Arrived back home in Bologna and found a nice poscard by @adeleloia.bsky.social and @caterinavillani.bsky.social from San Francisco (#cogsci-2025) 🥰
Apparenly Lombard street' iconic stairs evoked #wordladders and language-mediated abstraction :-)

Ready for #CogSci2025!

📍See you in San Francisco.

🗓️On July 31st at 2:37pm
@caterinavillani.bsky.social will present our longitudinal study on how children build word hierarchies using the #WordLadders task 💫

Getting ready for #COGSCI2025 in San Francisco!
📆 July 31st, 02:37pm
I’ll present a longitudinal study (w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social & @adeleloia.bsky.social) on how school-aged children build taxonomies using the #WordLadders task developed by @abstractionerc.bsky.social
Catch up with us there!

Bluesky's Top 10 Trending Words from the Past 10 Minutes:
️⚠️💨3 - ukraine
️⚠️💨2 - کو
️⚠️💨2 - کا
️⚠️💨2 - سے
️⚠️💨2 - خان
️⚠️💨1 - نہیں
️⚠️💨1 - نے
️⚠️💨1 - میں
️⚠️💨1 - اور
️⚠️💨1 - ہے
(tap/click to see all posts on Bluesky featuring that word!)

#ListenToBlackVoices

Check out our lab activity at #festivalscienza #fds2024, in Genova, Italy.
Team ABSTRACTION (ERC-2021-STG-101039777) was there! At Talent Garden. Join the crew of vocab climbers! Download #wordladders here:
Android 👉 shorturl.at/kqAOS
Apple 👉 shorturl.at/buIS2 #uniboper

Gruppo dopo gruppo, noi di @Abstraction_ERC ci siamo, qui al @TalentGardenit di Genova, #festivalscienza #fds2024
https://www.festivalscienza.it/
Con un laboratorio #wordladders in cui ci sfidiamo a costruire le Scale di Parole più lunghe...

And if you want to play #wordladders, the mobile game developed by the @Abstraction_ERC group, you can! Also in USA!
Download the app and join the crew of vocab climbers!
Android 👉 http://shorturl.at/kqAOS
Apple 👉 http://shorturl.at/buIS2

#wordladders.
@ERC_Research
https://www.festivalscienza.it/

Step Up Your Game! 🪜

The International Day of Play is today.

Perfect day to download #wordladders and Climb to the Top of Your Word Play!

Android 👉 <a href="http://shorturl.at/kqAOS" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://shorturl.at/kqAOS
Apple 👉 <a href="http://shorturl.at/buIS2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://shorturl.at/buIS2

Developed by the Abstraction research group (ERC-2021-STG-101039777)

Touch-base meeting with developer Andrea Ferrari, PI @MariannaBolog and Postdoc Andrea Ravelli to finalize the API for setting threshold of played matches above which a word is disabled in #wordladders app 🧠🎮🪜, and the algorithm picks randomly another word to be played.

Feedback raccolto dai bambini: "mi è piaciuto costruire le scale di parole perché ho capito che si può partire da una parola e seguire una scala e arrivare dove non sapevi che saresti potuto arrivare."
#wordladders @Abstraction_ERC @Cay @AdeleLoia

#wordladders played by American students in Siena, Italy, at SIS study abroad programme.

#wordladders, the mobile app developed by Abstraction, collects language data, here represented as a graph, showing the semantic relation IS-A between a word and another, produced at least by 5 users (Italian players here). Andrea Ravelli, postdoc at Abstraction, is working on it

La mia miglior scala del mese su #wordladders l'ho costruita sulla parola SARTA.
Word Ladders. Disponibile in italiano e in inglese.
Android 👉 http://shorturl.at/kqAOS
Apple 👉 http://shorturl.at/buIS2

School activity with #wordladders: recruiting vocab climbers in Casalecchio, Istituto Salvemini
public high-school.
A dissemination activity by Abstraction.
With @MariannaBolog and @LamarraTommaso

Buongiorno!
#wordladders played matches is about to hit 30k!

Ready to join the community of word climbers? 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

Android 👉 <a href="http://shorturl.at/kqAOS" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://shorturl.at/kqAOS
Apple 👉 <a href="http://shorturl.at/buIS2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://shorturl.at/buIS2

Eccolo! #wordladders pubblicato su L'Essenziale di @Internazionale.🥳👇
Il gioco per cellulari che stimola l'uso di parole rare per fare stretching linguistico in italiano e in inglese, e allo stesso tempo aiuta la ricerca accademica in Linguistica.

Eccolo! #wordladders su L'Essenziale di @Internazionale.
Il gioco per cellulari che stimola l'uso di parole rare e aiuta la ricerca in Linguistica.
Sviluppato dal gruppo accademico Abstraction @Unibo, finanziato da European ResearchCouncil @ERC_Research...

🧵 1/3
I saw that someone on #googlestore left a review for #wordladders in which they were a bit disappointed when they figured out that they could use the same highly generic word "object" or "entity" as highest step of many word ladders. For me this same feature is satisfying.

La mia miglior scala del mese su #wordladders partiva dalla parola LOTTATORE.
E vi ho detto tutto.
La vostra??

More than 28K played matches.
More than 1K downloads.
Join the crew of vocab climbers; contribute to academic research on speakers' vocab depth and richness.
👉 Download from Google Play:
https://lnkd.in/d5Z3jU3m
👉 Download from the App Store:
https://lnkd.in/d7WnY-UQ
#wordladders

Intervening in a grad course on Semantics and Lexicon held by @FraMasini_ to explain the organization of @Abstraction_ERC and disseminate the #wordladders mobile app.

And at the end of a long day in public schools collecting data with the #wordladders app, @CaterinaVillan8 and I epically jumped on the wrong train, opposite direction to Bologna. Sooooo....we take it from here, with a spritz.

Concluso primo intervento con una classe terza media, giocando a #wordladders

7.30 am.
Good morning Imola school!
Ready to test the #wordladders app in middle and primary schools, to collect data. We will then come back to this school in May and use the app again, to observe lexical improvements.