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#NWSL players and people discussed together from the past few hours right here on Bluesky

if you're an #NWSL data geek or a journalist covering sentiments/trends/themes, you will like this. no need for expensive services that are only available through official partnerships.

still ironing out the kinks and whatnot but hoping to release this in the very near future (~ weeks).

a couple screenshots of a new #NWSL social analytics dashboard I'm building based on Reddit's live match thread activity!

Denver's NWSL team is planning a $400M bet on women's soccer, but the path to profit may be long City officials and team owners have promised the public and private investment would benefit residents and businesses.

Denver's NWSL team is planning a $400M bet on women's soccer, but the path to profit may be long.

#GothamFC vs. #ChicagoStars

Players social volume and mention relationships, here on Bluesky

Bar graph titled "Top 20 Countries by Research and Development Spending." The United States leads significantly in spending, followed by China, Japan, and Germany. Other countries include the United Kingdom, South Korea, France, and Australia, among others.

To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

Bluesky #NWSL players social volume from tonight's two matches. Graph shows relationships b/w mentioned players in the same posts.

That was a tight game! #NWSLAfterDark

Esmee Morgan absolutely dominating Bluesky #NWSL convos.

Bluesky #NWSL sentiment over the past couple hours. Katie Zelem's goal was clearly exciting to people.

The degrees by which #NWSL players have been mentioned together in Bluesky discussions for the past couple hours.

Gotham FC’s Esther González Named NWSL Player of the Month for April, Presented by EA Sports | Gotham FC JERSEY CITY, N.J. (May 1, 2025) - Gotham FC forward Esther González has been named the NWSL Player of the Month for April, presented by EA Sports, the league announced Thursday. This marks the first

Gotham FC’s Esther González Named NWSL Player of the Month for April, Presented by EA Sports | Gotham FC

Is the NWSL stadium a good investment for Denver? (Editorial) Now redevelopment of the 40-acre site is within grasp, with a promising economic model. But the catch is that the city must invest millions more into a project that has already been promised millio…

Is the NWSL stadium a good investment for Denver? (Editorial)

NWSL teams are embracing tension, new and old: ‘People love a good sports rivalry’ When Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury dove and caught NJ/NY Gotham FC defender Jenna Nighswonger’s penalty attempt during the 2024 NWSL playoffs, the sell-out crowd erupted at Audi Field....

NWSL teams are embracing tension, new and old: ‘People love a good sports rivalry’

That was a wild game! #NWSL

JP got an honorary mention in the Bluesky traffic graph!

#NWSL player social volume from Bluesky at full time from the WAS vs. GOT game. The convoluted middle part with lots of connections shows how involved the Spirit fans were!

getting the feeling the Washington Spirit is playing not to lose instead of playing to win

Bluesky NWSL conversations right now

Gotham FC keeps pounding!

Let's go #GothamFC!

Graph of players social dominance and mention relationships on Bluesky. Who's being mentioned the most, in relation to whom, and by which degrees? Improved the look and feel a little. #NWSL

Bluesky's #NWSL players mentioned from tonight's 2 matches

False color image of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) in Cassiopeia.A ghostly blue bubble sits among golden orange clouds of gas, punctuated by sharp violet pinpricks – young stars.

Spiral galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 –– the Antennae Galaxies. White, blue, and red swirls of stars from two disrupted spiral galaxies captured mid-collision, with messy lanes of dark gas and dust stretching between their bright yellow cores.

The globular cluster NGC 1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A jewel box of tightly clustered white, blue, and red stars.

False color image of the Lagoon Nebula captured by Hubble for its 28th anniversary in 2018. Red, purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange clouds surround a region of active star formation, with our view obscured by dark molecular clouds.

Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!

Trump: I will end the war in Ukraine on Day 1

Day 93:

NWSL content creators and posters should move over to Bluesky. No need to keep giving money to that old site.

Google Gemini has 350M monthly users, reveals court hearing Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot, had 350 million monthly active users around the globe as of March, according to internal data revealed in Google’s ongoing antitrust suit. The Information first reported the stat. Usage of Google’s AI offerings has exploded in the last year. Gemini had just 9 million daily active users in October 2024, but […]

Google Gemini has 350M monthly users, reveals court hearing

We could have just had a normal president and a functioning country.

I hope that going forward, the “both parties are the same” motto gets laughed out of polite discourse as the cheap cynicism it always was.

update on Bluesky player mentions of last night's #NWSL match.

bigger names mean more mentions, thicker borders indicate higher betweenness centrality (acting as bridges), shared background colors highlight player groups (like teammates/rivals), and brighter/thicker lines show stronger links

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