaching consequences. Robust resilience is hard once the attack happens.
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
🚨 New article!
Colleagues Henry Maes, Ambroos Verwee and Lien Smets published an article in @plc-journal.bsky.social toghether with V. Van Ingelgom & L. Knops.
'Affective Polarisation in Citizens’ Own Words: Understanding Group Construction'
1/3
Colleagues Henry Maes, Ambroos Verwee and Lien Smets published an article in @plc-journal.bsky.social toghether with V. Van Ingelgom & L. Knops.
'Affective Polarisation in Citizens’ Own Words: Understanding Group Construction'
1/3
January 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🚨 New article!
Colleagues Henry Maes, Ambroos Verwee and Lien Smets published an article in @plc-journal.bsky.social toghether with V. Van Ingelgom & L. Knops.
'Affective Polarisation in Citizens’ Own Words: Understanding Group Construction'
1/3
Colleagues Henry Maes, Ambroos Verwee and Lien Smets published an article in @plc-journal.bsky.social toghether with V. Van Ingelgom & L. Knops.
'Affective Polarisation in Citizens’ Own Words: Understanding Group Construction'
1/3
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
👋 Hello Bluesky!
The VUB Democratic Futures Research Centre is now here on Bluesky! 🎉
Stay tuned for updates on our latest research, insights, and news as we explore the future of democracy together.
#PoliticalScience #Democracy #Research
The VUB Democratic Futures Research Centre is now here on Bluesky! 🎉
Stay tuned for updates on our latest research, insights, and news as we explore the future of democracy together.
#PoliticalScience #Democracy #Research
December 18, 2024 at 2:19 PM
👋 Hello Bluesky!
The VUB Democratic Futures Research Centre is now here on Bluesky! 🎉
Stay tuned for updates on our latest research, insights, and news as we explore the future of democracy together.
#PoliticalScience #Democracy #Research
The VUB Democratic Futures Research Centre is now here on Bluesky! 🎉
Stay tuned for updates on our latest research, insights, and news as we explore the future of democracy together.
#PoliticalScience #Democracy #Research
Reposted by Kamil Bernaerts
Political division is tearing societies apart. But there’s hope.
On Nov. 20 at 1 PM ET, join experts Jennifer McCoy, Kamil Bernaerts & David Moscrop to learn how we can protect democracy from polarization.
Register now! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
On Nov. 20 at 1 PM ET, join experts Jennifer McCoy, Kamil Bernaerts & David Moscrop to learn how we can protect democracy from polarization.
Register now! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Tackling Polarization and Strengthening Democracy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Democracy in Canada and around the world is facing serious challenges, including polarized politics and a mistrustful and disengaged electorate. What can we do?
Join this webinar to learn more about...
us02web.zoom.us
November 19, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Political division is tearing societies apart. But there’s hope.
On Nov. 20 at 1 PM ET, join experts Jennifer McCoy, Kamil Bernaerts & David Moscrop to learn how we can protect democracy from polarization.
Register now! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
On Nov. 20 at 1 PM ET, join experts Jennifer McCoy, Kamil Bernaerts & David Moscrop to learn how we can protect democracy from polarization.
Register now! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...