What is steemSTEM?
The steemSTEM project is a community supported initiative to increase both the quality as well as visibility of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) posts on Steemit.
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The mission
The project and its members seek to achieve this goal through direct promotion of quality content (through upvotes, comments and resteem via the @steemstem account). Additional bonus rewards in Steem/Steem Power/SBD are sometimes given directly to the creators of well written, informative and clearly cited STEM content, with an added focus on promoting the topics that are of the most interest to the community (based on community engagement).
The assessment of the quality of the content is achieved by a team of anonymous curators with expertise in various STEM disciplines who donate their time (free of charge) for the betterment of Steemit and the community.
Author Guidelines
What does it take to be steemSTEM approved?
Approval for promotion by the project is open to any imaginable topic so long as it is related to a STEM discipline. Science is best learned when an open conversation can be had, so that no topic, even controversial issues, is off limits for promotion by this project.
Additionally any biases by members of the curation team are not to influence the selection. The steemSTEM project is not out to criticise any viewpoint, and will actively promote even those topics that the members disagree with.
That said, open disclosure of sources is an absolute must in scientific writing. Authors must provide citations for all images and resources used in the construction of the posted materials. Additionally, all facts must be supported by accessible sources.
Preventing the spread of plagiarism is imperative to the future success of Steemit, and the steemSTEM project will take these issues seriously. Authors are free to utilize the #steemSTEM tag in their posts set of tags to indicate they wish to be considered for promotion by @steemstem.
Upon approval of a post by the steemSTEM team, the author will be provided with a “steemSTEM approved” image in a comment that they can edit into their post and display, to serve as a badge of quality such that readers and voters know that they are supporting high quality STEM content.
The SteemSTEM Team
The steemSTEM team consists of @lemouth (high-energy physics), @justtryme90 (biochemistry), @herpetologyguy (biology), @cristi, @logic, @pjheinz, @anarchyhasnogods, @kevinwong (advisory) and @donkeypong (advisory) as well as other anonymous curators.
Stay tuned and do not hesitate to double-check the @steemstem’s presence in the #science category, with upvotes, resteems, comments and/or rewards for all good posts.
[image credits: @kevinwong]