Ann Gracia

Graphic & digital designer, higher ed professional, tennis junkie, & 2x @UofOklahoma grad.

[katelin @loud_socialist]

sorry it is insane to write headlines like this when your women's team is the most successful women's team in football history

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

I’ve been a Knicks fan for 14 long days, so tonight was very special for me personally

[🏎️ @parisianarchive]

lowkey to get the full tennis fan experience you need to support one player that’s really good, one player that’s always injured, and one random player that never wins anything but you still have hope for some reason

[Joshua Boydston @joshuaboydston_]

Let’s have day, folks. #ThunderUp

[SMU Women’s Tennis @SMUWTennis]

Finished the year in the top 25 🙌

Highest final @ITA_Tennis ranking in 17 years!

[SMU Women’s Tennis @SMUWTennis]

𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩

Seven Mustangs upped their @UTR_Sports_ scores this season

[khaleesi🧍🏽‍♀️ @shelovesore]

So yesterday PCOS was renamed to PMOS. After 11 years and about 22,000 people fighting for it.
If you’re one of the women who was told to just lose weight or come back when you want children, the reason it was renamed is going to make a lot of things make sense.

Keep reading🧵🩷

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.

What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.

The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.

The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.

PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.

A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

[sam presti’s frames. @Jessicaoma_]

it’s really okc vs the world lmao i love it.

[SMU Women’s Tennis @SMUWTennis]

DOWN GOES NO. 1 ‼️

FINAL: #31 Amelie Van Impe/Caroline McGinley (SMU) def. #1 Roisin Gilheany/Gloriana Nahum (OU) 6-4

[30 for 30 @30for30]

A photograph from the Oklahoma City Thunder championship parade represents the story of the city so much, it literally hangs in a museum.

📺 Watch "The Oklahoma Standard” April 26 at 11 AM ET on ESPN and the ESPN App.

[SMU Women’s Tennis @SMUWTennis]

𝘼𝙡𝙡-𝘼𝘾𝘾 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙨 🙌

🔗: https://t.co/80s7Hkcowb

[SMU Women’s Tennis @SMUWTennis]

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗖𝗖 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 🤩

[Amanda Atwell @AmandaMAtwell]

This kind of narrative around jobs in sports media in general (most starting roles don’t pay well) is why there will remain a barrier to entry. Making excuses for billion dollar organizations paying employees poverty wages for incredibly demanding jobs is why we’re here.

[Andrew Smith @crimsonace]

Firing your entire athletic comms staff is really dumb, because they have a LOT of roles that are not just promotion (website, social media), but also in NCAA-mandated record-keeping and statistical work for all sports. They also help broadcasters/media promote to a mass audience

[jezz @JezziiB]

Northern Ireland has introduced a two week paid leave after miscarriage. Meanwhile in the US they investigate it as a crime.

[FSU History @ThisDayFSU]

On this day 10 years ago, Florida State men's tennis won the final three singles matches to rally past Notre Dame, 4-3. After Marco Nunez won in straight sets, Jose Gracia and Benjamin Lock rallied for 3-set victories to deliver the Seminoles. FSU also won the doubles point.

[aCash @d_artox]

"Imagine your sister" No.... Develop empathy without imagining her to be your sister or mom.... Develop basic humanity.....

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

not enough! the public library is a precious resource that will disappear if people don’t use it!