Intersectional inequalities in social ties At identity intersections, inequality transforms, revealing network patterns that single-dimensional models fail to explain.

New paper in Science Advances:
“Intersectional inequalities in social ties”
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A quantitative framework to measure how inequalities emerge in social networks when multiple identities intersect.
#SocialNetworks #Inequality #Intersectionality #ComplexSystems

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Wednesday 04:
-12:30, Fariba Karimi presents "Intersectional inequalities in social networks" in the parallel session Social networks 1. lnkd.in/e-bMjSwj

Tuesday 03:
-9:15 am, @lespin.bsky.social presents "Responsible Decision-Making: From Network Inequality to Network Fairness" in Algorithmic Fairness in Network Science.
-14:40, Ana Jaramillo presents "The overlooked need for Ethics in Complexity Science" in Network Science and Education.

Monday 02:
- 14:00-18 pm, Paula Nauta: "Who shapes the values in AI & ML research?" in WINS.
-16:30 pm, @lespin.bsky.social: "Auditing Algorithms using (Real & Synthetic) Network Data" in Network Science for the Most Vulnerable lnkd.in/ev38fKKq

🥳 The summer conference season of 2025 is starting for us next week!
If you attend the NetSci Conference in Maastricht, Netherlands, join our talks to see the exciting work we do at the NetIn lab.

A list of presentations per day:

These findings address questions in social psychology:
📷 How multidimensional identities drive connection preferences?
📷 How these preferences impact inequality?
📷 What patterns emerge when identity attributes correlate?#SocialNetworks #Inequality #Intersectionality

In Paper 2, we show:
📷 Attribute correlations (e.g., gender & race) create unexpected inequalities unobservable in one-dimensional systems.
📷 Minority overlap leads to severe disadvantages in some cases.
📷 Our model accurately predicts inequalities in real-world networks.

But there's more! Multidimensional identities also impact social capital inequalities.
📷 Paper 2: "Intersectional inequalities in social networks"
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Highlights:
📷 Modeled how we combine identity info (e.g., gender, ethnicity) when choosing friends.
📷 Found that people are picky choosers and use the simplest strategy to integrate preferences.
📷 Identify quantitatively the most relevant dimensions in connection choices.

But if we belong to multiple groups?
📷Our network model to explores multidimensional identity-driven interactions. 📷 Paper 1: "The hidden architecture of connections" 📷

📷 New research alert! 📷
How do our multidimensional identities shape who we connect with and the inequalities that emerge in our social networks?
📷1/ Social categories (race, gender, and socio-economic status) drive our connection preferences.

Promotional image for the science fiction book 'Planets of Disparity: The Hidden Divide' by Liuhuaying Yang, presented by Complexity Science Hub and NetIn. The right side displays the book cover, featuring cats and dogs in a futuristic setting, gazing at planets in a cosmic background. The left side features text describing the book: 'In a parallel universe where planets are home to cats and dogs, an annual awards ceremony celebrates the most esteemed inhabitants. Liz, an engineer, uncovers strange anomalies in the selection process, drawing her into a web of deceit. Special investigators Luna and Max join her quest as they discover that the algorithm governing the rankings may hold the key to chaos across the cosmos. What role does this algorithm play in the fate of interplanetary fairness?'

Excited to share our colleague Liuhuaying Yang's sci-fi book inspired by our research on inequality in ranking systems! A creative take on how the rich-get-richer effect & homophily shape visibility. A must-read for all curious minds! Order on Amazon: amzn.eu/d/cyMLz4V
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Happy New Year from our lab! Grateful to our community—colleagues, partners, mentors, and followers. 2024 was a year of growth in exploring network inequalities, publishing research, and sharing knowledge. Thanks to our team, speakers, and @csh.ac.at . Here's to an inspiring 2025!

Thank you to all speakers and attendees of the 2024 Lecture Series on Network Inequality! Special thanks to our NetIn team for organizing 17 insightful talks. We hope these sessions inspire new ideas and collaborations for a more connected and equitable world. @csh.ac.at

Complexity Science Hub * News * CSH Welcomes FRONTIERS Science Journalist In Residence Will Grimond British data journalist Will Grimond is among the ten journalists chosen for the second round of the European Research Council’s (ERC) initiative

Data journalist @willljg.bsky.social joins the #FRONTIERS Science Journalism Residency at the @csh.ac.at! 🎉 He’ll work together with Fariba Karimi’s group on an innovative project exploring #AlgorithmicFairness in #AI. Will, we can't wait to see you in Vienna! 👉 csh.ac.at/news/csh-wel...