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Welcome to the 84th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.






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For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, @ruth-girl, and she chooses her favorite posts (potentially discussing with other curators and/or the management). 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.
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 November 18 to 25, we rewarded 75 different authors who have written a total of 113 different articles. The 45 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:
@abdulmath, @acont, @alchemage, @alexbiojs, @amart29, @amavi, @anaestrada12, @ancolie, @answerswithjoe, @anzha, @bettervision, @chappertron, @davidrhodes124, @dexterdev, @elvigia, @erickyoussif, @fancybrothers, @fingersik, @funmiakinpelu, @ikchris, @insight-out, @iptrucs, @ivymalifred, @jfermin70, @joelagbo, @josedelacruz, @lauch3d, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @marjanko, @markgritter, @masterwu, @maticpecovnik, @mgarrillogonzale, @mixology, @n4zrizulkafli, @neurosurgery, @nonzerosum, @okunlolayk, @rerere, @rifkan, @samminator, @sardrt, @scienceblocks, @slgamerguy, @soy-venezuelien, @sunkanmi02, @svemirac, @talmid, @tarazkp, @tensor, @ulewis, @wilmer14molina, @zen-art
[Credits: @hightouch]All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.
See you all next MonTuesday!
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What do they do? Well, their tasks include searching for new STEM authors, evaluating and reviewing STEM articles, conducting thorough searches for plagiarism and mentoring new authors, making sure that they have a high chance of getting community votes.
A community gets bigger and stronger as its members work together, get to know each other, learn from each other. Evolve. Flourish.
Time to switch positions and let the interviewer be interviewed. Many people are curious about how exactly she manages to do all the things she does. Being in a scientific environment we unfortunately must discount slowing down time and superposition, but let’s hear it from her.
Q: What makes you passionate about SteemSTEM?
A: First of all thank you for taking the time to prepare all these very interesting questions for me. It does feel a bit strange to be the person of focus here, but I hope I can make it alive ‘til the end of this interview!
I have always been a huge fan of ongoing education & knowledge. The world around us evolves every second, in every possible way. We cannot just stay still. We need to learn and to take steps in any direction if we ever intend to become better and leave a safer, more humane world for our children.
You may wonder what the above has to do with SteemSTEM? Well, science is all about a continuous quest. A quest to find the truth. This is what makes me passionate about STEM >> SteemSTEM! I saw passion, originality, both in the articles but also in people who were/are devoting time to bring knowledge to the blockchain and thus making it a better place for everyone.
Q: How do you find the time to be so active?
A: This is flattering, thank you, but I do not think I have been so active the last few weeks.
A lot was going on in my personal & business life. Health issues, new projects at work… So all these do not really leave me with much spare time for doing the things I wish to do. However, I try to set priorities and stick to them. I admit that there are times when I have prioritized Steem over my work projects (but I am lucky to have flexible cooperators) so I manage. I hope that winter will be easier, with more spare time for me to do what I have planned.
Q: What do you enjoy doing the most on Steem?
A: Everything! I like answering questions, I enjoy discovering new content, I like providing new information to people who might need some extra help & wish to contribute, and I really love writing (but for this, little time is left :))
Steem is the only online social media entity that has helped broaden my horizons while making some true friends. I am forever grateful for that…
Q: What are you doing in real life?
A: I have a family that I take care of, I am working in the broad digital field aiming at bringing sales & happy customers to my clients while trying to introduce blockchain technology to the people (or other way round) and dreaming of continuing my studies soon.
I also wish to share that I have been practicing TKD for 2 years and I highly recommend to anyone reading this far to take some time off and find an activity they enjoy … and do it. (Get off the chair / couch / bed…! Your future self will thank you and love you more!)
Q: What do you enjoy reading about? What would you read about that’s not on SteemSTEM yet?
A: There are some excellent authors that I enjoy reading new and old articles!!! But one thing I really miss is computer science / blockchain / artificial intelligence related topics. I think that the posts should be somehow connected to the real world and make people think “Oh, I would love to know that, I was always wondering about it”! (I have to mention here that @Abigail-dantes is amazing in using her own stories when explaining difficult pshycological concepts)
Q: Can you remember the first article that you voted on that made you say “WOW”?
A: I enjoy reading so much SteemSTEM content when I have the time and there are so many authors who write the most amazing articles! I can mention a few on the top of my head (please sorry if I forget anyone) - suesa’s stories, alexander.alexis, abigail-dantes, samminator, ruth-girl, lemouth (even though I barely understand what he writes), mobbs, (I of course remember trumpman stories(!)), the debunk series by Egotheist, the amazing articles by scienceangel, mathowl, scienceblocks, and I am sure I am forgetting many others (apologies …)
But if I should absolutely remember one, It would be this one: Heat Your House Using Cats; Real Science Inside!
Q: Talking about SteemSTEM promotion, what was the most effective way of reaching out to people? What was the funniest fail?
A: I think that at the moment the most effective way of reaching out is when we see genuine, original posts combined with the author’s personal touch & point of view. This usually means that the writer is not looking for rewards, but is writing for the joy of it and will surely be happy to find a community with like-minded people from all over the world! (SteemSTEM)
Funniest fail … I do not remember any funny ones at the moment, sorry!
Q: Do you have any personal projects or any plans regarding Steem?
A: I wish to find the time for prioritizing my projects and then work on them :)
Currently I am:
Assisting in the SteemSTEM public relations team & honor members team, on-boarding new members and helping with questions
Helping bringing education closer to the Steem people, via the official account of the Master in Digital Currencies by the University of Nicosia (@mscdigital)
Curating for the Greek Community @greek-trail and supporting Greeks
A proud member of the @aristotle.team - Greek Translation Team, with great Language Managers, @ruth-girl, @dimitrisp and the most amazing team (@lordneroo & @trumpman ) (powered by @utopian-io & @davinci.witness)
Moderating and helping with writing informative content about the new fitness app @actifit
Occasionally contributing for @utopian-io at the blog & tutorial category
Q: Apart from reading your in-depth tutorials, what would you recommend to the new SteemSTEM bloggers?
A: I recommend to anyone joining steem(it) and SteemSTEM…
Please do not think you know it all. Be humble, open your mind to new things and listen to what the more experienced users have to suggest.
Make sure you have clear expectations. It is ok to be here just for fun, it is even ok to be here for making money. However it is important to be honest, straightforward and modest. If you are here to stay, if you are here to cheat, if you are here to lie -> This will be revealed.
(Not sure if some of these articles would be useful to anyone reading this?)
Q: What would you do if you got 100k (one hundred thousand) Steem tomorrow? How would it change your activity, what would you support and how?
A: Highly hypothetical questions result to extreme hypothetical answers… And since it ain’t happening, I do not wish to put much thought to it. Sorry to disappoint you :)
It is best to have a new goal and to create the opportunities / path towards it.
Make sure to follow steemstem on steemstem.io, steemit, facebook, twitter, and instagram 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).
Read our latest Distilled & news || Vote for the SteemSTEM Witness || Visit our new home steemstem.io
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Welcome to the 83rd issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team.







For some time, the editorial team behind this distilled series is made of a one-woman-team, @ruth-girl, and she chooses her favorite posts (potentially discussing with other curators and/or the management). 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.
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 November 11 to 18, we rewarded 76 different authors who have written a total of 1 different articles. The 51 authors who received votes from @steemstem, potentially with either @utopian-io, @curie or both, are:
@abdulmath, @abigail-dantes, @abumaryam, @adewumi, @agmoore, @alexaivytorres, @answerswithjoe, @chappertron, @cryptoitaly, @damzxyno, @discovery-it, @djredimi2, @drifter1, @elvigia, @emiliomoron, @eniolw, @erh.germany, @fancybrothers, @felixrodriguez, @fran.frey, @germanmontero, @hellfire-labs, @iptrucs, @iradyjr, @javier.dejuan, @jorgemora17, @josedelacruz, @lordneroo, @lupafilotaxia, @magicmonk, @marjanko, @masterwu, @maticpecovnik, @miroslavrc, @moncia90, @neurosurgery, @noobsin, @rbalzan79, @reconnectnature, @reinaseq, @rifkan, @samminator, @sardrt, @sargoon, @scienceblocks, @somebuttstuff, @soy-venezuelien, @svemirac, @tensor, @tomastonyperez, @tychoxi, @valth, @viannis, @wilmer14molina, @yhubi, @yreudy, @zen-art, @zoricatech
[Credits: @hightouch]All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.
See you all next MonTuesday!
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Q - Hi Mathowl, thank you for taking the time to reply to our questions! Let us know a few things about yourself: What is your real (first) name? What do you do, where are you from, how long have you been on Steem and what are your hobbies?
A - Hi Kat! Thanks for the opportunity. Currently, I am still a Mathematics PhD student but in about two months I can scrap the student part. My ethnicity is mixed; Dutch-Malaysian-Chinese, and my Dutch name is Thomas. I have been on Steem about a year. My hobbies are playing piano, juggling, programming, petting furry animals and dropping puns. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good o-pun-ning pun.
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Q - How long have you been a curator for SteemSTEM?
A - I guess for about 8 months
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Q - How and when did it all start?
A - I started with some scientific curation of myself using my owl stickers, then I became an honor member and when there was a job-opening on the curation team I slipped in.
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Q - How often do you curate?
A - The last month I haven’t been so active since I am busy job hunting but I do check the curation channel everyday.
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Q - What is the first thing that you take into consideration when curating?
A - Uniqueness and community impact. Sharing unique information which can be absorbed by the community is the pillar of any form of media. Within the framework of STEM this unique information does not necessarily have to be scientific facts but it can also be an explanation style, interpretation etc.
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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 etc)
A - When I click on a post I immediately check citations and copyright licenses. So if you get those right you get in the green with me.
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Q - Do you have a favorite scientific topic that you have fun reading and reviewing over any others?
A - I do like to read posts about math on the frontiers. But the last few months there has not been much activity in this field.
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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 - Plagiarism, copy/paste, tag-abuse; pretty much any type of abuse. For math posts I get unhappy if they apply empirical thinking to mathematics. Other than that there is not much that gets my blood pumping.
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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?
A - If you don’t know what to write about, write about what you like then your audience is bounded from below by one.
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Q - If you could interview anyone from SteemSTEM, who would it be and ask him/her one question now?
A - It would probably be you! And I would want to ask you how you find the time to do so much for SteemSTEM.
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Q - What does Mathematics mean to you?
A - It is a form of art where the requirement is truth and goal is beauty.
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Q - Would you like to share with us more info about your PhD?
A - My PhD concerns modelling single celled fungi growth. On first glance this might seem very biological but modelling this type of growth requires more math than biology. I constructed governing equations for specific fungi cell and then validated that these describe physical growth using rigorous numerics. This means that I created a program which performs mathematical proofs. The reason why these tools are necessary is that an ordinary program can make mistakes when solving equations. In my case if the computer even makes a small mistake then this might mean that the solution I get is very wrong. So a proof-based system is necessary to show the validity of the model.
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Q - What is your wish for SteemSTEM?
A - To become a form of media known to the general public.
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Q - Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
A - Doing cool mathematics :o)
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This bi-weekly blog is shared with you in our efforts to bring the community closer together with the goal of keeping you updated about what is going on behind and in front of the scenes!
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Our new open source app, steemstem.io was released one month ago and we have received great support and feedback from everyone who tried it out!
SteemSTEM new app aims to become a valuable tool with which STEM lovers and researchers will be able to communicate and share information all around the globe.
On steemstem.io, visitors will be able to see only posts that will be approved by our dedicated curators. Quality filters are applied that users can of course remove with a click.
The users can also filter the posts depending on language or specific category of their interest (math, physics, etc.)
In the most recent update, the users can now create posts directly by logging in (via steemconnect) to steemstem.io ! You can also create more than one draft and publish them at will.
A few display bugs have been fixed and we are already working on new features such as post editing, adding draft preview and adding the possibility of including beneficiaries.
More information about the v0.2 of the app can be found here and there (for the technical changes).
#### Moreover, v0.2.2 has been deployed this morning, and it includes in particular post edition!
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All the above and much more to be announced soon are what makes @stem.witness one of the most promising witnesses deserving of our support.
Take some time and visit the latest post by @mobbs, in order to understand more about why @stem.witness is making a difference.
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You can also check out the interview of @ruth-girl here and click here where you will find the interview of @aboutcoolscience!
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