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. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available here. 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 a couple of thousands of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 200 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 8 handpicked choices for the last Thursday-Sunday period. ## Monday - Wednesday ___

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Wednesday - Friday

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Saturday - Sunday

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A few words about the nomination process

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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.

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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 September 16 to 23, we rewarded 96 different authors who have written a total of 109 different articles. The 84 authors who received votes from @steemstem, @utopian-io and @curie all together that week are:

@abdulmath, @acont, @alexisdauliac, @amansharma555, @amestyj, @anasav, @ancolie, @anzha, @ari16, @asbonclz, @astromaniac, @azulear, @charlesx, @chloroform, @conas, @conficker, @cyprianj, @drifter1, @drifter2, @effofex, @egotheist, @emperorhassy, @eniolw, @ennyta, @erh.germany, @erickyoussif, @felixrodriguez, @fran.frey, @ftxft, @gmorv, @gregan, @hidden84, @highonthehog, @hillaryisidore, @ilnegro, @insight-out, @iptrucs, @isacastillor, @itegoarcanadei, @ivymalifred, @jesusjacr, @joseangelvs, @josedelacruz, @joseleogon, @lorenzor, @luiscd8a, @lupafilotaxia, @markgritter, @maryed, @mawarmerah, @miroslavrc, @moreaboutmarina, @mr-aaron, @n4zrizulkafli, @nikolanikola, @olamseu, @oluwabori, @osmy07, @pagliozzo, @phage93, @photo-it, @raulj.garcias, @rbalzan79, @reinaseq, @romulexx, @rosemery, @samest, @samminator, @samve, @scienceblocks, @sebbbl, @soanna, @sorin.lite, @soy-venezuelien, @spbeckman, @steep2308, @svemirac, @talmid, @teemike, @tking77798, @urdreamscometrue, @valth, @yusvelasquez, @zen-art @abigail-dantes, @alexdory, @ancolie, @azulear, @bil.prag, @cyprianj, @discovery-it, @dysfunctional, @eliaschess333, @emiliomoron, @ennyta, @fancybrothers, @felixrodriguez, @hellfire-labs, @hogarcosmico, @issavets, @joseangelvs, @josedelacruz, @magicquokka, @markgritter, @olamseu, @pagliozzo, @quekery, @romulexx, @samminator, @stefanyo, @talmid, @teemike, @terrylovejoy, @urdreamscometrue, @viannis

From September 23 to 30, we rewarded 42 different authors who have written a total of 43 different articles. The 23 authors who received votes from @steemstem, @utopian-io and @curie all together that week are:

@abdulmath, @agmoore, @alexaivytorres, @amansharma555, @anaestrada12, @anasav, @astromaniac, @azulear, @bafi, @bengiles, @chloroform, @clement.poiret, @conficker, @dbddv01, @djredimi2, @drifter2, @elvigia, @ennyta, @erickyoussif, @felixrodriguez, @fran.frey, @giulyfarci52, @hidden84, @hillaryisidore, @hogarcosmico, @ikchris, @inagakitakahiro, @iptrucs, @iradyjr, @irelandscape, @josedelacruz, @joythewanderer, @kenadis, @lupafilotaxia, @lycos, @marjanko, @markgritter, @miroslavrc, @misterufem, @mr-aaron, @n4zrizulkafli, @nikolanikola, @nonzerosum, @olamseu, @pagliozzo, @paigegirl, @paololuffy91, @psicoluigi, @quekery, @ray.arteaga, @reconnectnature, @reinaseq, @romualdd, @samminator, @saunter, @scisteem, @soanna, @sorin.lite, @soulesque, @soy-venezuelien, @spaghettiscience, @steemit-italia, @tychoxi, @ydavgonzalez, @yreudy, @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 for Distilled #78!

It was a very busy week, following the return of an interesting/exciting/long-awaited meetup in Italy and the news is a-plenty! In an effort to bring the community closer together and with our goal to keep you updated, we are commencing a weekly news blog for everything that was announced or launched the previous days, so let’s not waste any more time! ### SteemSTEM & Utopian.io Meetup Yes, this happened more than 2 weeks ago, but it is worth a special mention! For those who might not know, SteemSTEM and Utopian.io went to Italy recently, where they got the amazing opportunity to visit Virgo Labs and to meet world-renowned scientists! _{(Virgo Labs is a laboratory where gravitational wave research is conducted)} In addition to the meetup, a hackathon was organized by @utopian-io! As a bonus to the trip, everyone got to visit famous landmarks in Italy (and abused delicious Italian cuisine of course!) A more hands-on approach to Virgo Labs and EGO (European Gravitational Observatory) can be found here with even more supporting explanations in another post, written prior to the visit. If you wish to see the most ‘tasty’ side of the trip, make sure to read @suesa’s recap. Here is another community aspect detailed by @alexdory, and please make sure to check out the posts by @techslut (here), @fredrikaa (there), @sco (here) and @egotheist who sees weird people (right there). —– ### Upcoming Reputation System Amidst the ‘reputation hype’ of the last few weeks comes a different approach for an alternative reputation system: A reputation system that will include two main components contributing equally in the results. One concerns authorship and the other one engagement. @lemouth describes everything in detail in this article that could be the seed of a future SteemSTEM reputation. You will also have the chance to see a list of the top 30 most reputed SteemSTEM authors of all time (out of 2662 authors), and top 30 most engaged community members (out of 23134 people). ##### Are you in? — ### Badges are out Some of you have created steemstem t-shirts, while some of you have created steemstem cups to have your coffee in. As the steemstem shop is in the process of being finalized, @robotics101 took the time (following direction from @zest) to create printed circuit boards and thus got the idea to create hardware SteemSTEM badges! Check them out here and make sure to get yours (coming in multiple colors)! —- ### Steem Witness and Seed Node SteemSTEM has been quietly running a witness node (@stem.witness) for the past few weeks, and made their official announcement a few days ago! The steemSTEM witness runs on a Hetzner server and you can check out the specifications on the announcement link. If you ask yourselves why, the response is simple. SteemSTEM is dedicated to grow the STEM community on Steem and to continue supporting quality contents on the Steem blockchain. So, it comes as no surprise that contribution as a witness and a seed node will do their parts in maintaining the blockchain. Feel free to read more here and of course you can support this initiative by voting @stem.witness as your witness! To vote for the SteemSTEM witness, please go here and type stem.witness into the box at the very bottom of the page: —- ### SteemSTEM App is launched in Beta —

Last, but certainly not the least, comes the long-awaited release of the steemSTEM App steemstem.io! (Beta)

The steemstem.io App is designed with one goal in mind:

Science communication, without the middlemen

You can read here for the official announcement and feel free to visit the app and share your comments with us on discord or as comments to this post.

You have already been very helpful in providing constructive feedback and we appreciate it!

Bonus Tip

Did you know that you get a voting slider through steemstem.io even if your SP (Steem Power) is less than 500?

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This concludes our weekly news update, we hope you enjoyed it and learnt something new!

Make sure to follow steemstem on steemit, facebook, twitter, and instagram to always be up-to-date on our latest news and ideas.

We are always on the lookout for new scientific articles from all types of authors, so even if you are not a proven researcher, but you like engaging in science yourself, be sure to reach out to us!

# Steemstem.io (Beta)!

For a long time, steemSTEM has been on a path of growth. Once a small group of friends curating on the old Steem chat, we are now a thriving community spread all around the world and one of the most trusted teams on the Steem blockchain.

With our ambitions set high, we have grown to include our trusted curators and honor members, allowing the management team to take SteemSTEM another step forward. The road has been long, but we are here now to present you with our brand new, dedicated-to-STEM Steem App: steemstem.io.

SteemSTEM began under the premise that somebody needed to clear out the science feeds on Steem. However, we started to realise that there was a niche that needed filling around the world: Science communication, without the middlemen. A direct line from dedicated scientists or passionate bloggers, to you - one in which standard blogging sites are unequipped to support.

What is steemstem.io for?

Though the open nature of the Steem blockchain offers many advantages to society, it can, in and of itself, be a hindrance to the nature of STEM subjects when one individual can have equal or more authority than any other based on their personal stake. This automatically allows misinformation to spread unhindered alongside legitimate reports, and it becomes impossible to distinguish which is which.

But the scientific method is one of the greatest tools humans have at their disposal, and its that innately skeptical nature and the rigorous self-righting mechanisms that we apply to information available on Steem; in our App, only posts approved by our team of curators will be featured.

However, as we still value censorship resistance built into the Steem blockchain, there is an option to show all posts under the related tags allowing all STEM, supported by us or not, to be visible:

Quality Control

Steemstem.io also comes with a significant feature that has long been built into the SteemSTEM ecosystem. We, as a curation initiative, operate with three layers of review and scrutiny:

1) An experienced curator reads and verifies if a post is legitimate, searches for plagiarism and decides on the value of the post according to set parameters.

2) A second curator then double checks before the vote can go through.

3) Our fantastic team of honor members, as well as the public at large, can view our voting history, and act as a final barrier of legitimacy. Should they find something we missed, they can submit for vote removal and the user to be blacklisted, with evidence provided.

All these functions exist alongside the App to ensure that the most original and validated content is promoted, without the risk of any biased third party cutting in line. The result is a reliable, high-quality space for academics and enthusiasts alike to communicate all the discoveries of the Universe on Steem and to be rewarded for their efforts.

Be Promoted on steemstem.io

As you may have noticed, there is a header bar with 7 slots for posts on steemstem.io. This consists in 7 place holders for posts to be promoted. The way to get there is easy:

1. Write an excellent post following SteemSTEM guidelines.

2. After getting a @steemstem upvote, send a 3 STEEM/day promotion fee to @steemstem-io, with the link as a memo. This will book one of these place holders for the relevant amount of days. Note that the fee can vary (please verify on the @steemstem-io profile).

3. Reimbursements are possible only (and only) if there is no place holder left.

We hope this could get you some extra exposure, especially when steemstem.io will become one of the most visited places on the Internet.

Main features of steemstem.io

Steemstem.io comes with other features. On the front page, you’ll find a permanent space for whitelisted users; well-known, trusted and high quality authors recognized for their hard work.

We could not have grown to what we are today without the growth of an international community. To date, we have self-sufficient communities working in 5 languages, all of which are available filters on our App: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, with more to come!

This allows each of our foreign language communities to have their own unique, hand picked trending sections, subdivided by topic, allowing for better recruitment of STEM experts and enthusiasts who don’t feel as enthusiastic about English to share their knowledge and improve science literacy around the world.

Steemstem.io can do everything you expect a front-end on STEEM should do. Users can login via SteemConnect, vote, comment, follow, resteem & share to other social media. Users can also manage their wallet contents as well as send and receive STEEM, power up/power down etc…

You can see suggested posts and recent activity of users as well as their wallet history and more.

The Future?

We will continue developing our App, having in mind the following main items: - A SteemSTEM Store. The store will hold all manner of related merchandise, including Hand-made LED badges, hoodies & t-shirts, books and compilations from popular authors and more. - The introduction of a SteemSTEM reputation mechanism - Delegator/Investor rewards (our supporters should get a ROI.) - Guest comments without the need of an account on Steem.

For now, feel free to explore the app, join us on discord and become a part of a growing Steem community - There’s so much more to come!

For the past few weeks, we at SteemSTEM have been running a witness (@stem.witness) quietly as we continued to become familiar with necessary processes and performing updates during the Hardfork 20 transition period. ### We are now ready to officially announce our entrance into the witness list. ## The stem.witness configuration The SteemSTEM witness (stem.witness) is being run on a Hetzner server hosted in Germany with the following specifications: - Intel® Xeon® E3-1275 v5 Quad-Core - 64 GB DDR4 ECC RAM - 2X 512 GB NVMe Gen3 SSD - 1 Gb/s Bandwidth With sufficient room to expand both ram and storage space as Steem’s needs continue to grow with time. We are also running a broadcast node (with the same server specifications as described for stem.witness) to assist others who would like to have access to the blockchain. Please have a look to 159.69.58.17. _{[OK, maybe in a few hours as we are currently replaying, after the upgrade to 0.20.5 earlier this morning.]} ## Why Is SteemSTEM Running A Witness and a Node? We have been and continue to be dedicated to growing a community of STEM posters and supporting the creation of high quality STEM content on the Steem blockchain. Our plans include the upcoming - very soon ;) - release of the official SteemSTEM app enabling us to grow our userbase to new heights. With this app in hand, we hope to reach research institutes from all over the world and bring them on Steem as primary sources of scientific information on the Web. In other words, we aim to utilize the Steem blockchain as a STEM communication medium. The success of the SteemSTEM project is deeply linked with the success of Steem as a whole and as such we wish to do our part in maintaining the security of the blockchain as well as to continue to show our dedication to Steem. With the issues that have been on-going with the HF20 transition, we have also thought about the way in which we could help better. And it is all about testing. Being a community of several hundreds of active Steemians, our best option is incontrovertibly to make use of this size to participate in the testnet efforts, trying to assess how a relatively large number of users could make Steem behave. # How To Vote To vote for the SteemSTEM witness, please go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and type stem.witness into the box at the very bottom of the page: We thank you for your support and continue to thank each of you for the opportunity you all provide us to grow and develop a STEM community with the potential to change the very nature by which cutting edge information is shared on the Internet.

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. For more details, a recent update on the SteemSTEM project is available here. 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 a couple of thousands of STEM-related posts per week. We hence support about 200 of these posts, and present in this distilled our top 8 handpicked choices for the last Thursday-Sunday period. ## Monday - Wednesday ___

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Wednesday - Friday

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Saturday - Sunday

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A few words about the nomination process

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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.

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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 September 9 to 16, we rewarded 89 different authors who have written a total of 109 different articles. The 56 authors who received votes from @steemstem, @utopian-io and @curie all together that week are:

@abigail-dantes, @agbona, @agmoore, @aleestra, @alexaivytorres, @anaestrada12, @ancolie, @ari16, @astromaniac, @astrophoto.kevin, @azulear, @bil.prag, @carlos84, @clement.poiret, @conficker, @crunchymomqc, @cyprianj, @drifter1, @drifter2, @dysfunctional, @eliaschess333, @emperorhassy, @eniolw, @erickyoussif, @felixrodriguez, @fingersik, @fran.frey, @ftxft, @funmiakinpelu, @geadriana, @gianluccio, @highonthehog, @hogarcosmico, @iauns, @ikchris, @iptrucs, @iradyjr, @javier.dejuan, @jfermin70, @joseangelvs, @josedelacruz, @lawkay, @lemony-cricket, @lordneroo, @luiscd8a, @lupafilotaxia, @lycos, @markgritter, @miroslavrc, @mr-aaron, @nonzerosum, @olamseu, @oluwoleolaide, @pagliozzo, @rbalzan79, @reinaseq, @rerere, @rifkan, @romulexx, @rosemery, @samminator, @samve, @scienceangel, @sharliep, @sheikhsayem, @soanna, @stefanyo, @sunkanmi02, @talmid, @tomastonyperez, @tychoxi, @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 for Distilled #77!

Hello everyone! @robotics101 here. It is with great pleasure that I finally announce the arrival of the SteemSTEM badges! You will probably see some of these on pictures during the on-going meetup :) These luminous badges bearing the SteemSTEM logo were created by myself, @robotics101, following direction from @zest, so that you can proudly display your love for SteemSTEM at your next events! I hope you will like them :) # Context: At the beginning of June and I had set myself the objective of learning how to create printed circuit board (PCB) before the end of the summer, so that I could use this skill in my next projects. After creating some PCBs by following various tutorials on the Web, I started looking for a first project that would allow me to test what I just learned. I was looking for a project that was not too complex but useful (since I have to order many units when I have the printed circuits manufactured). So I decided to create a hardware badge based on the SteemSTEM logo, inspired by the hardware badges used by various conferences and events (DEFCON, MakerFaire, etc.). After receiving the prototypes of the first version we were able to make some adjustments to improve the badge as the iterations progressed. The one shown on the photo at the beginning of the article is part of the second batch of badges. We will talk, in a follow-up article on my blog about the details behind the design and manufacturing part of the badge. For now, we will instead focus on the different models and how you can get them! # How to get yours? For this first series, I have a limited number of badges, so there will be only a few on sale that you can buy with SBD or STEEM. Here is the available stock: - 6 badges in multi-color (see this video); - 6 single-color badges in green, blue, white, red or yellow (see below). Once we are out of stock, you will be notified in the comments of this article and I will send you a message when they will be available again. To order yours, simply complete this form and send the correct number of STEEM or SBD to my account, @robotics101, according to these rules: - 8.5 STEEM / 7 SBD per badge (6 STEEM / 5 SBD if you want to solder it yourself); - 2.5 STEEM / 2 SBD per order for delivery. For example, if you want to order 2 of them, this gives: 2x7+2 = 16 SBD. # Do you want a personalized ones? If you would like to have similar badges for your community, feel free to contact me on discord ( @Tristan#195) or by mail ( contact (at) 101robotics (dot) com) ! Thanks to the @steemstem management for letting me post this article from the steemstem account :)