To avoid this situation I have tried very hard to only use material that is either marked for re-use with no attribution, available under a creative commons licence, or available under a creative commons attribution license.

One thing that also works in my favor as a science blogger is my being a HUGE proponent of open access scientific journal publications. I do not care for the pay to read monetization that the majority of high caliber journals publish with. As such I have been sourcing my writings from the few good journals that are not pay to read ( aka Open access), an additional benefit to these journals is most are also publishing under creative commons licenses, allowing me to reproduce figures from the articles in my posts.

I feel that this is beneficial in two ways: one it avoids any complications for steemit, and everyone else here over copyright and two, my writing gives more exposure to the researchers who are publishing in these open access journals. Hopefully as steemit continues to grow, and hopefully my blogging talents and blog in general continue to grow I will be able to really help some of these researchers gain exposure for their work and put more eyes on the journals who are publishing science for everyone to read. It will lead to the most progress for us all I think.