Quantifying biases and inequalities in science Every day our life is made easier by efficient measures and algorithms that quantify, search, and rank scientific information. Yet, these measures and algorithms have an issue: they are trained on citations, which are ingrained with human biases. Therefore the output is inherently biased too, creating inequalities, raising concerns […]

https://easychair.org/smart-program/NetSci2023/2023-07-12.html#talk:224079 Luca Maria Aiello, Sándor Juhász, Anastassia Vybornova, Eszter Bokányi and Michael Szell Highways are barriers to urban social connections PRESENTER: Anastassia Vybornova ABSTRACT. Geographic distances influence social connections inside cities - even in our digital age . Both the perception of physical distance and the likelihood of forming social ties across locations are influenced by infrastructural elements, as previous studies […]