A Guide to Higher-Order Homophily arxiv.org/abs/2606.02537
A Guide to Higher-Order Homophily
Homophily, the overrepresentation of interactions among similar individuals, and heterophily, the elevated prevalence of interactions among dissimilar ones, are frequently observed mixing patterns in ...
arxiv.org
September 28, 2026 at 7:41 AM
A Guide to Higher-Order Homophily arxiv.org/abs/2606.02537
Homophily!
Congresswoman Summer Lee told Daniel Moraff during a staff conference call that if he continued to treat her staff in abusive way that he would be banned.
After receiving at least 3 sexual misconduct complaints against him, Lee banned Moraff from her campaign.
paydayreport.com/platners-dan...
After receiving at least 3 sexual misconduct complaints against him, Lee banned Moraff from her campaign.
paydayreport.com/platners-dan...
Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints
Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Platner's strategist Daniel Moraff from her campaign after receiving sexual harassment complaints against him.
paydayreport.com
July 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Homophily!
Homophily is undefeated
May 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Homophily is undefeated
I think social networks people call this “homophily”, Nic
February 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I think social networks people call this “homophily”, Nic
Here's another paper by Shalizi showing how inferring *latent* homophily allows for disentangling from contagion. Bizarre how this gets overlooked, since it's obvious that homophily leaves huge traces in the network structure, while contagion changes nothing.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Here's another paper by Shalizi showing how inferring *latent* homophily allows for disentangling from contagion. Bizarre how this gets overlooked, since it's obvious that homophily leaves huge traces in the network structure, while contagion changes nothing.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars.
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
November 26, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars.
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
i feel if i was making a model of sexuality i'd start with a homophily core and build out
September 26, 2026 at 2:17 AM
i feel if i was making a model of sexuality i'd start with a homophily core and build out
“One inevitable consequence of homophily in social networks is that it distorts people’s perceptions of the distribution of opinions.”
The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy | Science. Really important short-read from Stephan Lewandowsky. Might be of interest to @brianstelter.bsky.social & @jayrosen.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, ...
www.science.org
June 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
“One inevitable consequence of homophily in social networks is that it distorts people’s perceptions of the distribution of opinions.”
Homophily and Collaboration in Superstar Teams!
January 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Homophily and Collaboration in Superstar Teams!
Homophily in action (derogatory)
September 23, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Homophily in action (derogatory)
Homophily-Tattoo
Wotcha? How do you do?
Bent words bear the weight
of wanting the same.
The dialect tattoo,
worn like family steel:
"Not yours? Keep away?"
#poem #poemoftheday #dialects #language #poems #poetry #bluesky #identity #community #exclusion
Wotcha? How do you do?
Bent words bear the weight
of wanting the same.
The dialect tattoo,
worn like family steel:
"Not yours? Keep away?"
#poem #poemoftheday #dialects #language #poems #poetry #bluesky #identity #community #exclusion
August 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Homophily-Tattoo
Wotcha? How do you do?
Bent words bear the weight
of wanting the same.
The dialect tattoo,
worn like family steel:
"Not yours? Keep away?"
#poem #poemoftheday #dialects #language #poems #poetry #bluesky #identity #community #exclusion
Wotcha? How do you do?
Bent words bear the weight
of wanting the same.
The dialect tattoo,
worn like family steel:
"Not yours? Keep away?"
#poem #poemoftheday #dialects #language #poems #poetry #bluesky #identity #community #exclusion
The technical term is homophily.
Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The technical term is homophily.
Here's how to score your next ERC grant: be of the same gender and country as your reviewer 😉🥲
Homophily in grant evaluations
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Homophily in grant evaluations
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Homophily in grant evaluations - Nature Human Behaviour
Fuchs-Schündeln and Holub show evidence of a homophily bias in scientific grant application review—evaluators are more favourable to applicants from their own country and, to a lesser extent, of their...
www.nature.com
August 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Here's how to score your next ERC grant: be of the same gender and country as your reviewer 😉🥲
Homophily in grant evaluations
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Homophily in grant evaluations
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@abbasrizi.bsky.social on stage talking about homophily within and across groups #CCS2025
September 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
@abbasrizi.bsky.social on stage talking about homophily within and across groups #CCS2025
They were lobbying — with perfect objectivity, of course — for a certain homophily. Shapiro had the background and social milieu that many of them did, the one (unlike that of a rural teacher) they could identify with.
August 22, 2024 at 3:40 AM
They were lobbying — with perfect objectivity, of course — for a certain homophily. Shapiro had the background and social milieu that many of them did, the one (unlike that of a rural teacher) they could identify with.
What if birds of a feather flock together, but only at specific group sizes?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is the focus of our new paper, now published in Nature Communications. We introduce a new network model and show how to model and measure homophily to incorporate group variations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is the focus of our new paper, now published in Nature Communications. We introduce a new network model and show how to model and measure homophily to incorporate group variations.
Homophily within and across groups - Nature Communications
People tend to connect with similar others in different groups, shaping how ideas and diseases spread. The authors introduce a data-validated model that captures homophily across group sizes and show ...
www.nature.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What if birds of a feather flock together, but only at specific group sizes?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is the focus of our new paper, now published in Nature Communications. We introduce a new network model and show how to model and measure homophily to incorporate group variations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is the focus of our new paper, now published in Nature Communications. We introduce a new network model and show how to model and measure homophily to incorporate group variations.
+ cleaning, demarcation, etc. For a lesson on homophily, I turned their data into a graph to show how the students are connected by their pref’s. Fun! Who do you have the most in common with? I made “communities” & we talked about what would happen if I used them to form project groups. +
February 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM
+ cleaning, demarcation, etc. For a lesson on homophily, I turned their data into a graph to show how the students are connected by their pref’s. Fun! Who do you have the most in common with? I made “communities” & we talked about what would happen if I used them to form project groups. +
Thrilled to share our paper with Iñaki Úcar (@enchufa2.es) and Jesús Prieto, just out in Social Science Research!
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
This study examines gender collaboration patterns across male-dominated, gender-neutral, and female-dominated fields. Using data from the Web of Scien…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Thrilled to share our paper with Iñaki Úcar (@enchufa2.es) and Jesús Prieto, just out in Social Science Research!
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cultural homophily is persistent, pervasive, and consequential, even in superstar multinational teams of high-skill people with common objectives, doing well defined, interactive, not particularly culture intensive tasks.
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Oh, we use football data. #EconSky
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Oh, we use football data. #EconSky
January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Cultural homophily is persistent, pervasive, and consequential, even in superstar multinational teams of high-skill people with common objectives, doing well defined, interactive, not particularly culture intensive tasks.
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Oh, we use football data. #EconSky
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Oh, we use football data. #EconSky
Stronger together? The homophily trap in networks arxiv.org/abs/2412.20158
Stronger together? The homophily trap in networks
While homophily -- the tendency to link with similar others -- may nurture a sense of belonging and shared values, it can also hinder diversity and widen inequalities. Here, we unravel this trade-off ...
arxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Stronger together? The homophily trap in networks arxiv.org/abs/2412.20158
Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla, and Andrew C. Thomas. “Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies.” Sociological Methods & Research 40, no. 2 (May 2011): 211–39. doi.org/10.1177/0049....
Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies - Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, Andrew C. Thomas, 2011
The authors consider processes on social networks that can potentially involve three factors: homophily, or the formation of social ties due to matching individ...
doi.org
June 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla, and Andrew C. Thomas. “Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies.” Sociological Methods & Research 40, no. 2 (May 2011): 211–39. doi.org/10.1177/0049....
HOMOPHILY
Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars.
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
November 26, 2024 at 10:48 PM
HOMOPHILY
The composition of a lot of the economics starter packs alone on here was revelatory on the nature of 'homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks'...We can definitely do better as a field #Econsky
Papers authored by Black, Hispanic or Asian economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those by White scholars.
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
The citation gap is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks (i.e., cite authors from own racial group).
www.nber.org/papers/w33150
November 26, 2024 at 6:38 PM
The composition of a lot of the economics starter packs alone on here was revelatory on the nature of 'homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks'...We can definitely do better as a field #Econsky
JFC
"many of us who study networks are perpetually vexed by the concept of homophily and why we end up connected with people like ourselves."
Isn't that exactly what we're talking about here, Mark? That the guys who were hanging around the JE were connect with a person like themselves???
"many of us who study networks are perpetually vexed by the concept of homophily and why we end up connected with people like ourselves."
Isn't that exactly what we're talking about here, Mark? That the guys who were hanging around the JE were connect with a person like themselves???
February 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
JFC
"many of us who study networks are perpetually vexed by the concept of homophily and why we end up connected with people like ourselves."
Isn't that exactly what we're talking about here, Mark? That the guys who were hanging around the JE were connect with a person like themselves???
"many of us who study networks are perpetually vexed by the concept of homophily and why we end up connected with people like ourselves."
Isn't that exactly what we're talking about here, Mark? That the guys who were hanging around the JE were connect with a person like themselves???