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Makayla Drew

@makaylathebotanist.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @ UC Riverside in Botany and Plant Sciences 🌿 Cellular and Molecular biologist 🧫 Scholar activist📚 PA✈️CA

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Many of you may have heard the terrible news of Dr. Meng Chen's sudden death. I just found this tribute from UC Riverside cnas.ucr.edu/news/2026/09... and a beautiful review article he contributed to @plantphys.bsky.social earlier this year, "25 years of photobodies" doi.org/10.1093/plph... 💔
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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I contributed to @science.org's "American Science at 250": I shared that "In 1776, I would not have been a tenured professor at any university in the US...At that time, I would have endured the same fate as my ancestors: I would have been someone’s property." Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Screenshot with text that reads: "In 1776, I would not have been a tenured professor at any university in the US. As a Black woman, a formal education would have been beyond my reach legally. At that time, I would have endured the same fate as my ancestors: I would have been someone’s property. Despite a lack of recognition of their full humanity, African Americans of this era were accomplished scientists and agriculturalists. (Carver, for example, was born enslaved—a fact many fail to recall.)"
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Plant Science Research Weekly --  Letter: Extrinsic and intrinsic contributors to identity in cells and people (Plant Cell) @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/C0QFt2F #PlantaePSRW
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Letter: Extrinsic and intrinsic contributors to identity in cells and people | Plantae
In this interesting Letter to the Editor, Drew and Nagel explore the concept of how identities are established, and draw a comparison between the scientific identity of a person and the cellular…
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WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
1/ Jane Hinton (1919–2003) was a pioneer in the study of bacterial antibiotic resistance and one of the first two African-American women to gain the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1949). #WomanToday
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It took 4.5 billion years of precise cosmic history to build an Earth that can support human life. Yet, we are risking it all for quarterly earnings. True intelligence means recognizing that a dead planet has a GDP of exactly zero. 🛑💼 #ClimateAction #EarthFirst
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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
LETTER -- Cultivating “scientific identity”: insights from plant cell and developmental biology (Makayla T Drew , Dawn H Nagel) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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Cultivating “scientific identity”: insights from plant cell and developmental biology
Abstract. Identity plays a major role in academia, with an important interplay between personal identities and the development of a “scientific identity.”
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#JustIn on Plantae: Why Does Plant Science Need More Storytellers? In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellows Abdulkabir Omeiza Abdulmalik, Irene I. Ikiriko, and Nathaniel Oragbon show why plant science needs more storytellers. buff.ly/uRi5jkw #PlantScience #PlantSci
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Why Does Plant Science Need More Storytellers? | Plantae
People want information about things they care about, from people whom they can trust…
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Plant Science Research Weekly, June 5 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (2/2) N-terminal acylation coordinates growth and stress response; Early-morning flowering to escape heat; Selective autophagy protects plants from self-damage; Extrinsic and intrinsic contributors to identity in cells & people
The image shows two rice plants, each beside a watch indicating the time (8:30 am). In the wild-type rice the anthers have not emerged, but in the emf3-1D mutant the anthers are emerged, promoting pollenation before the day gets too hot.
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#PlantScience Research Weekly, June 5 2026 plantae.org/plant-scienc... Special issues: Crop resilience, also AI in plant science; Review: walls of streptophyte algae and land plants, Review of SCOOP signaling; Plant OpenCRISPR1 in rice (1/2) @ntnuchanlab.bsky.social
Crop breeding in the intelligent design era: integration of biotechnology, informatics, and AI is accelerating the transition from molecular design (Breeding 3.0) to intelligent design breeding (Breeding 4.0).
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Featuring work from @giglionelab.bsky.social @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social @plantophagy.bsky.social @thevirusmc.bsky.social
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Makayla Drew @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’m excited to share that the article I wrote with Dr. Dawn Nagel for The Plant Cell journal is finally available! In this letter, I explored how scientific identity development in academia can explain differences in experiences for marginalized scientists. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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Cultivating “scientific identity”: insights from plant cell and developmental biology
Abstract. Identity plays a major role in academia, with an important interplay between personal identities and the development of a “scientific identity.”
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🌍 The Horn of Africa is in mourning. Farms are barren, deserts are advancing, rivers are drying, pests are spreading, and crops are dying. Climate change is not a distant threat,it’s here. #ClimateAction #HornOfAfrica #ClimateCrisis
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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
PhD candidate Makayla giving her excellent 3rd year talk 🎉 @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social
Makayla giving her talk at a podium with a slide and other people listening
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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Botanist Marie Clark Taylor transformed plant science education, modernizing curricula, advancing microscopy, and mentoring generations of scientists at Howard University. 🔬 #BlackHistoryMonth #PlantScience
Image features photo of Marie Clark Taylor
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Makayla Drew @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My two favorite topics, trees and Black history! So excited to read this novel! @berondam.bsky.social
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Makayla Drew @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I love being a cell biologist, look at these beautiful cells! P. patens glam shot!
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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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...
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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Congrats to Grad. student @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social for your recognition by ASPB and @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social 🎉🌱🔬 for Black History Month!
Photo of Makayla Drew, smiling, text reads Makayla Drew Graduate student at UC Riverside Research: Plant cell biology, cytokinesis
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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-co….
Image text: ASPB Reaffirms Its Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion. Statement from ASPB’s Board of Directors, February 11, 2025. Featuring ASPB logo.
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Makayla Drew @makaylathebotanist.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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)
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