Possibly. Good suggestion. I know there are a couple groups of people who are already trying to use steemit hashtags for crowdsourced research, but it doesn't seem to me like they're getting enough energy. Thus far, I don't think any of the Steem front ends are very well suited for organizing around hashtags. Maybe "communities" will change that, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for them to make an appearance. I think they've been on the back-burner for close to 2 years. So... I'm thinking about other ways to bring people together to focus their research energy.