Makayla Drew
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Makayla Drew
@makaylathebotanist.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ UC Riverside in Botany and Plant Sciences 🌿
Cellular and Molecular biologist 🧫
Scholar activist📚
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I love being a cell biologist, look at these beautiful cells! P. patens glam shot!
July 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
April 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Congrats to Grad. student @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social for your recognition by ASPB and @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social 🎉🌱🔬 for Black History Month!
February 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period."

Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.
February 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about resilience and persistence recently, and I love stepping outside of myself to see these themes in nature. Found this beautiful plant in my backyard…the beauty of resilience! (Geraniaceae family member)
February 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM