STEMsocial Distilled #1

After 122 editions of the SteemSTEM distilled, here is the very first issue of STEMsocial! @lemouth spent some time this week writing up a summary of the best STEMsocial posts of last week.

For those who do not know what STEMsocial is, please take a look here (this needs to be updated, but one can get the rough idea), or pass by Discord or the Hive Chat.

Before moving on with the two best posts that have been selected by @lemouth (from all the posts found by our curators last week), here is the most supported posts (of last week):

Author	Title
@pibara	Visualizing COVID-19 mortality data with Pandas
@lemouth	From CERN to Sorbonne, from Steem to Hive
@cyprianj	Guide to the use of images for writing both scientific and non scientific articles on HIVE
@agmoore	Tinkering with DNA to Find a Cure: The Story of Azathioprine

Interested in being part of that list? Please check these guidelines or ask for a mentor on Discord or on the Hive Chat.

Our top choices

Biotype and plant adaptability: Amaranthus

This week, we embark with lupafilotaxia to enter the field of ecophysiology. In layman terms, the post discusses a plant named Amaranthus that has adapted to increase its efficiency to use photosynthesis. The story is additionally illustrated by various photos taken by the author. Feel free to pass by.

Artificial intelligence: How healthy is the future?

The are more and more human-like machines on the market, and more and more sophisticated machines are expected to arise in a (maybe not so) close future. @joelagbo discusses in details how machines can help humans today to perform many tasks in various domains. However, is it healthy? Please share your opinion in the post.

Statistics

STEMSocial offers support to anyone using our app, stem.openhive.network. We recall that:

Posting an article through the app automatically yields a 5% stronger upvote at curation time.
Posting a reply to an article (or to another reply) from the app can sometimes yield some support.
Setting @steemstem as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5%).

Last week, the STEMsocial curator team has supported 37 posts written by 26 authors. 15 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 37 posts, we find:

11 small upvotes (less than 20%)
19 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
7 large upvotes (larger than 50%)

The list of upvoted post authors is: @aellly, @agmoore, @azulear, @borjan, @capp, @carlos84, @cyprianj, @dexterdev, @emiliomoron, @emperorhassy, @empressteemah, @etcmike, @girolamomarotta, @iptrucs, @josegregori, @lemouth, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @marcybetancourt, @newton666, @pibara, @rbalzan79, @suesa, @uyobong, @walterprofe, @yonnathang

All curation rewards earned are used to fund the STEMsocial project functioning and activities.

See you hopefully all next week!

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