Network Inequality and Fairness Group

We’re excited to share that Samuel Martin-Gutierrez has published our latest work in Science Advances! 🎉

In collaboration with Mauritz N. Cartier van Dissel and Fariba Karimi, this study reveals how intersectional identities shape social networks, driving unequal patterns of connection and social capital. Using a network model calibrated with high school friendship data, we show how multidimensional preferences and correlated attributes create nonlinear inequalities in social ties.

📖 Read the full paper
💻 Explore the code

🌍 Try the interactive visualization:
Discover what social fairness means — and how it can be influenced — through a playful world of cats and dogs on two planets, Monos and Duos. Experiment with traits like species or color and see how they shape rankings and fairness.

👉 Try it here

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