Relaunching SteemSTEM: Increasing Visibility and Rewards to STEM Content on Steemit
What is steemSTEM?
The steemSTEM project is a community supported initiative to increase both the quality as well as visibility of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) posts on Steemit.
[Join us on #steemSTEM]
The mission
The project and its members seek to achieve this goal through direct promotion of quality content (through upvotes, comments and resteem via the @steemstem account). Additional bonus rewards in Steem/Steem Power/SBD are sometimes given directly to the creators of well written, informative and clearly cited STEM content, with an added focus on promoting the topics that are of the most interest to the community (based on community engagement).
The assessment of the quality of the content is achieved by a team of anonymous curators with expertise in various STEM disciplines who donate their time (free of charge) for the betterment of Steemit and the community.
Author Guidelines
What does it take to be steemSTEM approved?
Approval for promotion by the project is open to any imaginable topic so long as it is related to a STEM discipline. Science is best learned when an open conversation can be had, so that no topic, even controversial issues, is off limits for promotion by this project.
Additionally any biases by members of the curation team are not to influence the selection. The steemSTEM project is not out to criticise any viewpoint, and will actively promote even those topics that the members disagree with.
That said, open disclosure of sources is an absolute must in scientific writing. Authors must provide citations for all images and resources used in the construction of the posted materials. Additionally, all facts must be supported by accessible sources.
Preventing the spread of plagiarism is imperative to the future success of Steemit, and the steemSTEM project will take these issues seriously. Authors are free to utilize the #steemSTEM tag in their posts set of tags to indicate they wish to be considered for promotion by @steemstem.
Upon approval of a post by the steemSTEM team, the author will be provided with a “steemSTEM approved” image in a comment that they can edit into their post and display, to serve as a badge of quality such that readers and voters know that they are supporting high quality STEM content.
The SteemSTEM Team
The steemSTEM team consists of @lemouth (high-energy physics), @justtryme90 (biochemistry), @herpetologyguy (biology), @cristi, @logic, @pjheinz, @anarchyhasnogods, @kevinwong (advisory) and @donkeypong (advisory) as well as other anonymous curators.
Stay tuned and do not hesitate to double-check the @steemstem’s presence in the #science category, with upvotes, resteems, comments and/or rewards for all good posts.
[image credits: @kevinwong]
@steemstem I hope you don't mind me suggesting something to add to this channel, but would you also consider adding or resteeming articles about how to get involved/what its like to work in certain disciplines, especially as a student? ( I am asking because those types of posts generally aren't sciencey posts) Thanks
Hi!
I would be also happy to discuss working in physics (and in particle physics in particular). I am actually organizing every years AMA events in Paris where students (of about 20 years old) can ask me (and a bunch of colleagues) anything about physics, how one can work in physics, etc.
I am not sure whether this would fit the post format, but we can certainly discuss this lively on the steemit chat in the #steemSTEM channel!
I will take the lead on this and say I have never seen articles on Steemit talking about that, but those are certainly good areas of discussion and we want this project to promote those writing about STEM topics.
I would be more than happy to write about what it is like to work in Biotech if people would be interested in reading about it (we won't use the project to promote the posts of the team members, its for the community, not us). The steemSTEM project would certainly promote other people posting about that sort of thing too, as those discussions would be valuable for the community!
We want to promote posts about STEM (from all perspectives) not just sciencey ones! :)
This deserves more than 1 upvote.
I am happy to be a part of this, and will work hard to help authors get noticed for their hard work! :)
Edit: Don't be afraid to write about science! Give this project some posts to support!
Awesome work guys
Great project!
I am also honoured to be part of this. Steemit is the perfect platform for science outreach and the diffusion of open access material.
I recently found this Steemstem project and got so glad! I will contribute with scientific posts as much as possible!
upvoted.
Well then, you won't like any of my posts, because I intend to show how each of these disciplines is wrong. So wrong as in all of the STEM books of today will thrown out in two generations.
I hope to be able to show paths to new STEM paradigms, instead of just tearing down old.
As I always said, if you demonstrate your ideas with facts and proofs, we will never ignore you. There are two ways to promote your ideas (I sketch them there):
At the end, as soon as you are open to discuss and accept criticisms, I do not see the problem. The same holds in the other way round. I would always accept criticisms for my posts, and I always answer. Science is after all exploring the unknown, and who knows what we could find. Better to be well prepared.
driving good science forward!