As part of our continued mission to make STEEM a go-to source for high quality scientific communication with our commitment to the generation of open-access materials, today the @steemstem team is excited to present to you the #stem-art project. # What is STEM-Art and How is SteemSTEM involved? Whether you are an amateur STEM blogger or STEM professional, you are likely very aware of the value that a good image brings when assembling a publication. The STEM-Art project looks to provide you with a way to have unique images generated according to your specific requirements - be that for your personal blog or for a scholarly publication/text book/lecture materials/etc, at no cost to you! By connecting STEM enthusiasts directly with artists, we can turn a request into a visual reality. However, there is one requirement for the art commissioning and generation process: Use of this service requires that the image generated be released to the public under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. This license ensures that everyone who would like to use the image in the future can do so - at no cost to them. This initiative is a win for the requesting user; they get a high quality, unique image for their upcoming work at no cost to themselves. It’s a win for the artist; they get to continue to build their body of work and receive a STEEM reward. It’s a win for users of the future; they now have access to one more high quality image that may benefit their works as well. You’re going to get tired of all the winning! # How do I Commission a Work and What are the Rules? Works can be commissioned through direct communication with available artists in the #stem-art room in the SteemSTEM Discord Channel. Individuals who would like to commission an image should make a request for an artist to contact them via DM and give instructions on their expected time frame, image details and more. The artist then gets to work creating the commissioned image, which must include the steemstem.io watermark:

The SteemSTEM.io watermark must be added to all requested images in order to receive support from this initiative. The watermark at minumum should be set to 50% transparency and included in the image (as illustrated in most of the images here). The included SteemSTEM watermark must have at minimum the following dimensions (Dimensions). In addition to the inclusion of the watermark, participants in this initiative accept that their image will be released to the public under a Creative Commons BY 4.0 license and included in @steemstem’s compendium of open source images, which can be accessed here.

Upon completion of the work and publication of a STEEM post (requirements described below), the artist places a link to the post in the discord chat for curation by the SteemSTEM team, and notifies the requester that their image is ready. That’s all there is to it!

How does the Work get Paid For?

Requests commissioned by users of the STEM-Art project will be published by the artist on the STEEM blockchain in a post displaying the work, indicating its release under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license, and will include the #stem-art tag. The steemSTEM team highly reccomends that the artist set a 5% beneficiary status to @steemstem as well as an additional 5% beneficiary status to the requesting users steem account (beneficiaries can easily be added to any post published with https://www.steemstem.io). The artist’s post will then be supported by @steemstem for their work generating the open-access STEM based image. Additional gratitude can be shown by the requester in the form of a STEEM/SBD tip to the artist as well if they so wish.

What Are The Long Term Goals of STEM-Art?

Long term, STEM-Art seeks to bring additional attention to STEEM through building an open-access database of public domain images, similar to what we have with sites such as https://www.pixabay.com, but with an emphasis on images with a STEM subject matter. We feel that the unique properties of the STEEM blockchain enable us to ensure generation of a large volume of high-quality images, which can be released freely for public consumption/use while simultaneously providing a reward to the artists who showcase their talents in the works, as well as serve as long term advertising for the blockchain.

SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content and the active development of our app, steemstem.io.

By the way, do not hesitate to set @steemstem as a beneficiary to your post and to use the steemstem.io app.

For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available on the SteemSTEM blog. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mjifaKa9hEw/Wcfnw9LxF-I/AAAAAAAAMtI/jXT86uHth0kPt_O4Q2ilwkfLnknf1bHNQCLcBGAs/s1600/STEM_Distillation.jpg

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In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week.

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This week’s distilled highlights were selected by @ruth-girl. She is back yet again to save us from picks by @justtryme90 (Eww… Gross Right?). Again she provides us her sharp, coherent, and kindhearted picks and description! Thank you Ruth! Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 100. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.

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Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team

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In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team. From January 14 to January 20, we rewarded XX different authors who have written a total of XX different articles. The XX authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are: Stats To Be Provided Upon Availability of Stat Wizard

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All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.

See you all next MonTuesday!

## The SteemSTEM Curators # What do they do? Well, their tasks include searching for new STEM authors, evaluating and reviewing STEM articles, conducting thorough searches for plagiarism and suggesting whether or not a STEM article should be upvoted and supported by @steemstem. — A community gets bigger and stronger as its members work together, get to know each other, learn from each other. — ## Introducing @gentleshaid! — In this post @gentleshaid is interviewed by @kingabesh! A fellow countryman with tremendous zeal for science. A botanist and a man with extraordinary love for the environment, Shaid is the man we all want to meet. If you have any extra questions or thoughts, feel free to let someone from the PR team know! ## Let’s Go On With That! Q - Hi gentleshaid, thank you for taking the time to reply to our questions! You are quite a character on StemSTEM! An interesting one if I must say. Would you please let us know a few things about yourself: What is your real (first) name? What do you do, where are you from ? A - First, let me express my gratitude to the entire PR team for presenting me with this opportunity to talk about myself. My name is Shaid, I currently work as an Assistant Lecturer in one of the private Universities in Nigeria – Department of Biological Sciences to be precise. I hailed from Ile-Ife, an ancient town in South-western Nigeria that is generally believed by some Historians to be the source of human civilization. I studied Botany both at undergraduate and postgraduate level with specialization in plant ecology. I have an undiluted passion towards scientific research, especially when it relates to the environment and the ecosystem at large. I play scrabble and chess leisurely and also am social media savvy. I am used to people referring to me as a special character and I am quite sure it is due to my simple, happy-go-lucky nature and the strong stance I always take on fairness and justice. — — Q - How long have you been a language curator for SteemSTEM? A - I started curating for steemstem in December 2017. Not a fan of Mathematics but that should be about a year plus. — — Q - Do you curate only posts from Nigerian authors? A - Yes. That is what the mandate I was given says. I am a Nationality curator and I stick to my niche. — Q - How and when did it all start? A - It all started when I joined Steemit (of course it has to be, right?) on the 14th of November, 2017. Just like almost every n00b would do, I spent the first few days posting random stuff and spamming tags. However, due to my penchant for reading and accumulating knowledge, I stumbled on the SteemSTEM tag and from one of the articles, I got the link to join the community on steemit.chat. I had very little trouble in getting my first SteemSTEM curation due to my inherent science inclination and the knowledge accrued from reading and chatting in the community. Needless to say, about 90% of the random stuff I was posting was science-related even before discovering the SteemSTEM tag. My posts were not just getting voted by SteemSTEM but also attracting attention in the comment section. Around December 2017 when steemit.chat was acting up and the community was gradually moving to discord, @justtryme90 approached, briefed me about the blueprint of SteemSTEM and asked if I would like to help out albeit on a voluntary basis. I needed no second invitation. Here I am today  — Q - What do the Nigerian authors prefer to write about? Are there significant differences in the topics chosen, between articles by authors from other nationalities and articles by Nigerians? A - This is rather an ambiguous question but I think I have an idea of what you mean. To address the first part, I cannot categorically say that this is what Nigerians like writing about. They will write just about anything and do a good job at it just as you will see them excel in numerous places around the world. I also do not think Nigerian STEM writers are different from any other stem writer on the STEEM blockchain irrespective of the country. The only thing that makes us different is perhaps the population and the frequency of posting which we seem to have more of than any other sub-group in the community. Nigerians work hard, there is no doubt. — Q - What is the first thing that you take into consideration when curating? A - Facts, originality and relatability (permit me to use that word). Science articles should be about tested facts and not some pseudoscience mumbo jumbo. In the same vein, this is a blogging platform and an average educated reader should be able to relate to any blog article to a particular extent. A factual but relatable article would attract engagement, rank in high in search and attract more people to the platform than some hardcore science with zero engagement. —– Q - Tell us something that really gives you a great first impression when you see a SteemSTEM post. (It could have to do with the chosen topic, images, structure, lay-out etc) — A - The writing style. I love it when a writer can use good communication skill and entertaining language to discuss scientific topics. Blogging is a combination of education and entertainment. If I feel like consuming hardcore science articles, I will visit research-gate or other similar platforms. — Q - Do you have a favorite scientific topic that you have fun reading and reviewing over any others? Do you get a chance to read often about it? A - I love anything about the environment and climate change. Unfortunately, not many of those are on here. — Q - Tell us something that really makes you disappointed or angry when you see a SteemSTEM post. (It could have to do with the chosen topic, images, structure etc) A - Blatant plagiarism. I use the word ‘blatant’ because some supposed plagiarisms are debatable and it seems plagiarism means different things to different people depending on their training. — Q - What would be your advice to both the old and new authors who wish to join SteemSTEM but do not know where to start? Do you have a channel for nigerian STEM authors? A - My advice would be for them to join the SteemSTEM community on discord, learn about what it takes to craft acceptable SteemSTEM article, request for mentorship as the honour members are always ready to help and above all, do not be in a hurry to turn out STEM posts and avoid plagiarism at all cost. There is a STEMng discord server for Nigerian STEM authors and the door is opened to anyone that wishes to relate with us. — — Q - What is the meaning of your username and are you as gentle as your name implies ? A - It is a combination of ‘gentleness’ and my first name. Gentility might be relative but most people I have been across generally agree that I am gentle. — — Q - You have shown, countlessly, your love towards the environment and our ecosystem at large. Can you let us know why you feel this way towards our environment and possibly suggest simple ways we can, perhaps, save our environment? Highlight ways we may be ignorantly destroying our environmnet too, if that so pleases you? :) A - Humans are a microcosm of the environment and a lot of our activities are destroying what we are part of. Hence, it’s like we are destroying ourselves. All hands must be on deck to save the environment in order to save the future generation and preserve the planet. A lot of our activities directly or indirectly lead to the emission of greenhouse gases, destruction of the forest cover, plastic and other forms of pollution. Everyone should have the consciousness of the environment in their minds and live an eco-friendly lifestyle. Barring the uneducated folks, almost everyone know the anthropogenic activities that are injurious to the environment. For every paper you use, know that a tree was removed in the forest for it. Such a tree could have fixed tons of carbon dioxide annually and help in the mitigation of climate change. If you are keen about saving the environment, you can start by using as little paper as possible. It’s the least of all the things you can do. — — Q - If you could interview anyone from SteemSTEM, who would it be and ask him/her one question now? A - That would be @zest. Where within the galaxy are you? — — Q - If you had more time to spare, how would you spend it? A - Doing real-life research, spending time on the STEEM blockchain and with my family. — — Q - What does Science and SteemSTEM mean to you? A -Science means the world and everything it contains. SteemSTEM is a platform that leverages on the incentives opportunity on the steem blockchain to promote scientific facts (in an easily digestible way) as opposed to junks of pseudoscience that seem to fill a large space on the internet.
— — Q - Is there a great scientist that you really admire? Why? A - I’ve never really thought of this but now that you are asking, I think I like Darwin. His keen sense of observation is enviable as shown by the report of his expedition. — —- Q - If you could have any job in the world, what would you choose? A - A researcher with an unlimited resources. — — Q - Besides SteemSTEM, do you have any other Steem-related activities you would like to share? A - I am deeply involved with @promo-mentor where I mentor newbies that are interested in producing STEM contents on the steem blockchain. I am one of the Nigerian ambassadors to @fundition, a peer-to-peer crowdfunding platform on STEEM. In the last few months, my interest in technological and innovative products has been piqued, thanks to @steemhunt. — —- Q - What is your greatest wish for SteemSTEM? A - To be at the forefront of promoting STEEM to the world among all the STEEM dapps. — Q - Where do you see SteemSTEM in 5 years? A - As one of the topmost tokenized platforms to disseminate/consume factually informative, interesting as well as entertaining scientific contents
— It was an honor interviewing @gentleshaid and I would like to sincerely thank him for finding time to answer my questions. Ciao — _{Make sure to follow steemstem on [}steemstem.io](https://www.steemstem.io/#!/@steemstem), [steemit](https://steemit.com/@steemstem), [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/OfficialsteemSTEM/), [twitter](https://twitter.com/steemstem_), and [instagram](https://www.instagram.com/steemstem/) to always be up-to-date on our latest news and ideas. _{Please also consider to support the project by} delegating to @steemstem** for a ROI of 65% of our curation rewards (quick delegation links: 50SP | 100SP | 500SP | 1000SP | 5000SP | 10000SP). _{Follow us || Vote for the SteemSTEM Witness || Visit our new home steemstem.io Image Source}

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SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content and the active development of our app, steemstem.io. ### By the way, do not hesitate to set @steemstem as a beneficiary to your post and to use the steemstem.io app. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available on the SteemSTEM blog. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server. In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week. ## Monday - Wednesday ___

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This week’s distilled highlights were selected by @ruth-girl. She has returned to save us from yet another week of the uncultured ramblings of @justtryme90. Bringing back her sharp, coherent, and kindhearted picks and description! Welcome back Ruth!

Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 100. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.

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Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team

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In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

From January 6 to January 13, we rewarded 77 different authors who have written a total of 110 different articles. The 46 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

@abdulmath, @aellly, @amart29, @anaestrada12, @ancolie, @angelik-a, @answerswithjoe, @astrophoto.kevin, @bettervision, @carlos84, @cheva, @chloroform, @cooltivar, @coolxxx, @cutymeni, @davidke20, @dexterdev, @dr-psychologie, @elvigia, @emiliomoron, @eniolw, @erickyoussif, @erodedthoughts, @etcmike, @felixrodriguez, @hidden84, @honoru, @iradyjr, @jent, @joseangelvs, @josedelacruz, @julian2013, @khairulzaman, @kissfirer, @lordneroo, @luegenbaron, @lupafilotaxia, @markgritter, @masterwu, @mike961, @miroslavrc, @nonzerosum, @rbalzan79, @reinaseq, @rerere, @robertoueti, @robertyan, @roguescientist84, @rscalabrini, @ryanshan25, @samminator, @softmetal, @stavrin, @stayoutoftherz, @talmid, @tdre, @themarkymark, @tomastonyperez, @vieanna, @yhubi, @zen-art

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All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.

See you all next MonTuesday!

SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content and the active development of our app, steemstem.io. ### By the way, do not hesitate to set @steemstem as a beneficiary to your post and to use the steemstem.io app. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available on the SteemSTEM blog. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server. In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week. ## Monday - Wednesday ___

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This week’s distilled highlights were selected by @justtryme90. He continues to lacks the editorial sophistication of @ruth-girl but will always try his best when the call to fill in is sounded. Posts written by the SteemSTEM team are excluded from the nomination process.

Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 100. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.

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Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team

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In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

From December 30 to January 6, we rewarded 77 different authors who have written a total of 116 different articles. The 72 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

@abcallen, @aellly, @agmoore, @aleestra, @alexaivytorres, @amart29, @anaestrada12, @ancolie, @answerswithjoe, @astromaniac, @bettervision, @chappertron, @cheva, @crypto-bird, @cryptoticker-de, @davidrhodes124, @delta1512, @diamondmind, @djredimi2, @ericet, @etcmike, @fancybrothers, @felixrodriguez, @giulyfarci52, @honoru, @iptrucs, @irelandscape, @josedelacruz, @juecoree, @julian2013, @kenchung, @khairulzaman, @kissfirer, @lauch3d, @lauchmelder, @liquidtravel, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @markgritter, @mike961, @miroslavrc, @pagliozzo, @phage93, @rbalzan79, @rerere, @roelandp, @roguescientist84, @ryanshan25, @samminator, @sasaadrian, @scienceblocks, @scisteem, @sco, @softmetal, @stayoutoftherz, @steevc, @svemirac, @tomastonyperez, @trufflepig, @valth, @yusvelasquez, @zen-art

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All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.

See you all next MonTuesday!

We apologize for the delay in the release of this weeks distilled! SteemSTEM aims to make Steem a better place for STEM, a task which we believe crucial for the long-term development of the blockchain. Our goals consist in invigorating and inspiring the minds of a community of STEM aficionados on Steem, targeting on the long-term the upgrade of SteemSTEM as a real platform for science communication. In the meantime, this goes through the support of quality, interesting and cutting-edge STEM content and the active development of our app, steemstem.io. ### By the way, do not hesitate to set @steemstem as a beneficiary to your post and to use the steemstem.io app. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available on the SteemSTEM blog. If you want to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to join the steemSTEM discord server. In order to support the best STEM content on Steem, our team scours the blockchain and read more than several hundreds of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 100 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 6 handpicked choices for the last week. ## Monday - Wednesday ___

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This week’s distilled highlights were selected by @justtryme90. He clearly lacks the editorial sophistication of @ruth-girl but will always try his best when the call to fill in is sounded. Posts written by the SteemSTEM team are excluded from the nomination process.

Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. We are picking up in total 6 posts a week out of more than 150-200. The chances are thus low ;) In the meantime, you may wish to check these guidelines for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective.

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Authors upvoted by the SteemSTEM team

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In the spirit of being transparent about our actions that are now supported by @utopian-io, @curie, our delegators, our trailers and our manual curator supporters, we release every week the list of authors who have caught the attention of the @steemstem curation team.

From December 23 to 30, we rewarded 63 different authors who have written a total of 105 different articles. The 59 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:

@abcallen, @abneagro, @adewumi, @aellly, @alexaivytorres, @alexander.alexis, @anasav, @answerswithjoe, @auleo, @bettervision, @cheva, @clement.poiret, @davidke20, @davidrhodes124, @dexterdev, @djredimi2, @elvigia, @emiliomoron, @endopediatria, @eniolw, @ericet, @erickyoussif, @fancybrothers, @giulyfarci52, @honoru, @irelandscape, @ivymalifred, @jfermin70, @joseangelvs, @julian2013, @kenchung, @kissfirer, @lefactuoscope, @lupafilotaxia, @markgritter, @masterwu, @mike961, @miroslavrc, @moncia90, @oflyhigh, @reconnectnature, @ryanshan25, @samminator, @sasaadrian, @scienceblocks, @softmetal, @stevescully, @talmid, @wilhb81, @yo-yo

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All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.

See you all next MonTuesday!